Post by Rami El-Ashi on Dec 2, 2012 22:45:31 GMT -5
Every once in a while, I try to give back. Today is one of those days where I share a business model that you can start from the comfort of your own home. Or the pool. Or the beach. Basically anywhere you have internet access, you can run this business model.
This model is a combination of online and offline work, the nice thing here is that the model is scalable, meaning the more effort you put in, the bigger your empire will grow and with every business model I have ever used, I need to have it work on auto-pilot or at least semi auto-pilot monthly subscriptions. Why? Because I want to be able to take a vacation and know that my business has not stopped because of it. If possible, I want my business to keep running automatically while I swim and play in the sand. Ok, I am guessing at this point you are highly intrigued, no? Ok, lets get started.
Method in short:
You will be building simple WordPress websites for offline small businesses. This is what you will be offering them:
Offer all that for just $49 a month!
But meh?! Huh?! What?!
Yeah, I know that may sound like a lot of work for a little money, but take a minute now and calculate how much time and money it will take you to do all the above:
Free hosting – 1 shared hosting is enough for 1000 small websites, as small businesses websites will hardly get any traffic, so that won’t be a problem at all.
Free domain - Okay that’s $10 a year, less than $1 a month that’s the only thing you will pay for.
Custom design website, Control panel, Built-in search – That’s all just WordPress! Setting up a new WordPress website with a custom theme, some plugins will take you at most 1 hour (Much less if you find how to automate it).
Facebook page – Will take you exactly 5 minutes to make a new one with a nice side picture and cover on it.
Submission to Google & Yahoo - I just wrote that to give you an idea of how tempting your offer will look to the small-business owners.
That’s all in total = ~1hr and $1 a month. I think you call ALL afford that. If you can't, well, then you best leave this forum, because this place is not for the lazy.
What you get = $49 every month
There is a huge difference between $49 and $49/month, most of your customers will put the website that you’ll build for them on their Visa cards, therefore it’s not going to be easy for them to drop the website and most of them will keep their website for a long time.
With your attractive offer, it will be easy to get 50 customers don't you think?
50 customers * $49/month = ~2500$ a month
Now, if you have the time and wish to create a full business out of this, you can do so by hiring a student to further expand your reach to a wider audience. 50 customers become 100 and you are now making more money than some corporate employees.
Work needed = One-time 50 hours which is 1 week of 7 hours a day work
When I decided to do this, I took some time to research and look for the most attractive WordPress plugins, a list of what I’ll offer to customers, different themes and some other stuff. I will share all this with you guys to help you save time so you can start with the method right away.
WordPress plugins I prepared:
Add link to Facebook, All in one SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, Facebook Comments for WordPress, NextGEN Gallery, qTranslate, Quick Chat, Visitor Maps, WP-Polls, WPtouch
Themes:
I just used free WordPress themes websites, like NewWpThemes.com or similar sites.
What I offered to customers:
Here is exactly what I promised the customers when I advertised my service:
If you are thinking that the support may take a lot of your time, I found a solution for that – Just give them an email, where they’ll send their issues and you will fix it when you want. Don’t give your personal phone number or email, just a business email and a new SIM card number.
How to market your service:
Though I didn’t do my best when I marketed my service, I was getting many requests from people who were interested in my service. So here is what I suggest you to do to market your service :
1) Make fliers describing your “Sale” then get a kid to spread them to all the small businesses in your area.
2) If you have some experience in PPC, then I highly recommend doing Facebook PPC with this, just make sure to put your phone number in the ad, and in your ad webpage.
3) Get an ad space in your local newspaper if possible, it helps a lot!
4) Make some nice visit cards, and give them to everyone, everywhere!
This should be enough to get the desired customer base, just make sure to always ask the customer how he heard about you so you can focus on the most effective marketing techniques for your new business.
There are a lot more technical ways to market your brand. Feel free to send me PM on this forum or leave a message below and we can all discuss this further. If you decide to start with this business model, please share your results with us below.
