2nd Sep 2013, 07:43 AM | #1 |
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I have a fantastic product and a very effective way of getting leads offline. But if you can move all of my marketing online it could be worth from $2000 to $20,000 per month to you. I create fantasy portraits in peoples homes / on location and my prices can be 50% less than what people are paying to my primary competitors for ordinary portraits so it's a pretty easy sale. I have discovered that most of my online leads from LivingSocial are much higher quality clients than many of the ones I get offline so I’m looking for a Warrior experienced in SEO and generating online leads. The first time LivingSocial ran a 3 day deal for me they sold 97 Vouchers at $49.00 each. Most of the daily deal sites take at least 50% of the voucher sales as their cut but I’m willing to pay you 100% of the voucher sales if you can produce. Here’s why… I love LivingSocial clients because I know 3 things about them before I even photograph them. 1) They have a computer with Internet access. 2) They have a credit card. 3) They like a good deal. The thing I don't like about LivingSocial Voucher Buyers is LivingSocial only provides me with the buyers names and voucher numbers but will not give me the customers contact details. I believe they don't provide me with the contact details because they get to keep 100% of each voucher that doesn't get redeemed... so it's more profitable for them to make it difficult for me to contact my buyers. I love the type of clients I get from LivingSocial but LivingSocial only runs my deal 3 or 4 times a year in just one area and they do not provided me with the contact details of the clients. I want to expand my business to cover more cities but LivingSocial and Groupon makes the logistics very difficult because they refuse to provide me with the phone numbers or email address of those who purchase my deal. In the LivingSocial voucher redemption instructions I got LivingSocial to tell the buyers in order to book their portrait session they must go to a squeeze page and submit their contact details and voucher number. The problem is many deal buyers will wait until the last minute before their voucher expires to contact me thinking they can come in the next day. People don't realize that I book weddings months in advance and that we have to schedule their fantasy portrait sessions several weeks in advance. I'm able to travel up and down the east coast of Australia shooting high volume portrait sessions on weekends (weekends because Kids aren't in school and most parents don’t work weekends) and I like to have 25 to 50 sessions lined up (to make it worth my time) in a town before I call the voucher buyers to schedule their children’s portrait session. This way if the first shoot weekend doesn't work for them I have a couple of other dates ready to offer them. If those dates still don’t work for them I tell them I’ll extend the voucher expiration date indefinitely for them until we find a date that works for both the client and myself. I’m looking for a warrior who is good at online lead generation to joint venture / partner up with me. Want to eventually target all of the bigger population areas in Australia and Tasmania… but right now primarily Brisbane, The Gold Coast and Sydney. I can provide a physical address and local phone number in each area to help with Google Places. If you are confident you can generate some bookings each month I’ll give you $49 for each sitting you get me… generate 25 sittings per week and you make $4900 per month. Generate 35 bookings a week in each of the 3 areas mentioned above and you’ll make over $20,000 per month. Cheers, Steve PS... Before sending me a PM please read post #5 below and tell me who you are. I only deal with real people. If you can't even tell me who you are and build a little credibility don't bother to ask me for money. |
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2nd Sep 2013, 09:16 AM | #2 |
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Do pay per click advertising OR The first site that comes up when you type in fantasy portraits is http://fantasyportraits.com.au/. It has just 4 back links and clearly the fellow doesn't know anything about SEO. If you have a site I can easily rank it to the top and help you get clients or we can create a site for that. Skype alexelixir32 |
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2nd Sep 2013, 09:45 AM | #3 | |
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Ranking for Fantasy Portraits would be easy but I'm not looking to purchase SEO services... there are not many searches for "Fantasy Portraits" so I'd starve and go broke paying to rank pages that people will not see.... and I have a bone to pick with Google so I really don't want to pay them anything. But I'm happy to give a smart Warrior the entire $49 that LivingSocial charges for each booking... If you got 178 sitting like LivingSocial just did for Mark you would have made about $2500 from Mark because he splits the sales plus he went against my advice and offered his deal at $29 instead of the $49 that I offer on my deals. If you got me that many bookings.... with the bonuses I pay... you would have made over $10,000.00 instead of only $2500.00 I don't expect anyone here to be able to get me the kind of Volume that LivingSocial does but it can still be very profitable for someone who can produce results. I've already received several PMs since posting this thread but I'm in Australia and need to sleep... will start replying to all PMs when I awake. Cheers, Steve | |
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3rd Sep 2013, 09:41 AM | #4 |
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How about something like setting up kiosks in malls in the region you want to work? This way you don't stay in one area too long and wear out your new visitors? |
