Planning to start SEO service

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Tedel

Tedel

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Hi there,

A co-worker and I are planning to start an independent SEO service, looking forward to quit our jobs in a short future to work in that full time.

The question is: $1000 for a comprehensive SEO service sounds...

a) expensive
b) OK
c) cheap

...for you.

What I mean for comprehensive:

1. on-page SEO work
2. rewriting articles
3. recoding website (redesign available for a plus)
4. link-building
5. traffic monitoring
6. pursue of company selling goals.

Some of my experience includes:

1. AsianSingles.com first on Google.
2. Gorgeous-Singles.Blogspot.com first on Google.
3. Heptagrama, as own site appears first on many searches in Latin America.

So, honestly, what do you think?
 


It really depends on what you're optimizing for, if it was "custom leather jackets" then $1,000 would probably be ok. If it was for something like "payday loan" then $1,000 would be way too cheap. I'd suggest staying away from fixed pricing and moving over to a tiered system where the price is based on the amount of links needed, competing websites for keyword, keyword search volume etc.
 
I'd agree to base the pricing on how competitive the battle is. But also set up an upside as your reward based on success so that its low to start but builds up as you perform.

You can read my guest post reply to "How Do I Sell More Hourly Consultations?" http://cli.gs/tymWnMon SEOROI.com
 
Just an extra post to say we're open for business:

Base price is $1000 + Peruvian tax = $1190
Taking outsourced projects? Yes.
Evaluating giving a $100 commission if you help us get clients. Soon an extra post about that.

[I'd appreciate if a moderator can move this thread to Sell, Buy & Trade]
 
Per month or one-time?

As for the $1000 - it depends. For a small-time flower shop in a little town, $1000 is reasonable. A PI Lawyer in the Dallas metro area is going to need a much larger budget.
 
start by calling other firms and ask them their rate. Deciding who your customers are going to be and what they expect to be charged is a great place to start as well.

Rate vary big time in seo or any web development. When someone asks you "How much is SEO or a web site", the best response I've ever heard is "How much is a House" - because it all depends on what the consumer wants

Personally, I wouldn't publish any base rates
 
I will get you to SEO a PI lawyer in Dallas for 1000 dollars, then charge him 11,000. Sounds resonable.
 
The one tip I would get for starting that work is to plenty of potential clients they are going to judge your worth by your price. Most businesses will know squat about SEO that's why they are hiring you and they will figure the person charging the most is the best plenty of the time.

When I tutored high school math I first started offering to do it for $25 a hour, I bumped up my rate to $70 a hour and got more more responses and business from the same amount of advertising.
 
miketpowell said:
The one tip I would get for starting that work is to plenty of potential clients they are going to judge your worth by your price. Most businesses will know squat about SEO that's why they are hiring you and they will figure the person charging the most is the best plenty of the time.

When I tutored high school math I first started offering to do it for $25 a hour, I bumped up my rate to $70 a hour and got more more responses and business from the same amount of advertising.
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Funny how the world works, good point.
 
You might want to keep it a little more expensive but yeah as someone already mentioned, you shouldn't go with a base price. Try giving each client a custom built quotation depending upon their niche.
 
HarveyJ said:
Pervuian tax = cocaine budget, right?
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hahahaha... maybe I should ask that to the govmn't

HarveyJ said:
Seriously though, the commission is basically an affiliate program. Is that something you guys intend to run internally, or through a 3rd party network?
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We will have to find an affiliate network which works with Peru, I guess. If not, we will have to do it ourselves.
 
omgyams said:
Per month or one-time?

As for the $1000 - it depends. For a small-time flower shop in a little town, $1000 is reasonable. A PI Lawyer in the Dallas metro area is going to need a much larger budget.
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The idea was $1000 or more per project. If the niche is competitive, we would try to charge more, of course.
 
miketpowell said:
The one tip I would get for starting that work is to plenty of potential clients they are going to judge your worth by your price. Most businesses will know squat about SEO that's why they are hiring you and they will figure the person charging the most is the best plenty of the time.

When I tutored high school math I first started offering to do it for $25 a hour, I bumped up my rate to $70 a hour and got more more responses and business from the same amount of advertising.
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Yes, you are right. The main doubt I have is that $1000 for Peru is expensive, while it seems that for the US and Europe it is way too cheap.

mm... I think I'll prepare a web page and ask you for some feed back in a few days.
 
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