Post: #26

It sounds like you want to create a service based affiliate marketing system for advertising your services. If that's the case I don't know if that would be a wise move. The scale of sales needed to do that type marketing usually isn't beneficial to a service based company. You might attract to many "independent sales people" (or more likely spammers) who could send you anywhere between 2 - 5 projects a day then you would need a customer service representative to make sure those customers were real. Then you would need the employees to actually do the programming. Keep in mind you could always outsource but the volume may lead to you hiring sub par workers to keep up.

That's why in many cases this form of marketing is in the retail sector where all you need to do is verify that the order is real and then ship it out. I would recommend instead that you focus more on the freelance thing your doing now. A more traditional marketing technique (A self hosted blog, customer satisfaction page, and good elance reviews) would likely be more in tune toward what you want. In this case Since the volume would start slower you could also outsource but actually build a network of reliable outsource employees as you grow gradually.

Post: #27

Also emphasize that while you charge more in life just like in retail you get what you pay for. Yeah behind your customers back you might be outsourcing but you at least would know who the quality outsouce freelancer were compared to many customers who would buy cheap and get crappy products.

Post: #28

I think your reading too much into the outsourcing part. I'm slowly scaling up my business, doing the services that I can but outsourcing others. Slowly, I develop outsourcing relationships with reliable providers. If they fail to deliver, I would do anything to help the client as customer satisfaction is my #1 priority.

Reputation in these kinds of situations is a big deal.
After getting a couple of clients they refer you to other clients, who refer you to more clients. And so on.

You misunderstood me, at some point I may hire 1-3 people who I personally screen to handle customer service and sales for me. That's called scaling up.
And no, going to offline businesses is the best thing at this point.

btw another great service is offering "Mobile websites". Sell it for $150-$500 or even more. I personally haven't dabbled as I've been focusing on other things but I will most likely go to this.
They're pretty easy to make/outsource.($20-$50 to outsource online)
The great thing about that is all you have to do is type m.google.com and you can see who doesn't have a mobile website by the cellphone icon next to their website.
EDIT: Looks like m.google.com isn't available on your computer anymore. :/ Haven't checked the phone version as I do not have my phone right now.

Easy. Just got to have confidence in your abilities and Sell. Sell.
Most importantly.

Sell.

Post: #29

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Post: #30

(04-03-2012 11:37 PM)drymarro Wrote:  You don't buy it? Whatever. It's not like a scam or anything. You work hard and you do the right stuff and you can go far in life. I've done pretty well so far. My company is getting bigger each month.

One easy tactic you can get into though is making free websites for businesses.
How?
Well you hit up businesses without websites(check yellow pages) and you call them or mail them(don't email trust me).
Make them a simple wordpress themed website for free.
Sign them up for hostgator and you get paid $125/signup if you get 21 signups/month(easily possible to get 30) so thats over $3.1k/month.

There are threads on this in a forum which explain this further. PM me if you're interested as I'm too lazy to write right now.

That's pretty much the simple groundwork. You offer them facebook page management, SEO, email marketing, etc.

Everything is outsourceable.
Everything. (look on Odesk or fiverr)
As long as their is a margin of profit between outsourcing costs and revenue then you're good.) Everything will become recurring.

heck outsource sales to some college kids and you're fully automated.


It's not some get rich quick scheme. You'll probably fail the first couple of calls, maybe get 1 signup in every 20. But you'll get better. Sometimes businesses are just busy. Set up an excel sheet of who you contacted.(Contact them at least 3 times, trust me). Have business cards, be personal with them).

I have a software where I can scrape leads from yellowpages(3,000 in like 10 minutes) and export to excel.

I'm trying to concentrate on this more than ever. When I finish spring semester early May I'll be able to make this fulltime++ and make some serious bank.

Post: #31

(04-04-2012 05:10 PM)drymarro Wrote:  Guys here:
If this doesn't get your mind flowing I don't think it is for you.
here's something to get you started. It's Golden.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mdp6lbvz127846e
PM me for pw.

What exatly is this?

Post: #32

(04-05-2012 02:45 AM)AlphaTravel Wrote:  

(04-04-2012 05:10 PM)drymarro Wrote:  Guys here:
If this doesn't get your mind flowing I don't think it is for you.
here's something to get you started. It's Golden.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mdp6lbvz127846e
PM me for pw.

What exatly is this?

Pretty much everything you need to know about Offline Business.

Post: #33

(04-05-2012 02:47 AM)drymarro Wrote:  Pretty much everything you need to know about Offline Business.

I just finished reading it and I have to tell you, it was a great read. Thanks a lot for your contribution!