If you had to make $500 a week within 2 months...

500 week = 2k month, so find local businesses who are page 2-5 on google and offer to get them on page one, NOT #1, and ask for 200 a month and get ten, or ask for 500 a month and get 4.

Focus on the Doctors, Lawyers, dentists, finer restaurants, accountants, etc.

Now if you mean PROFIT in your pocket, after outsourcing, you;ll need to increase the number to 10 and the charge to $500, unless you lost your job and have the time to do it all day without outsourcing it.

I'm sure there are more and better responses coming shortly

BTW the answer is offline, as this is in the offline forum. If you want strictly ONLINE, look up how Fladlien or Farrell do it.

I would pick up the phone, peel open my eyes and start selling websites while figuring out what other services you can sell. Honestly, some of the local sites I have seen are god awful visual abominations that people gladly paid money for. You can't do worse even using wordpress and a bit of photoshop.

Then I would look into selling SEO, Video Marketing, Facebook Fan Page design or social media services.

I would also look into partnering with local established advertising agencies who are not offering these services, they have a large built in clientele who may be interested in those services.

It would depend on my skills set.

If I could write articles, I'd freelance and write articles. 10 clients at $50 a week is $500

If I was great at creating wordpress sites, I'd create them and flip them on flippa.com or here, I personally know 3 people selling 3-5 per week at $100 - $350 each, that easily makes $500 a week.

If I was good at SEO, I would create an ebook on some techniques and give it away to get people on my list and then I'd market to them to buy my SEO services, again 10 clients at $50 a week is $500.

If I wasn't skilled at anything yet, I'd find a reputable for real survey company that really pays people weekly via paypal or check and look for the $75 surveys and do 2 a day, working 5 days a week and make $750 a week. Since doing this would not take that much time, I'd also be learning how to do another type of income creation online.

I choose creating list in niches that I have interest in, knowledge about and have used the products or services I promote so I create lists, add value and help people while directing them to the lowest cost, best services I can find and that I use myself. This creates residual income for me and once I got one list going well, I created another and another.

(BTW, I have done or know people close to me who are doing all the things listed above.)

oh, offline....

I just mentioned to the businesses where I was already going how I couldn't find them on google and explained what I could do for them and got a couple to pay for performance so that I could show them I can get clients for them. They pay me $100 for each lead that comes in even if they buy nothing and $250 for each new client even if they do only one service and nothing else.

Dan,

I suggest you do a search for posts by John Durham he has some really good online ideas that might help you to reach your $500 a week goal, now if your looking for a way to reach your goal offline, then you should really check out my Pizza Card Profits ebook at:

Pizza Card Profits

I really hope this helps and I wish you much success,

Martin

Starting learning everything you possibly can about SEO services. Build your own website on blogger and try to get that ranked quickly to see what works. $2k month is definitely doable, but its going to take some hard work.

eBay is good too but you need products to sell. Do you have access to products?

Google Places optimization is an easy sell and you should be able to get your first few clients fairly quickly if you really pound the pavement/phones. It's also very easy to outsource.

Just keep in mind whatever you are going to do you to have to put some hard work in so don't get distracted if you don't see results right away.

Sean

To add a variation to Option C in Andrew's excellent post (kind of a middle ground between the 2 options)

if you have an understanding / appreciation of all these online services for businesses (i.e. you can talk the talk, have learned a bit about busienss / marketing and you know how to match various services to be of benefit to th business)but don't yet have the skill set to do the work thoroughly & professionally, you could go out and sell as a consultant or whatever...i.e. set up your own business rather than sell on commission - and then get the work done. Various options of course exist for getting the work done (hiring employees, hiring local or online contract workers, finding white label solutions etc).




It's a good question though. Assuming you know what you're doing, I was thinking about the same thing the other day.....obviously different products / services are easier / harder to sell in different markets; different businesses are 'into it' moreso than others (which is probably important if you're starting out and looking to get to a base level of income as quickly as possible); different products & services are going to have different pricepoints and net profits etc.

I mean, you might only need 10 clients in a year for outsourced SEO to hit your goal. Sounds good? But you might find SEO a hard sell. You might be cold calling and find selling SEO as your service to have such a low hit rate that you give up. You might also find that with a massive door to door effort you can hit those 10 clients fairly quickly and you can work on finding another 10 to get set for your next years income!
Or you might find that selling a website is going to average you only $250 a sale (with someone else doing the work)....but you might find selling 2 websites a week easier and more encouraging than going such a long time between drinks.

I'm interested in replies from people who sell a variety of services to get their opinion on finding a bit of a 'sweet spot' regarding pricing/hit rate/profit etc.