Good Luck
[glow=red,2,300]Work Hard![/glow]
This model is a combination of online and offline work, the nice thing here is that the model is scalable, meaning the more effort you put in, the bigger your empire will grow and with every business model I have ever used, I need to have it work on auto-pilot or at least semi auto-pilot monthly subscriptions. Why? Because I want to be able to take a vacation and know that my business has not stopped because of it. If possible, I want my business to keep running automatically while I swim and play in the sand. Ok, I am guessing at this point you are highly intrigued, no? Ok, lets get started.
Method in short:
You will be building simple WordPress websites for offline small businesses. This is what you will be offering them:
- Free hosting
- Free domain
- Designed website
- Facebook page
- Website submission to Google & Yahoo search engines
- Easy admin control panel
- Built-in search and much more!
Offer all that for just $49 a month!
But meh?! Huh?! What?!
Yeah, I know that may sound like a lot of work for a little money, but take a minute now and calculate how much time and money it will take you to do all the above:
Free hosting – 1 shared hosting is enough for 1000 small websites, as small businesses websites will hardly get any traffic, so that won’t be a problem at all.
Free domain - Okay that’s $10 a year, less than $1 a month that’s the only thing you will pay for.
Custom design website, Control panel, Built-in search – That’s all just WordPress! Setting up a new WordPress website with a custom theme, some plugins will take you at most 1 hour (Much less if you find how to automate it).
Facebook page – Will take you exactly 5 minutes to make a new one with a nice side picture and cover on it.
Submission to Google & Yahoo - I just wrote that to give you an idea of how tempting your offer will look to the small-business owners.
That’s all in total = ~1hr and $1 a month. I think you call ALL afford that. If you can't, well, then you best leave this forum, because this place is not for the lazy.
What you get = $49 every month
There is a huge difference between $49 and $49/month, most of your customers will put the website that you’ll build for them on their Visa cards, therefore it’s not going to be easy for them to drop the website and most of them will keep their website for a long time.
With your attractive offer, it will be easy to get 50 customers don't you think?
50 customers * $49/month = ~2500$ a month
Now, if you have the time and wish to create a full business out of this, you can do so by hiring a student to further expand your reach to a wider audience. 50 customers become 100 and you are now making more money than some corporate employees.
Work needed = One-time 50 hours which is 1 week of 7 hours a day work
When I decided to do this, I took some time to research and look for the most attractive WordPress plugins, a list of what I’ll offer to customers, different themes and some other stuff. I will share all this with you guys to help you save time so you can start with the method right away.
WordPress plugins I prepared:
Add link to Facebook, All in one SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, Facebook Comments for WordPress, NextGEN Gallery, qTranslate, Quick Chat, Visitor Maps, WP-Polls, WPtouch
Themes:
I just used free WordPress themes websites, like NewWpThemes.com or similar sites.
What I offered to customers:
Here is exactly what I promised the customers when I advertised my service:
- Hosting & Domain expenses included!
- Free designed Facebook page bonus!
- Control your website easily with your control panel!
- Built-in search, contact us form, users comments, polls and much more !
- Free professional logo design!
- We will submit your website to search engines like Google & Yahoo!
- Free support!
If you are thinking that the support may take a lot of your time, I found a solution for that – Just give them an email, where they’ll send their issues and you will fix it when you want. Don’t give your personal phone number or email, just a business email and a new SIM card number.
How to market your service:
Though I didn’t do my best when I marketed my service, I was getting many requests from people who were interested in my service. So here is what I suggest you to do to market your service :
1) Make fliers describing your “Sale” then get a kid to spread them to all the small businesses in your area.
2) If you have some experience in PPC, then I highly recommend doing Facebook PPC with this, just make sure to put your phone number in the ad, and in your ad webpage.
3) Get an ad space in your local newspaper if possible, it helps a lot!
4) Make some nice visit cards, and give them to everyone, everywhere!
This should be enough to get the desired customer base, just make sure to always ask the customer how he heard about you so you can focus on the most effective marketing techniques for your new business.
There are a lot more technical ways to market your brand. Feel free to send me PM on this forum or leave a message below and we can all discuss this further. If you decide to start with this business model, please share your results with us below.
[glow=red,2,300]Work Hard![/glow]