Which Local Program Should I Buy?

I'd like to maybe compare notes with you, if you don't mind.

Is what you're looking to do this -
physically go into a local business, like a dentist office or law firm or whatever, and sell a social media solution to them where they pay you X dollars and you act as a consultant to them, either fine tuning their current online presence with social media marketing, or getting them established if they don't already have a presence?

This is something that I'd love to do, and I think I have a decent history of sales and online marketing, although I'm no superstar (or star) at either yet.

There is a program that Mike Koenigs is unveiling that is called Massive Social Media Marketing (I think), that you can search for here, which seems like exactly what I want to do, but the $3000 price tag is a little steep for me right now.

What do you think?

Ask anyone who has ever owned a MCD's (or a restaurant, which I have) and you will find out that simply buying a "proven system" does not and will never guarantee you success in that field.

If you hate working at a MCD's then owning one won't help either.

The point is that you have already bought systems. I once learned from someone I truly repsect in the industry, the following lesson:

Systems don't fail, people fail to implement the system.

If you want to "make money now" then you have to change the way in which you are doing things. This is a simple fact. If what you are doing now is not making money, then change what you are doing. But as I mentioned, you do not have to go right to the end result.

Stepping stones. I was not implying to become a web designer, but in fact offer it as a "service" to gain immediate income and clients. Once you have both you can then push your preferred services and have income being generated.

There are many marketers who offer all aspects of offline marketing, such as SEO, Link building, traffic etc, who also offer hosting services, web design, and literally dozens of other services.

They get employees or they outsource. If you do not have the money yet to do so, then you have to start somewhere.

In the past I looked into having sites done for me. Consider the following, High end web design firms can snag $5k of more for a new website. Go price the industry.

I know of one company that charges $25k to rewrite existing sites using a "customer centric focus".

They know that they are not "web-designers" at heart. But if they can get a client into their funnel by offering such a simple service, then all the better. Most people are not gonna shell out $25k to someone new. They want to see proof or a portfolia of what you have done. It is much easier to build small and work up, then it is to start at the top.

Derek

What are your typical monthly earnings from doing this? How many clients per month do you like to take on, or take on per month - average?

I'm still on the fence trying to decide if I should take the blind leap of faith to get this $3000 program or not, and would appreciate any insight.

Hey JimOrr

You avatar looks familiar

The only thing I am saying is that you can do that all by yourself without dropping $1000+ dollars on a program, and spend that money on growing your business. Build a site for X type of business, getting it ranked, pitch it to a bunch of those type of businesses, lease/rent it to them for $X a month, repeat. I don't know about that push button auto ranking thing, that may be something worth it, but the idea itself is simple enough to do, and save you some money.

I've probably been involved in helping more people make a full time living in this niche than anyone else.

When people talk about the "Offline Gold" niche they are actually making an oblique reference to the first report I wrote in the niche called Offline Gold For Online Marketers.

In a similar way when they talk about the Offline Biz they're also making an oblique reference to OfflineBiz.com

This experience in teaching a wide range of people with different backgrounds and skill sets from different areas does change your view of what is and what is not likely to work.

It also helps you realize that more than anything it's a business of opportunity...when you find something that works for you you should run with it.


I'm going to be honest and tell you something no one else here will tell you.

You don't need a course or program or product to get started.

In fact in many ways you'd be better off if you didn't use one to begin with.

Just do this:

# Talk to every business owner you know.

# Talk to the owners of businesses where you spend your money.

# Talk to the business owners your friends and family know.

# Ask every business owner you talk to who they know.

# Go to business networking meetings and any other events and groups where business owners congregate.


Now what are you going to talk about?

Here's the best part...you don't need to sell ANYTHING when you're starting out.

Just ask questions and listen.

Ask questions about them, their business their family, which of their products sell best, which products bring in the best net profits, what's important to them, where they're getting their customers from now, if they're following up with prospects and customers etc etc.

Just be friendly, listen and gather information and make sure you get the contact details of everyone you talk to.

From there what you do will depend on your skills and experience.

If you have some internet marketing skills you might suggest ideas based on the information you've gathered until you hit on one the business owner gets excited with and run with that.

If you don't have any skills you might come back to a forum like this or offlinebiz.com and ask for ideas with the explanation that you also want to hire the person who comes up with the idea the business owner likes to actually implement it.


That's it.

That's a full business model you can get started on TODAY to bring in an income for you.

It's simple, it doesn't require PLR, spreadsheets, tools or anything else.

Ultimately your success in this business is going to depend on how well you build relationships with business owners so the sooner you learn the skills of doing that the sooner you can be making some serious income.

Once you're making some money then you might consider some other tools and methods but don't let any of that get in the way of taking some action right NOW.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

I was just on it, and went of within 3 days.

I have invested a lot of money in the past with trainings and would say that SMMM is the biggest scam. For what you get.

The Money Magnets are much better than the actual training.

eg. The Blueprint for Social Media, was BS. It was a blueprint in motivation and finding your big WHY!!!! ... Why I did ask!!! Answer I did not find.

Mike is GREAT and I love the guy's past work. I have been following him and Eben pagan, and Ryan Deiss, Frank Kern, Anthony Robbins, etc.... and have been let down.

His promise of a complete Social Media Blueprint for you to make 6 figures of whatever, but inside is small bits of info that I think,.. So what.. And not any pice of info that looks great.

Also the Engines/Programs that he has are very BASIC, limited and I'm sure I've seen equivalent for either free of minimal monthly fees, which are much more powerful.

Maybe this is just me having a winge, or just the way I learn, but I can tell you that I was SUPER EAGER to get Social Media Marketing Machines, and now I am looking elsewhere.

Ryan Deiss's work is far better.

over and out.