What's up guys.
I recently decided to start a new business focused on delivering services to Amazon sellers.
Going to keep this up to date for accountability purposes. Also going to ask questions in here in case someone knows better than me.
This is my first time delivering "services" for clients. I've always done ecommerce until now. Still doing it, just wanting to expand my horizons because I think I can offer people a kick a$$ service, AND it's up my alley because I love seeing other people's businesses grow and succeed.
I sold a few Shopify stores plus ongoing support in the past ~year. What I'm focused on now is helping Amazon sellers with the commandment of "Control" and take their business into their own hands. Basically I help Amz sellers get their customers back from Amazon by taking the data they already have, find more customers, and either send them to a back to their AMZ product page for more sales and higher conversion rate (thus boosting the listing in the search rankings), OR, send traffic to their own website (Shopify), and make sales there. From there, you can ask people for email opt in, and re-market to customers through email, and Facebook Chatbots.
What I've done so far:
Created an UpWork account to find potential clients for this service. Tailored my profile hardcore to niche down to just this service for Amazon sellers. Applied to every job posting that has anything to do with my niche (there were a few exact matches, and a few pretty similar ones, then a bunch of pretty vague ones where people didn't really know what they needed).
Made a Fiverr gig for my service, got a buddy to buy it and leave me a review for social proof. It's only gotten 7 views so far though. I'm trying to figure out the Fiverr SEO, how does your gig rank for keywords?? If anyone knows please reply.
Having my Virtual Assistant scrape Amazon for any seller emails she can find. We're finding there are a LOT more phone numbers for Amazon sellers, than emails, so I am going to cold call a bunch too. Does anyone have suggestions on how better to collect emails? This process is semi slow (she's getting only about 40 emails a day). Going to cold email the sellers with a value prop.
Looking in the Facebook groups for Amazon sellers too. The issue is, FB messenger has caps of 50/day, and I cannot afford to get that account banned... Not sure what to do here. Might do like 10/day and just see where it goes.
Going to In Person Amazon FBA seller meetups. @Kingmaker and @nitroheadz28 and I have gone to probably 5-8 of these in Southern California in the past ~year. Some have been total newbies and I didn't gain much value, but some have been 8 figure/year sellers and some serious killers in there.
Went to one 2 days ago, but it ended up being at a very loud bar, and it was hard to talk to everyone. I still managed to talk to most of the group and dodge the time wasters at the meetup (there are always a few). Got some people's numbers. Going to try to see if my services can help them.
Posted on Craigslist (figured why not)... which ended up getting me contact info from several people wanting social media services. Exploring that right now, might do some quick projects for them in exchange for an UpWork review or something...
What I need to do:
Do a "red tape" proposal invoice to cover my a$$ and define exactly my service
Systemize everything. I have a team of people in place to help me when needed, but it's still all scattered everywhere.
Get a bunch more clients
Probably a bunch more stuff I'm forgetting right now, but that's okay because it's all written down on my To Do list whiteboard in my living room.
My eventual goal with the agency is that once it can pay for it, I will hire someone to create a SaaS business out of it, grow that, then sell to a big player in the industry.
Anyone have any out of the box ideas to get more clients? I'm charging a monthly retainer only right now for this service, but in the future I will likely charge a % commission of sales gained... haven't thought too far into this yet which is also something I need to think about (pricing structure).
I will keep this updated every few days.
I recently decided to start a new business focused on delivering services to Amazon sellers.
Going to keep this up to date for accountability purposes. Also going to ask questions in here in case someone knows better than me.
This is my first time delivering "services" for clients. I've always done ecommerce until now. Still doing it, just wanting to expand my horizons because I think I can offer people a kick a$$ service, AND it's up my alley because I love seeing other people's businesses grow and succeed.
I sold a few Shopify stores plus ongoing support in the past ~year. What I'm focused on now is helping Amazon sellers with the commandment of "Control" and take their business into their own hands. Basically I help Amz sellers get their customers back from Amazon by taking the data they already have, find more customers, and either send them to a back to their AMZ product page for more sales and higher conversion rate (thus boosting the listing in the search rankings), OR, send traffic to their own website (Shopify), and make sales there. From there, you can ask people for email opt in, and re-market to customers through email, and Facebook Chatbots.
What I've done so far:
Created an UpWork account to find potential clients for this service. Tailored my profile hardcore to niche down to just this service for Amazon sellers. Applied to every job posting that has anything to do with my niche (there were a few exact matches, and a few pretty similar ones, then a bunch of pretty vague ones where people didn't really know what they needed).
Made a Fiverr gig for my service, got a buddy to buy it and leave me a review for social proof. It's only gotten 7 views so far though. I'm trying to figure out the Fiverr SEO, how does your gig rank for keywords?? If anyone knows please reply.
Having my Virtual Assistant scrape Amazon for any seller emails she can find. We're finding there are a LOT more phone numbers for Amazon sellers, than emails, so I am going to cold call a bunch too. Does anyone have suggestions on how better to collect emails? This process is semi slow (she's getting only about 40 emails a day). Going to cold email the sellers with a value prop.
Looking in the Facebook groups for Amazon sellers too. The issue is, FB messenger has caps of 50/day, and I cannot afford to get that account banned... Not sure what to do here. Might do like 10/day and just see where it goes.
Going to In Person Amazon FBA seller meetups. @Kingmaker and @nitroheadz28 and I have gone to probably 5-8 of these in Southern California in the past ~year. Some have been total newbies and I didn't gain much value, but some have been 8 figure/year sellers and some serious killers in there.
Went to one 2 days ago, but it ended up being at a very loud bar, and it was hard to talk to everyone. I still managed to talk to most of the group and dodge the time wasters at the meetup (there are always a few). Got some people's numbers. Going to try to see if my services can help them.
Posted on Craigslist (figured why not)... which ended up getting me contact info from several people wanting social media services. Exploring that right now, might do some quick projects for them in exchange for an UpWork review or something...
What I need to do:
Do a "red tape" proposal invoice to cover my a$$ and define exactly my service
Systemize everything. I have a team of people in place to help me when needed, but it's still all scattered everywhere.
Get a bunch more clients
Probably a bunch more stuff I'm forgetting right now, but that's okay because it's all written down on my To Do list whiteboard in my living room.
My eventual goal with the agency is that once it can pay for it, I will hire someone to create a SaaS business out of it, grow that, then sell to a big player in the industry.
Anyone have any out of the box ideas to get more clients? I'm charging a monthly retainer only right now for this service, but in the future I will likely charge a % commission of sales gained... haven't thought too far into this yet which is also something I need to think about (pricing structure).
I will keep this updated every few days.
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