How do you bag SEO clients?

[destinywakes]

I know BHW has some superb SEO leaders, am curious to know how do you guys get SEO clients Thru upwork Or locally?

 

[lenaking88]

Locally is working for me, it's easy and it's a huge market where I live.

 

[wanessmark]

Localy, or as you mentioned on a Freelancing websites...or self promotion on social media

 

[RankViewer]

Locally is working for me, it's easy and it's a huge market where I live.

Where do you live?

 

[bartosimpsonio]

When I started it was easy to get local clients, nobody did SEO.

Now you gotta do online marketing to gain clients as well.

 

[MikeyMikey13]

Cold calling was my initial client.

 

[blinggam]

I hope you’re bagging any clients, putting your nuts on their face at the first meeting is a bad idea.

If you mean “get” clients, just network. A lot. And cold call, walk to businesses. I had $0 in the bank when I bagged my first client, a cool $600/month. Hey, back then it paid rent and some food.

 

[Sherb]

For ORM, my initial client was through Reddit. Since then, a few were from BHW contacts, and others were based on referrals from the first guy.

For local SEO, I go high quality or don't go at all, so my plan is to do the following:

1) Build up a site in their sector that ranks higher than their own.
2) Send ten businesses in that sector personalized letters a la 7878, showing them what I can do, how their results stack up, a market analysis, and let them know that I sent similar letters to nine of their competitors, and I'm only going to be working with one of them.
3) Charge them $2,500+ per month for full service local SEO.
4) Repeat with a new sector in the same local market.

Fingers crossed on that one.

 

[American Trends]

Be jr.vip , start selling

 

[klpn1963]

Word of Mouth Is a Classic Marketing Strategy for a Reason and Don’t Forget to Add a Contact Form to Your Site.

 

[extremeboy]

Local Clients are easy if you know what are you doing.

 

[Kablooey]

Local canvassing should still be the best method in most places, given there are still a lot of small businesses who have not gotten around to setting up a site, or have not created one that is effective at generating traffic and leads.

 

[moneyflower]

Locally is working for me, it's easy and it's a huge market where I live.

Where do you live?

 

[blackbeans]

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