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Forum: Offline Marketing 14th August 2012, 08:57 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 648
Posted By John Williamson
Next time you're driving on the interstate, get some leads...

WARNING: Use this idea with caution. I am not responsible for you having a wreck using this suggestion.

So I just got back in town from a trip to Charlotte and back, a 4-hour drive I make quite...
Forum: Offline Marketing 12th August 2012, 02:03 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 15,625
Posted By John Williamson
Re: [Example] WARNING: This Little Ad Trick Blows The Competition Out Of The Water!

This is so freaking great.

Thanks so much for the share, Ewen. More specifically, for the concrete example ad.

Definitely going to be implementing this.
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th August 2012, 07:46 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 476
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Starting to ramp it up

For SEO, I consider a "portfolio" to be sites you've helped rank, which for me would be very private, confidential information - in fact some clients have made me sign forms of confidentiality...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th August 2012, 12:06 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 862
Posted By John Williamson
DO IT NOW!

For those of you (especially newbies) who spend too much time reading, thinking, and worrying, and fail to take action, this is for you:

DO IT NOW!

That tough decision you've been putting off,...
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th August 2012, 07:57 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,087
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Outsourcing content writing for local biz sites

Guys, I think the OP is looking more for good copy - headlines, calls to action, etc. - someone who is experienced in writing in a sales letter format, rather than simply an article writer. Effective...
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th August 2012, 06:57 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Quit my 9-5, 2 Months later and 6 new SEO Clients - I need a VA please HELP!!

Congratulations, needing to expand and hire new help is a good problem to have, aside from all the stress and frustration.

I hire contractors on oDesk all the time and have for years. I would...
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th August 2012, 05:53 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,031
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Is an LLC required?

You can also form an LLC and opt to be taxed as an S-Corp via the Schedule C form, which is what I do.
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th August 2012, 10:13 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,012
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Why do so many newbies fail ?

Along with what iamnameless said, I'd chalk it up to inability or refusal to simply jump in and take action instead of sabotaging yourself with information overload by grabbing every WSO or $97...
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th August 2012, 07:19 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,025
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Why are People here so helpful though?

Great points. Many newbies don't realize that they could indeed be that person and that it's not some unattainable dream. It is very realistic to create a full time income completely using free info...
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th August 2012, 01:05 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,741
Posted By John Williamson
Use these 6 "Weapons of Influence" to easily get more offline clients and close deals effortlessly.

I need to explain that these are from the book Influence by Robert Cialdini (go grab it on Amazon here), and he coined the phrase "weapons of influence." This post is my interpretation of how they...
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th August 2012, 11:05 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,031
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Is an LLC required?

No, you can be a "sole proprietor" and just do business as yourself. LLC's are only for what their name implies - 'limited liability company' - in the case of a lawsuit or something like that, the...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th August 2012, 09:25 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 879
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Limosine Company -- Help Me Close!

Congrats Jon!

Now perhaps use the language I talked about here...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th August 2012, 09:13 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,015
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Outsourcing - WHERE TO FIND REPRESENTATIVES?

Like contentwriting360 just said, be very specific and detailed in your oDesk posting and then just go search for contractors with a proven track record (work history) of exactly what you're looking...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th August 2012, 04:37 PM
Replies: 77
Views: 6,279
Posted By John Williamson
Re: My simple technique eliminates 'hard selling' and gets new clients contacting ME for my services

You're welcome, thanks for the kind words.

In regards to my referral program, yes the same free-til-page-1 offer applies for any new potential client. If the client is a referral, once they begin...
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd August 2012, 08:20 AM
Replies: 77
Views: 6,279
Posted By John Williamson
Re: My simple technique eliminates 'hard selling' and gets new clients contacting ME for my services

Thanks!



Exactly. You definitely seem to understand what I was getting at.
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd August 2012, 08:18 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 995
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Just got a new client this morning in the most unexpected way - do this or you're missing out...

Nice. But yea that sounds like the type of place that may try to haggle you down to get a valuable service on the cheap. I try to only target businesses who have an established ad budget and don't...
Forum: Offline Marketing 31st July 2012, 11:03 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 557
Posted By John Williamson
Re: My Plan, any feedback?

