Put $300 in your pocket everyday with The Yellow Pages

For some even 6 months are enough to get the cash that can help to enhance their lifestyle or give them a desired boost in the right direction or venture where they may need the much needed startup cash.

So I would say to anyone reading this thread negative comments and just give this mthod a try, you don't have anything to lose after all.

Of course! They are shutting the whole thing down on April 27 of this year. Good luck to all.

Haha it's really cool that you put this up because I've been doing this off and on for some quick cash.

I usually pocket $200 everytime.

Thanks for givin away the secret!!!!
I'm kidding of course

But yes this works and it works well so give it a try

Really? You guys actually think a guy running a lawn service is giving you big bucks for a web site? Ain't happening. I guess if I had P&G I wouldn't bother either. But apparently they have a guy.

I think you have to look at every market and decide how to price it. And if you are just starting out or starting over with no portfolio you can show(as I am) you need to rebuild that. I'll take less now to build up that portfolio and get some folks talking. In fact I know I have read one of the posters who has slammed this say he built up by offering to do websites on the cheap walking door to door. On Tuesday of this week that's exactly what I'll be doing. I have some businesses I have a history with that are getting a visit. I'll make it clear that their pricing isn't always going to be the price and I'll tell them exactly why it is the price. Being small businesses I expect them to understand and realize they are getting a deal. And I'll also be going back to them after a couple of weeks when their shiny new website has made them a customer or two and talk about an SEO campaign which will be the next logical step. But I won't ever get P&G money. However at this level it is about volume and if I can nail down 3 new clients on Tuesday I will be moving in the right direction. Money coming in, someone else paying for my hosting and subsidizing what I want to do online while I also get to eat. Right now that works for me.

So thanks to the OP I don't why I didn't think of that but my sales call list just got bigger.

Back on track now. This seriously is a little cash cow ready for the milking. It is something that you can pick up tomorrow with 0 dollars, find your target audience and have a few clients by the end of the day.

Can beat $900 in services that you do not even perform in 1 day.

If you are just starting out and need some money for your new product idea or even just to pay the bills give it whirl you will not be disappointed

My nephew and his girlfriend (both 18) have been doing this exact thing for the last 8 months. One of his high school buddies designs the sites for them for $150.00 they charge $300.00 plus they also offer to host for the first 3 months free then they get them to go on a monthly hosting plan through their reseller account for $9.95 per month...so far they have sold over 40 websites to all kinds of tradesmen/business and have a nice little residual income coming in with the hosting.

Time to remind them about offering a autoresponder again, I mentioned it before but I am sure they haven't done that yet.

Regards, Dave

I completely agree with you.

I've said time and again to offliners... who want's to be a commodity?

But there still is a huge opportunity in the market because Main Street still doesn't have a web presence, let alone troll eLance looking for cheaper ways to get it done.

Back in Feb. of this year, Neilsen did a study that showed less than 50% of businesses in the US still had any viable form of web presence at all.

Don't quite understand what you mean "playing down offline marketers".

I want offline marketers to succeed.

One of the first lessons to success is that it takes the same amount of effort and time to sell a $300 deal as it does a $30,000 deal - and the $300 guy is going to nickel and dime you to death over it. If you've got someone on the phone that is interested, for chrissakes... build some freaking value and deliver it.

Successful companies produce goods and services that are valued by customers, but they also produce them in a manner that sustains the organization's viability over the long term.

I have 16 years of direct experience in delivering web solutions to business clients, from brand divisions of P&G, all the way down to start-ups. I'm here to tell each and every "offline person" that thinks they're going to be successful doing websites with the Sam Walton model as a template is delusional.

It's not just programming time that's in question.

It's the time it takes to sell the business (how many do you have to cold call to get a sale?), account for the business on the admin side (who's tracking the accounting, billing, accounts receivable aging, etc... ?)

When you end up doing the average math for all the time it takes for your $300 deal, you're going to make more as an employee of the Walton organization rather than a wannabe mogul trying to use their model as a gameplan.

But hey, it's your time. If you're charging that little amount of money, you're working IN your business and not ON your business. Most people already have jobs, so why trade one for another - especially one that you aren't going to generate enough net profit to get out of?

Anyone promoting this strategy hasn't actually made any serious money, and they're not going to. Period.

They will be gone in no time... leaving yet another bricks and mortar business pissed off about their website and feeling like they got stuck.

But I just remind these folks when fixing the mess, "You get what you pay for." If that business thinks betting their future marketing on hiring a high school kid for $300 to churn out an HTML template website is a good strategy, they've got bigger problems.

Anyone who has been in the game for any length of time can smell the B.S. 10 miles away.

low barrier to market entry with no value-add = price leader = commodity

Maybe Geoffrey Moore will license Crossing The Chasm to me to repackage as a WSO for these kinds of people. lol

Perfectly put and exactly what happens most of the time.

You also end up getting a lot of products and services free or at cost.

Business people you've made real profits for tend to be very grateful. (It doesn't happen very often. Can you believe they run into people every day trying to sell them crap products and services with no interest in finding out what they really need or ensuring they provide them with real value?)


One final thing...it's very easy to get REALLY high quality referrals off business owners you help to make real profits for and that more or less eliminates the need for cold calling, prospecting or other lead generation methods over time (although you may still do just a little of that).

Projects from repeat clients and referrals from happy clients...high fees based on the value your provide...with your fees increasing as your skill and the results you're getting clients increases.

That's a good business model.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

Mike, my wife works at WalMart, and from what they say is coming, even Mr. Sam's heirs aren't banking their future on the original model. They've already squeezed every bit of juice available from browbeating suppliers for low prices. Now they want to move upscale, too.

Watch for more celebrity-endorsed lines at the big W, including ladies fashions, kids' clothes, even food and wine (would you care to sniff the carton flap?).

Exactly right.

The most important thing is being genuinely committed to making sure when you work with a client you bring him in more profits than he pays you.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

Getting one $50 customer over the lifetime of a $300(or more) website isn't exactly a good deal.

As long as the advice is misguided, that is.

Actually it didn't. I clicked on it because I thought "who would be stupid enough to put this on the warrior forum and actually be proud to say he hurt his wife." I got my answer, I clicked off, and blocked the user.

Inexpensive doesn't mean bad every time.