Tag: how to get clients

Categories
Online Marketing

Best SMMA Outreach Method in 2020 – Step by Step Training [beginner friendly]

Hey I’m actually trying out a different style of article, I’m going to be hopping on my computer and walking me through a sideshow that I’ve put together for you guys before. I do that real quick. I just wan na give a little background info on me. My name is jaime for those of you who are new to this blog, and I started my agency a year and a half ago I managed to score my did you see two six figures in nine months now? This is not to brag this, not to you know, look at me and in fact it really was in the cie.

I worked a ton, and I struggled a tunnel and I main struggle during those nine months was lead generation and signing clients. At the same time, I was relieved to see that other you know, agency owners and SME owners were struggling with the same thing. Maybe maybe they had an anything. You know that the best systems and process in place make a general results for their clients, like no one else, but their problem was signing clients and so doing those those nine months.

I pretty much tested every single variable possible and after months months of failure, I started to get really good results and quitting this. This very very you know the spool pipeline of leads and landing minutes on autopilot, to a point where I managed to sign clients and skill, my PC to that six-figure mark, not what I’m doing it. Some teaching others on YouTube completely for free the the outreach and sales part of build an agency which is really the biggest bottleneck.

I see for EDC owners out there, and so that’s enough about me. Let’s go ahead and hop on my computer, I’m going to be walking you through this slideshow okay. So here we are inside my computer. If you guys, probably you could see the setup that I’ve got going on here. I tried this out, but it’s hella clunky, so yeah, let’s get right into this into this, and let’s see how this plays out, so the best outreach method for SMA in 2020 updated improved and to the point.

Okay, you know this. This presentation, yeah and you’ll, soon realize it’s not going to be the cookie claw, cookie cutter approach to outreach. I’r not going to be saying you know this is a bad best outreach, I’m not going to be vouching for specific outreach method. It’s going to be a very systematic and scientific way of arriving at the best average method for you, and so that’s what I want you guys to keep in mind throughout this presentation.

Now I see as may here, but really it’s it’s. You know what I want to focus it on is for all agency owners out there. This applies to any service that you’re, offering whether that’s social media marketing, whether that’s you know copywriting whatever it is. This still applies to you. So if you’re selling anything online to clients, this applies to you, so let’s get right into it. First, you need to understand this.

This is not one best, there’s, no one best of which method in client outreach. There’s not once you know one best hours method for sales. There are only superior outreach methods, it really depends on a number of factors, and so these are the factors and the things that it depends on and that I’ve identified throughout my experience that you know choosing the best outreach method depends on and the choice of your Outreach method depends on, and so the first thing is your service.

Different services will require different sales processes. A for example. Your your service is a high ticket offer or item. For example, let’s put the example of you’re selling a very high tech course. You know, let’s just say you know, 5 to 10 K course to get that sale before that we put the sale. You, probably you know, you probably have the the prospect Habanera on a call and then because it’s going to call by a sales rep or you know, a height a bit closer and so yeah different services are were quite different sales forces, for example, if your service Is very, very low, tier a for example.

It could be. You know, social media management and you just start an hour and you charge in the four 400 to 500 dollars a month for to each plan. Then you know, for you know in that event, if you guys, if you have a for example, you have good case studies or you just have a very good personal brand or you’ve. You know, for example, you’ve conveyed enough social proof and, and just your your online standing is it’s good enough.

You might not even need a meeting right, so it really depends on the service. The second thing you depends on is the niche. Your prospects will hang out in different places depending on their niche, and they will respond and be attracted to different things. Number three is your personality. Different people are suited for different methods. One man’s strength is another man’s weakness. Okay, I understand that number four.

Is your location getting accustomed to the ways people expect to be reached out to in specific countries? This really applies if, if you’re, a pure service is bound by a geographical location right, if, for example like me, your your new, your services, Facebook ads and paid ads at forty compliance, then you can have clients all over the world and location. Is it’s no limit? There’s no limit to after the you know, it really doesn’t limit your outreach right, so yeah location is important and number five.

Your current available resources there’s quite important, and this is something that people don’t actually think about. Enough is how much money and time are you willing and able to invest in into it to still get results right because look if you get into this in a much more detail, but look if you’ve got a nine to five and and were you doing this, For time you trying to sort out your agency, but you don’t quite know it.

Don’t we have the time, but maybe you’ve got and you’ve got a better money that you can invest into it. Then you know complete different. How which method should be implemented right in this case? But if time is more abundant to you than money, then you probably have traded out at the start, because you just don’t have the money to invest in you know in in so force that can systemize that whole process right so yeah.

These are the five different factors and, by the end of this article, you’ll be able to self diagnose and choose what the best out, which method is for you, and so that’s that’s really. One of the you know the the very important things that I want. You guys to take away from this article is that by the end of this article, you can be able to diagnose yourself and really pinpoint the the average is that best to you, you’ll niche, your location, etc.

These factors that we spoke about here so last thing into it now your service, the first thing that you want to consider with your service. As I talk as I said here, is the price point. As I said, higher tier services will require more vetting and you will need to build more trust and authority. For example, something like online advertising will require strong as social processes. Then social, media management, because more resources will be allocated to the former one, and so more trust needs to be built.

This you know, especially true in my experience, for example, you know when I’ve you know at this point my my agency really just goes for, for you know the very clients right and so, with the spring clients. There’s there tends to be a lot more vetting right. There tends to be a lot more top man’s top management that needs to be voting in the decision said racks are so there needs to be a lot more vetting, and you know a lot of people will require to see specific things.

For example, past results, etc, etc. So the whole process becomes a lot, it becomes a lot more time-consuming and – and you need a high degree of expertise. But if you’re offering in your social media management and you’ve charged in 400 per month for your services, they’re not really going to suspect they’re. Not we can expect you to go to that length to convince them right and if they do to be honest, you might as well pass on them, because you know they don’t see the value if they can’t believe pay 400 a month for social media management, then The puppy and not a very healthy business – and you can’t won’t stay away from that, because there’s a ton of fish in the ocean right so yeah, that’s the price point, then.

