So for about the last year or so, I have been working on retainer for a small company in Vancouver doing SEO and running an Adwords campaign for their business (along with some other stuff but whatever).
When I started working there, the guy didn't even have a website up. Sales were about 120K a month and he was dying as his nut was 150K.
Okay, fast-forward one year, his site gets 100 visitors a day, nice local focussed traffic and his sales will hit 300K this month and the last two months were at 230K.
I got called into the office yesterday and got canned. Ho hum, whatever, that's why I went independent four years ago. Out with the old, in with the new.
But here's the unbelievable part. I'm running an local Adwords campaign for him, nicely optimised, we're getting clicks at 40 cents that I know his competitors are paying $2-3 for, because they have crappy landing pages ie none.
So I ask him if he wants to continue the Adwords campaign. He says no, he says he's not sure if "this internet marketing stuff" is really working.
At this point, my eyes roll back so far into my head that ow, ow, I think I pinched an optic nerve. Well I guess it must have the little magic fairies that brought in the leads that your sales guys converted into an extra $150k a month eh?
So at this point in time, I am really wondering whether if I should continue doing Adwords/SEO for clients or just dive 100% into affiiliate marketing. It's pretty easy to make coin for local clients and I don't mind getting "fired for succeeding" that part's of the business but geeeeeeesssss....
When I started working there, the guy didn't even have a website up. Sales were about 120K a month and he was dying as his nut was 150K.
Okay, fast-forward one year, his site gets 100 visitors a day, nice local focussed traffic and his sales will hit 300K this month and the last two months were at 230K.
I got called into the office yesterday and got canned. Ho hum, whatever, that's why I went independent four years ago. Out with the old, in with the new.
But here's the unbelievable part. I'm running an local Adwords campaign for him, nicely optimised, we're getting clicks at 40 cents that I know his competitors are paying $2-3 for, because they have crappy landing pages ie none.
So I ask him if he wants to continue the Adwords campaign. He says no, he says he's not sure if "this internet marketing stuff" is really working.
At this point, my eyes roll back so far into my head that ow, ow, I think I pinched an optic nerve. Well I guess it must have the little magic fairies that brought in the leads that your sales guys converted into an extra $150k a month eh?
So at this point in time, I am really wondering whether if I should continue doing Adwords/SEO for clients or just dive 100% into affiiliate marketing. It's pretty easy to make coin for local clients and I don't mind getting "fired for succeeding" that part's of the business but geeeeeeesssss....