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What service would you readily pay $1,000 or more for?

by Synnuh
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I'm looking at the successful among us.

I recently sold off a part of my business, and a large portion of my team went with it. I signed a 5 year no-compete with the buyer, so I can't get into the local game (at least for marketing/lead generation) for a long time to come.

That being said, I've still got a few hustlers looking to me to keep their bills paid. Two are doing great writing email copy, but I've got 3 more that don't quite have the writing chops for me to hand off copywriting work to.

I want to keep them busy while I'm taking a 3 month leave of absence and get my bearings, so I'm reaching out to you, fellow Warriors.

If you'd be so inclined to help me out, I'd like to know the types of services you're currently spending money on, or wish existed.

It could be anything from email marketing, landing pages, copywriting, conversion rate optimization, membership and eCommerce sites, or even just finding linking sources to up your SEO / referral traffic game.

So, the million dollar ($1,000, in this case) question is ... what would you readily spend $1,000 on, to help grow your business in some way?

If someone came to you with a pitch, and told you the service cost a minimum of $1,000, what service(s) would you jump on having them do for you?
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  • Profile picture of the author danieldesai
    Originally Posted by Synnuh View Post

    If someone came to you with a pitch, and told you the service cost a minimum of $1,000, what service(s) would you jump on having them do for you?
    If they could build me an extremely high-converting sales funnel in the niche of my choice, I'd definitely jump on the offer.

    Once you're monetizing your traffic as effectively as possible, this makes growing your business that much easier.

    Paid traffic campaigns will be consistently more profitable once you're targeting your ads to the right people, so it's the closest thing to putting money into a machine and always getting a positive return.

    Regards,
    Daniel
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  • Profile picture of the author jamescanz
    Sales team including a setter and all star closer.

    However they would be paid in commissions...

    So the $1,000 would be irrelevant in this case.
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    • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
      Originally Posted by danieldesai View Post

      If they could build me an extremely high-converting sales funnel in the niche of my choice, I'd definitely jump on the offer.

      Once you're monetizing your traffic as effectively as possible, this makes growing your business that much easier.

      Paid traffic campaigns will be consistently more profitable once you're targeting your ads to the right people, so it's the closest thing to putting money into a machine and always getting a positive return.

      Regards,
      Daniel
      What niches did you have in mind?

      Originally Posted by jamescanz View Post

      Sales team including a setter and all star closer.

      However they would be paid in commissions...

      So the $1,000 would be irrelevant in this case.
      What are you selling? Prices / commission structure you had in mind? Are you delivering the leads? It's not offline, right?

      I can't do offline lead generation, and I'd have to talk to my attorney about whether or not selling to offline businesses is kosher.
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  • Profile picture of the author DRP
    Originally Posted by Synnuh View Post

    So, the million dollar ($1,000, in this case) question is ... what would you readily spend $1,000 on, to help grow your business in some way?

    If someone came to you with a pitch, and told you the service cost a minimum of $1,000, what service(s) would you jump on having them do for you?
    If you give ME $1000, I'll show YOU how to make $2000 within 48 hours! No scams, no gimmicks, no BS.
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    • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
      Originally Posted by DRP View Post

      If you give ME $1000, I'll show YOU how to make $2000 within 48 hours! No scams, no gimmicks, no BS.
      lol if you gotta say no scams, no gimmicks, no BS, I'm out. ;D
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  • Profile picture of the author nwik
    Traffic campaigns is a very good idea. It can guarantee you a large profit.

    Just be sure to share it with the right people who share common interest as yours.

    It's a sure win-win situation. No loss.
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  • Profile picture of the author superowid
    I'd like to have an advertising service that can bring a laser targeted buyer with high conversion rate. A service that I can trust. Spend $1,000 ads to profit $5,000 net in a month (if possible).

    In a simple word: Bring me real buyers who really buy!
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    • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
      Originally Posted by superowid View Post

      I'd like to have an advertising service that can bring a laser targeted buyer with high conversion rate. A service that I can trust. Spend $1,000 ads to profit $5,000 net in a month (if possible).

      In a simple word: Bring me real buyers who really buy!
      Would you be willing to spend $1,000 for the service, coupled with $1,000 in advertising?
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      • Profile picture of the author superowid
        Originally Posted by Synnuh View Post

        Would you be willing to spend $1,000 for the service, coupled with $1,000 in advertising?
        Problem is I haven't found one I can trust until now. I've spent more for some BS services. Some that have made me almost wanted to stop my IM business.

        I've learned not to spend it in one go. Now, it's more harder to find such service that can offer it in a small package.

        Let's see what warriors will share here.

        Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
    I'm still curious. Especially eCommerce site owners. I think that's my new target market.

    If you've got a successful eCommerce store, what types of services would you readily pay $1,000 for?

    Shopping cart abandonment solutions?

    Conversion rate optimization?

    List building and email marketing?

    Help with increasing average order values?
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    • Profile picture of the author Oziboomer
      Originally Posted by Synnuh View Post

      If you've got a successful eCommerce store, what types of services would you readily pay $1,000 for?

