Small Business Internet Marketing Starter Package
Best combination of most of the strategies
listed below customized for your business
One-time flat fee of $570
Free advertising online with no recurring costs
Small Business Mentoring Program
If you want fast results and can afford reasonable costs I encourage you to hire the very best specialist for each task. (Surprisingly, they are frequently NOT necessarily more expensive than less qualified consultants.)
Experience – that is what makes all the difference in
RESULTS – and results are what count.
If you can NOT afford to hire assistance I encourage you to do what you need done yourself, knowing that you will not get results as strong – but at least you will be moving in the right direction (most of the time). If you really need advice and can not afford to hire anyone, I will assist you on a limited basis on request.
Not sure what you need?
Free One Hour Consultation if you will
Donate $77 to a Food Pantry, Food Bank or similar cause.
You can see my background in my GrowMap LinkedIn profile. The skills I specialize in are listed below. I will personally provide to ethical small businesses and causes I believe in:
LOCAL SEARCH DIRECTORY LISTINGS:
- Basic Local Search Directory Listings ~ $200 for basic listings plus assisting you to claim your Google Places account
- Optimized Local Search Directory Listing Services ~ $400 for basic listings plus claiming and optimizing your listings in the Top Ten Most Important Local Search Directories
- If you can not afford to hire this done do NOT delay. Use the information in my How to List Your Business in Local Search Directories and do it yourself. We can always optimize what you have done later.
SMALL BUSINESS ONLINE WEB PROFILES:
If you do not have a business blog or Web site I will create custom content for you on GrowMap. Read my post on why this is a highly effective method for creating a Small Business Online Web Presence. I do recommend buying your own domain and pointing it to your content here. I will assist you in that process if you do not know how to register or redirect domains.
Rates for custom content about your business varies depending on how many individual posts or pages you wish to order together. It is best to eventually have one page for each significant product or service you offer; however, they do not have to all be published at the same time. They can be completed over time.
- One post or page purchased at a time: $200
- Multiple pages ordered and paid for together: $150 per post or page
Each post or page includes interviewing you to obtain your most important information, 1-3 digital images you provide, 500+ words, keyword research and SEO data, keywords, categories and tags completed.
BLOG OUTREACH:
- Custom blog posts about your business, products or services with incoming links published on related blogs. Keyword research as explained in my building traffic post to determine what keyword phrases are most important to your business included.
Each post or page includes interviewing you to obtain your most important information, 1-3 digital images you provide, 500+ words, keyword research and SEO data, keywords, categories and tags completed.
- Posts are only as effective as their promotion. Posts published on GrowMap are tweeted by over a dozen bloggers and receive large numbers of comments. You can see my PostRank engagement numbers here. (Public PostRank stats disappeared when Google acquired PostRank early June, 2011.)
- For additional information click this link: Blog Outreach Services
GUEST POSTS:
I am interested in doing a limited number of guest posts or contributing regularly to one or more specific blogs.
- Individual, unique guest post custom written for a specific blog on a subject agreed upon in advance. $150 per post.
- Regular contributor of 1-4 posts per month $125 per post or as agreed upon in advance.
TARGETED TWITTER ACCOUNTS:
Each business should have at least one Twitter account specifically for that business. This is what does matter:
- Do NOT pay any consultant based on a promise to get you any specific number of random followers as that is irrelevant to your success. You need an appealing bio that links to information about your business and to follow those who are your potential clients. For local businesses that would mean people in the geographic areas where you operate. For online businesses that means people interested in what you have to offer.
- Identify the very best blogs related to your niche and feed their high quality content into your Twitter account. If you have a blog that would include your RSS feed.
- Schedule tweets of your content occasionally.
- Set up searches for people asking related questions and send personal replies in answer. Include a link to your content when relevant.
- If you wish to learn to do this yourself, see my post on Twitter Best Practices.
CONTENT PROMOTION on SOCIAL MEDIA:
- I regularly recommend high quality content by reviewing it on StumbleUpon and sending it from there to Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed. Twitter is my most preferred social media platform. Any content I create will be promoted once across these social networks.
- If you have a cause, product, or service you wish to have promoted regularly or to monitor Twitter and reply to requests for what you offer that may be possible if wisely done. Rates would have to be discussed.
- Influence and reach are key to promoting content especially on Twitter. See these sites for details on my Twitter status: Klout and PeerIndex.
- Collaborators greatly affect influence. See PeerIndex numbers for my key collaborators and the Cornell University / Yahoo! Marketing Twittersphere study that singled many of us out as elite Twitter influencers.
COACHING / TUTORING/ INTERNSHIPS
I am willing to mentor, coach or tutor those seriously interested in learning any of my specialties. If you want to learn skills to apply in your existing business I would charge a reasonable amount for my time and provide ongoing support. If you are interested in being self-employed and do not have resources I may be willing to mentor you in exchange for having you perform what you are learning for others. When qualified, I promote and recommend those I know to be capable and sometimes sub-contract client work to them.
THE FINE PRINT:
- All rates are subject to change and based on my availability.
- These rates are ridiculously low given the amount of time and effort I put into what I do so they are highly likely to go up.
- Payment required in advance via PayPal.
- I take only a very small amount of paid work each month to cover my overhead so I can give freely of my time to do what most needs doing – I encourage those interested to contact me right away.
- I do not work with Big Brands, greedy, selfish or unethical businesses, or any type of business which would be considered a bad neighborhood for SEO purposes.
- I will sign non-disclosure agreements and all information you share with me is held in strict confidence. (Do be sure to tell me what you want to be kept private.)
- I will NOT sign any contract that claims ownership of what I do when I am not specifically working on your behalf. When I am working on your behalf,what I do belongs to you.
- You must be willing to provide the information necessary for completion of the work. The more information you are willing to share, the better your results will be.
- Ready to get started? Contact me.
If you need a service not listed above I encourage you to contact me for a recommendation. I know many of the very best in every specialty. As time allows I will list them on this page, but for now just ask.
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Best combination of most of the above customized for your business
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Doing some work yourself will save some money, but it might not give you much of a boost, very kind of you too offer people some help.
Just curious to know: Are you very busy with guest posts?
You can’t make a living of it, can you?
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Hi Danny,
Yes, it would be possible to make a living from guest posting IF you could identify enough blogs in your area of expertise willing to pay per post. Unfortunately, many that do have not made that public knowledge so you can only find out if you know someone who knows.
Mark Thompson @StayonSearch published a list of blogs that pay for guest posts that made that public.
If you’re looking for more work I’d like to speak with you. If you use Skype I’m the only GrowMap there. Additional information on how best to reach me is on my contact tab.
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I really applaud the free hour for a donation to a Food Bank / Pantry ! Makes me consider doing something similar. What’s the best way to manage that ? Is this an ‘honor’ system or do they route the check through you or what ?
Thanx !
Hi Glenn,
Other bloggers have emulated that program which is wonderful to me. There are additional details in that post. What I did was ask that for confirmation of the donation via either a PayPal receipt or thank you email or something similar from the program they supported.
Glen & GrowMap,
Yes, that is a great idea to support a charity by asking customers to pay to them. You can see it as a donation of your time to get them some funding, so your karma levels are high.
I don’t think it can do any harm to your reputation either.
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