The second thing is the nature of your service. This is something that a lot of people don’t talk about right. Your outreach process will be the first inside into your work by a prospect. 99.9 % of people forget this. You use this as an opportunity to show it off. In many cases, it is your chance to show your skill, for example, girlfriend copywriting email will be the best which method that that will see you.

It’s it’s an opportunity for you to showcase your product, your your service, for example. One of things that I do is when I do outreach. I incorporated a lot of article because I, like article, I think it is one of my strengths, although you may not think so, but you know we. I try to incorporate that, and especially because I think article I can be a lot more persuasive. They can actually see me they can see that you know they can see my face.

They can see my hand gestures, they can see by the way I carry myself, etc, etc. So what I’ve seen is that base to my strength. So we find what the nature of your service is and also find what what your strengths are and then use that use the outreach to play to advantage when they’re, making a decision whether to work with you’re. Not so that’s the service, the next thing is your niche. Now what you need to do is you need to understand their typical day.

Where are your prospects more likely to be? Where were they where they’re more likely to be hanging out and I’ve hold this for? For some of the the grammar stakes here, what I just want to get this out to you guys but yeah. You need to really figure out where they’re going to be hanging out, and we understand their day right, for example, if you’re, if you reached out to a dilution or to restaurant, and you calling them up and you hit them up by phone chances, are that’s not The best that’s not the best thing to do, because their typical day is talking to clients just a very, very busy, and you know, client facing day and so they’re.

You know the good before I run around the whole day, and so calling them is going to be an inconvenience for them, and so don’t do that. We understand what the typical day looks like for them and then understand where you can reach them best. Next is receptiveness and saturation. This very very important realize that your prospect receives a ton of outreach today, no matter how good yours is it’s of no use, if they don’t even open it or even worse, see it figure out the platform’s.

Were you prospectus going to be more receptive to you? Outreach, for example, as I said here, cold call in a clinic or sakoku in a Russian or a successful clinic. It’s not really a great deal, because it’s very client facing the run around a lot and it’s not the best idea and Instagram and Facebook. The aims are not a good idea for personal personal brands and influencers, for example, if, if you’re trying to reach out an influencer that has a big personal brand, for example, your wishes, its coaches and and and personal brands.

Instagram is probably not the best place to do that, simply because they probably get a ton of the ends and they’re just going to treat to a span. But if you get their email and send them an email, they’re probably going to check that out, because you know pretty much: every business person checks out their email and it’s not as situated as I said, Instagram DM I will be, and so that’s the niche now Number three: is your personality comfort? What are you most comfortable with? This does not necessarily mean taking the easy way out, but it really means playing To Your Strengths.

Now you know, I’m not saying don’t, don’t you know, don’t do this because you’re, not a you know, is doing easy way out right. What I’m saying here is see what you’re most comfortable from scratch see what your strengths or from scratch on page two, those okay, if you’re, for example, if you, if your killer, add writing emails, do that you know, probably, if you’ve a very, very kind of shy Or yours, not very good on camera, don’t do you know, don’t necessarily do as much article which try it out see how it you know how it performs.

It is not truly believe that we, you know we were very malleable right. We can. We can learn very quickly and we’ll poor mind something we can. You know really develop right as people, but when you’re starting just start out, you want to play to your strengths because that’s we’re going to minimize first of all, the learning curve and the time that you you take to get results, and so that’s the the first Thing that would say now.

The second thing is skills. If your communication skills are great, something like cold calling might be better suited for you, if you can right click copy messaging is the way in this I already covered in comfort. So number three is location. You win to understand the landscape. This only applies if your service service is bound by location, if it is understand the possible limitations you may face in your country and where people expect and do not expect nor want to be reached out to on and on which platforms.

For example, I know for a fact that and and there’s you know, you might find this a bit weird, but I know for a fact that the US LinkedIn they see a platform of you know. You know to start business relationships. They they’re much more open to new things, whereas with you know in the UK, for example, it requires a you know, Tom more, it’s more cold. You need to really build out the trust and you might need a bunch of it.

You know article audits, to reach you know to rehab them trust you, whereas you know the US, for example, they’re much more open and more willing to try anything some to jump on opportunities if it makes sense right. No one gets wants to get scammed right. So yeah understand the landscape of your tire of your country, for example. I know some countries that really just despise cold calling and for some you know for some of them, it’s not even loud, and so really just you know, take a look at at what what is seen is normal in your country too.

You know what is seen as as normal business interaction in the country and then you know apply those when you’re doing outreach. So that’s the first thing and second thing is the tone, understand the tone people use when doing business together, some countries or more to the point and aggressive works in other countries. It’s about establishing rapport, building trust and slowly breaking down walls.

You know this goes back to you to what I’m saying about you know the UK, the UK versus the the u.S. In the u.S. It can be. You know, business is done much more to the point, much more aggressive. You know every this. What I found from experience – I know Ireland so form from talking to a bunch of colleagues. You know everyone knows the everyone’s trying to look for a win-win, and everyone knows what they’re getting, and it’s just much more straight to the point.

Also they’re, not, as you know, that they’re much more open to talking about money fees, you know how much X is making etc X around so, whereas in the UK for example, you need to establish a lot more report. You know you need to kind of keep. Keep distances at first until they, you know you build that trust as well, and you slowly break down the walls and so that’s location and, lastly, available resources.

Number one scale: remember you’re, not you yourself, the flash you in the flash is not scalable based on a computer, though, or, and I always recommend, find the most suitable average method and then the niche, because, depending on time you have available. For example, you work in a 95 you’d be able to get results with specific methods that you would not with others. Let me explain this right if what I recommend you know when someone comes to me or even to my coaching students, what I recommend is first see what your see, what your current lifestyle is see, what your available resources are in terms of time in terms of Money in terms of really just analyze and diagnose your current lifestyle, if you’ve got a job, for example, and if you don’t really have much time to invest in in to actually go in the the agency.

