For the struggling IMers: Why not provide offline services?

(There has been plenty of talk on this, but I'd love to chip in)

If you're struggling with making an income with Internet marketing, why aren't you offering Internet marketing services to local businesses?

There is big money in it.

It can be good for a number of things:

• Gaining capital for your online venture.
• Doing it on the side of your usual Internet marketing.
• Doing it full-time.

I do the middle option, it keeps my eggs in different baskets as they say...

Here's the thing:

Offering Internet marketing services to local businesses is indeed big money, but requires far less work than you might imagine.

Here is why:

SEO services are highly competitive online nowadays, and therefore they get cheaper and cheaper on places like the Warrior Forum.

SEO services in local areas can often lack competition. This means that low pricing isn't necessary at all.

Outsourcing, anyone?

Check this out. Search for "SEO packages" on Google and look at as many of the results within the first 5 pages that you can. Look at the kind of monthly prices that are being offered.

$500 per month, $800 per month, even $2000 per month.. depending on the packages being offered.

Even the smaller packages at around $300-$500 per month just involve a bit of on-page optimization, social bookmarking, and various other types of backlinking - the kind of things you can outsource for so cheap that your profits will be soaring.

You can offer a $500 package and outsource it for $100, by outsourcing to cheap IM services. There are plenty of cheap services available on the Warrior Forum, clickfive.net, and also smartersubmit.com - this is due to the competitive nature of such IM services online.

You do have to have a good look around and choose your outsources wisely - the more research you do and the more services you test out, the firmer your results will be.

When searching for "SEO packages" on Google, you can model your own website and prices based on some of those sites, and then start approaching local businesses, whether it be face to face or by writing letters and e-mails to them.

When you sell a package: a business pays you, you use a small portion of the money to outsource all of it, and then voila - all you're doing is project management.

So, if you're a new and/or struggling Internet marketer, you should start offering an Internet marketing service to local businesses ASAP.

Obviously, I have been very brief here and not gone into any huge detail, but it's intentional. This post is really to just get your juices flowing. If you want any further details then feel free to PM me any questions, as providing services to local businesses is something I do.

I will absolutely not try to sell you anything. I genuinely like to help those that need it.

All the best!