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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.

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Reviewing my older SMMA s | How To Get Social Media Marketing Clients

From Pablo from lifestyle design community, by the way guys for those of you that are not in the lifestyle design community just yet is it is a free private Facebook group which will be linked in the description box down below where you can basically surround yourself with Like-Minded people and there’s a bunch of free resources from me in there, as well as a free ebook, a free social media, marketing mini course.

You know, along with a few other little freebies and tips, tricks and etcetera. Everything is in that community. So it and say the check and that out, if you are serious about what’s starting with a social media marketing book like I said I got this request from Pablo, he mentioned, or he basically asked me, you know, is my content on YouTube. I show my all the content, is it still relevant? So you know, obviously, as you guys know, I push out a lot of content and I it’s getting to the point now where I think I’m up to five uploads a week.

Something like that, and I have been doing this for years. I literally since I think the end of 2017 was when I started to post on my first, my social media article. So you know I’ve been here for a while and obviously I have discussed almost every single topic related to social media marketing and then Pablo’s question was, you know, are the older articles still as relevant? You know, as the more newer articles is it with.

You know go back to all those articles. If you are, you know only now, just tuning in or discover and my blog, but I guys before we actually start this article. We have reached 5000 subscribers and which is amazing. You know I’m it’s it’s weird, because I remember as if it was yesterday when it just starts this blog out, I’ve still got screenshots when I’ve got like 300 subscribers. I’r checking my stats every single day.

I remember checking my social blade. That’s like list that one subscriber extra every single week so what a week – and that was a week I’m out – I think it’s like – maybe between 10 and 20, which is amazing to see the blog you’ll finally grow and they keep in Kabul it with a piece. So yeah thanks very much obviously for those that have subscribed for those that haven’t yet subscribed, and you know if you want to see more content like this, then make sure you do because, like I said, I am uploading almost five times a week now and trying To provide you guys with as much value as possible, but without running on too much.

What I’m going to do today is review one of my older articles not like anything like that: a value based article and basically give my comments on it and see if it’s still relevant in 2020. So without further ado, let’s hop into the computer and well basically check out. One of the articles know I’ll always know time. So here we are on my youtube blog. Let me see so what we will do is we will go to articles and we’ll sort by shall we sort by oldest or most popular? Let me see what is by oldest, exactly like almost like to fit like two years ago, like one of the fitness /, confident creative articles, what I’ll do because these are quite short, let’s see if I can review a long one, what I’ll do it I’ll do? Most popular and then see if we find an old article, Dana life they in life, by the way, guys for those that don’t know what this is.

It’s basically a plugin to make sure that you are as productive as can be, and so you switch on this. Basically, all of the articles will remove and then you can only use YouTube as like a CH function. So it’s really really really good for those of you that have trouble trusting or just get distracted easily by YouTube. So Dana life day-in-the-life high income skill. I can’t even know what this was about a year ago: how to get social media marketing clients in 2019, so fear that might be me, but that might be a good article because you know, obviously everything is about social media marketing on this blog, but because this Is a year ago we can check out and see if it’s still relevant as a true, and we can also check out the search ranking to see this anything cold on this article ranks quite well.

I shouldn’t see here it ranks fish, but I hope to get social media marketing, clients 2019, which is pretty cool, and yes, obviously always like your own articles, because if you don’t then no one else will ok. So let me just fullscreen this and then we’re there. We go, there’s the sound second else: the old intro. I miss that intro. Don’t reason why I switch this intro was because of copyrights, YouTube blog, any type of tips.

You want me to provide or any questions in money online that you’d like to see answered in my YouTube articles, and I got bombarded with questions on how to get clients to social media marketing and they know in specifically nowadays so 2019. You know: are there any new methods of outreach? Are there any new ways to get? It was quick so when they all blow this article January 7 longer than a year ago to do the cold calling and I’m not saying that cold, calling enterprise method of outreach or anything like that, there was a very old-school proven light of truth.

Getting your clients or reaching out to clients, but nowadays there are easier ways, especially we just thought now I don’t feel confident to do the cold call. There are easier ways to do an outreach and myself. I have never thought a cold port in my life, I’m probably not other day.I there. So you know this. It’s a good job. Fun fact in the Netherlands call corners even illegal. You can’t even do cold calls in the Netherlands, and I think they can’t actually complain.

If you do, you might get fined a lot of people. The try doing outreach with Facebook or, if you don’t do it in the right way. So today is how I should do it and do it an effective way. So the way we used to do it is by finding businesses online. No, they go to the Facebook page and then send them a message, a message you know through them. Through the facebook messenger feature on the business page, I mean never used to get a reply, so we used to be able to see that someone read it, but no one actually replied so what we actually do now.

