The recipe for a $200K per year job
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Heh. He's my alter alias, my default fake name. I use it for everything. It's no secret it's me and thats come back to bite me a few times. From MyAuntIsHot.com:
" I finally reached my boiling point when we had to park illegally somewhere with a little sign “Reserved parking for Celia’s Flowers” or something equally foreboding. I said to Ashley, “You know, We should leave a note.” And so, as I do on so many other occasions, I started writing.
" I finally reached my boiling point when we had to park illegally somewhere with a little sign “Reserved parking for Celia’s Flowers” or something equally foreboding. I said to Ashley, “You know, We should leave a note.” And so, as I do on so many other occasions, I started writing.
“Thank you for being so considerate as to allow everyone to have a parking spot. People like you really make the world a better place. You’re a bitch bastard.
All My Love, Steven Tenlo Ph.D”
We watched as this guy got into his car, (He had two other cars waiting to occupy those spots) got back out of his car, took the note, read it, and drove away. He was with his family. All the while, I was watching this, and laughing and laughing. It was better than drugs."
That's nuts...
I've got a friend who tried this where I live and it wasn't worth his trouble. We have a ton of Google Business Reps in this town and they hit every business about once a month.
It's hard to compete with free... it's even harder when the company offering free advertising is Google.
/I'm officially a local business rep for Google, but I've never actually went out on their behalf.
I sold my sites, I started with 10 sites (I've posted before about my site somewhere here in this topic), but unfortunately I was not able to let all of them keep ranking on the first page of Google, some sites were ranked on page 1, but suddenly it went to page 3 or page 4.
So at the end just 4 sites were staying stable on page 1 and I have sold those 4 sites at 750 Euro each.
Money made so far: $4500 more or less.
Expenses: barely $50 (just the domainnames and hosting
)Profit: approx. $4450
Now I've changed my strategy and see how it goes. I think within 1 month it's again a period of sales which is the hardest part for me in this business. I am going to try to hire 2 college students to let them doing outgoing calls to business owners. There are 120 pages in my directory to sell, so hopefully I will come close to $25k but we'll see.
Looks good again, enigmabomb! Like your previous site eating in tempe this one is looking sweet!
Wish you all the luck bro
By working well - do you mean pieces/parts of the site working well . . or making money?
And btw - any restaurant guide for Tempe has to include Pita Jungle, even if you don't like the food - the endless supply of hotties working and eating there is sustenance enough!
Good luck!
Alright... 7 pages of affiliate stuff just to get a $200K per year job?
It's easy.
1) Go to college, enter a 5 year dual BS/MS degree program in computer science. It's easy to get in now since enrollment in CS has been dropping since 2000'ish.
2) Apply as a software engineer or researcher to Google. They offer starting salaries of $120k to college grads with a masters degree.
3) At the first interview, mention that you also applied to Microsoft and have made it through the first round of interviews and will be visiting their campus the next week.
4) Get $200k offer with half the number of interviews normally required.
Worked for me, except I only have the BS degree so far, and actually went to Microsoft instead of Google for 6 months. I left to go back to college for the masters degree though, it's worth too much right now to skip. Living off the web in the meantime
Ok, I realize you are trying to get your post count up so you can pimp your WP plugin but lets keep it to the "what is your favorite ftp program" type threads.
Alright... 7 pages of affiliate stuff just to get a $200K per year job?
It's easy.
1) Go to college, enter a 5 year dual BS/MS degree program in computer science. It's easy to get in now since enrollment in CS has been dropping since 2000'ish.
2) Apply as a software engineer or researcher to Google. They offer starting salaries of $120k to college grads with a masters degree.
3) At the first interview, mention that you also applied to Microsoft and have made it through the first round of interviews and will be visiting their campus the next week.
4) Get $200k offer with half the number of interviews normally required.
Worked for me, except I only have the BS degree so far, and actually went to Microsoft instead of Google for 6 months. I left to go back to college for the masters degree though, it's worth too much right now to skip. Living off the web in the meantime
Thats great Dan. Thats a very valid and reasonable theory, however some people don't want to go to college and aren't even interested in software programming or engineering.
There are people making $100,000 a MONTH with no programming experience whatsoever. They don't understand PHP, Ruby, or any other host of programming languages....what they DO understand is hard work, persistence, and outsourcing.
