Who am I?
My name is Martin, I'm 22 years old and live in Germany.
I started my slowlane life with 15 years old. With 19 i went back to school to have a "break" and find out what i want to do with my life. Then working in the same construction job for the next 40 years sound not really like fun to me.
Around that time I watched an interview of some dude who makes millions with Instagram theme pages and that got me hooked . I wanted to do the same, so I started an Instagram page in the finance niche, I didn't have the goal in mind to make some money rather to gain some experience with "marketing".
Fast-forward and a few years and I'm working from home with for me good paying job (31k).
I still live with my parents, but that gives me the ability to save up to 60% of my monthly income and take some major risks.
What is my goal?
I want to build myself a lifestyle business and travel the world while working.
I aim for an income from 5k per month trough (mainly) SEO services (my normal salary is not included)
With that amount, I can travel and have also money to save and invest in future ideas.
What I do after that is not 100% clear, but I will decide it when I am there.
My goal is it to reach that level till the 24.04.23.
When not, I will extend the deadline and will try to find a new job in a SEO agency.
What is my plan?
1. Learn SEO
Im "learning" SEO for quite some time but never executed my learned knowledge.
This month I bought a SEO course about affiliate and local SEO and began to apply the learned knowledge.
I consider that phase done when I have ranked my own page to the number 1 spot of a search term.
I will mainly focus on local SEO (+GMB) than it's the easiest form of SEO and I can get there pretty fast results
I currently have 3 sites, 2 of them are Local SEO pages and one is a ecom / affiliate site from a past project.
I'm currently planing to publish 2 new sites within the same niche, to try what works for each difficulty (Each keyword / search term has a differnet difficulty, and according to that it's easier or harder to get a site to the first page of Google.
When everything goes as planed I have by the end of the year a few sites on the first page of Google and can consider that phase done.
2. Find a niche
I have already a niche in mind but need to prove that this industry is really worth procuring.
By picking a niche, I will look at:
-How much do they charge for their service ?
-How high is the competition ?
-Are the companies willing to scale?
-Do they have a problem with getting new employees?
In the beginning, I will offer my services for free to get some results that I can use as references. Also I want to use that time to building out an offer with the existing costumers to match their needs.
3. Getting Costumers
In this phase, I will focus on getting costumers and getting them great results.
I think I will start with doing cold outreach, later on i will probably try to rank for specific kw for that niche. (Like "SEO for plumbers")
I have already a broad pricing in my mind, but to that more to a later point.
How will this thread look like?
I will write here every Sunday an update to my progress and share some insights.
Week: 34 / 2022
Im currently tracking how much time I spend working on my biz.
This week it was: 8h
I tried this week, get up a few hours earlier and use that time for the biz. I did it only 3 days, but the results weren't that great.
So I think I will go back to my old habit with working after work.
Also, I wasted a lot of time this Saturday I spend only 3 hours working, that something I want and need to improve.
I spend currently to much time on YouTube and watching some bs videos. I need to improve that over the next week.
I will do that by:
-Go only on my phone after 1 PM
-Be more mindful when i have my phone in my hand
-Stop using my phone when I'm on the toilet
-Install a YouTube feed blocker.
I created a spreadsheet with all information for the site I need. So that i just can enter the sheet and know what to do. I also use it as an access point to link out to the text documents for each article that I have written,
It's the first time I use it, but I like it and probably will use it for my other sites too.
Overall, I'm happy with my progress this week.
I'm a few days ahead of my schedule with the 3te site and expect to finish the 4te till week 36 / 37
Goals for next week:
-Getting the 3te site published
-Writing 3 new articles for the future
-Finding someone to verifies the GMB
-Making an appointment for my driving test
-Making an appointment with the doctor (nothing serious)
When you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to share them
My name is Martin, I'm 22 years old and live in Germany.
I started my slowlane life with 15 years old. With 19 i went back to school to have a "break" and find out what i want to do with my life. Then working in the same construction job for the next 40 years sound not really like fun to me.
Around that time I watched an interview of some dude who makes millions with Instagram theme pages and that got me hooked . I wanted to do the same, so I started an Instagram page in the finance niche, I didn't have the goal in mind to make some money rather to gain some experience with "marketing".
Fast-forward and a few years and I'm working from home with for me good paying job (31k).
I still live with my parents, but that gives me the ability to save up to 60% of my monthly income and take some major risks.
What is my goal?
I want to build myself a lifestyle business and travel the world while working.
I aim for an income from 5k per month trough (mainly) SEO services (my normal salary is not included)
With that amount, I can travel and have also money to save and invest in future ideas.
What I do after that is not 100% clear, but I will decide it when I am there.
My goal is it to reach that level till the 24.04.23.
When not, I will extend the deadline and will try to find a new job in a SEO agency.
What is my plan?
1. Learn SEO
Im "learning" SEO for quite some time but never executed my learned knowledge.
This month I bought a SEO course about affiliate and local SEO and began to apply the learned knowledge.
I consider that phase done when I have ranked my own page to the number 1 spot of a search term.
I will mainly focus on local SEO (+GMB) than it's the easiest form of SEO and I can get there pretty fast results
I currently have 3 sites, 2 of them are Local SEO pages and one is a ecom / affiliate site from a past project.
I'm currently planing to publish 2 new sites within the same niche, to try what works for each difficulty (Each keyword / search term has a differnet difficulty, and according to that it's easier or harder to get a site to the first page of Google.
When everything goes as planed I have by the end of the year a few sites on the first page of Google and can consider that phase done.
2. Find a niche
I have already a niche in mind but need to prove that this industry is really worth procuring.
By picking a niche, I will look at:
-How much do they charge for their service ?
-How high is the competition ?
-Are the companies willing to scale?
-Do they have a problem with getting new employees?
In the beginning, I will offer my services for free to get some results that I can use as references. Also I want to use that time to building out an offer with the existing costumers to match their needs.
3. Getting Costumers
In this phase, I will focus on getting costumers and getting them great results.
I think I will start with doing cold outreach, later on i will probably try to rank for specific kw for that niche. (Like "SEO for plumbers")
I have already a broad pricing in my mind, but to that more to a later point.
How will this thread look like?
I will write here every Sunday an update to my progress and share some insights.
Week: 34 / 2022
Im currently tracking how much time I spend working on my biz.
This week it was: 8h
I tried this week, get up a few hours earlier and use that time for the biz. I did it only 3 days, but the results weren't that great.
So I think I will go back to my old habit with working after work.
Also, I wasted a lot of time this Saturday I spend only 3 hours working, that something I want and need to improve.
I spend currently to much time on YouTube and watching some bs videos. I need to improve that over the next week.
I will do that by:
-Go only on my phone after 1 PM
-Be more mindful when i have my phone in my hand
-Stop using my phone when I'm on the toilet
-Install a YouTube feed blocker.
I created a spreadsheet with all information for the site I need. So that i just can enter the sheet and know what to do. I also use it as an access point to link out to the text documents for each article that I have written,
It's the first time I use it, but I like it and probably will use it for my other sites too.
Overall, I'm happy with my progress this week.
I'm a few days ahead of my schedule with the 3te site and expect to finish the 4te till week 36 / 37
Goals for next week:
-Getting the 3te site published
-Writing 3 new articles for the future
-Finding someone to verifies the GMB
-Making an appointment for my driving test
-Making an appointment with the doctor (nothing serious)
When you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to share them
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