Aje How do you all get Search Engine Optimization (SEO) clients if you have almost no money to invest. I am getting frustrated trying almost 24/7 with no success. 18 👍🏽1 💟1925 💬🗨📰👈
John Cody 🎓 I would suggest working for other agencies, building up some capital first. You should have cade studies / examples of work and preferably a niche you can talk about pretty damn well about. Businesses get bombarded with emails and msgs daily. I literally get 100+ a day trying to sell me Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of some kind. 100% ignored. Do video audits (don't get technical) and provide value for businesses to build up trust…if you still want to pursue this on your own. You definitely should have a website to build you up as some kind of expert. You really need to build trust in a world where there isn't much unfortunately.
Rahul this is the best and my favorite option, whenever I start new service, I approach other Agencies and collaborate with them, it's win-win situation to all. Ruben » John Cody Best advice ever. That is what I tell freelancers to do when they want to prove their value which is creating a blog or YouTube channel. John Cody 🎓 Exactly, this is literally what I do on the client side guys. 1- Partner with influencers in a niche you want to work in, do free webinar stuff for them (giving them value and return). Then offer referral bonus for new clients. You can literally create a 10k/Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) by doing that one thing. 2- Audit videos / non technical – show them whats not quite right in a simple way, compare against those doing really good (show them their gap basically). I've done over 150 of these in the last year. Each is about 10 minutes long. Some of these were just to be helpful (so free time basically). Others were sales intent (close rate of about 60%). 3- Provide value in groups. Find a niche, and start posting helpful info. If you have the right group with business owners in it, some will really appreciate this and it opens the doors to conversation. This builds trust, and if you can show them a path to success…they will likely choose you over even bigger companies (because you spent sincere time with them). All of these things I said are 100% free, all it takes is time and dedication to it. 💟👍🏽3
Violetis Get out and talk to people, educating is the best way to get clients.
Simon » Violetis 1 – SEO requires relationships and trust… network and help people. Violetis » Simon The problem with a lot of people in the business of digital marketing is that they they think they can get work sitting in front of their computer all day by having no life experiences and human interactions what so ever. The internet is not replacing anything it's just enhancing things. The internet is not going to replace human interaction and it's certainly not going to change how people buy. Ruben » Violetis Hey who told you that the internet didn't change how we buy❓ The internet of course changed everything by the moment you said it's enhancing. Violetis » Ruben So what you're saying is that human psychology has changed because of the internet… John Cody 🎓 » Violetis I've done 100% of all my business, without ever physically meeting a customer. I have partners from 10 different countries (never met one). I have mentors from 2 countries (never met one). The key is, how can you make human interactions on the internet…lots of ways. Violetis » John Cody Kudos to you my friend, I mean it, but whatever worked for you though mighty not work for somebody else. Nevertheless I'm not saying anything different. I'm not saying that internet doesn't work. All I'm saying, in a few words is, educating people is the best way to converting them into customers. Now you can interpret this anyway you want… Ruben » Violetis I don't know how to answer that, but nowadays people buy through influence, frequent promotion, and a lot of value upfront. Buying physically vs buying one are very different experience for buyers and sellers. Violetis » Ruben No! They buy for the same reasons but they buy more because the internet has made it possible to market to them more frequently and cheaper… In some cases. Ruben » Violetis Okey 👍
John Cody 🎓 Also…pick a niche…build a rank and rent a site. Rank it (use it as a case study) – then sell the leads/or set up a retainer with a local business that wants the business. That way you can get paid for your efforts on going + have something to show others in the same niche. 1- Partner with influencers in a niche you want to work in, do free webinar stuff for them (giving them value and return). Then offer referral bonus for new clients. You can literally create a 10k/MRR by doing that one thing. 2- Audit videos / non technical – show them whats not quite right in a simple way, compare against those doing really good (show them their gap basically). I've done over 150 of these in the last year. Each is about 10 minutes long. Some of these were just to be helpful (so free time basically). Others were sales intent (close rate of about 60%). 3- Provide value in groups. Find a niche, and start posting helpful info. If you have the right group with business owners in it, some will really appreciate this and it opens the doors to conversation. This builds trust, and if you can show them a path to success…they will likely choose you over even bigger companies (because you spent sincere time with them). All of these things I said are 100% free, all it takes is time and dedication to it.
