Experienced Offliners please help: How would you go about creating a $1k/month in 30 days?

Not my method but i saw it around here before. Just buy lots of " Open " signs or " ATM" from alibaba.com and ask businesses if they need it and explain how it will increase there traffic. Something like that.

Hi Benedict,

This is somewhat of a loaded question because there is no easy way to get up to $1k recurring a month in just one month. You could spend some time going for a large client, but without having a history of being in business you will probably find that hard to do.

Here is how I would approach it if I was in your shoes... Since you are looking to make $1k a month, there are two ways to go about it: 1) Sell services for an upfront fee and 2) Make recurring revenue from previous sold services.

Since you are just starting out, I wouldn't shoot for trying to make your $1,000 from recurring. Building up a recurring revenue stream takes time. For your short term efforts, I would focus on selling just two $500 products or services in the next month.

For me personally, I have found that mobile websites linked to QR Codes are a very easy sell to people who are already running print ads. I recommend focusing on selling these because it is what works very well for me.

Since you are looking to get 2 sales, you should plan on meeting with at least 10 businesses. Depending on your sales skills you might be able to do it with less appointments, but even if you are a beginner you should be able to close 2 out of 10.

To get these 10 appointments you are going to have to get on the phone and get a hold of at least 50 decision makers. This means you will have to call anywhere from 150 to 250 businesses, many times calling again if you don't get a hold of the decision maker the first time around. This may sound like a lot, but if you pace yourself and do 20 - 30 calls a day, it really isn't that bad. It comes out to about 2 - 3 hours of cold calling every day.

As for the businesses to call to offer QR Codes & Mobile Websites, start looking at every print advertisement you come across. Look for ValPaks (the blue envelopes of ads that come in the mail), Coupon Clippers, RedPlums, Yellow Pages, Newspapers, Local Magazines, Apartment Listings or other ads in the front of the grocery store, and anything else you can come up with. Any business that is running an ad is a potential client.

Once you have your list of businesses to call, start calling them. Keep a spreadsheet to keep track of who you called, when you called, and when you should follow up with a call. When you call you also should try to have the business owner's name so that you can ask for him or her directly. To find their name, check out their website. If you can't find it on their website then go to your Secretary of State website and look for the business/corporations division. Pretty much all SoS websites will have a search field where you can search for who owns the business.

Once you have the owner's name, call up the business and ask for them by name. If you get them on the phone, do not try to sell them on your service. Only sell them on meeting with you. I have written a whole post about cold calling (which you can find in the "Best of" in my signature) that goes over this whole concept.

When you meet with the business owner make sure to do a demo of scanning a QR Code that takes them to a sample mobile website you've created. (Check out WillR's WSO for some great templates that are easy to update). I've found that by doing a demo the product practically sells itself.

Even if you don't make a sale the first meeting, don't get discouraged. Keep calling and keep setting appointments. It is going to be frustrating at times. It's a grind. You are probably going to want to give up at some point. Don't do it! Keep going!

Sell two mobile websites for $500 a piece and you have made your $1,000. Charge a $50/month "hosting" and updating fee. Once you have sold 20 mobile websites with a $50 recurring, you will have $1,000/month recurring.

After you get good at selling 2 mobile websites a month, find out what your sales ratios are and just scale up from there. Pretty soon you will see that selling 2 mobile websites a week is not that hard. Realistically after about 3 or 4 months you can be up to $1,000 recurring.

I hope this helps and best of luck getting started!

-Ben

Since your young and new to the Offline Game. I would cherry pick one local business near you and offer your services free for 60 to 90 days. Then after 90 Days, start charging them $500 or more per month. During the first 90 days, you use them as a referral and they will also be one of your best cheerleaders because you are managing their account for free.
You could follow this model 10 times and make $5,000 per month. You mainly need to be deliver what you promise...

Hi Dic,

That is a kind of hard question to answer since none of us really know where your IM talents lay. You can easily make $500 inside of a week off 1 client if your able to deliver.

I currently am making about $5500 p/m (total turnover of $8800) off only 8 clients by providing them with a complete online and offline marketing solution for their business. I look after their front end and backend plus everything else in between.

I started doing this only 2 months ago!

What's funnier is I haven't even set up my own sites properly yet, but I am good salesman with a very good unique system to offer businesses.

So if I were you I would look at what your skills/services are place a good and fair value on them do a presentation to show businesses and then go and see them!

Hi Benedict!

Take a look at this thread: $25 bucks in your pocket and $1000 in 1 week- Can it be done?
You will see fellow Warriors offering their offline/online ideas and proven methods. Let me know what you find!

Peace

Read John Durham's threads on calling potential customers. Listen to his "Offline on Crack" audios. They are excellent and helped me get started last month. They were free and are on his threads somewhere. Listen to them over and over and you will find that it's not that hard after all. Good luck, Dennis