Ok, first of all, because they’re just running on here trying to figure out what the methods about reaching I’m going to use for this start off with Facebook. You look I so honest. You come here, so we look Facebook page. Why did I not fullscreen that? That’s annoying, I mean sure how what type of ads are they bullying good? I remember that when we used to be able to see info on ads, Facebook no longer have that.

Obviously, you know any school to page transparency and this one I still have my own Facebook account as well. Unfortunately dies. That’s mal, bunsall can’t use that anymore. I remember when I discovered the Facebook fix help. I was absolutely wasn’t because it was such a quick way of basically finding out if people are running ads, so busy tracking data or knock a so. What I used to do was basically find their business on Facebook that is running ads if they, if they win to run as let’s be fair.

Even if the way I used to find the business see what to do and see if they got the Facebook pixel installed, and then I used to go on LinkedIn and find that business owner on LinkedIn and basically try and find out who that person is the Name and then add that guy on Facebook, I used to remember that we used to be a very effective way of doing it, and I think a lot of people do in our day. So, like people have to scroll with this method pause, not every business is registered on LinkedIn.

So it’s it’s good that wakes, but if it’s not you’re, basically wasted time doing a little bit of research where you could be sending. I was like an email blasts or anything like that page owner on Facebook. Before we do that number. The a.M. Club shout-out to everyone who was in the aim am close bitches. I hear basically before that the lifestyle design community that was the the Facebook group only when he accepts that friendship request.

We send a message to say you know: hey thank you for being on Facebook, and you know I checked out your business page between yeah shoot a few things I’d like to discuss with you. Is it okay? If I send you, I bet a screenshot portfolio and a case going to be anything like that. Okay, I think this might mind to me before I discovered, loom, I’m not one percent sure I was quite the end to the party in terms of a loom.

I think around this time I did discover, but what I do now, rather than sending a portfolio or a screenshot or anything like that, I just ask them you know: is it okay to send over a quick article with some ideas that I’ve got and then I Send a loom and some cure see when I still mentioned, I don’t know I sit down in one of my previous articles, like I think from yesterday, maybe and depend on what order I upload them in, but basically it’s what I do is I sell the meeting.

Rather than the service, so rather than promoting my service right away, I basically you know, ask them for a micro commitments, so the first one is obviously: is it okay to send over the article? The second one might be, you know, is it’ll. Do you want to hear more about this? Let’s hop on a call: okay, none of the things I’m still say. Yes, that is okay. If you pitch your service right away and you’re in for the call right away, they will just ignore you, because you haven’t built up that report just yet so again, a mistake that we made is islands in University.

I know that you shouldn’t pitch your service, but you should pitch a call. You know just ask him if it’s okay, if you can call them or is it okay to settable call, but what I’ve noticed if, with this method of outreach, that aiming for the call on the first point of contact doesn’t work either just ask them if it Is okay to provide volume if they say yeah, that’s good advice. I it’s weird actually reading.

Like my, I don’t read my own articles but because obviously I recorded myself, so I know what I’m going to say and after you’ve edited the article like for those of you that make their own articles you’ll know. You know, after you’ve edited the article that I there’s already be like five times, we’ve seen the same piece of content over and over again and as soon as you top loads, like I’m, basically sick of seeing that piece of content so to actually read it back.

But looking back like I said this is a year ago. This is this is still very relevant. It’s evergreen and, in my opinion, that’s that’s good advice to get started. You can have some okay call or if you like help with this, you know. Is it okay, ap is what meet you know anything like that? Okay. So that’s the first method of outreach, I’ve already sort of mentioned the second method, which is to make big, obviously, so what me do was to fire business online at me can help again.

We check, have you got the facebook pics are stored with that I don’t actually use LinkedIn like hardly ever anymore. I shouldn’t start using other than if it is, we add them on LinkedIn and send them a sort of the same message. Okay, so we asked them. You know strengthen your business. I’ve got a few ideas for you or quite a few things I’d like to boom by it. Is it by the message that you send on LinkedIn? If you do it, it can list use, be the same messages as you do on Facebook and email so yeah.

Basically, I have three-pronged attack: you’ll have email, Facebook and LinkedIn and there’s a small chance that they’ll ignore all three messages. You know if you’re going to reach out on every platform and obviously don’t do it too much, because you might seem a bit, you know desperate spot. You know if you basically have multiple touchpoints, there’s, obviously a smaller chance of them, ignoring you all together, okay, facebook Messenger when you contact with business owner, so I’m not the business.

The business owner and you’ve got anything weird again. We contact the business owner. Why the business owner? Because you don’t want to be dealing with cases of a case, so we use the content, marketing, managers or public relations or anything like that, and these people have not got the rights or the authority to you, know give you or take you on or for you To take them on as a client, basically, okay, they have nothing to do that.