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Thanks for the helpful suggestion... and thank you for not being like most of those who PM'd me with promises and asking for money to get started. As you can see from the video clip... I already have kiosks or displays in malls. But since many so called online marketing experts claim they can produce better results online I figured I'll give them an opportunity to prove themselves but all I get is a lot of bragging with little results.... except for the daily deal companies who do produce great results. The first time LivingSocial ran a 3 day deal for me they sent me 97 clients... not clicks... real people into my studio... plus they transferred $2281.44 a week later into my bank account. So I thought... Why not let others sell vouchers and let them keep 100% of the sales because it would be worth it to me. I don't expect anyone to match the volume of LivingSocial because they have a email list of over 500,000 people in Brisbane so they produce results but there are hundreds of photographers who are trying to run deals with them so they rotate the deals and only run mine 3 or 4 times a year. So with all of the claims of online marketers producing such great results for offline brick and mortar businesses.... I thought that since I have such a great product, that sells both offline like I do in shopping centrers and online as proved by LIvingSocial and Groupon.... that there's bound to be one IM Expert who can produce results and work for commissions. But so far.... everyone makes big promises and want to be paid upfront to send just clicks... I don't want clicks that I then have to follow up on and sell. I can buy ads and get clicks from Google or Facebook myself. I'm looking for one Warrior who can sell my vouchers online for 100% of whatever he sells the vouchers for. And if that person produces at least 25 sittings for me a month... I'll also pay them a bonus... I'm going to ad a PS to my original post because I'm getting a lot of PMs where the senders have little credibility or post counts on the forum... they can't even sell themselves to me... and most don't even tell me who they are or anything about themselves. They all claim they can produce results but need to be paid upfront. You know why I do so good offline?... it's because I can tell my offline prospects... look... I know I can create portraits you will fall in love with. In fact, to prove it to you... I'll gift you a free session and you can choose whichever image you like best for free. This way I assume all of the risk... If I don't produce results that they love... they don't pay me a single cent. I have yet to find anyone here on the Warrior forum who can produce real results... not just buy clicks but actually sell and produces real clients... not just clicks. Is there anyone on the forum who can do this? If so speak up... | |
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4th Sep 2013, 01:57 AM | #6 |
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Hey Steve, I might be able to help you but first please send me a pm with all your expectations.What exactly do you want to do? If you don't have a website i can build one and then start marketing that through seo and social marketing.So PM me with all the details and we will go from there. Thanks John |
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4th Sep 2013, 05:05 AM | #7 |
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Thanks John, I have plenty of websites… each targeting a different demographic... I’ll give you one example here: Little Models Club Modeling Offer Using offline guerilla marketing tactics I get people in my area to sign up… but that site offers a free sitting and a free print… It produces lower quality clients because of the free offer… many who don’t have a pot to pee in… but LivingSocial leads are buyers…. I don’t have to do anything to get them other than let LivingSocial sell portrait sitting certificates and send them to me. So I’m hoping that someone here on this forum can also get me real clients… not just try to sell me websites, SEO and Social Media services. I built a new fan page to target a particular city back in February but left it unpublished until today. So I’m going to advertise it for 30 days starting today. Likes and clicks I can buy… but what I really want is the same thing that every business owner wants… paying customers. Create a sales funnel to sell my portrait deal for $49 and you get the entire $49 and I get a real qualified lead to sit for portraits. If they pay something to sit that makes them a qualified lead. Can you get me leads? |
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4th Sep 2013, 07:57 AM | #8 |
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Can you create the fantasy photos from photos customers send to you?
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4th Sep 2013, 08:56 AM | #9 |
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Well it helps if they shoot photos on an uncluttered background like in the video below... but yes... we can turn ordinary snapshots into fantasy portraits using any of our digital backgrounds from Digital Fantasy Backgrounds Voted World's Best Digital Backgrounds and Digital Backgrounds for Amazing Baby Portraits! |
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5th Sep 2013, 12:53 AM | #10 |
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Would love to give this a try. I sure can be of great help to you. Can you send me more details via PM? Thanks. Ronak. |
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20th Sep 2013, 05:28 PM | #12 |
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Hey Steve, Have to thank you for the time you have taken to communicate. I gave you a thanks for you Post #5. I am working with a group to establish a partnering/networking organization and we did a WSO a few months ago, with a review, etc. Because our project has some serious potential, we have to maintain some confidentiality and need to make personal contact with everybody who applies. It is amazing to me that people are not willing to be even partly authentic, but do want money, LOL. Anyway, when our project progresses, we may be able to do what you are asking, which does sound like a nice opportunity. We are not ready now, however. Just FYI, I have worked with many successful business people and also many wannabe's. It is clear that you are a very good business person and will move forward to achieve even better results, with or without warriors. Congratulations. RDB (WF pseudonym) P.S. I mainly use WF for business intelligence, so I use the pseudonym, but am happy to send people to my personal site and business sites when the occasion warrants. |
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done thanks!
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Hey how did you get on livingsocial is it hard to do
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