For the OP, I'll leave an encouraging thought: a facebook type marketing company I know of charges around that amount per month to manage the facebook / other social stuff for businesses. This is base package stuff, but let's stick with that. Businesses "know" facebook etc is popular so you won't have to sell an education, just the solution. And of course, the fee is ongoing, not once off. So now you only need 4-5 good clients and you are done! You'll always have to replace some of course, but that's a pretty good service to sell (if you understand it and can do the work), and you're shooting for a low number of clients to work with for the long term. Once you got going, you could scale it up.

Thank you for the offer but I already know how to do basic on site and off site SEO and rank really well in several niches on page one in positions 1 - 3.

I posted that to Sean because he made it sound like he could do it for an keyword and immediately which I find hard to believe but if he could, would love to know how he is doing it.

Hey Dan,

Sean & Michael have a great ideas there if you are decent with seo. I already have one client who pays me $1500+ and last month, I bought some EMDs. A couple have finally hit page 1.

Starting this Wednesday, I'll be approaching businesses again and offering site rental. This way, I'm not only building income this month but hopefully for the coming months. If you rent 2-3 sites next month around $500 each (think higher end clientele), that's $1000-1500 right there.

Good luck! Let us know what you choose to do!

Get someone reliable to do the technical work (build websites, SEO, etc.) to do the work for you.

Learn how to call effectively.

Get out there and be a part of networking events. Meet people.

With you doing the selling and project management, and your reliable sub doing the technical work, you'll have the time to have a good business. You won't lose momentum on the sales side because you have to stop selling to do the work.

i think it depends on your skills. $500 a week is nothing and for a lot of us that wouldn't come close to replacing our income. Why do I say this? Because it seems from your post that $500/wk is a number that you want to hit but you are afraid of. It seems too high?

To get their you need to figure out what you are good at. Now take that and go out and sell that to people. Now of course you need to find soemthing you are good at that people will pay for.

If you are good at finding great low prices on items maybe you buy and resell.
If you are good making websites you sell them.
If you are good at SEO you sell that.
If you are good at crafts you sell them.

Anything you are good at has the potential to be a business.

Of course if all you are good at is selling than you are out of luck.....

Because it will never be easy to decide what to sell. That's right if your best skill is selling than the world is open to you. All you have to do is find soemone else to do the work, mark it up so you make money and get out there and sell. You can find warriors for hire. You can call up local service businesses. You can do so many things you just have to choose one.

And remember $500 a week is likely just going to be 1 to maybe 5 sales a week. Unless you pick a dog product/service or you pick one that pays under $100 per sale. Can you sell to one person a week? One per day? How many could you cold call a day? How many cold walk-ins could you do each day? Notice how as a percentage this looks really easy now? Can you close 1 in 100 phone calls? If you are good on the phone you can. Can you close 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 doing cold walk ins? Yes.

Could you call up a local lawn care company and get them to pay you $100 per new client? Yes. Could you walk neighborhoods and sell them on the time savings of having professionals take care of thir lawn? Of course you could.

If you can sell you can do anything. If you can't sell either hire a sales person or find people, for example by placing a warrior for hire ad, that will pay you to do the behind the scenes work.

The process is 10% thinking and 90% doing.

The easiest way to make $500 online is by selling WSO! Guaranteed!



Zul

Hey guys,
It's been awesome to see the responses build on this thread, and I am happy to say that I chose Local Business Websites as my starting point. Thank you very much for everyone's time contributing to this thread so far!
I created a postcard that was 50% prices/info and 50% marketing tips, which everyone seems to love.....some customers have been passing the postcards on to their friends and using it like a referral card. This has led to my first 4 website orders in 2 weeks, and I've got a grin that can't be wiped from my face!
While the first 4 clients are stoked to just be able to say they have a website, I'm just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on getting the sites SEO'd for a small (150,000) town - should I simply use SEOpack plugin from Wordpress, or outsource it to a Warrior, and if so, who would you guys recommend? I'm still quite 'green' with SEO. I have heard of SEOpartner as well - has anyone had success with those guys?

John Durham's posts and articles have also given me a massive boost as well, so I must give credit to him for some amazing resources and info he shares in this forum.

While I fully recommend good planning for anyone planning to do what I've just done, don't get caught in the 'paralysis by analysis' mode either. Overthinking your approach can stuff up your success before you've even had a chance to grab a hold of it.

Thanks again Warriors for the helpful advice, and keep the thread going! Stoked

This sounds very easy to do. I want to read more information

Nice replies