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What services do you offer to an Offline Business ?

by Swiftace
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Hi ,

Compiling a list of services i can offer to offline businesses and have comeup with the following:

Website Creation / Domain registration .
SEO Services for website.
Google Places / Bing Places setup and seo
EMail / SMS marketing capability
Facebook Fanpage setup / seo / customisation.

Anything else anyone can think of ?
#business #offer #offline #services
  • Profile picture of the author khairole
    hi Swiftace,

    If you just starting up, pick 1 or 2 services to offer first. then, when you are getting some client, go for other service. just my 2 cents.
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    • Profile picture of the author sprks79
      Hi there,

      Good question...
      I offer one service, and its all I need to get plenty of work my way.....

      I bring in more customers!

      Most businesses don't really care how you get them new customers, they just want the new customers.

      You could tell them "I provide a service that gets 4,000,000,000 views/hits/searches/inquiries a day".

      But what they want to hear is "I can turn those views/hits/searches into potential clients, I can get them in the door, you can close them".

      Simple, effective and the way to go.

      Of course you will have to explain to your first few clients a bit about the specifics of what you do, how you do it, and where its done. However, once you earn their trust and confidence, no more show and tell, just action. I no longer explain the process, I work on referrals only and have for a bit. Get your name out there and there will be no more explaining, only doing and cashing checks Good luck.
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      • Profile picture of the author bkat52
        Originally Posted by sprks79 View Post

        Hi there,

        Good question...
        I offer one service, and its all I need to get plenty of work my way.....

        I bring in more customers!

        Most businesses don't really care how you get them new customers, they just want the new customers.

        You could tell them "I provide a service that gets 4,000,000,000 views/hits/searches/inquiries a day".

        But what they want to hear is "I can turn those views/hits/searches into potential clients, I can get them in the door, you can close them".

        Simple, effective and the way to go.

        Of course you will have to explain to your first few clients a bit about the specifics of what you do, how you do it, and where its done. However, once you earn their trust and confidence, no more show and tell, just action. I no longer explain the process, I work on referrals only and have for a bit. Get your name out there and there will be no more explaining, only doing and cashing checks Good luck.
        Do you charge based on results or a flat fee?
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  • Profile picture of the author RepATX
    Another service to offer is reputation management. It's on the rise.
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    • Profile picture of the author omurchu
      Originally Posted by RepATX View Post

      Another service to offer is reputation management. It's on the rise.

      RepATX:

      can you elaborate on this service? Are you referring to using Google alerts to watch mentions of the client online? What do you then offer - is it to alert them to negative comments and then get them to manage a response?

      Don't know much about this service as you can guess from the questions

      Frank
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  • Profile picture of the author redcell1
    Printing
    Conversion Rate Optimization
    facebook Advertising
    Joint Ventures with other local companies
    Charity event sponsorships to promote brand and create local awareness

    Just a few I do
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  • Profile picture of the author maxspeed65
    My two cents: local businesses only are interested in making more money, they don't know what all the services you listed even mean. (That is our experience in our area.)
    What I hear from them is "just tell me if you can get more customers in the door, I don't care how you do it". I would start with one thing (one service) that will bring them some immediate traffic with a coupon offer for example. I like to use a short video to get their google places bumped up to page one or get their web site (if they have one) listed on page one for an easy to rank local keyword like "roofer in anytown". We have had no problem getting on page one for local keywords especially when you use video with it. When they see you get their business on page one quickly, they are more likely to want you to do other work for them and trust your judgement. (We market in small communities of 100,000 or less that are near larger cities of 1,000,000 or more. The smaller towns have almost zero competition for local keywords. We can almost pick any business for any local keyword and get ranked (especially by including video) anytime we want to. We are new at this so perhaps we are having "beginners luck" , time will tell.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxReferrals
    - PPC - Google, Bing, FB
    - Analytics installation and review
    - Site heat mapping and review
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  • Profile picture of the author zenxseo
    Start with 1 or 2 services ,
    do some research at your location what is on demand or
    what is easy for you to sell the people you know . what they are looking for , and then grow your list list of services .

    Social Media Marketing is hot and new,,

    good luck,
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  • Profile picture of the author absolutelee
    YouTube Channel creation and video marketing services
    Custom Twitter background
    Local geo-targeted marketing like Foursquare and Facebook Places
    Mobile websites
    Text message marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author fitz10
    Psssttt... there's another thread going on about this topic that lists at least 50 services you can offer an offline business: http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...usinesses.html
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  • Profile picture of the author Mary Wilhite
    I do agree with all the ideas you have presented in your post. They’re very convincing and will definitely work.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotlinkz
    The longer the list of services you present to a prospect, the more confused
    they tend to become. Set yourself up as a marketing strategist and listen to
    your prospects' needs.

    It's more about what they want to accomplish, than what you want to offer.
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    • Profile picture of the author mtservices
      Article submission, Social bookmarking submission, video submission, PPT submission are some of the offline marketing tips
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  • Profile picture of the author jenifer smith
    getting started with few offline business services may do you more favor than so long a list that may get your clients confused.
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  • Profile picture of the author rockyonfire
    SEO
    On Site SEO
    Offsite SEO
    Linkbuilding
    Web 2.0 etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Swiftace
    Thanks Fitz , thats exactly what i was after.

    To all the advice given, this is a list for my own personal use while i am preparing my business plan, i dont intend on showing a giant list like that to a customer.
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