But you still want to sign clients and still get results. But you actually have resources, then you really don’t want to pick a niche where you need to Coco. We need to visit. You know, businesses where you know businesses. Business owners expect you to meet in person, because that’s just not going to be able to to happen right because from 95 you’re locked in and so what I tell them is for example, if you, if you have very little time what you can do, is pick A niche that that is completely online right.

You don’t have to first of all meet with with clients. They don’t because they don’t have you know there. We have a physical location like e-commerce, businesses or clients that don’t you know, don’t need to be boots out on the phone, because that requires you picking up the phone and actually calling that’s, not scalable, whereas you know, if you pick ecommerce, you can actually automate, and I have a article on this.

You can check it out right here. You know with with with e-commerce, you can pretty much automate. You know you can automate the outreach by email or LinkedIn. You can build our sequences and you can pretty much plan the meetings on on autopilot and you can invest in some really good softwares that way, and so you don’t have to invest that much time into outreach and still get results right, and so it’s all about Diagnosing your lifestyle see what niches fit that lifestyle, so you can still get results right.

We we, you know, the last thing we want to do is sacrifice results, and so that’s why I always rock man. You know that diagnose your lifestyle and then pick the hours method that best suits you and then pick the niche that that suits that are which method it’s it’s completely backwards, but it works right it it’s the best way to do it because, as I said, I, Which is the biggest roadblock and the biggest bottleneck that as agency owners, and I saying agency owner yourself or if you, if you don’t have any change starting to you know you, you want to start out, you can have right and so, for example, if you’re working Full time and one of the few outreach methods that working full time and one of the few hours and methods that can usually get resource for you is school, calls it’s going to take one tool and your first client, whereas you could certainly automate link to messages And emails and land meetings on autopilot in a different niche with the most suitable hours.

What is LinkedIn Annie right, so that’s the scale and, lastly, the money. If you have money to start with, invest in software, that will automate a systemized route, which would be extremely revenue generated in tape and and time-saving for you yeah. It will cover this very, very important thing to keep in mind. So, as I said, what I recommend is to always determine your most suitable outreach method first and then pick a niche and service that you’re passionate about, in which you can close plans using that outreach effort and not sacrifice and results right.

The reason being out, which is the biggest bottleneck for ages most agency owners, if you can sort of sort this out from the start, will have much greater success and faster so guys. That is pretty much for that. That’s pretty much it for this presentation. I hope you guys like this tau. I hope this presentation was a value. I apologize for the little grammar mistakes that had in there but yeah. I just wanted to get this out as soon as I possibly could, because I I really truly believe that a lot of people are struggling with this right now and it can literally be solved by first of all self diagnosed in a u.

S. Person where you’re like And then working backwards right, seeing the the you know diagnosed in your lifestyle seem what average method best suits you and then picking your niche and the service, even that you want offer so guys. If you have any questions any comments, you want me to answer as well: leave them down below if you have any article ideas or already topic that you want me to cover, also leave them down below, and that would be it for this article.

Also guys, if you enjoyed this article like this article, it really helps our hopes of the blog helps out with the algorithm, and so I really really appreciate if you like this article also, if you like this content, to show much more after I’m putting out in The upcoming week, I’m actually uploading three times a week and so go ahead and subscribe to my blog. I always say this, but there’s a ton of bluff out there in the century of people telling you to do this.

To do that and giving you advice when they haven’t actually been through it and they haven’t actually gotten. You know amazing results. You know they may have a little. You know clinic restaurant or little dentist in their clients, but really they’re, not getting predictable, consistent results for their agency, and then we haven’t taken that ad agency to new heights. Oh my youtube blog, I’m sharing all my advice and everything.

I’ve learned throughout my journey completely for free and so go ahead and subscribe to that blog to my blog. If you want to check this out guys hope everything’s going well in your journey, keep at it and I’ll see you in the next article bye, you

A 2019 traffic generation tool >> Traffic Trapper 2.0

 

Categories
Online Marketing

8 Essential Tools I Use Daily to Run my $250,000+ SMMA

You guys are going to get a behind-the-scenes in-depth look into what it takes to build a social media, marketing agency and scale it past that six figure mark, and I feel, like a lot of you – are going to be pleasantly surprised because, as you’ll see in just A bit my setup is pretty minimalist when building my setup, I wanted two things number one stuff that could get the job done very well and number two not having much stuff.

So that’s really the two principles that I followed and i’m not only going to be giving you guys a look into what I use but telling you why I use it. What I use it for as well as giving you various options for yourself that you don’t just take the entertainment value away from this article, but you can actually take practical recommendations from this article and apply it for your agency. So i’m super excited for this article and without further ado.

Let’s get right into it, so i’m going to start off with, what’s, in my opinion, the most important piece of equipment for any online entrepreneur for any digital marketer, which is your main tool, which is your laptop right here. I’ve got this 16 inch, 2020 macbook pro fully specced out now. Obviously I know that this is not a cheap macbook and when I started my agency, I really remember that I worked on a macbook pro a 13 inch.

I believe a 2015 model which was very very wrecked, and I managed to score my agency to six figures with that and pass the six figure mark. So it’s definitely not an excuse to not have a good laptop. But what I will say is that, as soon as you make some money with your agency definitely invest into a quality laptop honestly, it’s going to save you so much freaking headaches, because, honestly, if I add up all the wasted time with my old laptop all the Lagging and all the time that I had to wait for applications to load and sometimes it crashed and all you know it’s just so much wasted time and not only that.

