A Quick Way to Put $1,000 into Your Paypal Account

Jan - hi - it really is that simple - 1. You can outsource all of it and my advice when outsourcing is pick a resource that has strong feedback (e.g. in scriptlance you can click on the bidders' userid and find feedback on that person.)

I created the namecheap acct. for him, registering the domain with namecheap (this is real easy and if you don't want to do it - just send the client the link to create. Then had him create the hosting acct. and I pointed the domain name servers of the domain (namecheap) over to the hosting account...then gave ftp access and cpanel access to the scriptlance resource...(which is basically in the welcome email) - then your resource you hired can do it all.

I do know how to transfer as it really isn't that difficult.

So outsourcing is the best way so you can concentrate on developing the relationship with the customer or market to new customers!

I personally love outsourcing as you give all the details to your outsourced resource, go to bed and wake up next morning with the work all done! Most of the outsourced Wordpress resources I use are in India, Pakistan or Eastern Europe.

Just to be safe, change the access (password) details after all done...

Hey there - I did invoice it in USD (losing enough on trips to Europe already with the exchange rate...so gotta make sure I can buy that Belgium beer )

Maria just proved that if you want to make significant money in business then you need to "think outside the box." I have always found this to be true.

Hello Hello,

Just wondering how much I should charge for this kind of job???

1) Take a wordpress theme I select and customize it to match a custom designed website. PSD/Fireworks PNG will be provided along with example xhtml/css.
2) Ability to use wordpress as CMS to display content on any page in the site, for example About Us.
3) Ability to use wordpress to show page with 3 recent articles from a news section, press section, testimonials section, events section
4) Ability to use wordpress to show detail/archive pages for each section listed in #3.
5) Ability to show most recent blog section and news section posts in site footer/sidebar
6) Ability to have a section called blog which filters out the sections from #3
7) Ability to index posts by category/section and keyword.

Please provide a ballpark timeline, and a link to your online portfolio or even better a list of links to 2-3 wordpress implementations you have worked on.
Thanks

Hi, I am a newbie to both internet marketing and the forum. Thank you for sharing that wonderful idea and all the other information. Thank you, thank you, thank you.


Tunukwa

Way to go Maria,

I joined WF in mid October. I've been hanging out in here for at least an hour each day and every single day, I get a OMG idea!

Thank you all so much - really love WF and all of you.

A few thoughts about the customer's mindset:

For those of you that express concern over 'ripoff' pricing - He's making so much money doing what he does, he's glad to meet such a quality human being as Maria to help him move forward with his successful WP site. And, he is offering her subsequent business on other projects.

He is definitely very fortunate to meet you Maria! Your introduction has been win-win to all concerned.

Beautiful technique! I think that is a perfect example of "Thinking outside the box."

Hey Magic,

Cluless? Lol thanks for proving his point.

Btw, is it in your nature to assume guilt for everyone out there who thinks like a consumer? Or just simply imature?

Now if you are thru slapping at people, perhaps we can get on with this thread.

Have a great day ....

Hey Ian! It is better if you host the domain (can charge monthly then) and you give them access to the WP blog via domain.com/wp-admin with a userid / pssword

Hi Maria,

Kudos to you for thinking outside the box. It's all about perceived value and no one asks twice about the charges dentists and lawyers charge, we simply pay them and for all we know they probably do a couple of hours work for a $2000 bill. So what, they studied their profession for years - but guess what, we do too, especially those who have been around for a while.

In the end there are two types of people; those who make their own destiny and those who complain about things because they are either too slack, they don't see the bigger picture or they simply are just negative by design.

I really don't understand why some people come in to the forum to abuse Maria for being so generous?

But hey, even more room for those who do run with this and make some nice cash.

Thank you
Monika

I think that's a very sensible attitude for you to have about me. No, really!

Damned right! Those who don't value their time often end up being wage slaves to those who do.

Another thought. Theoretically speaking here...

Let's say a month later that same client is browsing the web and stumbles on a free lance site and sees that multiple people are offering the same exact service for say $100.

What do you think will go through their minds?

Something along the lines of 'man I got ripped off big time!'

You presume too much. Further, you fall into the trap of believing that everyone who "does Internet Marketing" is like a Warrior Forum member. They are not.

So what? Belief and "felt thought" are no substitute for testing and proving. I can tell you for sure that there are plenty of business owners who think they know IM who only know enough to make themselves dangerous.

That is astoundingly foolish. There are web hosts and developers who will gladly charge you for a phone inquiry! Once again, you are assuming much that is not proven to be a fact.

No, Maria initiated the offer knowing full well how to do the work. If the blog owner had sought out an outsource who alleged he or she had the skill, that's a different situation.

Further, you are trying to defend your ideas with "felt thought": you have a feeling and are rationalizing it after the fact. That is bad thinking.

