My way to 10.000€ per month

Forget those guys! People are always so negative towards original ideas! I mean a warning won't hurt... but some of that was plain mean.

Breaking away from the crowd with your sales pitch is a good idea in and of it's self. Then you just added the icing on the cake with the directory/ traffic promises. Once they see the Analytics data with Googles trademark on the page! They will light up with smiles! And yes, they will tell their friends, only about the good things that you have done!

My 2 cents. Great orginal idea, i'll keep that one in mind.

I think you could even do it by getting them REAL traffic from Google, (probably going to pay a few bucks per click, but hey worth it in the end), and they might even get some real business out of it!

Many websites are free on the internet. Why should my clients pay anywhere from $500-15,000 for a website? Because they want results, and they want quality, that is why!

You can't guarantee traffic unless you are doing something sketchy.

A lot of people on this forum make a living off of selling services that clients can find for free.

I'd suggest just selling each lead flat out if you were to do a directory. Or, offer a free listing, but upsell them on SEO, google places, website, PPC management, etc.

Honestly... if you only want 50-100 per client... start selling PPC management.. that way they truly get traffic, and you get paid to set it up for them. There are so many better ways to get started offline!

Im not even going to waste the time reading his "nameless's" reply. The first thing I saw is that he called this a scam.

Providing value for your clients is not a scam, in fact, that is why so many business owners like internet marketing..

.20 per click is awesome. I see up to $5 - $10 for the average client here in the US. It does GREATLY depend on the niche that you are viewing though.

Buying traffic from Adwords is fine, I don't think anyone is saying anything about that here.

If you tell a client you'll get him 20 visits (not callers - *visits on website*) for $X amount per month - and they agree, then so be it. If you do a good job, you'll still send them decent traffic probably? I am not an Adwords expert, so I don't know.

What I have a problem with, however, is not Adwords - but 'fake' traffic. I'm talking about the stuff you can buy 1,000's of hits for a couple of bucks, because it's that crappy. Getting that type of stuff and sending it to your clients website to simulate 'real visitors' is an out right scam.

You are correct. It doesn't matter where the traffic comes from if your client is getting good ROI.

The issue lies in the fact that your client is unlikely to be getting good ROI if the traffic you are getting them is traffic you bought from some guy on fiverr or some other similar site. Granted, there is the possibility that the OP intended to buy targeted quality traffic from the start, but he did not specify that. Furthermore, if he was, I don't think he would be so confident that he would be able to control the rate of the traffic to an exact 5-7 per day.

Buying traffic from adwords is not the same as "buying traffic" the way OP mentioned. Buying traffic through Google with AdWords is SEM. You can't guarantee how many clicks you get per day - you pay based off of how many clicks you actually get. You can't specify a predetermined amount of traffic and traffic/day rate ahead of time with Adwords unless your specified amount is lower than your true potential traffic through adwords. Even then you would be limiting it by limiting your budget. It's one thing to pay Google to place your business ad in their "sponsored links" section of search results in the hopes that people will take more notice of it than they normally would (perhaps because your site is on the 3rd page of search results, etc.). It's another thing to pay someone to "magically" generate direct traffic to your site (traffic is likely bogus or low quality. I'm hardly the only one on here who understands this risk). One of the biggest differences is that with AdWords, people won't see the ad unless they search for the relevant keywords. So it's targeted.

Furthermore, take note that he's going to be offering his services to his local offline businesses. Since he's also offering them a website/directory submission, it's likely that his target clients are local businesses that don't currently have websites or at least well-designed ones. There's no guarantee that these businesses even have the competitive edge it takes to survive online - there are plenty of "local" mom&pop shops out there whose biggest appeals include physical presence in the community and involvement within the community. And yet I don't see him offering strategic branding/positioning services, media planning services or copywriting/art directing services. "That's their problem," people might say. Sure. But he's also trying to do this offline where accountability is a lot more real. You might be able to get away with burning a few clients over the internet, but it's not nearly as easy in person.

It seems like there are a lot of internet marketers or aspiring internet marketers out there who are trying to run before they walk. They got the $ signs in their eyes, but haven't taken into account of all the steps it takes to get to the money. SEO/SEM is not magic. It does not magically generate profits for a business, even if done properly. It is a force multiplier. If your initial appeal is low to begin with, even a large multiplier won't do nearly as much good as you might think. When you further compound this with the fact that the force multiplier isn't typically very large (unless you're lucky enough to be in a niche where pretty much no one else does SEO/SEM), it starts to make sense why so many internet marketers out there set out to make a boatload of money and end up disappointed.

I swiped this quote from someone a while back, but it still applies now.

"You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

-Robert Brault