Help getting Offline SEO clients

Recently been looking to outsource SEO services to offline clients. I have looked at resellers, but am not sure if a reseller package would do much benefit for me. I'm fairly new to SEO, I would much rather outsource these things to people with good experience but most these companies I have looked into have fairly expensive prices.

I work for a financial service company and recently I had a discussion with the big bosses in regards to lead generation ect. I talked to them about SEO related techniques that he was really interested about. In total I have 3-5 businesses that have been interested in SEO services to help expand their business. The problem is I do not know much SEO myself, or really have the time to do it all, let alone run a full service like some of these big companies do.

Is there any resellers, or warrior services that you guys can recommend I check out in regards to backlinks? I'm also looking to learn how to start doing this all myself in a professional manner. How would I go about building link pyramids, and link wheels ect, or generating a feasible approach to doing SEO for businesses. Can somebody recommend guides detailing how to go about doing this? I hear about software such as SEnukeX ect, but as I said I'm relatively new to all this.

My plan is to generate a $700-$1000 a month for SEO services to local businesses (well pretty big businesses). Do these figure sound reasonable and realistic for something like this? I'm fairly good with lead generating and b2b related selling. Like I said, I have 4 interested clients already, just do not know how exactly to go about this just yet.

If any of you can direct me to any useful info in regards to reseller services, or guides to learn good strategies that will be great.

Thanks WF.