I Retired/Quit My $80k/Yr Job.....Offline FullTime Now!

Originally Posted by BillHus The BEST way to get clients is thru good old networking.

This is speculative and based on your expereince.
It may be the best for YOU, but the doesn't mean it's the best for everyone.

Originally Posted by BillHus What I'm saying is you got to have the balls to go out and be seen. Dont hide behind the email or phone because they HATE that. Think about it....there are hundreds if not thousands of us doing this, calling the same big ticket businesses, or the same ones who dont have a mobile site.

This is ridiculous, pisses me off, and points out your ignorance!
So, how do you suggest I continue to close 5 figure monthly deals across the country?
Because all the deals I have are flukes. No one really ever wanted to do business with me because I phoned them.
Or the other business I have started working with people across the country. I call them up. I don't have time to go visit everyone.
Don't make assumptions about me, or the size of my balls.
You have no idea what myself or others on this forum do.
You just look like a fool!

Originally Posted by BillHus This is what I've done and I just wanted to share it with you. I recently quit a great paying but stressful job and I love being able to spend time with my family on my own accord now. If anyone has any questions about what I do feel free to ask.

Once again. Your experience.

lol, Wow! you're angry. Red comic sans and everything!

Hater Alert .... I didnt see him mention you by the name, but as FreeMeal said wooo!

Thanks for sharing what's worked for you and your experience OP..as for the angry bloke don't take it personal mate..just chill..llol

I believe in different strokes for different folks.... But with that said I agree with you post 100%!!

To clarify to any other marketer out there closing "5 figure monthly deals across the country" obviously this isnt directed towards you, if I was closing all kinds of 5 figure deals across the country I sure wouldn't get offended by a thread on WF. Try to invest some of your money in Tai Chi or Yoga. Anyways I'm speaking to the hundreds of members I see posting here all the time about striking out with cold calls, emails and whatever other method is the flavor of the day. Some FB software that finds you thousands of leads in 5 mins......skip that and get some real world experience and it will help in all other areas, especially cold calling.

Good for you man. The main thing is taking action. It's about getting your name out there. Word of mouth is literally the best form of advertising. Doing those Chamber and network group presentations are huge. You can kill it doing those. That's the thing really...All of those work weather it's PPC, Direct Mail, Networking, Cold Call, etc. You just have to be persistent and learn from your mistakes. Once you get something working just rinse and repeat.

Well done Bill, appreciate you posting your experinces here. As with anything, the main thing is to take action, dosn't matter so much how, but do what you're comfortable with and somtimes incorporate other's ideas into your marketing plan.

Thanks for sharing Bill. Your experience is motivating and holds some good advice. Others of course may have different experiences but I value your sharing.

Good read. All the best for your future ventures.

Absolutely great post Bill. I had an old boss in my offline sales job that used to say that people buy from people. Even as the Internet became more of a way of marketing he always felt that you needed to be cultivating relationships in person all of the time. This really does work, especially in offline marketing, just like you point out.

Starting out i do agree with you 100% good old networking is the best way to go about getting started. I built my personal training business solely through networking.

Cheers on your success

Well I haven't been here often but my business is still going really good. My wife quit her job in Feb and she's a fulltime mom now. I hired my 1st fulltime employee a few weeks ago and I also have 2 commission based contractors keeping the funnel moving. I ended up joining 2 more networking groups, LBN and BNI and I've gotten almost 2 dozen clients from them.....great investment. I also attend the quarterly Networking After Work events and I've met some cool business people there, if you have those in your area you should check them out. Another great boost for my business was setting up free test campaigns for local churches and other non profits. Fundraising directors also have tons of connections with local businesses so they're literally a referral goldmine. Honestly I work more now than I did at my job but its much more gratifying...hopefully I can hire a few more people and not have to do so much. Advice: Build duplicatable systems that anyone can figure out. That's what I'm working on and maybe in a few years I can move into the leadership/speaker world.

Nice share mate,

There's no doubt in my mind meeting up with folks personally on a regular basis, if you can manage it, will work wonders for you once they get to know you and come over to your side for a question of two about what you do and how you might be able to help them.

I like the fact you shared your personal experience and how pleased you are to have left that very stressful $80K / year job.

Thanks for the insight.

Hi Bill,

Thanks for sharing your story, it has inspired me.... but that is just my opinion

Speak soon
Kev

Ah the dice trick, you must know taktical from BHW

That's awesome it's working out for you - keep it up man.

Let the haters hate...you can't hear it from where you are

lol!
great !
good luck!

Hi Bill thanks for your advise, l'm going to start sending my direct Mails tomorrow.
I have no excuse to wait already Ranking Google keyword Google Plus Optimization national and other keywords from my Website .
Thanks again and don't mind the Haters !!!!

Thank you for sharing your experience with us, Bill, it`s motivating and is a good advice, even though it`s not applicable to every business and others may have different opinions.

That's cool, I'm so inspired I'm working on it too. Thanks for sharing..

Congratulations Man, Im getting ready to launch my offline marketing business in my city and this has gave me so much motivation! I like when you said to forget all these WSO's and just go out there and be seen! So true, its all about networking and relationships!

