Selling Digital Marketing Services

Selling Digital Marketing Services

Digital marketing services give local businesses the option to advertise to a vast number of people; a lot more people than they’d be able to reach without an online presence. It’s not at all uncommon for businesses to be on Facebook, Instagram, Google, and more.

Digital marketing is, honestly, much bigger than just putting ads up online.

This is where you come in as a potential business owner helping businesses to gain exposure, which can be a fantastic opportunity for you to earn money from home. Create a successful local marketing strategy that gets results, and you’re in business.

Why not start an internet business selling digital marketing services? Take a look at some of the ideas you can choose from:

Graphic Design

Got a knack for designing? Then it’s time to sell your talent to business owners looking to get their fancy promotional items, logos, and business cards made. Do a couple of jobs for free or at low cost to get your foot in the door, and start making businesses some super cool logos, flyers, mailers, business cards, print or digital ads, and other designs.

You will then be able to quickly build up your portfolio while having a bunch of happy clients telling their business friends about you.

SEO Writing and Content Management

Are you a wordsmith, SEO (search engine optimization) genius, or both? Then you’ve got a gold mine within you! A flashy website doesn’t mean anything unless it shows up on Google. That’s why businesses need a skilled individual to get their websites ranking high on the search engine result pages.

If you’re a self-learner, skilled at SEO and content management, and have enough dedication, then you can build your own authority site. You can then begin focusing your online business towards these digital marketing services.

Here are some quick facts for you about SEO writing and content management:

• 53% of online marketers used blog writing as their #1 inbound marketing technique in 2017 (HubSpot)
• In 2017, e-commerce business traffic came mostly from email marketing and SEO while content marketing and affiliates are less frequently used channels (Marketing Sherpa)
• Content Marketing - 20%
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - 14%
• Big Data - 14%
• Social Media Marketing - 14%
• Marketing Automation - 9%
• Mobile Marketing - 9%
• Conversion Rate Optimization - 5%
• Search Engine Optimization - 4%

If you are skilled in SEO and can create excellent content that’s worth reading, then you have valuable digital marketing service skills to fill a very important business need.

Providing these kinds of services is a great way to establish your online business... and also offers high investment returns. So, put your writing skills to good use... and start making money doing what you do best.

Social Media Management

Likes, shares, and social media engagement have become proven methods for companies to expand into the online business world. They can also help businesses gain followers, who later on, can also be converted into customers.

Is it possible that you can start a business as a social media consultant?

As a basic example, say you come across a post for a business in your local area. Initially, you might give it a like and then later remember, “hey, I’ve been meaning to check this place out.”

Or maybe you give a company page a like, and then later on, make a purchase from them.

A lot of in-house and online businesses alike outsource their social media management jobs to people who can create posts and share them across all platforms. They do this to reach new audiences and drive more people to their products and services.

But is there room for you in this niche? If you’re good at it, can you try to sell digital marketing services and grow your online business?

• 30% of online time comes from social media
• There are 8 billion views on videos posted on Facebook per day
• 96% of consumers (18-34 years old) watch a video at least a few times a week
• 75% of millennials check out a social video daily

Which means…

• 80% of online traffic from consumers will come from videos by 2020 (Source: Animoto)
• Every single day, users watch over 100 million hours of video content from Facebook (Source: MediaKix)

As you can see, the potential to sell your digital marketing services in the form of social media marketing, and earn money from home doing so... is substantial. Therefore, if you can write, and also effectively handle a businesses’ social media needs, then this is an excellent online business opportunity for you.

Websites

Do you know how to build an online website? Another good way to make money while working from home and starting an online business is by selling WordPress sites. You could work as a developer to build ecommerce sites, help them to get found by search engines, and help people develop their own business ideas for online web pages.

Local businesses who have a website can effectively validate their brand, increase their reach, generate leads, and more. Every business needs one, and they are expensive!

Do you have a friend who owns their own business? Build one for them for free to get started. You can also build a couple for yourself, and start selling them.

But wait, there’s more. After you help your clients create a website for their online business using something like the WordPress platform, you can then offer additional digital marketing services such as SEO and social media.

If you have the talent, you can additionally offer a few of the online business ideas we have already covered, and get several awesome businesses going at one time.

Once they’re happy with the site you’ve made for them, and they know you live up to your promises, it will be easier to sell those additional digital marketing services to them in the future.

Maintain an excellent reputation with these new customers. Not only will they become your finest repeat customers, but they’ll also be more inclined to refer you to their friends and colleagues.

Digital Marketing Arbitrage

This is one of the fastest ways to learn online marketing.

I did this myself for three years. The experience I gained sped up the learning curves of website building, social media management, Facebook advertising, SEO, and email marketing... just to name a few. I also developed many other skills necessary for our current online business.

You can effectively become a quality control coach outsourcing all of these projects to freelancers on Upwork, Onlinejobs.ph, Fiverr, and many other freelance websites. If you’d like additional information and insight on digital marketing arbitrage, check out my video explaining the ins and outs.

The really cool thing about outsourcing these virtual jobs to, say, the Philippines or India, is that you can spend your time during the day meeting up with clients. And then, by the evening, you can send out your assignments to your virtual team. Because of the time differences, they can work on those assignments overnight, so you’re able to get twice as much work done with this online business model.

To make money with this model, find businesses that need digital marketing services, social media help, blogs, or graphic design. You then sell them the contract, outsource the job to freelancers for less, and coach them to produce a quality product for your client.

To build your reputation and prove you can follow through with what you say, you can initially offer your services for free or at a deep discount, to make sure that you can pull off what you say you can do and begin to build that credibility.

Most of these virtual assistants are outside of the US; at least the ones you can pay and still turn a profit. Effective communication with someone outside of the US requires a different art form and a lot of attention to quality control. You can’t merely say "make a logo look like this," and email it to me in two days, then deliver it to your client.

Digital marketing arbitrage isn’t for everybody, but I highly recommend it. In fact, if I had to start all over with no money, digital marketing would be the pure hustle business that I would start.