Starting new business idea
Was making a couple grand a month detailing cars since April but it really slowed down for the summer. Same marketing but much less leads.
A couple days ago, I was bored so I decided to test out a new business.
I asked myself, what are my skills? I'm not good at detailing cars, I'm good at finding clients online for it. Specifically I'm good at optimizing GMB pages. I had 30 reviews and was outranking all the 200+ review giants getting 1 call per day in the past months from it.
Bought 5000 ringless voicemails, and sent a voicemail out to every service business in my city.
"Hey my name is Alex and im calling to offer you 30 leads per month for $100/month.
I got hundreds of calls back but most of them didn't hear the voicemail; They just pressed call back which means I got a bajillion phone calls of people who have no clue what I do. I only replied to leads who messagaed/voicemailed me back asking more questions. My voicemails has problems though so its not reliable.
Talking to my leads
I got on 1 hour phone calls with 2 pest control companies. They vented for one hour about how they're paying 1000-2000/month to an agency right now and getting 0 leads. I got on other calls as well but they were cheap asf asking me to work for free and talking to my like im a piece of shit so I told them to have fun with their dying business. Here I decided that Google Adwords is a big opportunity since agencies suck which breeds huge pain points and I can provide tremendous value.
I have Google Adwords experience learning from @Andy Black while running car detailing. The pest control guys were telling me what the agency is doing with the ads and they have no clue what theyre doing They are just feeding money straight into google's pockets.
Then I realized I can make big money off Google Adwords. $1000/month - spend $500 on adspend and pocket the other $500. 5 clients is 2.5k/month. 20 clients is 10k/month
New ringless voicemail campaign
So i sent a ringless voicemail to every pest control company in Canada. I said to msg me at a different number instead of the number I was calling from (if they pressed call back its an invalid number). Didn't work and got 2 messages back that werent really interested. Im gonna set up an automated system that says "press 1 for consulting about digital marketing" to filter out all the people that are just giving me a call back and didnt hear my voicemail. Then I will have a lead creation machine.
Closing my 2 leads
I'm going to be negotiating a price with them through email tonight. I can probably charge them $200/month + adspend money (i doubt they'll pay big money to a stranger who cold called them) but I want them to see how much my advertising will help their business first before we negotiate pay. I'm confident that I can get them results and I dont have any bills to pay so I have no problem working for free for the first month. I've learned that people love when you come off as transparent with them so by showing them my skills first I'm going to gain their trust.
Im going to send the emails tonight. "$10/day adspend and I'll get you results first before we discuss pay and increase ad budget.
Once these 2 guys sign, I will outreach to some more companies with the same offer.
Inexpensive to start, recurring, fully online, and scalable.
All it comes down to is if I can get them results or not.
Was making a couple grand a month detailing cars since April but it really slowed down for the summer. Same marketing but much less leads.
A couple days ago, I was bored so I decided to test out a new business.
I asked myself, what are my skills? I'm not good at detailing cars, I'm good at finding clients online for it. Specifically I'm good at optimizing GMB pages. I had 30 reviews and was outranking all the 200+ review giants getting 1 call per day in the past months from it.
Bought 5000 ringless voicemails, and sent a voicemail out to every service business in my city.
"Hey my name is Alex and im calling to offer you 30 leads per month for $100/month.
I got hundreds of calls back but most of them didn't hear the voicemail; They just pressed call back which means I got a bajillion phone calls of people who have no clue what I do. I only replied to leads who messagaed/voicemailed me back asking more questions. My voicemails has problems though so its not reliable.
Talking to my leads
I got on 1 hour phone calls with 2 pest control companies. They vented for one hour about how they're paying 1000-2000/month to an agency right now and getting 0 leads. I got on other calls as well but they were cheap asf asking me to work for free and talking to my like im a piece of shit so I told them to have fun with their dying business. Here I decided that Google Adwords is a big opportunity since agencies suck which breeds huge pain points and I can provide tremendous value.
I have Google Adwords experience learning from @Andy Black while running car detailing. The pest control guys were telling me what the agency is doing with the ads and they have no clue what theyre doing They are just feeding money straight into google's pockets.
Then I realized I can make big money off Google Adwords. $1000/month - spend $500 on adspend and pocket the other $500. 5 clients is 2.5k/month. 20 clients is 10k/month
New ringless voicemail campaign
So i sent a ringless voicemail to every pest control company in Canada. I said to msg me at a different number instead of the number I was calling from (if they pressed call back its an invalid number). Didn't work and got 2 messages back that werent really interested. Im gonna set up an automated system that says "press 1 for consulting about digital marketing" to filter out all the people that are just giving me a call back and didnt hear my voicemail. Then I will have a lead creation machine.
Closing my 2 leads
I'm going to be negotiating a price with them through email tonight. I can probably charge them $200/month + adspend money (i doubt they'll pay big money to a stranger who cold called them) but I want them to see how much my advertising will help their business first before we negotiate pay. I'm confident that I can get them results and I dont have any bills to pay so I have no problem working for free for the first month. I've learned that people love when you come off as transparent with them so by showing them my skills first I'm going to gain their trust.
Im going to send the emails tonight. "$10/day adspend and I'll get you results first before we discuss pay and increase ad budget.
Once these 2 guys sign, I will outreach to some more companies with the same offer.
Inexpensive to start, recurring, fully online, and scalable.
All it comes down to is if I can get them results or not.
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