They cannot say. Okay, you know you can take. What’s on the client, only the business owner or the decision maker actually do that so make sure you don’t feel cakey but make sure you can deal with the business owner. Okay, another method that is really effective on getting in contact with clients. If I send them Allu know that’s sick Lisi, I didn’t expect my so as you can see at January. Seventh, I already the scope of the loop method and yeah, like I said, loom, is such a powerful way of doing outreach and relax it a year ago I was really preaching the Lu method, so yeah, that’s definitely something that it’s way stood the test of time.

Obviously, cuz a year later, I’m still raving about Lu and, like I said you know, it’s just a really really effective way of getting your point across without seeming very salesy, because it’s just a small article, micro commitments. All you need to do is read the article. They can see that’s a personal piece of outreach and you know that you’re putting in the effort to reach out piously to them rather interesting.

I was a mass blast. It’s like we transmit with the file gets saved in the cloud and the link I think loom is it’s stays in the cloud forever. I think I’m more understand sure I think you can see your article and then a left bottom of the speed. They can also see your face, they can see huge sorghum and you can see you see your screen at the same time. So again you know you can show them. Okay, you know I’m on your Facebook page.

I’ve looked at the ads logo and I’ve got feedback on this this and this and this I would do it this this in this way, and is it okay? If I send you a case, will be on how this wake up. The last time I wake in a claim, or is it okay? If I send you our portfolio, that we filter with results that we’ve got previous clients? Isn’t? Okay, you know blah blah blah. Okay, so again, you’ll move your basic, send the same message, but in a article message, which makes it a bit more personal because they can see you are talking about their business rather than just no spend up.

Okay, you can also send a loon to face walking and send a loon through linking. We can also send a link through email, okay, so a lot of people ignore that’s what we do nowadays send them by email. Yes, analyze it article Lulu, you know by email, then you know, there’s a big chunk of them replying because they know it’s not fun. It’s not email blast wave since our last email. What we do now is we send out an email blast asking if they want to see the loom that we’ve recorded, which we haven’t actually recorded and then as soon as they reply saying, yes, send it over.

We record it so it’s like a sort of like fake or the strategy, but it works because you know you set up the blast. Let’s say you send the blast out: 200 businesses and 20 of them replied. Then you record the 20 looms and then in the loom of the ash, no budget, okay to send over this or so no, if you want to hop on a call, it cetera, but you know that way. It’s an easy way of you know it’s mass outreach, but it’s also personal as well.

For those that apply, they get a personal message back. You can get a notification if they’ve readed a loom, okay, so we’ve since I was, I think, was four looms yesterday and we’ve already got four looms. It’s like, as if that’s a lot like nowadays like I said we do mass outreach and like as soon as they reply like it would be like some days I was send out, like maybe twenty looms of 20 businesses reply, but I like the fact that I I basically was saying enough for looms as if it’s a lot, which is funny but yeah, like I said, there’s good advice and like the the message that you get when people view the loom is great as well because, like I said you can just immediately mail Against it, hey guys, so you just view my loom.

You know what you think of it, it’s just something that you might find interesting, yes or no anything for females. Payback, saying you know, patience, okay, so I was the for businesses. Three businesses already have readed our loop and now we’re just waiting for them to reply. It’s don’t apply the Muslim follow message. Saying hey. You know we saw like music and is it okay if we send over okay she’ll, do anything.

I just like a little quick. Follow with them and the last method that I highly recommend you guys use is freelance websites, like Oh quick card, like people Balcom, like freelance comm, know these people that post jobs on these fields, websites are actively secret your service. So you don’t need to convince enough. They need social media, more things you don’t need to community like they need Facebook ads, because they already know that and you’re already actively seeking Shore to do it.

You know for them on their behalf. So all you need to do is reply to that job post and convince them that you’re, the right person for the job – and you know you want you need to do here as well – is make sure that they realize that you are not a freelancer you’re, not Going to wait for peanuts, you’re, not a virtual assistant, you are a business owner. You own, an agency, you yeah, it’s still relevant.

All of this to be fair, we still use or break while we now we no longer apply for jobs on our way across Belgium. We’ve got virtual assistants that do that, but the method still stays the same and we still look on freelance websites like hope way, and I guess you know the Oh quick methods is – is no longer as powerful as effective as it once was, but still a very Very good way of getting a few little extra clients here and there, because it is low-hanging fruits.

These people are already actively looking for a social media markt. I, like I said one year ago. You know you don’t need to convince them that social media marketing is the way to go. They understand that because they look and just want to take over the social. All you need to do is convince them that you are the right person for the job. You are on their way on their level, and you know if they work with you, then they need to respect basically, okay, so you’re, not a virtual assistants, you’re not going to wait for them you’re going to work with them and get their results.

