[Journey] My Journey To Digital Marketing Agency to $5000 monthly income

Hi Blackhatworld, this will be the first journey I will be sharing with you guys and hoping it will be a useful resource for the community as this community has taught me many things.

I am a college student studying Computer Science. I am 21 years old

Firstly I would like to start as I have been doing research on digital marketing agencies, and used resources from here from courses.

I will be starting from scratch from domain to being up and running.
Mostly my services will be SEO, Local SEO, and Websites.
My services will differ from outsourcing if it is difficult and requires more experienced SEO.

Plan(Stuff that need to be done/to-do list):
Buying a domain from GoDaddy with black Friday promotion.
Website hosting.
Website design.
Business card.
Attend Chamber of Commerce for networking trying to find clients before starting to rank on google.
With enough clients move to an office.

I will mostly target the local's in my city. I will also create a bunch of websites(easy to rank keywords) and rank them to position 1 for a proof for potential clients, and use them for lead sales for extra revenue.


Day 0:
Logo design has been finished.
First client - Have a client from a month before from a friend directing him to me for website design so I will be including him as a client as well.

This is my first post in this forum so I hope I am not going into too much detail.
I will try to update constantly as I can.

Clients: 1

Lukadruy said:

First client - Have a client from a month before from a friend directing him to me for website design so I will be including him as a client as well.

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i just started my website design company as well , also got my first client from a friend too !
Following your journey , good luck !

Oh Great journey, best of luck with your journey I will following.

Best advice you will ever get: Contact people that are connected and tell them you offer them $500 for each client they bring you.
Second best advice: Don't waste your time with small, low paying clients.

madoctopus said:

Best advice you will ever get: Contact people that are connected and tell them you offer them $500 for each client they bring you.
Second best advice: Don't waste your time with small, low paying clients.

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Thanks, and yes I do agree on your advices thank you

You are off to a good start. Best of luck and looking forward to your updates!

wagdys said:

i just started my website design company as well , also got my first client from a friend too !
Following your journey , good luck !

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Yeah networking such as friends that have relatives that own businesses and need digital marketing agencies, at the beginning seems to help more for portfolio building,

madoctopus said:

Best advice you will ever get: Contact people that are connected and tell them you offer them $500 for each client they bring you.
Second best advice: Don't waste your time with small, low paying clients.

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Currently, I also work for a website development agency kind of thing. I have spoken to them and they will be redirecting their clients to when website design is done and if they require Local SEO, or SEO, etc. Of course they need some proof that I can actually do SEO so firstly I have to build some case studies and proofs that I can rank websites to first page etc. So not a bad start at the moment seems like

madoctopus said:

Contact people that are connected and tell them you offer them $500 for each client they bring you

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How do you do that ..

I don't know if this would count as self promotion, but I have been looking for a web development agency to work with, for a mutual partnership .

Here is a tip : Start your profile on freelance platforms , grow an audience then move to your own agency, the secret to succeeding in the saturated freelance marketplaces is to charge very high , or very low depending on the average of what is available or being offered on that particular platform .

cherac said:

I don't know if this would count as self promotion, but I have been looking for a web development agency to work with, for a mutual partnership .

Here is a tip : Start your profile on freelance platforms , grow an audience then move to your own agency, the secret to succeeding in the saturated freelance marketplaces is to charge very high , or very low depending on the average of what is available or being offered on that particular platform .

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I dont think this tip will work for me since in my country freelancing platform is not used much but thanks will think about it and find and good freelancing platforms.

Good luck

Update:
Bought 6 domains, one for the agency and rest for ranking proof

Update:
Having issues with our client he wants to delay the website. Created ads on our local service hiring platform and got one lead for content writing where the client is creating a blog and looking for content, another ad is for web design, will be creating another ad tomorrow for SEO service.

I was expecting upfront payment from our first client but since its delayed, I will have to slow down my expenses.

Goodluck tommy fuckin shelby

Good luck OP. following

H33VEN said:

Goodluck tommy fuckin shelby

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Leazoe90 said:

Good luck OP. following

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Thanks, struggling to find clients at the moment.

Update:
Bought hosting for my agency website, and will be starting to look for themes, or maybe use Divi or some shit to build it out.

Currently lacking in the client department, cannot get responses through cold emailing, think ing to start cold calling but I don't like to go for straight call but rather have a response through email then do calling etc.

I will following this journey. Go ahead and keep update

Best wishes, I got my first client from Facebook. Lol