      Shopping cart abandonment solutions?

      Conversion rate optimization?

      List building and email marketing?

      Help with increasing average order values?
      I have some pretty intense ecommerce type operations and all of what you are suggesting above at least for a few of my stores is catered for by some of the Opencart modules that Isenselabs has on offer. iSenseLabs - OpenCart Modules, Themes, Custom Development

      What would attract my attention was someone who could grow my B2B operations as those are the larger transactors and are usually less painful to deal with along with a longer lifespan than B2C.

      We already have a good handle on who and where our prospective B2B clients are and although we do spend time developing these prospects internally there is always a shortfall in that area due to staff and time constraints.

      Any service that produces a higher return than what it costs is something most business owners would consider.

      Looking back at your list it doesn't really inspire me to spend money on those areas as we have systems in place already.

      A service to bring in more large orders from ideal clients...now that's something worth paying for.

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      • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
        Originally Posted by Oziboomer View Post

        I have some pretty intense ecommerce type operations and all of what you are suggesting above at least for a few of my stores is catered for by some of the Opencart modules that Isenselabs has on offer. iSenseLabs - OpenCart Modules, Themes, Custom Development

        What would attract my attention was someone who could grow my B2B operations as those are the larger transactors and are usually less painful to deal with along with a longer lifespan than B2C.

        We already have a good handle on who and where our prospective B2B clients are and although we do spend time developing these prospects internally there is always a shortfall in that area due to staff and time constraints.

        Any service that produces a higher return than what it costs is something most business owners would consider.

        Looking back at your list it doesn't really inspire me to spend money on those areas as we have systems in place already.

        A service to bring in more large orders from ideal clients...now that's something worth paying for.

        Best regards,

        Ozi
        Thanks Ozi!

        By that, you mean finding larger businesses that want to put in purchase orders for the wares being sold through your eCommerce businesses?

        As soon as you mention B2B, it gets into a grey area for me. I've gotta wait until tomorrow to run a few ideas by my attorney, but I don't know how close I can get to it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Oziboomer
          Originally Posted by Synnuh View Post

          By that, you mean finding larger businesses that want to put in purchase orders for the wares being sold through your eCommerce businesses?

          As soon as you mention B2B, it gets into a grey area for me. I've gotta wait until tomorrow to run a few ideas by my attorney, but I don't know how close I can get to it.
          Some like to run with the idea of purchase orders but that is usually only for government and institutional buyers and even most of those now have corporate credit cards to enable immediate purchase.

          It is just you can have multiple sales everyday from random consumers in the $50 - $150 range and one or two from majors that are $1K plus.

          Being front of mind in those major purchasers is where the best returns are.

          When you can bring more of the top 20% it becomes much easier to justify a larger upfront expense otherwise you are competing against Google and given the conversion tracking they provide you would have to out-perform...or at least compliment... what they offer to represent value to the business.

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  • Profile picture of the author karenmmcgee
    If the service could gaurantee sales of any product in any niche that is twice the amount of the software then I would consider paying for the service.
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    • Profile picture of the author celente
      $1000 is a small amount.

      But what you want to do is try to turn that into $2000 or $3000, which is quite doable.

      But you would need to invest in things that are an asset to your business, and that make money.

      Money making excercises in this case, would be stuff like .

      - LIST BUILDING [leads]
      - Paid Traffic [a must if you want to do well]
      - Copy writing [a good copywriter is alot more than $1000 though]

      The reason I mention these things is that they are MONEY MAKING excercies, the most important I feel would be the LIST BUILDING aspect.

      You could outsource this, but my recommendation is you learn as much as you can, so you do not have to outsource as much. But these days, alot of my business is outsourced.

      I still list build myself, because I use to be crap at this, but over the years, I have gotten alot better. WHY? In all the thousands of dollars in sales, LIST BUILDING has been the single most important thing in doing this for my business. So I realized early on, this was going to be manditory that I learn as much as I can about how to get lots of leads CHEAPLY.

      I know people say LIST BUILDING is CRAP, or DOESNT work, but these are the people that have never done it.

      Multi-bullion dollars companies are not formed, by clicking a chitty magic button or by using some so called, miracle software, they have been formed by 3 things.

      1) Gaining a big list of clients, and paying clients.
      2) hard work work
      3) Recording results, and upscaling strategies that have been working.

      I do not know any billionaires, but if you listen to them, they all say this sort of thing, with their own twist.

      It cost you money to make money online, if you want to be a cut above the rest, so hopefully this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
    Thanks for that Celente. It's solid advice, but I'm looking for services I can use to put my team to work providing for other companies.

    I've read through my no-compete, and there's a clause that says I can't specifically target contractors.

    So I'm going to target other markets, build another business, and sell it off again.

    I still gotta run it by my lawyer to make sure it's A-OK, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be, at this point.

    I've done the same thing you described, though.

    Repacked a "business startup" package for $2,500 -- includes a website, social media campaigns, Adwords campaign setup, and the initial SEO campaign.
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