SUCCESS!!! How I got $17,240 Set-Up and $6400/month

Awesome story!

Not as confident in skills but working on it..

Best of luck to you, hope to hear more stories from you in future!

Gosh... and you wonder why there are negative posts? Probably because we can see through the people that are posting exaggerated stories and reality.

Negative posts, I assume you mean people calling out the BS in here. Just like this thread.

So tell me, what was your client's ROI?

I'm not liking the way the offline SEO services world works...

Client pays you x amount to do a job, you outsource x job at a fraction of the price.

You make it sound like you are screwing this client for every last dollar.

Nice STORY

Wow, That is awesome! Congrats mate!

How did you land on $17,240?! And who in their right mind would pay that kind of money upfront and then go on to spend $6,400 a month?? If it's true, more power to you, but I will say this to the "new" people here....stuff like this rarely ever happens....possible? Yes, it's possible, but not probable. Best of Luck!

Lol lol , what's sad is all of the people that will believe this.

It's getting hard to even come in this sub forum any more and see the garbage shoveled out ..

Luckily , there are still quality posters lurking , far and few between , but enough ...

Nice story.

You never know, some people are REALLY uneducated when it comes to the internet and especially something like SEO.

All you need to be able to do I guess, is make them believe that they need it, and you could have people paying that sort of money.

Congrats if you're making that money off 1 client!

Forget the op for a moment

Why does someone who pays 1k for seo services and turn around and sells it for 6k get labeled as a crook, assuming that it provides results for end client.

It's a shame that some of you get sucked into the negativity and skepticism of a few loud naysayers, because it hinders you from seeing your own success in business and life.

The whole point of the post is to share some examples of success to encourage those of you who are real entrepreneurs to think bigger and get out there and hustle.

If you have a SUCCESS story in the local markets, post it here.

If you have a negative comment or skeptical opinion... go start your own thread or go comment on the thousands of other threads.

Leave this thread to those who want encouragement, support, positivity, and examples of success in business.

Have a great day!

Look if you really wanted to help people you wouldnt come in here with your
Keyser Soze story.

You havent shared anything of value, just a fabricated story of big success that helps no one, In fact it hurts people who may really want to do well.

If you were going to come in here and BS us at least make it sound like something that COULD be real.

Client is a residential remodeling contractor in a major U.S. city that has lots of high population suburbs surrounding it. They do some commercial work as well, but residential is their bread and butter.

Their remodeling projects can run anywhere from $8,000 to several hundred thousand dollars, depending on the scope of work.

Their profit margins can run as much as 50%.

Not sure what kind of volume they were doing before we started helping them, but their business is on track to do $8 Million in sales this year (based on what he told me recently).

We helped them set up minisites targeting most of the suburbs surrounding the big city, optimized for their specific contractor services and the terms people were searching for.

It's hard to say what the clients ROI is from it, because they consistently get so many deals that come in thru these sites.

The client shared with me that he got one commercial job from another site we did for him that made him at least $300,000 (he had paid us $2995 to set up that specific site for him).

I met him thru one of the local building contractors association meetings.

The client finds extreme value in the work we've done for him because he has multiple nets out there consistently bringing him leads, and anyone of them can put $10,000 or more in his pocket (and an occasional 6 figure deal too).

His expertise is in running a remodeling business... not in marketing on the web. He pays us for our expertise in marketing on the web, and is glad to do it so he can focus on his strengths and core competencies.

We specifically target these types of clients all day long, because they have high profit margins and high customer value... so even if our services bring just a few new clients a month, it easily justifies the marketing investment for them.

They're fun to work with, are willing to spend top dollar marketing their biz, and reap the benefits of a solid web marketing plan and presence.

Hope this helps you guys understand the dynamics of this deal better

I started my local internet marketing business about 2 years ago, however I had about a decade for web design etc in my belt before that.

I am starting all fresh, don't even have a website, just simply replying to posts on Craigslist, business looking for help with internet marketing --- closed a $250,000/year SEO deal with 1 client on one of the first couple posts i've replied. Luck? I don't know... I discussed how it all happened with offline gurus like Kevin Wilke etc. I was just in a very positive vibrational state at that point and it got attracted to me effortlessly. That's my thinking

Hey Guys not to agree or disagree with anyone here other than analyse the info given as if I were the one doing it so as to make it help others see the possibility in this.

The info before us
Exhibit A: 17k set up
Exhibit B: 6k Recurring

Ill use £ currency cos thats what I'm used too so about:
Exhibit A :£8k
Exhibit C :£3k

Ok If we look at something like this

thinkbigsites.com/seo-seo-packages.html

You see seo is around £190 per keyword for just the silver so lets say you only take a minimum of 10kwords per minisite as you explain to the client content is king etc

Thats £1900 per minisite

So 10 minisites e.g new york, london,liverpool miami etc which ever country it is
thats £19000k from keywords seo alone

Then lets say your charge even as low as £50 per webpage and you do 20 web pages per minisite:

Thats £1000k per minisite

So 10 minisites is £10,000K

so so far youve made £29,000k

Now in essence you tell the client so what now happens is on a monthly term I do it all at half price as the set up has already been doing so I'm just doing the maintenance which isnt the full work but half the ground work.