Just one question about the webinars, how do you get prospective clients on them to begin with? Do you send out postcards, hand out flies, etc? Looking forward to your response!
To your success
Mike

Whats up Mike,

Thanks for the words man I appreciate it. As far as the webinars are concerned, I did 3 separate things to fill them and you can do 1 or all. I joined a free networking group and after about a month or two of weekly meetings I asked them if they would like to learn about things like FB, twitter and other social media. Of course they said yes so I put together a powerpoint and got a free trial with GTW....my 1st "class" only had 8 people on it. After that I joined my local chamber and immediately sent out an email to all the members whose emails I could gather. I introduced myself and let them know I had bi-weekly classes on social media and other marketing tactics for free. That got me another 20+ signups on my next webinar. Lastly I created some local deal fanpages on FB and paid about $100 in ads each getting anywhere from 500-2000+ fans on each page and I started promoting the webinars on those pages also. Now I regularly get 50+ people on my "classes" and I usually get about 10 emails from business owners each time. Those people who contact me are placed in my funnel and depending on the business they have (some are network marketers) I close a good number of them for a service.

Its quite a process if you dont have a system in place to automate some of this stuff and I've just been learning as I go. I sent you a pm also

Billhus, thanks for the post, I've found some of your insight helpful.

I am glad you found something that you love and that really works for you! That doesn't mean it is for everybody, but as long as you love doing what you do, then keep on keeping on!

Great thread with lots of useful info.

Good for you dude! This is awesome!

Thanks for sharing your experiences as its great to hear whats working for some people.

I certainly believe that Offline marketing is a great tool to grow your business as is online marketing.

For the majority of people this is GREAT advice.

It's not necessarily even about getting clients when you're starting
out.

Just getting in a situation where you're face to face with business
owners, talking to them and getting to know them and their problems
is a huge education for anyone who hasn't done that before.

It's also relatively low pressure.

You can just go along say hi to people ask questions and listen.

You don't have to make a presentation or pick up a phone or do
anything that requires a whole lot of skill.

But you will be developing the most important skills you need if
you want to get hired as a consultant.

I can tell you from teaching thousands of people how to sell their
services to offline businesses that business networking meetings
in their various forms is one of the key ways that help a good
percentage of people to start making a good income.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

your experience is soo inspirational!!!

Hey bro great advice man.

How did you rank the videos so fast. Outside of title,tags etc do you anything else to get a video ranking fast.

Hey everyone, sorry I dont come as much as I'd like but I'm always busy with this business. So theres been a few questions and I'll try to answer as best I can.

Update on my business: Well BNI has been a true blessing in disguise. I heard some bad things about how strict they are and stuff that would discourage most people. They have an attendance policy so if you're working a day job still, it probably isnt the correct fit for you. You can only be absent 3 times per 6-month rotation which runs from May - October & November - April I believe. You can also have a sub come but it has the same 3 times per 6-month stipulation so the attendance policy is no different than most jobs. Theres a reason for this and it makes sense.....if you're not there not only do you tie up a category but it looks bad when visitors come.

Anyways you wanna hear the good stuff right? Ok I had to do some training that BNI provides that was GREAT! Afterwards the very people in my chapter started wanting to meet with me for what they call One-2-One's, a basic meeting but again very structured. I've gotten 3 clients that are members of my chapter....one plumber even fired his SEO guy because he strictly prefers to work with only BNI members if he can. I do lead generation for him. I've also gotten 7 referrals and so far that I've closed 4 clients including a dealership which was worth $9,500 setup and $6,000/month alone! The takeaway is that I've been building personal relationships over the last 3 months with these people and they don't mind referring me to other people that trust them. I actually left my other group and I'm only in BNI now as my other group had some leadership bickering issues and a lot of members left so the referrals dried up. I still have a good relationship with most of the former members though. All in all 84% of my revenue this year has come directly or indirectly from my networking groups as I've also gotten referrals from referrals. I've also noticed that marketers aren't really in all the BNI chapters. I know of at least 6 chapters within 15 miles of me that don't have any Online Marketers....only web designers.

Look at it like this....I've seen front end products here or elsewhere that promote some $10 or less "technique" then there's some "training" webinar that says that the "REAL" system is only $297 - $597 and that offer is only good for 72 hours or some bullsh*t like that. Or the smart ones who go straight to the webinar and fake that same scarcity when the truth is that they will promote that same exact system to every marketer who has a decent list size and response rate. I've seen webinars promoted to a dozen lists like the same system is new and exclusive to them. $400 gets you in BNI and I guarantee you make that back in a month unless you're untrustworthy. Let me get off my soapbox....my apologies. I will say I respect those promoters work ethic....they make the big bucks for a reason cause if it was that easy we all would be promoting products to a 50k list.

I had a few questions in regards to how I rank videos, so here is my EXACT strategy.....
in all honesty 90% of the local terms will rank overnight doing this but not all. Some will need a few fiverr gigs to get that extra boost.

1. Create video using the software/platform of your choice.
2. Name video using Keyword #1 - ex.......LasVegasPlumber.mp4
3. Upload to YT, as video is processing name title "Keyword #1 | Keyword #2 or Phone #
4. 1st line of description I put Keyword#1 then website (if applicable), I usually add about 300-500 words of unique content also (spin if you are doing multiple related videos)
5. I put 4 keywords in the tags...main plus related
6. Under advanced settings I change the Geo modifier to the location I'm targeting

Thats about it, I'm sure there's a dozen other slightly different ways but its all the same to me. Whatever floats your boat, just do it and you should get results. I have dozens of videos that rank on page 1 and most were overnight for free though a couple I did have to buy fiver gigs for.

Nice work bro! Congrats on your success. I have the same mindset of not hiding behind a website and phone number. Being active in your community and having a presence will generate the BEST leads you'll get.

Wow,that's great of of you.
Thank you for sharing the success story.It is so informative
Cheers!

Hi
I guess we are lucky you shared good stuff; but don't get aggressive, sometimes in life we all face such situations really don't consider it a big deal.