The recipe for a $200K per year job

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Good find.

I'll take that as a thanks - it's my site, but hope it helps a few of you. If you are going to be using the script I'd sign up for the newsletter on the front page - I'm toying with a new version now that doesn't use up so much resources.
 


I'm thinking of hiring a salesman and paying commission to sell these pages for me... anyone doing this wanna tell me how its working for them?

I was thinking of offering 15-20% plus 50% of whatever they bring in over my asking price (around 900)... thoughts?

right now I'm working on wrapping up my first website to sell and I plan on selling it myself.

I plan on going the commission salesman route pretty soon too. Everybody works in my office right now because we kind of feed off of each other and this whole thing is new, but there is no reason why you cant do this anywhere in the world.
 
Is anyone willing to post a sample site they made for this? I know everyone always hates posting their sites but since this is all offline business I was hoping I could check out what some of you guys have done with this idea.
 
anyone interested in building something big around this let me know. Would be sick to get a team together. U could even automate the process.
 
Here are some niches to stay out of as according to Forbes. They stated that these industries or dying:

  • bowling alleys
  • music publishing
  • laundry services
  • beer production
  • wired telecoms
  • arcades and entertainment complexes
  • tobacco farming
  • newspaper publishing
  • videotape and dvd rental
  • footwear manufacturing
 
awsome thread and great tips. Thanks to all that has contribute to this great thread! I've noticed some things I should research more and more, things like "the way how to get ranked in google on the first page". I am not familiar with that though, but I think it's worth to learn it.
 
What are you putting on your pages? I'm under the impression that to rank well, your content should be good, and your site itself should be presentable and not just a placeholder for "Rent this space." And keyword density and such.

Currently I've set up Wordpress MU and am targeting by niche then city. I've written a very quick, <200 word blog post, filled it with my keyword phrase as well as title and meta tags. Submitted the site to Google and uploaded a sitemap. How long would it take me to show up in Google by just doing this?

Would it be a good idea to get a few good unique articles written for the site, spin it many different ways, then upload it to various article directories to get backlinks? Well when I say it that way... it does sound like a good idea.
 
Anyone have the link to rank well in local SERPs? I saw it somewhere on this forum but now I can't find it...
 
kimbo, when you market your service to companies, are you ALREADY on the first page of google for the related keywords? or is that something that you promise to deliver? if it's the latter, what's the time frame you provide, are there any upfront costs or do they pay when they see results?

appreciate your feedback. thanks.
 
posted by techustle:
Here are some niches to stay out of as according to Forbes. They stated that these industries or dying:
bowling alleys
music publishing
laundry services
beer production
wired telecoms
arcades and entertainment complexes
tobacco farming
newspaper publishing
videotape and dvd rental
footwear manufacturing

Sounds like a bunch of niches into which people should jump headfirst; create content centered around 1) what to do now if your whole life has been in this dead/dying niche, 2) speculation about the future replacement for those niches, 3) crowdswarming projects for the unavoidable un/underserved market that will remain when these niches are dead, etc.


Frank
 
kimbo, when you market your service to companies, are you ALREADY on the first page of google for the related keywords? or is that something that you promise to deliver? if it's the latter, what's the time frame you provide, are there any upfront costs or do they pay when they see results?

appreciate your feedback. thanks.


Most of the time we are already on page 1. If not, I pick longtail keywords and run cheap ppc campaigns to show them they will be on page one. This is already built into my pricing.
 
Most of the time we are already on page 1. If not, I pick longtail keywords and run cheap ppc campaigns to show them they will be on page one. This is already built into my pricing.

hey thanks for the reply, had another quick question: what standard do you use to determine how much competition you'll have, ie. the original poster mentioned keywords with less than 40,000 pages
 
Most of the time we are already on page 1. If not, I pick longtail keywords and run cheap ppc campaigns to show them they will be on page one. This is already built into my pricing.


How long is it taking you to rank page 1 for the keywords you are targeting? With four (?) of you selling, you must be ranking pages damned quick.
 
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