Aje ✍️ » John Cody I have read this like 15 times. Makes a lot of sense. Question – suppose I find and want to show them their gap, how do I convince them to open their emails? JOHNCODY.COM
Agamjot Make presentation for businesses to show what will you for them and how that will help them to grow their business or generate more leads. Give them legit proof of your work. If you are not able to get even 1 client – Just provide near to free service for first client and work hard on it build your portfolio and case studies. Show your Success -your work on social media handles. Moreover create your own blogs rank them and get paid for advertising, Adsense, sponsoring etc Or work on Rank and Rent Alan Leong The city where you live, have most businesses claimed their GMBs? If they have, then I know a platform for you to sell boosting rankings thru adding only 4-5 star reviews of their own customers. 1-3 star review will not be auto added. You can charge like 100-200/month or 1000-2000/year for each business. Only works if your country's businesses uses Google My Business (GMB) No money to start for 30 days, cancel anytime. $200/mo to continue. Work like crazy for 1 month visiting businesses personally to show them the benefits of getting positive reviews. Get 1 business to pay yearly, you're in profit. 1 or 2 on monthly, you break even. You can also recruit affiliates for recurring $60/mo commissions 💟👍🏽2
Stephen » Alan Leong Whats the platform? Alan Leong » Stephen Sent you a PM. Ruseas » Alan Leong Can you send me the platform Alan Leong » Ruseas Sent you a PM. Chikava » Alan Leong Are you serious about this? Alan Leong » Chikava Sent you a PM.
Jubair Last week I got a new client,, we got him from Reddit. After a lot of conversations, the guy asked me, hey man, how you generating lots of clients? Are you running any ads or maybe cold calling or emailing? I said no. I never calling or emailing even I never spent a penny to get clients, but still I have ton of clients lol. The guy was so curious. Again he asked so how you get clients? I answered: So, now you came to me and going to buy my service right? He said "yes", then I said, exactly, this is how I'm generating clients, lol. I'm just sharing knowledge with my community and we started with a few clients, then we got a lot of referring clients and many of our clients working with us for years. So I'm not going to clients but clients coming to me. And the guy is our client now. It was last week. Anyway, I m going to give you some solid tips to get Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or any clients: The industry is big, so you have to be strict with targeted industry and super focused. Let's say, roofing contractors, are your target clients. Nowadays, it's important to be an industry expert. Because there is a lot of competition, so only the way you could break or challenge the competition with your master skill. You cant survive with an average skill neither you can't be good at everything. So choose the perfect industry and be the brand. Now do these things every day: 1. set up a Google My Business (GMB) and website first that represent your business to your clients professionally. 2. Compare the competitor pricing with yours and keep it affordable 3. Research their marketing problems and needs, their complains, and their goals. 4. Start with 1 or 2 projects and try to make it work 5. Join the platform there already your clients spending time. Like Reddit, Facebook groups, quora, YouTube, Instagram (not all the time), 6. don't waste your time by sending spammy msg to everyone's inbox (lol) 7. Just scroll your feed and you will see a lot of problems they are complaining, try to solve them. So just join with them and help. 8. Provide valuable information to save their times. Sometimes offer them to audit their website for free and show them that the website has lots of errors and you can fix. Show them how their competitors making $$ from google, you can help them to dominate the market though. 9. So, when you are strict with a specific industry, you can learn deeply about the industry and it shows you as a master of it. So, keep learning everyday and make more connections in your industry. 10. Again add value and help the community, you will never be disappointed. 11. Your valuable content makes your face positive, build your brand, so this is the power of content marketing. If I ask you a question!! "You see a man you know the man closely, he's selling something vs another man selling the same thing, now if you buy the product, who the man you're going to buy from?" I'm 1000% sure, that you will buy from that well-known person. This is what content marketing is better than any other method such as email marketing. So, when you email random people, they just don't care what you selling, but if you share knowledge and help the target audience, they care, they might be interested in you. Because content marketing makes you popular, creates your own face and own brand that no one can compete with. This is how you can generate lots of clients and without spending any $$$$. Although it takes time… Good luck.
Ruseas » Jubair Do you provide SEO for taxi business
Dord Take it easy and know how your industry sells. Sometimes you may be doing it all wrong with the wrong approach and on the wrong platform. I have over 10 years experience in digital marketing and from experience, some things just don't sell on some platforms. My little advice is keeping testing till you hit the magic platform and magic style. Robert Optimizing your pages for search engines is totally free. The only investment is time spent finding both short and long tail keywords. If you are appealing to a niche (or micro-niche) keyword optimization is crucial in both organic and paid traffic. Bad SEO wastes time and efforts in organic traffic and money in paid traffic. Find a good keyword research tool ( I use ). Whenever you post an article or blog utilize your keywords in everything from the title to your copy. If you're running paid ads use the short tail and long tail versions, as well as blocking negative keywords to prevent paying for bad traffic. Expand your keyword lists to drill down to the ones that convert the most. WORDSTREAM.COM WordStream: Online Advertising Made Easy
