10 days ago, I decided that I wanted to brand myself
more as an Internet Marketing Consultant rather than
the type of Internet marketer many of us think of when
we hear that term
Basically, I’m dramatically shifting my focus from
the “how to make money” crowd, to consulting with
local offline businesses.
I’ve written about that a lot lately… how it’s
just smarter to go with where the money is. Local
offline businesses understand that they have to
spend on promoting in order to grow their businesses.
They budget for it, and see not spending money on
advertising a business as the quickest way to be OUT
OF BUSINESS.
With my shift in focus, I’m not abandoning the
serious students of online marketing who wants to know
what I’ve learned over the past 13 years… much of
it through “the school of hard knocks.” I’m just
asking them to allow me to guide them in a group
setting by becoming part of The Internet Marketing
Inner Circle.
I spend several HOURS many day at the member-only
discussion forum inside TIMIC… brainstorming on
the forum, but also answering DOZENS of private
messages. My members bounce a LOT of ideas off of
me. I’ll continue to do that because I enjoy watching
people succeed… especially if I feel like I had a
part in it.
Anyway, in preparation for marketing my services to
offline businesses, I thought that it would be neat
to get in the top 10 at Google for the term
“Internet Marketing Consultant” without the quotes.
If you Google that term, you get about 150 MILLION
results, so showing a client that you’re in the top
10 WOULD be impressive.
When I first checked 10 days ago, I was at 160…
hardly impressive, though still pretty high up
percentage-wise.
So what I did was make just a few changes to my home
page’s title and description meta-tags, and then
increased the number of external, high PageRank sites
pointing to me, with many of them using the term
Internet Marketing Consultant as the anchor text.
That’s literally ALL that I did to go from number 160
to number 36. It dances around a little but has
steadily crept up over the past 10 day.
Here’s the tool that I used to get lots of backlinks
almost effortlessly ==>> http://timic.org/backlinking
I’m sharing what I’m doing with you because I’m
dedicated to helping you succeed. So when I find
something that works amazingly well, I’ll point it
out to you. I’m not worried about competition because
many of my clients actually come from referrals, and
me networking at local Chamber of Commerce meeting,
and other gatherings of local business people
Here’s the blueprint that I use in servicing my local
client, to include where/how I outsource much of the
actual work ==>> http://timic.org/blueprint
I actually don’t work very hard anymore. Instead I
just work smarter. I don’t want to create a JOB for
myself, I want to create a lifestyle… and I’m well
on my way 
Anyway, check out what I’m doing, and watch me
continue to gradually move up in the rankings
Also ask yourself, if you could go to local offline
customers,and achieve the same kind of search engine
results that I just showed you, do you think that they
would happily be your client, on a monthly maintenance
contract for many YEARS
Isn’t it time that you actually started working smarter,
not harder?
Willie