Sounds like you're off to a great start with a solid foundation, just don't forget to keep taking action and bringing in new clients. To be sure, you are ahead of many others starting out in the...
Forum: Offline Marketing 31st July 2012, 10:59 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,373
Posted By John Williamson
Re: I offered a local restaurant a free website today

The free website is not necessarily a bad idea if you can offer an upsell service like SEO, online reputation management, etc. somewhere down the road. It is indeed important to build a solid...
Forum: Offline Marketing 31st July 2012, 10:49 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,921
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Pizza Box Design UK

I'm sure you could find some contractors on oDesk with experience doing this type of thing. Have them submit mock up designs and see which ones you like.
Forum: Offline Marketing 31st July 2012, 10:36 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 404
Posted By John Williamson
Re: CityName+Profession.com Websites

Hi Josh.

I usually call this the 'rent-a-site model'. You could build a small website suitable for a business to put their name and contact information, get it ranked in the search engines for...
Forum: Offline Marketing 31st July 2012, 09:09 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 995
Posted By John Williamson
Just got a new client this morning in the most unexpected way - do this or you're missing out...

Guys, something very exciting happened this morning. But let me back up a couple days to give you the full story. A few days ago I posted some short simple ads on my local Craigslist for sale section...
Forum: Offline Marketing 31st July 2012, 08:32 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 502
Posted By John Williamson
Re: What credentials would you expect of someone who sells an offline seminar to local business owne

I believe the testimonials, years of experience, and used the strategies himself all somewhat go hand-in-hand. Obviously one would expect him or her to have used the strategies they are teaching, and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 30th July 2012, 10:32 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 699
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Advice Please? What Should I Prospect For?

In short, I'd say web design, given your time constraints. Also maybe consider looking into SEO and offering that as an upsell. But you could get home in the evening and call the west coast which is...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th July 2012, 10:09 PM
Replies: 77
Views: 6,279
Posted By John Williamson
Re: My simple technique eliminates 'hard selling' and gets new clients contacting ME for my services

Thanks. And yea, no way I would have charged anyone for that little tidbit of info. When I started writing the post I actually only expected it to be a couple of paragraphs but then the thoughts just...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th July 2012, 09:15 PM
Replies: 92
Views: 4,524
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Really Don't Want To Post This - But CopyWriting + CL = LEADS!

Congratulations, Red. Sounds exciting. Never really looked at Craigslist in that light, but your story is quite intriguing and makes me want to test the waters and see what happens.

Thanks for the...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th July 2012, 08:45 PM
Replies: 77
Views: 6,279
Posted By John Williamson
My simple technique eliminates 'hard selling' and gets new clients contacting ME for my services...

UPDATE: Just wanted to say I'm so happy that so many people seem to be loving and benefitting from this thread. I'll try to post stuff like this more often. If anyone has any questions or comments...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th April 2012, 12:03 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,010
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Can I Rank With A info. ???

Personally, have ranked plenty of .info's.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th April 2012, 12:34 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,646
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Cheap web hosting??

Maybe not as cheap as you're going for, but I think IX Web Hosting is about as cheap as they come.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th March 2012, 02:27 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 986
Posted By John Williamson
Anyone else noticed Google changing your title tag in the SERPs to an unspecified text string?

I just started noticing this last week. Google is arbitrarily displaying unspecified title tags in the results pages that do not match the title tag code of the particular page. Would like to get...
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th March 2012, 01:44 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 8,803
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Letter Gets 40% Of Business Owners To Phone Back And 100% Of Those Buy

Thanks for the share, good stuff.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th February 2012, 03:03 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,495
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Good SEO Workers?

Sidley here on WF - unmatched customer service and results.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th December 2011, 12:02 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 543
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Website ranking for keywords only on home page

You are probably only sending links to the homepage, in which case only the homepage will rank (most of the time). Consider sending links to inner pages if you want them to rank well.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th December 2011, 09:57 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 864
Posted By John Williamson
Re: What the hell are High Quality backlinks?

If they truly know what they're talking about, I'd guess it means contextual anchored links from relevant content, hopefully on pages with some decent PR.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th December 2011, 07:23 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 379
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Keywords for your blog

Don't think there'd be any harm. Some would argue, for example, that a single post or page of a 1500-word article would be the same as 3 separate posts of 500-word articles. I'd probably go for the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd November 2011, 04:40 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 721
Posted By John Williamson
Re: I'm looking for a reverse keyword lookup tool

SEMrush! I use it all the time for both myself and competitors' sites.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th October 2011, 11:41 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 902
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Link Pyramid...Worth The $$$

I'd say it depends on the price of the work and what kind of 'pyramid links' you'd be getting. For links that are being sent to other links, I'd go for rather cheap ones, because if you're spending...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th October 2011, 11:32 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 1,456
Posted By John Williamson
Re: How to get pagerank?