It really angered me, and so it really took away some pleasure from the actual work in, and so that is why, when I started making money with my agency, I definitely just upgraded all the pieces of equipment that, in my opinion, were just not up to date And that I could improve, and so my recommendation to you guys is that as soon as you start, making some money with your online business with your agency go ahead and upgrade your laptop is such a great investment in my opinion – and it is the one thing That we use every single day right.

Our whole job revolves around this machine, and so it really pays a lot of dividends to have the best machine. It is one of those things that can give you an edge, so that is that 4d laptop and now on to the second tool. Now. The next thing is the youtube algorithm and you might be asking: how does the youtube algorithm help? You run your agency and grow your agency, and the answer is not what you might expect now, every time you like a article every time you comment on a article.

It basically tells a youtube algorithm that this article is pretty decent, and so it pushes out to a lot more people and it makes my team and myself feel appreciated and that have a wider impact. So if you haven’t gone ahead and smashed the like button, go ahead and do that right now and with that being said, let’s get right into the actual second tool, the second tool. Sorry, the second tool is a pair of noise canceling headphones.

I personally use beats to be honest: i’m aware that bose is probably a better brand, a better pair of headphones. I’r completely aware of that. Personally, i, like the aesthetics, and that, for me, is quite an important part of the equipment. My tools and for the whole thing to be in unison and to look aesthetic, and so that, for me, is pretty important, and so every time I wear these headphones, someone just manages to tell me hey.

You should probably grab a pair of both headphones, but personally I quite like these and brandon aside. I personally think that a pair of noise, canceling, headphones or earphones is quite a good investment simply because it allows you to get in the flow and into your state. Much quicker and allows you to block out noises, and this is particularly important. If you don’t have an office, that’s quiet.

I have the privilege to have an office, that’s very, very quiet, and so I probably wouldn’t even need this, but it really helps me get into the flow and anything that helps me be more productive and get more stuff done, and so this is the second tool That I use for my agency, the third tool, is a microphone, and this is the one that I personally use. This was actually a present from a friend and it’s called the blue snowball.

I believe I would have gotten the blue yeti, which is the common design that you may be used to from this brand um, but obviously it was a present and I actually really like this shape and aesthetically. I think it looks much better than the yeti. That’s personally me – and I actually just put it up there on my bookshelf right there and it looks sick with my books. So and so, as I told you guys for me, aesthetic is part of it um, but I definitely think that a microphone is a must-have and I use this microphone for team calls for sales calls for um the live interviews that i’m hosting on my free private Mentor community on facebook, by the way, if you guys have enjoyed that go ahead and check out the link in bio, but for any of those interviews for recording, looms uh for my team for my clients as well kind of communication for recording my screen.

Recording youtube articles sometimes and a bunch of other users, so anytime, I have any call or i’m recording something on my laptop, i’m always going to have this plugged in, and I personally think that having a crisp audio good lighting and a good background gives you a Massive edge on a sales goal: why? Because you come off as much more professional, and so the prospect takes you more seriously, which in turn makes you more likely to close the client, so definitely call one of these microphones.

I think it’s like 50 bucks so really inexpensive but check it out, and if you can’t afford this one, then i’m sure there are much cheaper options out there so uh. That is that for the microphone. That is that for the third tool now onto the fourth one, the next tool is my standup desk. Hopefully you guys are not seeing too many wires down below and this one actually fell off, stand-up desk. I use it almost every single day, especially after lunch, where my energy levels are not as high, so it helps me get my blood flowing and will often have most of my calls, especially in the afternoon, which is usually when I have my sales goals and my Team calls and my student calls as well, and I will have all of those standing up and it really helps me gain more energy and anything that I can buy.

That will give me back more energy, i’m definitely going to cop. So if you guys can get yourself a stand-up desk, I highly highly recommend it, because sometimes you just got to stand up, get your legs moving and get back to work. So that is that for the fourth two now onto the fifth boom, the fifth tool is my notebook, my personal notebook, and obviously i’m not going to show you guys too much of what’s in here, because it’s top secret.

But I do not know what I would do without a notebook, and I always have this laying on my table right from my computer, and I truly believe this is massive and i’ll talk about this in just a second, but having a place where you can knock Down ideas, where you can put your thoughts into paper as well as write down quick notes and to do’s from calls that you’re having is incredibly vital and on this notebook i’ll structure, a youtube content ideas, for example.

I will also, for example, prep for sales schools on this notebook prep for interviews on this notebook. For example, i’ll give you guys a little peek inside my preparation for my last interview on my community. So that’s this and that okay and then all the questions that I wrote for that. But having a notebook where you can prepare for calls where you cannote down ideas where you can actually diagnose a client.

For example, when I hop on a sales school with a client, i’m actually writing stuff down and i’m diagnosing their current situation, okay, which is very important because then, when I pitch my service, it might be different and it’s going to be personalized to what they actually Need um and a bunch of other cool stuff, so long story short, definitely get yourself a notebook and definitely always have your notebook with you on your table.

Note down ideas that you get no down relevant points that you get from sales goals and definitely prepare for your sales goals on paper. I actually helps you a ton more i’ve found, so that is that for the fifth tool and now on to the sixth tool, the sixth tool is this box light right here and normally this box light, but right behind it, there’s a ring light and I use The box light for recording articles just like this.

I use the ring light typically for my tic toc articles um, but the point here is lighting makes a difference, as you can obviously see with this clip right, the lighting is not as great and so obviously the quality of the clip is not as great and I’r not saying you should have a ring light or a box light if you’re not creating content. If you do, then absolutely yes right, but even if you hop on a sales call having good lighting is vital and if you’re not next to a window like.

I am where I get a lot of natural light. Then either move your desk close to that also make sure that you have artificial light sources that actually give you good lighting, because otherwise the quality of the coal is not going to be as great and you’re. Not going to look as professional and that my friends makes a difference, so that is the sixth tool now onto the seventh tool. Now the seventh tool is a whiteboard.

