Best place/way to hirer someone to manage local PPC campgains?

miketpowell

miketpowell

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So I'm looking to find someone that can set up and manage PPC campaigns for attorneys and other local businesses.

I've got someone that is great at networking/hustling to find clients and I'm great at closing sales. Now we just need someone that hates the aspect of sales but can set up LPs/websites/Adwords/SEO and do an OK job of it.

Basically a typical set up would go like this. We close with an attorney to start paying us $4000 a month for advertising costs at a 25% agency fee. With maybe a one time $1500 set up fee.

We need someone that would then register a domain and set up a Wordpess website/LP - then start an Adwords campaign to spend $3000 a month trying to get the attorney leads. I want someone that can optimize a campaign and landing pages but obviously this isn't CPA performance marketing - we all get paid either way. Just if the person sucks to much/is to lazy we will just loose the client. So we need someone that isn't a complete lazy idiot but also no need for someone that can run amazing campaigns - those people probably wouldn't be interested in this type of a job anyways.

So my questions to you guys on Wickedfire would be:

Where and how would you suggest looking for a candidate for this?

How should we pay them?

Am I expecting to much from one person for this kind of job? Should I find one person to set up websites/LPs and another person to do the Adwords?

What are some things you think I should be wary of?

Any thoughts or suggestions in general?


I really don't want to get super involved in this and become a big headache for me - it's mostly the others guy project and he brings in clients. He just needs me to do the final "internet marketing is so amazing" close that apparently I'm pretty decent at.

I'm fairly certain some people here already run businesses quite a bit like this already - I'd be interesting in talking with you about how we could close the sale then outsource the entire process to your business.
 


Post in the buy/sell/trade section, I'm sure many knowledgeable people here on wickedfire could help you out with that. Whatever you do don't hire somebody off of a job site or craigslist, on paper ever 22 year old college graduate with a marketing degree thinks they are a SEM/PPC expert but when it actually comes time to do the work they can't even create an advwords campaign.
 
Where and how would you suggest looking for a candidate for this?
Me to build out your wp sites. :) (btw...this is Drew)

 How should we pay them?
Flat rate for both

Am I expecting to much from one person for this kind of job? Should I find one person to set up websites/LPs and another person to do the Adwords?
Yes. Running a campaign is a task in itself as you already know. Finding a guy whose a jack of all traits are usually too busy with one or the other.

What are some things you think I should be wary of?
Mike, there's so much that goes into running, managing and providing detail reports of a campaign. Wary of finding the right guy capable of providing this for you.

Any thoughts or suggestions in general?
AIM me and I'll build out the wp sites for you.
 
JustFU said:
Yeah, where to hirer someone.
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Yeah I'm pretty much dyslexia with words - I proof read the post but forgot to do the title.

I'll hit you up on AIM on Monday Drew - you are probably right this entire ordeal of a project is something that has proven to be to much of a hassle. I don't want to deal with a bunch of local clients calling me about this kind of crap.
 
I thought about PM'ing you, but that's lame. I'll show my cards...

I'll take $750/month/client to manage this for you. I can deploy wordpress in seconds, I have lots of landing pages ready to go.

These are low budget campaigns, if you have some higher (Or hirer) budgets, I'll work for a percentage of ad spend.
 
Enigmabomb said:
I thought about PM'ing you, but that's lame. I'll show my cards...

I'll take $750/month/client to manage this for you. I can deploy wordpress in seconds, I have lots of landing pages ready to go.

These are low budget campaigns, if you have some higher (Or hirer) budgets, I'll work for a percentage of ad spend.
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deploying wordpress takes seconds. building out the page takes minutes to a few hours pending what all goes in there.

$750 is a pretty interesting $amount
 
cv735 said:
deploying wordpress takes seconds. building out the page takes minutes to a few hours pending what all goes in there.

$750 is a pretty interesting $amount
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It's not interesting, it's fair.

Anyone can bullshit people into closing a deal about internet marketing, it takes skill, knowledge and execution to keep the checks rolling in. Considering his prices to the clients, I'm a great deal.
 
miketpowell said:
So my questions to you guys on Wickedfire would be:

Where and how would you suggest looking for a candidate for this?
Wickedfire

How should we pay them?
Either give 5-10% of the Agency fee and $500 of setup fee
Am I expecting to much from one person for this kind of job? Should I find one person to set up websites/LPs and another person to do the Adwords?
No that is just fine unless you are pushing 20 leads/day. You can outsource content for website so you don't put so much stress on your ppc/wpinstaller. It would prob cost like $5-10 for content for each site

What are some things you think I should be wary of?
Experience, Past work.

Any thoughts or suggestions in general? BLARG
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cv735 said:
deploying wordpress takes seconds. building out the page takes minutes to a few hours pending what all goes in there.

$750 is a pretty interesting $amount
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LOL try getting somebody who is competent in PPC marketing and fluent in English for that price, the only people who will do it for less are

1) 20 something marketing majors with zero PPC experience.
2) 20 something kids from India who have only heard about adwords because they rely on selling $5 vouchers on digitalpoint.
3) Grandmas from warriorforum who heard they can supplement their social security income with clickbank, but still fall for toolbar installs and wrinkle cream rebills.

$750 for somebody with actual adwords/ppc experience is a steal.
 
A lot of people on here (and other forums) want to learn PPC but don't have the money (or the balls to risk losing their own money) to run a PPC campaign. I recommend finding someone on a forum who wants to learn, give them them "The Ultimate Guide To Google Adwords" by Perry Marshall and after maybe $100 of trial and error they'd be proficient enough to do what you're looking for.

The question is will they stay after they've gained the confidence to branch out on their own?
 
First of all, to all of you reverse bidding me, allow me to re-bid: $750.

Second of all, those saying that $750 is expensive, you're an idiot.

Third of all, to those saying $750 is cheap, you're right.
 
TylerDurden said:
A lot of people on here (and other forums) want to learn PPC but don't have the money (or the balls to risk losing their own money) to run a PPC campaign. I recommend finding someone on a forum who wants to learn, give them them "The Ultimate Guide To Google Adwords" by Perry Marshall and after maybe $100 of trial and error they'd be proficient enough to do what you're looking for.

The question is will they stay after they've gained the confidence to branch out on their own?
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That's the worst idea ever, practice with someone else's business?? You can't be serious? If they don't have balls to risk their own money then they're not fit for this industry
 
TylerDurden said:
A lot of people on here (and other forums) want to learn PPC but don't have the money (or the balls to risk losing their own money) to run a PPC campaign. I recommend finding someone on a forum who wants to learn, give them them "The Ultimate Guide To Google Adwords" by Perry Marshall and after maybe $100 of trial and error they'd be proficient enough to do what you're looking for.

The question is will they stay after they've gained the confidence to branch out on their own?
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dude you should just get off of this forum because you are clearly retarded
 
A few of you guys already know who I am so I'll just say what's wrong with this:

1. You're not going to cold call an attorney... Period. I have sales guys calling all day and that's one of the only business types unsuitable to solicit via telephone.

2. OP, you don't need to build an agency. You need to simply join one that has a reseller/partner program.

3. To see people compete over a hypothetical job on a thread in embarrassing.
 
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