Just keep trying to build quality backlinks and increase your traffic while improving your site, and give it time. Real PR updates from Google don't come often.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th October 2011, 09:26 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 3,875
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Adsense optimized wordpress themes

Clickbump Engine FTW!
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd October 2011, 02:43 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 735
Posted By John Williamson
Re: How Much Varying Of Anchor Texts Is Good Enough?

Don't think people are getting de-indexed strictly for not varying anchor text. Throwing a few 'varied' forms in there doesn't hurt, but I mainly stick to my targeted keywords for anchor texts.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th September 2011, 12:31 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,560
Posted By John Williamson
Re: How to rank .com site in Google.co.uk?

Agree with markowe, I've ranked quite a few .com's in Google UK by just using the setting in Webmaster Tools.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th September 2011, 01:00 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 564
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Why do they say to be consistent with link building?

Being 'consistent' for some means sticking to one URL structure (with or without the www)
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th September 2011, 10:00 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 770
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Flippa Questions - Selling A Website.

Escrow would be more secure as you wouldn't give out the files until you receive payment, because you're right someone could file a chargeback with Paypal, though that's never happened to me. I...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th September 2011, 09:50 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 770
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Flippa Questions - Selling A Website.

For 1 and 2, use Paypal or Escrow.com

For 3, I usually just zip up the files and send them in an email and obviously push/transfer the domain via your domain registrar.
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st September 2011, 11:00 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,206
Posted By John Williamson
When to outsource a task and when not to...

Thought I'd share this with everyone. It's a chart and concept from The 4 Hour Work Week (great book that happens to apply directly to IM) that I use just about every day:
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st September 2011, 10:49 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 817
Posted By John Williamson
Re: What one part of your business do you outsource (or wish you could outsouce?)

Backlinks, phone calls, "customer service" - I outsource certain things primarily based on this chart:

http://kennethfaler.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/flow-chart1.jpg
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th September 2011, 11:25 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 1,378
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Why SEO wont matter in about 3 years

Is this serious?

Authorities and big businesses do usually take over in our wonderful capitalist marketplace, but this is not necessarily the case in the SERPs. If anything, I'd say G is moving...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 12th September 2011, 05:50 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 715
Posted By John Williamson
Re: who are your favorite WARRIORS FOR HIRE ?

Kannan/Ikav that has the username Sidley - check out his services - great stuff.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th September 2011, 12:44 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,046
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Best paid adsense theme for WP?

Clickbump Engine!
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th August 2011, 09:15 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 6,176
Posted By John Williamson
Re: This tiny, simple, trick gets any site indexed in Google within 2 hours...

Got it, replying now.



How'd it turn out for you?
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd August 2011, 08:29 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 7,754
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Anyone Use intitle: inurl: inanchor: To Determine There True Competition In Google

No, because your "true competition" is just who's on page 1.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th August 2011, 10:38 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 464
Posted By John Williamson
Re: What is the best service/freelancer to write content for website ?

http://www.warriorforum.com/internet-marketing-product-reviews-ratings/406390-donna-fisher-only-article-writer-youll-ever-need.html
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th August 2011, 11:07 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 471
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Keywords & Tags for Wordpress

Not exactly. Choose 1 or 2 of those, whichever are your main targeted keywords, and use those, unless you are, like I said, building a big authority site.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th August 2011, 04:03 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 561
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Question About Sniper Sites

You can set them to automatically renew. Domain and hosting fees will be billed annually anyway, not monthly.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd August 2011, 03:53 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 655
Posted By John Williamson
Re: local searches vs. global searches

Ideally, both, but I've ranked plenty of .com's and others in other countries.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st August 2011, 04:09 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,176
Posted By John Williamson
Re: Who are the Top SEO Experts Today?

I have to disagree here. Just because you learn new things every day and it's constantly changing and evolving, doesn't mean that it's not a science, per se. SEO and search engines themselves are...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st August 2011, 03:49 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,062
Posted By John Williamson
Re: RSS, Social Bookmark, Index, and/or Ping

Yes, Linklicious has a free account option with the ability to upgrade and BLE is a one-time 37 bucks or so, well worth it. They greatly improve the crawl and subsequent indexing rates of my...
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