louisannya
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Quite detailed information there. Love the lists too.
The #1 Reason You CANT Keep Clients
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Reaver
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Spot on LB.
I also love the suggestion of being involved with a client's business. When I hire someone to do a service for me, I want to know that you know that you care about my results as much as I do. I'm not a number. I'm a person, and my success means your success. If you understand this, you're going to give me the best that you can. This means I'm going to keep coming back to you, and I'm going to refer my friends to you.
If you just treat me like I'm a one-off project, of course I'm going to leave the first chance I get. You may do a good job, but you see me as a paycheck, and not as someone who can keep you in business. I can go shopping at Walmart for that experience.
I also love the suggestion of being involved with a client's business. When I hire someone to do a service for me, I want to know that you know that you care about my results as much as I do. I'm not a number. I'm a person, and my success means your success. If you understand this, you're going to give me the best that you can. This means I'm going to keep coming back to you, and I'm going to refer my friends to you.
If you just treat me like I'm a one-off project, of course I'm going to leave the first chance I get. You may do a good job, but you see me as a paycheck, and not as someone who can keep you in business. I can go shopping at Walmart for that experience.
Good job man. I love these type of threads that cut the bullshit and get right to the meat of it. I notice you have been banging out a few quality threads lately and that's exactly what we need rather than the peanut gallery troll posts. Good job for stepping up.. keep it up 
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cronikmarketing
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I read a ton of online marketing and SEO blogs but this is the best article I've read in a long time. Thanks for the useful information - free of b/s and repetitive advice that gets repeated on webmaster forums every single day. This was truly helpful, wow...
fc-dh
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So and in the meanwhile your trying to brand your companies name you have no ROI for your client and that is in the end the most important reason why clients leave you, they don't care about branding and all the fancy stuff the cool kids do here, all that counts is the bottomline and branding a business takes a lot of time and you still have no certainty that your ROI will be good.
I have done a my share of brick and mortar SEO, just simple SEO and almost all my clients start nagging after 2 months that the stream of new leads are still slow, even after i have explained it in simple how this SEO shit works. Business owners just don't have the patience, if you want to brand because all the cool kids do it... fine, but make sure you make your client money first or he/she will drop you when the leads/sales are falling short.
clevelandslim
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Great thread lightningblitz gave a superb explanation to all the questions which was in my mind for all these day... Awesome work
lightningblitz
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Thank you for all the 'thanks'. I ran out so cant give them back.
@ Tommy, thank you for the compliment. Just trying to give back what I can from a place I learned so much from.
@Jared - You are 100% Correct. Trust is HUGE. If you do not have it, you no longer have a client.
@ Tommy, thank you for the compliment. Just trying to give back what I can from a place I learned so much from.
@Jared - You are 100% Correct. Trust is HUGE. If you do not have it, you no longer have a client.
nemazalenyeg
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That was worth to write and read. I am going to duplicate this, and i think there are some points on this way that are important to think about and do, to make it workin.
lightningblitz
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SEO is not that hard to learn or figure out.
The secret is, think outside the box.
You will see patterns and some stuff just works. Other things do not. Staying ahead of the curve is the hardest part of SEO because you need to constantly be testing.
The secret is, think outside the box.
You will see patterns and some stuff just works. Other things do not. Staying ahead of the curve is the hardest part of SEO because you need to constantly be testing.