Now let me explain what I use my whiteboard for and why I think it’s actually vital and, as I told you guys with my notebook, it’s pretty much the same use right, except that a whiteboard have much more space and it actually helps me structure. My ideas much better because i’ve got more space and I can draw little diagrams. I can draw different structures and it helps me visualize my ideas so much better.

So if you guys have the space for it, I definitely recommend getting a whiteboard and some pens. Obviously I use it also for content. You guys might have readed some of those articles on my blog um, but a whiteboard is vital, in my opinion, for any online entrepreneur for any person who’s working at home just to have that real estate uh, where you can actually draw and actually put your ideas Onto a surface and every time I do this, I get so many more breakthroughs than if I just kept them in my head.

So that is the seventh tool and uh now onto the final tool and the eighth tool is the aura ring you guys might have already heard about this ring uh, because I think it’s a it’s very common in a lot of entrepreneurs and in the online space. But the reason why it’s not the o-ring that I quite like I mean. Obviously I like the design, I like the the piece of tech, and I think it’s very accurate. I think it’s a great piece of tech, but before this actually had the with its aura, it’s quite a bit more expensive than the o-ring, and the only reason why I switched to the ore ring.

I was simply because that gave me some bluetooth issues and I could not repair it in the end, which was a bit tragic uh, but I had to cop my o-ring and now the reason why I think an o-ring is important. It’s not vital, but it’s important is because it makes the unconscious conscious and that’s one of the things that i’m always looking to do with my business and my life right. I want to make all those things that are unconscious, conscious right and bring them to my awareness, for example, how I sleep how I eat right.

Maybe it could be what my team members feel and and think of the culture right. If you don’t ask them, then they’re never going to tell you. It could be, for example, the satisfaction of my students. Obviously they rave about it during the course, but at the end of the program I always have them. I fill out a survey, the same thing with my clients at the end of our partnership. I always have them fill out a survey because i’m trying to make the unconscious conscious and so that’s what the ring does, and it does that for an area of your life, which is pretty important, which is sleep now.

I will put my hands up and say that i’m not the best sleeper and the reason why that is because, as of now, I haven’t placed as much importance on that, as I probably should, and instead of making my time in better priority, which should be around Eight hours um i’ve made my sleep efficiency a priority, and so what i’m trying to do is i’m trying to make these six and a half or seven hours that i’m in bed uh as quality as possible and that’s what i’m currently focused on, but i’m slowly Shifting and i’m being a bit more strict with my sleep schedule, so that is the oil ring, and that is that, for my eight tools, final thing that I will say is this article could have been a bit underwhelming for a lot of you, and maybe you Thought I had this incredible setup and i’m not going to lie.

Probably three months ago I had a better setup with a monitor and all that stuff, but basically one of the things that i’m doing right now is i’m trying to be as minimalist as possible. Number one because I don’t like clutter and number two is is simply because I think minimalism is great for focus, and so I used to have my monitor and I used to have my laptop and yes, you think you’re getting a lot of stuff done, because you Can move things around much quicker, but it also distracts quite a lot because you’re always multitasking and that’s what I found myself doing and that’s what i’m transitioning to a much more minimalist ass setup.

Yes, I might get a monitor, but if I do then I have my laptop just sit idle connected to the monitor and right now I really like my macbook pro to do that. So the final thing that I will say is just make sure you buy things that are high quality and of high purpose. Don’t just buy things that are okay, like, for example, I had this thing, which I barely ever use, which is a kind of like a notepad um.

Sometimes I use it for you know explaining things to my students, sometimes i’ll pull this up with a pen that I have right there and i’ll basically write on it when i’m giving an explanation, but I can do this with my mouse and it’s not vital right. Yes, you get more quality with this, but it’s not 100x in comparison to the mouse. This is a good example of not a vital purchase uh. So that is the final thing that I will say on the tools and the equipment side of things.

I really hope you guys enjoyed this article. As I said, if you did drop a big thumbs up my time, and I would really really appreciate it – also leave them below in comments any questions you may have on this article and i’ll be sure to check those out, and the final thing I would say, Is if you haven’t checked out my free masterclass on how to sign and keep four figure smm clients go ahead and check it down below uh, there’s nothing for sale and literally the feedback i’m getting people implementing the stuff, the templates, the scripts that I give you In there implementing it and signing plans, so if you want to check that out, go ahead and check the link in the description and, as always, guys hope, everything’s going well in your agency journey and i’ll see you in the next one peace foreign, you

A 2019 traffic generation tool >> Traffic Trapper 2.0

 

Categories
Online Marketing

Is SMMA Dead in 2020? – Should you start a Social Media Marketing Agency 2020? (the painful truth)

I’ve been getting quite a lot lately from SMA and agency owners, especially over on my tech-talk. By the way, if you guys are not following me, there go ahead and do that and I put out a ton of content there. But that is one question that I’ve been getting consistently and I’ve also been seen, and a lot of people asked that exact same question this article.

What I want to do is hop on my computer and actually go through the data with you and give you my personal opinion on the topic on whether estimate is dead in 2020 little info on me for those of you who are new to this blog, my Name is jaime, and I started my agency journey a year and half ago and managed to score my just the six figures, nine months into their journey. Now, what I’m doing is I’m teaching other agency and SME owners this sales and outreach part of building an agency landing more meetings, sign, more clients and scanning their agency.

So without further ado, let’s hop on my computer and dive into the data and see whether SMA is actually that in 2020, this articles going to be very, very juicy and the answers probably going to surprise you so you’re not going to want to miss it. Let’s get right into it, so here we are inside my computer and let’s get right into it, it’s SMA dead in 2020. I’m really going to be revealing everything inside this sideshow on them.

