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I spent thousands of dollars of unemployment benefits during the COVID pandemic on courses that teaches you how to start a digital marketing agency so I wouldn't have to go back to the assembly line earning $8.00 per hour. I have no degree and really no marketable skills and even worse I have to head back to the assembly line. AND Facebook restricted one my business managers for about 70 days now...
I did managed to bring 7 new clients to a nail salon and got a video testimonial from a trial...I covered her ad spend of $100. She didn't want to stay on a retainer even though she got results. Since then I've been targeting broad niches and carpet cleaners. Posting on my profile that I'm looking for 2-3 owners that want 10-15 jobs guaranteed or that I'm looking 2-3 owners that want 7 customers in 7 days.
The offer for carpet cleaners is for a paid trial where $100 would go to my ad fee and $200 would go to the ad spend. I created a generic FB page and from lead forms, found that the average cost per lead was $18. I qualified people through messenger through a series of questions and told them that the guarantee if I fail is that I would refund them the $100, minus processing fees, and work for free for another week not including ad spend. AND I would do a google review and a reactivation campaign for social proof and help them get more sales from past customers. I've booked a couple of demos but got no shows. Only one showed up and he wanted me to work for free for a month. Some even wanted me to guarantee their free trial.
The gurus are telling me that saturation doesn't matter in a niche but I financially cannot come up with a better offer with the income that I earn nor attend the coaching calls since I must work. An example of such an offer is, get 30 booked appointments or your money back plus $1,000 for wasting your time. The only guarantee they want me to offer as a risk reversal is free work with a Google review campaign and reactivation campaign. Even more so, I don't have much time to set appointments and close appointments since I now have to go to work at a day job and as for paid ads, the coaches are telling me to spend at least $50 per day on ads for booked appointments. I commute to work by taking bus which takes almost 1 hour to and back.
I literally must get up at 5 am in the morning, get ready for the day, catch the bus and be at the assembly line from 7:15 am to about 4:30pm and arriving home at 6pm. On a side note, they are starting me off at $13.20 and occasionally they want us to work on Saturdays as well... feeling discouraged and wondering if I should either:
A) Attend a coding bootcamp with an ISA and get a higher paying job to fund the agency with paid ads
B) Freelance copywriting so I that I wouldn't haven't spend $ on software tools that I am not using because I am not getting enough booked appointments organically, I'm flushing dollars...
C) Do Drop servicing so that I can focus primarily on sales calls and not concern myself with fulfillment or software costs.
D) Continue with the agency even though most local businesses close by the time I get home to internet access for zoom calls and fulfillment of the service.
F) Choose another niche or online business model like Fox Web Design
The goal is to quit my day ASAP!!! A consistent $2.5k per month would be great!
I did managed to bring 7 new clients to a nail salon and got a video testimonial from a trial...I covered her ad spend of $100. She didn't want to stay on a retainer even though she got results. Since then I've been targeting broad niches and carpet cleaners. Posting on my profile that I'm looking for 2-3 owners that want 10-15 jobs guaranteed or that I'm looking 2-3 owners that want 7 customers in 7 days.
The offer for carpet cleaners is for a paid trial where $100 would go to my ad fee and $200 would go to the ad spend. I created a generic FB page and from lead forms, found that the average cost per lead was $18. I qualified people through messenger through a series of questions and told them that the guarantee if I fail is that I would refund them the $100, minus processing fees, and work for free for another week not including ad spend. AND I would do a google review and a reactivation campaign for social proof and help them get more sales from past customers. I've booked a couple of demos but got no shows. Only one showed up and he wanted me to work for free for a month. Some even wanted me to guarantee their free trial.
The gurus are telling me that saturation doesn't matter in a niche but I financially cannot come up with a better offer with the income that I earn nor attend the coaching calls since I must work. An example of such an offer is, get 30 booked appointments or your money back plus $1,000 for wasting your time. The only guarantee they want me to offer as a risk reversal is free work with a Google review campaign and reactivation campaign. Even more so, I don't have much time to set appointments and close appointments since I now have to go to work at a day job and as for paid ads, the coaches are telling me to spend at least $50 per day on ads for booked appointments. I commute to work by taking bus which takes almost 1 hour to and back.
I literally must get up at 5 am in the morning, get ready for the day, catch the bus and be at the assembly line from 7:15 am to about 4:30pm and arriving home at 6pm. On a side note, they are starting me off at $13.20 and occasionally they want us to work on Saturdays as well... feeling discouraged and wondering if I should either:
A) Attend a coding bootcamp with an ISA and get a higher paying job to fund the agency with paid ads
B) Freelance copywriting so I that I wouldn't haven't spend $ on software tools that I am not using because I am not getting enough booked appointments organically, I'm flushing dollars...
C) Do Drop servicing so that I can focus primarily on sales calls and not concern myself with fulfillment or software costs.
D) Continue with the agency even though most local businesses close by the time I get home to internet access for zoom calls and fulfillment of the service.
F) Choose another niche or online business model like Fox Web Design
The goal is to quit my day ASAP!!! A consistent $2.5k per month would be great!
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