No, you guess it's a tad overboard. Guesswork, assumptions, beliefs, etc. are no substitute for work, testing and proving by actually doing.

Perhaps you feel this aggrieved because you know that your own work isn't worth this kind of money -- yet. Hang in there, keep learning and working. You may just find that I am right, you are mistaken and nobody's to blame.

Vince Runza

Yeah I am afraid to say I kind of side with this. It takes 1 minute to do a Google Search on how to switch Hosting. I recommend people do it more often so you can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars from people trying to take advantage of the situation !!

If you're not making money doing this -- it's a hobby, not a business.

I have so much to say about this, um, thread that I don't even know where
to begin.

So let me start with this, and I am by no means going to try to be anybody's
conscience here.

Andrew Cavanagh brought up a very good point.

Imagine charging somebody $1,000 to move a blog that isn't even
monetized properly, if at all.

Sure, they have no need for your service again but imagine the bitter taste
in their mouth when they look back and see that they spent $1,000 on
something that wasn't really worth it.

However, imagine you did this.

You went over the person's business plan with them and maybe even
gave them suggestions on how to better monetize the blog and by doing
so, they actually made more money.

Suddenly, not only is that $1,000 a steal for them, but they're telling
their friends about your great service and you get more customers.

Or, you could offer this person a referral fee for each person that they
recommend to you who has a WordPress blog not hosted on their own
server.

Now you've saved yourself the trouble of having to look for all these
blogs...which brings me to my next point.

No way in hell would I spend the time it would take to find a WordPress
blog in the number 1 slot for whatever keyword I'm searching for.

Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack.

The 30 minutes work to move the blog may be nothing, but imagine the
countless hours you could spend before you even FIND one.

There is a MUCH better way to do this and while I'd love to just keep
this under my hat and sell it for $37 as a WSO, I'm going to spill the beans
here.

I happen to know that a lot of free WordPress blogs hosted on the
WordPress domain are hosted by clueless IMers...usually newbies.

Many of these people use things like safelists and ad blasters to FFA
sites.

So what you do, is join some of the credit based safeslists (they're free)
and send the following subject in your email:

"Warning To All WordPress Users...You Are In DANGER Of Losing Your Blog"

And then in the email, go into detail of why and offer your service to
transfer the blog to their own domain.

Charge whatever you're comfortable with.

Again, I am not your conscience. But if you want to turn this into a
great referral service, take the advice I gave above.

Now, for you folks who categorically bashed the OP for charging $1,000
for this service, understand something.

For starters, there are some people out there who can't even FTP let
alone do something like this. And if they have even a $500 a month
business in jeopardy, this service is more than worth it.

I could start quoting you prices for some services in the off line world
that would make your hair stand on end...like $2,000 just to power snake
a backed up drain...but there's little point to it.

People charge what they know they can get for what they do.

We need to stop living in our "Oh, I know how to do that" world and
realize that some things, simple to us, are near impossible to others.

Again, I am not advocating blatantly ripping people off, which I don't
think the OP was doing intentionally. A few questions to determine the
need for the service first might make the customer feel a little better
about the whole thing.

Personally, I would have handled the whole transaction much differently,
but that's just me.

The idea itself has some merit, but not as a "hit the SERPs and start
hunting for these blogs" routine. You could end up wasting hours first,
trying to find the blogs and then, second, finding somebody who will
even agree to the service. Some people might just say, "Hell, I don't
care if the blog gets killed. Ain't makin me nuthin anyway."

It's not a business model and I don't recommend people start wasting
their time doing this UNLESS they find a way to automate the search
process as I have outlined via contacting safelist members.

The mailings, once setup, can be set to go out automatically each day
and even if you only get one customer a month, you haven't wasted
countless hours looking for them.

And there are other things you can do as well such as write WordPress
tips articles and have a link in your resource box to your service page.

Naturally, setting something like this up will take some time, so you have
to decide if you think it's worth it.

Personally, I don't think it is because I don't think there is a HUGE market
for it. But if you are going to do it, don't spend countless hours doing
keyword research.

It's not the most optimal way of going through this process.

Anyway, that's all I have to say on this subject which has been a
very interesting thread to say the least.

Thanks Maria.

That's why I believe the project cost of moving a "commercial" blog from a wordpress hosted blog to a self-hosted blog is correlated to the value of the blog to the business owner. :-)

For e.g. the $1000 you charged the owner for the migration could of actually been undervalued. Imagine if that blog was turning over $24,000 per year, and the same event that occurred to you (blog just disappeared overnight) happened to that biz owner.

I would of thought that in this hypothetical example, the value of the migration was ca. $2,000 (1 month's revenue)

I would prefer to pay $2,000 to 100% remove the risk of losing all of the income.

What do you think?