I’m normally going to be giving you the data, but I’m also going to be giving you complete advice that stems from my personal experience, as well as some examples, as well as some examples of current plan. Communication literally showing you some of the emails that I’ve had with the prospect I just to illustrate a point but yeah it’s going to be real real juicy and let’s get right into it that Sesame that in 2020, okay, so here, is really the common belief that A lot of people share in the space I’ve had a lot of people thinking about getting into us-made.

There are a lot of people thinking about build an agency or currently having and honestly this always happens when in the turn of the year – and this almost happens, what what is with you know, dropship and Shopify affiliate marketing. Your people really start to question whether you know there’s this gold rush, whether it still was black, bull or or as lucrative as it was last year, and so there’s always this this common misconception, this common myth, which is so many people are getting into as may, Is that even possible to get results now? Is it impossible to suck to have success, knowing the the massive saturation that there is in the market, and so let’s actually take a look at the data because you know the thing about me is I’m very analytical guy and I don’t just like to throw away Any sentence or any belief around I actually, you know like to dive right right into data and to really see whether it makes sense and to see whether what a lot of people were saying has good backing and good ground and that actually has grounds to kind Of have that bleep right so yeah I actually took a look at a you know basis, some very, very simple, Google Trends as a fact that a lot a lot more people searching for social media marketing agency – and you know you might think that Google Trends is – Is the very very simple thing, but it it’s actually a very great indication of you know, obviously, trends and and just a search volume on the the interest that there is for specific thing and so here with web searches.

We can see that you know there’s this. A massive, a growing trend when it comes to SME, the the funny thing is and I’ll explain my my prediction or on this, though the funny thing is: if we take a look at a youtube search, it’s actually down quite a bit, as we can see here In comparison to at 2017 2018, which is really one when ty Lopez really started, you know going brain were very very hard on on his social media marketing agency course.

We advertise in that a ton but yeah, as we can see here, with YouTube search, section, dropped off quite a bit, which is which is quite interesting graphs. What I also went ahead and did is that compared it to dropship images, which is my opinion, the closest financial vehicle competitor. If it, if you will and as we can see here, drop shipping, it’s tough to see because in my opinion, has made sort of mod is a much better financial vehicle than than drop shipping.

For a number of reasons which I’ll probably cover in in upcoming articles. But yeah I mean drop shipping, just knocks it out of the park when it comes to to growth in comparison to a sum a which you know there’s a bit of gold right here, but we can see that drop shipping is just massive mass growth over the Past you know four or five years listen. Why was interesting for me to see that YouTube search was a lot lower than web search is because the thing about web search is a it’s morphin.

Indication of what you’re looking for rights also counts for a lot of businesses that are looking for social media marketing agency. That might be searched in that turn, to see what agencies ranked when, when you, google search that, and so it’s not just an indication of the people that are getting into the space, but also it. You know there’s a very high probability that it’s also an indication of the people that are looking for a so from your marketing agency, and so that’s one things that I wanted to keep in mind.

And for me, and the the thing about this is not it’s not back with. You know data, but this just my personal opinion. I let me know what you guys think of this hypothesis, but when it comes to YouTube surgit and when it comes to YouTube, I feel, like a lot of people, go on YouTube to learn about a specific topic right. If you look if you’re looking for social media marketing agency or if you’re, looking for s and may or if you’re looking for a dropship in it’s, not because you’re looking for an agency to come in and run your advertising, it’s more because you you’re looking to Learn about a specific topic: there’s you know tons of tutorials on financial vehicles when it comes to.

You know YouTube right, and so, in my opinion, and at this, my personal hypothesis, when it comes to youtube search this – or these are people that are actually looking to get into it, to learn how to do it, whereas a web search is actually more of an Indication of the people that are looking for agencies on the web to come in and run throughout advertising, so keep that in mind. But what I want to do is you know to play very safe.

We can assume that yes, SMA is growing a lot, and you can see this with also the the number of of gurus that have come up in this space and and just you know doing a very quick, a youtube search. You see that a lot of a lot more people, including myself or putting out articles around the, are on the topic, and that’s that’s also a good indication of that fact. You know if you take a look at it at you know.

If you go four years back and you take a look at the Shopify, add drop swing, content that was on YouTube. It was very limited, whereas you know now, if you go on YouTube, you know everyone and their mother is is doing. You know articles on on drop shipping on Shopify. You know that whole niche right, so that’s also a good indication, but yeah please play save what I’m going to do some consume. That SMA is having an exponential growth like we can see in this graph, but what I want you guys to question is or the people getting into it, even the relevant at the relevant data, and this where I see a lot of people, you know they almost Get blinded by just looking at one side of the equation, which is not even the most relevant side of the equation.

But they just take a look at that that side of the equation. And then they just kind of assume that it’s too saturated right. But nor the only side of the equation: that’s where, when you that’s, when you guys to keep in mind, it’s actually a matter of operand map, and especially this especially true, you know in a b2b service right, there’s always a buyer there’s always a seller and the Other side of the equation, all the businesses that are in need and desperate for social media marketing, because nowadays, even more businesses are aware that digital marketing is the fastest most trackable, most tangible, most profitable way of going visit.

Only or more business aware that these are marketing is the way to go to grow a business. You know fast and profitably, but here’s a little stat on the number of new businesses opening up each year right. So, as we can see here over six hundred and twenty seven thousand new businesses open each year, so that’s that’s what a lot of businesses right! You have to keep in mind that I’m just throw some numbers around is for every twenty thousand people.

You know going into Western me and learning about us with familiar marking that start an agency which, to be honest, is it’s a huge number. The thing you know the reason why you think it’s a lot more people’s because it almost increase the secret chamber, a chamber effect where everything you’re, seeing on a consistent basis, it’s as some a because that’s that’s! We the only continue, consume right so II quiz this.

