Local Business SEO Journal

Hey phoenixrising, quick question for you. I see you were doing some marketing based off of Craigslist ads. Are you marketing to companies that are advertising services even though they wish not to be contacted for "other commercial interests"? Just curious, I've personally been a little bit hesitant about doing that but think I could have a valuable service for some people advertising there.
 


I set up a RSS reader to autoload posts for different types of Gigs/Jobs, and I just reply to them as they pop up. I do NOT reply to people that don't want to be contacted, I don't think its an effective use of either of our time. Rather apply to warm leads than ice cold.
 
Just got 10x$100 Google Adwords cards mailed to me, with a hat from Google and a USB stick. The cards are personalized with my name, and the USB stick loaded with case studies and sales materials. Awesome!
 
First live pitches today: 0/2

First one was a european bakery that has a shit website that some other company made. How shit? Title tag is "untitled". It's run by a vietnamese family, and when I brought it up the first thing she asked was the price. I quoted $500, and she immediately said no. I didn't let it stop me and tried to explain how I could redesign their site in very specific ways but she still balked on the price.

The husband is the decision maker though, so I'm going to go when he's there and drop off a small sheet showing how I can improve the website.

Next place was a Pho restaurant without a website, the owner just said he straight up didn't want a website.

Oh well, on to the next - have some CL followups that need to be done.
 
Updates!

1. Talked with a skincare salon owner yesterday. She called me because of my CL ad. We talked for a bit, she seems like she's sensible but doesn't know much about the net. I quoted $650 and she said that someone else offered $450. I didn't balk - I told her questions to ask the guy to vet him and see if he knows what he's doing. Mentioned that lots of guys out there are doing this fly-by-night and they don't use best practices. At the end, I also threw in a $100 adwords coupon to sweeten the deal. She said she really liked my ideas and wanted to meet with me, and was going to meet with the other guy first. I have a feeling she'll go with me.

2. Spoke with a russian artist looking to revamp her online portfolio. After talking with her, didn't foresee her being able to pay much, plus portfolio sites are relatively simple. Quoted $450 and she said she really liked talking with me and that I seemed professional. She's going to contact someone to take pictures of her paintings, and then get back to me - regardless of if she's going with me or not.

The Big One
3. Just got a call from a guy who owns a local print shop and just spent $600 on a prebuilt ecommerce platform with a pretty solid domain name. He's looking for someone to give him a PPC budget and run it for him as well. In addition, he wants to have someone essentially run the e-commerce side of the business if/when it takes off.

For now, I"d like to help him out with the PPC side of it, but I've never run PPC for a client before. Any of you out there know how you charge, the methods, etc? Would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
 
Sup dudes,

Working on getting a side project domains xferred/outsourcers set up.

Re: local seo, putting together lists of 40 leads in a bunch of diff verticals for me to hit next week. going to be an absolutely pitching mayhem next week. will keep you updated.
 
Alright.

Got a project set up this weekend - purchased some websites that should be making me a decent amount, enough to cover my monthly expenses.

Now that that's set up, I can focus on gaining more and more leads. Gonna see if I can write up a Ubot yellowpages scraper to scrape categories and save the names, phones, emails and urls into a .csv for me to check later. I'll use this for my lead generation, then test different email formats for the lead qualification.
 
phoenixrising said:
Alright.

Got a project set up this weekend - purchased some websites that should be making me a decent amount, enough to cover my monthly expenses.

Now that that's set up, I can focus on gaining more and more leads. Gonna see if I can write up a Ubot yellowpages scraper to scrape categories and save the names, phones, emails and urls into a .csv for me to check later. I'll use this for my lead generation, then test different email formats for the lead qualification.
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A quick google search should find plenty of programs out there to scrape Yahoo, Google Places, Yellowpages, etc.
 
Hello sirs,

Just built a standing desk and got my personal SEO project off the ground, making decent money.

ON the client side, need to get more touches/day. I finally stopped being a donk about the sales process and figured out a model to apply to this where I can make it work.

Scraped off a bunch of leads (like thousands) off of yellowpages and sending them through THE FUNNEL OF DOOM.
 
I'm digging this journal, man. Keep hustling.

Also, a standing desk? That's so Donald-fucking-Rumsfeld! I love it.
 
Standing desk, bitches. It's where the money is at. Been twice as productive the last few days, probably why there have been short posts and a lack of information. I like it this way. I'm up and active for at least 3x as much time during the day, I feel stronger, more motivated, and more ready to crush.

Local SEO: taken a backseat this week due to getting SEO project off the ground.

SEO project: Looking like it's stabilizing around 40-50/day and I'm looking to scale and outsource the content.

Be back soon - with pics of standing desk because its so hot.
 
Just an FYI - UBot 4 will be out soon and the interface is slightly easier, and the program is just way cooler. So if you've been holding off on working on a UBot project, it might pay to wait a few days :)
 
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