So the set up is £29k
The recurring then becomes around £14k monthly.

10 minisites with 10 keywords per site
All broken down to show for it.

Deliver the results and they are making more than this back

If it helps always remember the Super Bowl commercials are worth 100k for just 30mins cos of one thing, the potential value perceived.

Hope this helps somebody at least.

nice , I just closed a client for 17,240.22, the guy actually came to my house after I responded to a few CL ads. he was basically begging me to create him facebook fan page

Here is one of my success stories, I am also in San Diego, must be a good place for Offline Marketing :-)
I attended business networking group called sd6degrees.com 2 years ago. I landed a franchise business that had 18 location here in SD. From that ended up getting 200 of these franchise locations in other states. The monthly contract is now up to $22,000 per month for the past 18 months.
We manage their Social Media, Blog Page and Google Adwords. We manage all the work in house here in San Diego. no outsourcing. It took me 3 months to land the deal. Branded myself as the expert in this group and took a few meetings before deal was closed.
Good luck everyone !!! Cheers
James Hickey

I very rarely venture away from the main discussion here on the WF, For some reason today, I decided to check out the offline marketing section. I am sorry to say but it has now wasted 20 minutes of my day if not more.

I always see people being negative in the main forums, but never so much in ONE thread. Especially without anyone saying anything about it or how they are acting, in a community where new people by the hundreds if not more come daily.

This thread was intended to be some kind of motivational thread for new-comers even possibly seasoned marketers. The majority of you here have acted unprofessional and while bashing the OP that he is making false claims and not given any "real" value to the forum, very few here have (mostly those not focusing on bashing the op) yet to provide any real value themselves.

The irony of all of this is that the claims here are that the op is doing this for attention (not saying this is true) but, instead of ignoring the thread you decided to take x amount of time to give that attention to him or her.

My personal opinion on the topic is that a lot of local businesses out there do not have a lot of knowledge on internet marketing/websites ect. In fact there is still a good number of business owners out there that dont have a lot of knowledge in marketing period! I am currently working on a site for a local HVAC business that has been around 50 years and done very very well over those last 5 decades. When i got the first page up for him to look at (i was communicating over the phone) it took me literally 10 minutes after he got to the site to direct him to click on the link to go to the page. e-mail? Thats another story completely, he knew what it was, but had no clue on how to set one up or check it.

To try to add some quality to this thread like the op's original intention. I would say to the people still learning online marketing/seo/web-design or whatever it is, don't be afraid to practice while making money. You might not think that you have the skills or havent quite mastered your craft well enough to actually work for a client, this is NOT true. If you are here on this forum there is a chance that you have a lot more knowledge than the business owner and can still provide a service to them. You might not be able to get them to the top rankings in google, but you might be able to offer them a wordpress page and still market enough to get some traffic. They might then be able to put that site on there business cards and generate there own traffic.

What you DONT want to do is promise on things you cant deliver, if you are knowledgeable and can provide a service but are still learning, let them know. Do the work for a smaller price than what is normally offered, and explain to them why. This can be helpful for both of you, while you are working on mastering your skills you are offering the person a cost effective solution and also building a portfolio for yourself.

Here is why I call BS....

Smart business owners will hire someone in house to do it for a lower cost.
I got a water restoration client.... Floods, fires, etc.
He can make 6 figures on one client.

He pays $25k per year! Not $6k/month.
He makes a ton of cash... How much, none of my business.

That's outsourced... Due to the fact that it is saving him money over the $35k he would have to pay an employee. It would come out to $50k with taxes, insurance, benefits, etc.

Why do you think large corporations hire in house????
They pay six figures for an in house person.....

I think It can't be done with that number
unless you have a company or some IT division that have big authority and credibility backing you up
though maybe you're doing your job alone

because the prices tell no lies

Great story, truly inspiring especially for those ready to quit. I made my first sale with Clicksure and that was a great moment! Small successes, would keep you motivated to push you towards those BIG goals. Setting BIG goals is perfectly fine, but on the path to achieving it, let us take some ACTION and get some small accomplishments which would keep us on track!

Thanks for starting this thread...we could all use a little more positivity and inspiration here!

-Terry

Way to go, I have got to look more into this.

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Also that makes me think now everyone in the forum looks for the usual $500 to max $2,000 local jobs. If your expectation is that amount, then that's usually what you will attract. But hey, I am just throwing out there "food for thought", because I didn't repeat or tried to repeat what happened to me, i can't say i know for sure.

But I really would like to see people focusing outside the local market a bit. I know there are ton of WSOs out there now about local offline marketing and everyone is going after dentists and chiros etc... There are ton of small to medium e-commerce sites out there at national and international level, with much bigger budgets than locals, that seriously needs seo, ppc, media buy, social media services. You can put the same effort to get that dentist to these ecommerce site owners, and you will get paid at least 3-5x then what a dentist will pay. I mean most of them don't even do "remarketing ads", which is literally free money and increases conversions. They seriously don't know what they are doing! We should all start to think outside local SEO clients realm and increase our earning expectations by thinking outside the box IMHO.

Let's get some more SUCCESS stories rolling to encourage those who are just starting out.