This chamber effect almost but yeah if, for 20,000, a for every 20,000 people that are getting into SMA each year, six hundred twenty seven thousand new businesses open up. Then you know you can kind of see how how that balance is out right, there’s still massive opportunity right. So that’s what that’s the the the person that we need to keep in mind on the other side of equation. The the client-side – and the second thing that I wanted to keep in mind, is that the growth of shop five – and this you know especially important if you go into the the e-commerce niche which is or which is also my niche.

So I just wan na you know, throw some numbers past you at to illustrate just the the incredible incredible growth of Shopify in in the past few years. So, from 2013 to 2006, 16 revenue from merchant services increased from 20 to 50 percent, which is quite a lot again, but from 2018 to 2019 the number of sulphite paying customers grew 55 percent from the previous year. That is an absolutely absurd.

Number of new businesses join me shortly. Okay, you know, there’s there’s very, very few businesses that are seeing this tremendous tremendous work. This illustrates just the number number of new e-commerce businesses opening up. I store every single year right and it doesn’t seem like that. Growth is slowing down anytime soon. So that’s the second thing this. The third thing is Shopify plus, so that’s kind of the rather higher at your service, 126 percent year-over-year average growth.

That is a huge, huge number yeah. That’s the third thing and the for thang financial report, total revenue and q1 of 2019 was three hundred and twenty point five million dollars. A fifty percent increase from 2018 q1 is a massive increase, there’s very, very few businesses that are seeing this type of growth online. So yeah, that’s the growth of Shopify, just to illustrate the huge growth that ecommerce that the e-commerce landscape, which is really the future, and it’s not even the futures, is already it’s the present it’s it’s over here, but it keeps on growing and there’s no sign of It slowing down data is clear, there’s more than enough to go wrong, but here’s really my opinion on the topic right.

You know, aside from the data without you know, without even looking at the data here. In my opinion, you shouldn’t even look at the data. Instead, focus on this just be better: okay, when the barrier to entry for financial vehicles load and people flock to it, this of gold rush. What this means is that many people think they’re going to hit the jackpot without putting in the work. This happens for every single financial vehicle you squeeze this.

This fight will affect where people start seeing, you know more people getting results, and so they think they can kind of duplicate that and so more people get into it, and so it just creates this viable fact that it gets bigger and bigger and and there’s eventually More and more people creating this gold rush moving right and this gold rush mentality – and you know this has happened with with drop shipping with Shopify and it’s going to happen with SMA, which is just behind drop shipping, but it just started.

I mean it will only get bigger okay, so the gold rush mentality hasn’t really caught into a semi while yet but in 2020. I think it’s going to be massive. There’s going to be a lot of people coming up with clear results. Online and people can see this and they’re going to flock to it like crazy and so that go rushing tide is created, and so all you have to do is outwork them up something better than them.

Even if it’s just a slight edge, I feel good. The numbers don’t matter and you might think well, that’s that’s just way too competitive like I’m not getting into business to you know, compete with with all the people. What you have to realize is you know, you’re going to go up against these people right, I’m consistently going up and I’ll be showing you some examples of this, but I’m going to sit on a daily basis.

I’m consistently going up against other agencies right there’s, especially if you’re going for the bigger clients, like the bigger clients, get approached by so many agencies. Just this week I signed you know I’m about to sign a contract with a client thanking me. I think it’s five months, and you know that it came down to the session between this, this other agency and my agency, and they want with us the screenshot off of this are right here on the screen.

This is not to brag okay. This is me, just you know, illustrating that there is, it is a competitive environment. Business is competitive, you have to you, know, you’re going to be going up against people and just have to be better than you know your your your system to have to be. You know more effective, more efficient, your your processes have to be tighter. Your your team has to be better and you just have to be.

You know the battery to win those big contracts and we have success. Okay, you know here’s the thing you can still have decent success. You can definitely get six figures without you know, being the best and just never one right, but once you know once you wanted to take things to the next level, one once you you’re really wanting to design those big lines, you’re going to have to be better Than probably what I would recommend is have this mentality right from the start, and it’s going to serve you so well, because you don’t have to look at the data you’re not looking sideways.

I have to see what other people are doing. You’re, just focusing on on you know, perfecting your service, perfecting your team perfecting their agency day in and day out, and then you know you’re going to bury the competition so yeah, that’s the first thing and and the second thing is the 80/20 principle. What this means is that most clients in their niche will gravitate towards the same handful of agencies.

This means that when you’re good doable, when you actually focus on the right things, okay being good, it’s not something that, should you know this hardened you or make you think? Well, I’m not! You know I’m not going to have successful as with SMA, when you’re good you’ll reap huge success, and that should really really excite you. If you’re willing to put in the work, if you’re willing to improve daily and get better daily, then you’re really going to reap huge success right because you know word-of-mouth referrals and and, as I said, the the 80/20 principle in place right.

It’s either all or nothing. Now that’s a bit of an extreme, I don’t you know, I don’t exactly mean nothing. I truly believe that, with with SMA, if you just keep working out, don’t necessarily if you just keep working at it, you know within nine months six months you can definitely learn land, one two three clients or four times right. But what I’m talking about is huge, huge success right, we’re talking about.

You know the six figures past past six figures: half a million in a year. You know even even taking the agency 2 million, which I haven’t done. I have known yet, but you can you can see this this, this pattern wicker and its really, because you know word mouth source kicking in referrals, tire store kicking in you get. You know more social proof and secrete. So again, this file fact, which I will recommend you guys read about in good to create, which is which is really a great book by Jim Collins, so yeah.

That is the second thing, and the third thing is many: existing reputable agencies, reputable agencies or very, very poor, okay, so shifting our attention from new businesses, that’s pretty needed social media marketing to businesses with low-performing agency. So, let’s just completely, you know this record and neglect the massive opportunity that there is with the business that are currently joining.

