Off-Line Experts Meet Online Experts and Vice Versa

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Hello Folks,

Are you aware that about a billion people (that's one thousand times a million) use the internet ?
Are you also aware that, the majority of them don't know Internet Marketing or how to Trade Online ?
You'll probably come across a lot of self promoted gurus claiming to teach you how to make millions if you buy their courses only to find-out that their courses teach you nothing special apart from to cold call offline businesses and try to get them to come online. These courses would teach you to go out on the streets or make phone calls to convince offline businesses to advertise their businesses on your online directory (like yell.com) or teach you to convince them to have them pay you to build their website and so on.
Do you really need to spend money just to be told about this "top secret" ?
The main obstacle that stops you from making it a success offline is: Cold Calling.
Majority of the people in this planet don't feel comfortable cold calling and fail to bring in any satisfactory number of sales to make a living.
Online marketing experts are not offline marketing experts and the same is true on most cases vice versa.
And so, the online expert is failing to tap into the offline market and the offline expert is failing to tap into the online market.
However, this can change if both parties can get together and help each other out. This is what this thread is about. Bringing both parties together.
And so, if you're an expert in any of these 2 markets then state your expertise so that, others with weak experience in your field, can easily spot you out and do deals with you. I'm expecting responses from this forum something like these:

I am an ...
1. OFFLINE MARKETING EXPERT
Field of Experience: Cold calling knocking door to door (Business to Consumer Sales).

2. OFFLINE MARKETING EXPERT
Field of Experience: Phone Cold Calling Homes (Business to Consumer Sales).

3. OFFLINE MARKETING EXPERT
Field of experience: Cold calling knocking door to door (Business to Business Sales).

4. OFFLINE MARKETING EXPERT
Field of Experience: Phone Cold Calling Businesses (Business to Business Sales).

5. OFFLINE MARKETING EXPERT
Field of Experience: Finding urgent sought products for people (Consumer to Business Sales).

6. ONLINE EXPERT
Field of Experience: Websites designing, Web-scripts installations, Blogs installations (Free Lancer).

7. ONLINE EXPERT
Field of Experience: Web-scripts programming (Php, Perl, Python). (Free Lancer).

8. ONLINE EXPERT
Field of Experience: Internet Marketing (SEO). (Free Lancer).

IMPORTANT: Make sure you list some samples of your expertise if you can so people can get an idea how well of an expert you are.


What we don't want to hear is that you are a company with a handful of experts experienced in different fields. We're not interested in successful companies here. For that type of thing, you have sites like freelancer.com to advertise your services and company.

This thread is for those singles (teens, unemployed, people made redundant from their jobs, people who got fired, people about to go broke, homeless, etc). who have been unsuccessful in their trading so far simply because they lack experience in a certain field.
What I want to hear is that, either:

1. You are an offline sole trader/small business/someone just getting into offline business and having trouble making it a success offline but you think if you can get online and get seen then you'll succeed; and you need online helpers to help you without charging you in advance because you can't afford to pay high seo charges, etc. without making some bucks from online first. (You're willing to pay commissions per lead/sale and not per click).

2. You are an offline sole trader/small business having trouble making it a success offline and you're not trying online for fear of not being successful and blowing all your advertising budget on unsuccessful online campaigns; and you need online helpers to help you without charging you in advance. (You're willing to pay commissions per lead/sale and not per click).

3. You have some online marketing experience but failing to make it breakeven competing with the big guys online and you want to see if you can tap into the offline world where the big guys are not present but you have no experience in the offline world; and you need offline helpers with Cold Calling experience to help you without charging you in advance. (You're willing to pay commissions per lead/sale and not per click).

4. And so on.

Let us put 2 and 2 together and make 4 or we'll never get to 4 alone. We can't afford to hire our own staff or outsource the job to companies and so best we list our marketing strategies here and see if anyone from the other side gets interested in our strategies and think they can be the missing link to our success and us the missing link to their success and agree to help us out in return for earning commissions (and no advance payments like fees). We only want to pay for results.
Look at it this way, I noticed a few Warriors buying course to learn how to run their own online directory but the course teaches them to cold call offline. Now, these course buyers are in the middle. Their neither full online experts nor full offline but they have some fair online marketing experience and so are going ahead with their online directory venture but to survive in their venture, they need to make cold calls to offline businesses to convince them to advertise on their new online directories and they're stuck because they don't feel comfortable talking over the phone or meeting potential customers face to face for fear of rejection which could lead to stress. Here, they can't afford to hire offline cold calling staff nor outsource the job due to not having "staff hiring or service hiring budget". And so, it would be a great help if they can have offline experts mentioning their directories on the side to businesses when offline experts next time make cold calls. You never know, doing something on the side like this might bring in more sales earning the offline expert commissions and that's good for both parties. The offline expert earns a little extra on the side and the online "mid expert" gets the word out about his new online directory via the help of someone without having to break an arm and a leg paying cold calling fees in advance up to his nose which could lead to no result.

Oh by the way, don't forget to mention the percentage you'll pay your new partner for bringing in you the lead/sale.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author maricelu
    That's a great idea. I always have been thinking of it but never had the chance to make a thread.

    So, I am an:

    6. ONLINE EXPERT
    Field of Experience: Websites designing (Free Lancer).

    8. ONLINE EXPERT
    Field of Experience: Internet Marketing (SEO). (Free Lancer).
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    • Originally Posted by maricelu View Post

      That's a great idea. I always have been thinking of it but never had the chance to make a thread.

      So, I am an:

      6. ONLINE EXPERT
      Field of Experience: Websites designing (Free Lancer).

      8. ONLINE EXPERT
      Field of Experience: Internet Marketing (SEO). (Free Lancer).
      Thanks. That's a start from a young person. If you can, it would be better to list a few sample links of your work. This may attract a lot of new partners for you in the long-run. Look at it this way, offline businesses would want to see quality of work before they sign any contract and your new offline partners can show your work as samples and attract them aswell as you some new business, don't you think ?
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      Check my Username! What does it say ? Check out my other posts and you'll probably agree the Username fits me well. :)
      And, don't forget to subscribe to my threads. After-all, they're meant to help you find new ideas, customers and leads.

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  • Profile picture of the author maricelu
    I have a link in my signature where you can see my works. I will not post live sites of my clients as I've heard stories regarding sharing this kind of info here; i don't want hackers on my sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author taha83
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