It doesn't take a genius.
I'm not saying this example applies to this thread, but it certaintly applies to CPA offers.
BTW, congrats on your Microsoft job. We're all ecstatic.
P.S For the 200k a year thread....just think about this. Lets say did 10 sales a month $497 upfront X monthly recurring billing of $100
Thats $5,000 upfront
$1,000 recurring
Annual : 12X5 = $60,000 upfront fees
Annual Recurring : $12,000 monthly recurring after the first year
If you can't do the SEO or PPC Management...outsource it. There are a ton of SEO resellers out there, you just have to find the right one.
Well, his asinine post has benefited me in one unexpected way. I always wondered what happened to the guy who wrote the WP DG Review plugin, and why he stopped maintaining it. Now I know. He went the paid route.
Kudos to you. Now please add something worth while, or GTFO.
Back on topic... Since we're polling how people are doing with this, I'll answer and say I'm probably not going to do six figures with this, but, approached in a lazy way, I've done pretty well with it.
I'm wondering how many people went with the selling targeted domain approach versus the leasing pages route.
Kudos to you. Now please add something worth while, or GTFO.
Back on topic... Since we're polling how people are doing with this, I'll answer and say I'm probably not going to do six figures with this, but, approached in a lazy way, I've done pretty well with it.
I'm wondering how many people went with the selling targeted domain approach versus the leasing pages route.
+1 for leasing pages. Selling the domain or page entirely is just too good of a deal for the business owner, we can't have that now. Plus I like the idea of having the local businesses competing each month to outbid eachother for the page.
My partner in this project and myself just started our campaign today. From the looks of it this is going to be an absolute goldmine. While I will not be revealing our niche, I will try my best to give you guys some pointers.
I partnered with a friend of mine (not on here) who is a website designer and programmer. What we did is we created 50 sites by state name (Ex::www florida(niche)
We then broke that down into further niches and sites, for a total of over 200 sites. (Think geo-targetting)
Now, we will sell every state/ and or region to one business owner in that state or region of that state.
Ok, you guys are probably thinking "Ok, no shit Sherlock".
Well, the key to this is to find a HUNGRY niche and provide them with an unbeatable offer.
We lease the site for $100 monthly, charge $300 set-up fee and charge a PPC Managment Fee...which is $1 a click
Now, I created the sales script for this and I started calling these businesses today, around 5pm Eastern Time.
I called 20 businesses and locked down 3 clients within 2 hours. For us, it was a 30% conversion rate.
I'm telling you, if you have any doubts this will work please go back to DP. This shit works. But you can't just slap a webpage up and use poor selling skills. Find that hungry market, research it, develop your plan, make it unique and you will make money.
I just thought I'd post my results so far in this and I hope it helps some of you to start picking up that phone and make some sales.
If anyone is interested in me developing a sales pitch for them, let me know
Please do not ask me what niche this is as I will not be discussing that. Please use your head.
I partnered with a friend of mine (not on here) who is a website designer and programmer. What we did is we created 50 sites by state name (Ex::www florida(niche)
We then broke that down into further niches and sites, for a total of over 200 sites. (Think geo-targetting)
Now, we will sell every state/ and or region to one business owner in that state or region of that state.
Ok, you guys are probably thinking "Ok, no shit Sherlock".
Well, the key to this is to find a HUNGRY niche and provide them with an unbeatable offer.
We lease the site for $100 monthly, charge $300 set-up fee and charge a PPC Managment Fee...which is $1 a click
Now, I created the sales script for this and I started calling these businesses today, around 5pm Eastern Time.
I called 20 businesses and locked down 3 clients within 2 hours. For us, it was a 30% conversion rate.
I'm telling you, if you have any doubts this will work please go back to DP. This shit works. But you can't just slap a webpage up and use poor selling skills. Find that hungry market, research it, develop your plan, make it unique and you will make money.
I just thought I'd post my results so far in this and I hope it helps some of you to start picking up that phone and make some sales.
If anyone is interested in me developing a sales pitch for them, let me know
Please do not ask me what niche this is as I will not be discussing that. Please use your head.
Go get em dude!
Sounds like you put some real thought and time into your setup.
Just stay outta my verticals...hahahah
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