| A little while ago, I bought a report called Offline Gold, | | | | traffic generation, autoresponder maintenance and list |
| by Andrew Cavanagh. In it, he explained how you | | | | building. |
| could use you internet marketing knowledge to help | | | | Then, a couple of days later, I had a call from a guy |
| local businesses increase their client base, retain their | | | | she had spoken to who also wanted to hire me. He |
| clients and make more money... | | | | ran a local letting agency. Same deal, same profits. |
| This got me to thinking that I should give it a go. So, I | | | | And things just moved on from there. I set up a local |
| made a point of chatting to a few local business | | | | business directory, using Joomla, with a load of free |
| owners. I started off chatting in general about their | | | | plugins, and offered local businesses free advertising. |
| business. Then, as often happens they asked me what | | | | Of course a lot of them did not have websites. So I |
| I did for a living. So I told them "I help local businesses | | | | was perfectly placed to offer my services. |
| make more money by using the power of the internet". | | | | All told, in my first month, this has brought me in over |
| And, on my first day, I walked away with a cheque for | | | | $7500 of business, VERY part time. My total work for |
| over $1000. A local beauty consultant wanted a bit of | | | | the month was around 20 hours. Which I believe |
| a revamp of her website, which I could do easily as I | | | | works out at around $375 per hour! Not bad for |
| am an experienced web developer. But she also | | | | someone who only earns around $30 per hour in his |
| wanted ongoing internet marketing services! So I also | | | | day job! |
| have an ongoing contract with her to do some simple | | | | |