You know there are currently starting up and need social media marketing desperately. Let’s actually shift our attention to D, the business that are already there. Only out there and that may have it and that may even have agencies running their social media marketing. What I’ve come to realize is that many agencies, over the years over the past years have been able to get away with poor performance in the past and whatever my poor performance is just not be focusing on results not be focus on not being focused on on Robots be more focused on on having a swampy office with with a huge team of of people that are that, don’t really know what they’re doing on a consistent basis.

Yeah, that’s really what I mean by poor performance, the new type of performance driven results, oriented lean agencies that don’t need huge offices, then, and that that’s really the way I suggest you know people to run their agency. You know be very, very efficient and just focusing on results. That’s really the best way to run an agency, but I truly that this new tide of agencies would soon take over, and this also huge opportunity.

The Norden of people are talking about just about looking at the new businesses that are coming into the market that need social media marketing desperately. It’s also looking up. It’s also looking at the huge opportunity, other is by providing a better service than what a lot of agencies have been allowed to provide over the pad over the past few years. Okay, and so what I want to do now is. I want to illustrate this with my own experience.

Okay, if actually had the scenario I happen to us twice, and this very very reason I’ll show you in just a second there’s, the fourth of the time I’m recording this article, it’s the 17th of December, so yeah 13 days ago. This happened to me and I’m still in negotiations with this client. It’s it’s looking like it’s going to happen this week, then I’m going to be able to to close those those negotiations and have them come aboard and we keeping you guys updated on that, but very, very confident that that the this will finalize in in the upcoming Days what the head of this remark you didn’t had to say at the first time I contacted them.

This is a big company. It’s it’s a really big company. It’s a new kind of it’s a new sort of, although they they’ve been around for a they’ve been around for a number of years now, and then we have a very incredible product but yeah. This is what he had to say. You know in response to it my first outreach, I’m happy to have a call with you. Please note I actually spoke to Facebook yesterday regarding how to further optimize Facebook campaigns.

We have a dedicated Facebook expert that works without and we already have an agency. We also work with. Nonetheless, I would be stupid to refuse such a nice offer remind my first email was that was pretty banging but yeah thankee. He wanted to ask. Are you free from 4 to 6 p.M. Today or anytime tomorrow regards his name? Is a Oh. So yeah, then the conversation went on. We actually had the call I was a bit hesitant to.

I was a bit hesitant on the call and – and I think so was he and but it really turned out very, very well. I I was able to diagnose the you know the the biggest bottlenecks that they were. Having new, I painted a clearer picture that there were the one week in the don’t really weepin the the huge returns that they should be weeping from other Facebook ads, and you know that they could do much much better.

I painted that very very clear to them, and they did. I got this email. We actually had two calls prior to this and he you know he just emailed me. I just wanted to let you know we’re still on course to go with your plan records a you had a from working for this company. What I you know, the the reason why I’m showing you guys this is to illustrate just the huge potential of there is the huge presumably of there is by being better, but by being better than this other flashy agencies that that you know, have huge offices that Have incredible landing pages and that have an incredible you know quantum marketing team and that we have an incredible kind bases, one social proof.

At the end of day, we swore our King and that’s what the the client cares about the you know what the client cares about. Yes, social proof helps. Yes, you know having a clientele that can refer, you helps, but if you can just show them that you can get better better result on their agency and undo bear in mind. You know to this point at this point. Magnus II has a track record of incredible resources, so I can show them.

You know what we’re doing for for some we’re kinda. It’s it’s a great way to persuade them. You know by just showing them by straight up showing them results, but if you just if you can show them that your result, oriented team and that they that all you care about is results and you can get them with better results. This is a huge opportunity. I’m and what I would say is even better than had you know.

Looking at you know, looking over at the the companies or just sorting out on that, may not be able to pay you, those those huge retainers that you are and that I’m assuming you’re after so focus on being the best, and you won’t have to worry about The competition, but what I would say, if you really do if you we care about the competition, and you really want to you – know, keep in mind that that data that I that I showed you you know early on in this presentation, you can rest assured, there’s Still plenty of opportunity for newcomers, there’s there’s still plenty of opportunity in the SME space and there’s still plenty of opportunity to absolutely kill it with up SMA and really just you know, build the life of your of your design and and Jen.

We have an incredible thriving business, so yeah that is it for this presentation. Hope you guys enjoyed it. If you have any questions and inquiries leave them down below in the in the comment section, and I get them, I also if you enjoyed this article, go ahead and give it a like. It really helps out a ton with the algorithm hopes up push this blog to a lot more people and that get our message out there and also guys, if you have to subscribe to my blog, go ahead and do that now.

Of course, almost content coming out on SME sales outreach also building the team, also getting an amazing resource for clients, also building an incredible ecosystem building incredible systems. They’ll then outstanding posters. I really just a complete 360 approach to SMA, but with the focus on sales and now reduce, I see is the biggest roadblock, I’m the biggest bottleneck for budding agency owners and SMA owner.

So yeah. If you haven’t done so, go ahead and subscribe to my blog and also guys have a little announcement to make I’m going to be open up opening up a Facebook group, I’ve been getting quite a few questions on people. You know asking me how I go about. I will shall go about my sills and also how about your landing landing. Clients are not on a consistent daily basis and so we’re inside through seven decided to open up a Facebook group all about sales.

Outreach messaging cold calls anything that that is, sales and outreach related and also just be. You know, built in your agency and scale in your agency. I’m going to be extremely active on that group that we can have admins it’s going to be a very, very active community, and that’s really what I wanted to be I’ve seen. You know. I’m poor and I’ve seen a ton of other Facebook groups out there and you know they they’re, just you know boring no one actually engages.

I don’t wan na actually post anything. This completely different, there’s going to be consistent, valuable content on a daily basis and you’re not going to want to miss that and so yeah go ahead and join. The Facebook group actually left a link in the description yeah. That is it for today’s article hope. Everything is going well in your journey. I’ll speak to you in the next one: peace

Hire a professional to manage your website! Find out how much it costs in the video below.