So if you know that – and you know how to ways that I you know to come across as a business owner and rather than a freelance of trying to wait for peanuts, no, you will get a very high conversion rate on okay, okay guys. So that is all I got for today. I hope you get on out of this. I hope this will make it easier for you to get clients if we also from anymore in 2090, in change of the script on water actually say, and you know what to say, insecure see what I’m going to promote.

Fear, oh yeah, because around this time I probably just released the course because that’ll cool to see like the old layouts. Obviously now it’s all updated and stuff and and there’s a lot more content there and a lot more tail of contents. World social media marketing, because at the time I remember the still, we still had affiliate marketing paste on branding of stuff, as as the main modules now was like basically part of a bonus section boy yeah.

It’s cool to see this and like this is everything that you get with the coaching nowadays as well. So for those of you that are interested in the coaching, you basically get me as a personal coach, where I basically take you on other clients and help. You start your own agency, but you also get basically the entire course to you know, look through as well, you know for the time start and you basically want to get.

You know continue on your own or on times where you know I might not. I might be busy or whatever you usually do – replied right away, but you know. Basically, this is an easy way of you go on flew all over the contents and then I’ll see you. You can ask me questions about that as well, so you basically got two things. You’ve got the entire course and you’ve got me as a coach. Yes, a look at all their affiliate content and dropship and stuff.

Why it’s even though, there’s so much content, so many different business models there there’s not a lot of content there. In my opinion, we’ve now got much more content and it’s much more tailored to a social media. Let me quickly tell there’s anything else. Was this sales, like said guys like this, is still very very relevant and it’s still like it’s good content, and even though this is a year ago today, if you were to read this in 2020, you know it’s still the exact same methods of outreach.

It’s still the loom article. It’s still the Facebook outreach the email outreach. So if you are just starting out in 2020, you know this article is still relevant to you and you can still use this to get started with social media marketing, but lack of already, you know, touch upon a few times in this article. If you are serious about getting started – and you want my help personally, you can also enroll in my coaching program and at the time of recording.

This is the 23rd of March. From April 1st, you can no longer get in the coaching program with a basically a payment plan or a subscription service. It is a one-time upfront fee and then you’re basica and year’s supply of coaching. You get all the course modules you get access to everything and obviously the lifestyle is a mastery group. But with that said, if you enroll now, you’ve still got the option of having a payment plan where you basically pay a small fee every single month for the entire year and get the exact same.

So if you want to get in on the payment plan, then now is the time to do that. If you’re reading this after April 1st, unfortunately you can only you know, pay upfront and black says you know, the value stays the same, and I can still very much help you get started with social media marketing and getting your face clients and scaling your business. So anyway, I’m going to wrap this article here, like I said guys, this article is still relevant in 2020, like this article, if you got some doubts, leave comment down below.

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How To Start Social Media Marketing (SMMA) As A Beginner In 2020 – STEP BY STEP

I often referred to myself as like the guinea pig, so I test things out see what wakes myself and then, basically I passed it on to you guys or to those that are in my coaching program. So, as you can see here on this virtual whiteboard fun fact that has actually got a real whiteboard, any more used to have one in the office, but don’t actually have one at home. So that’s why we’re using this virtual whiteboard for now, but as you can see, we’ve got four pillars if you will – and these are basically the four pillars of social media marketing.

So what I like to do, when I have a business model or a funnel or a flow or anything that I want to map out, I always try and break it down into its simplest form. I try and keep it as simple as possible. You know I see all these gurus trying to make this sound, extremely complex. It just to confuse you and to source to try and impress you with their knowledge and skills, but to be fair. Social media marketing is extremely simple.

It’s just a service based business model where you offer your services to clients in exchange for a monthly retainer. So, as you can see, these are the four pillars of social media marketing and the first pillar is obviously outreach, so you need to be reaching out to businesses to see if they actually need your help. Let me just quickly erase that and go for a black font where they change that here we go, so I think it’s black now, no, it’s still great okay, fair enough, the others.

They were great for nothing so for outreach, so the first pillar of social media marketing is reaching out outreach. You need to be reaching out to a bunch of businesses. You know again we’ll get into the niche pic and etc in in a later stage of this article, but the first pillar. The first thing you need to do before anything else is to reach out to businesses and see a lot of people getting stuck with this.

Where they build the website, they are unsure about what to do, because they don’t know how to get results for clients, etc and obviously guys I just just focus on the outreach first and all the rest will fall into place and i’ve done the exact same. You know i’ve made this exact mistake myself when I first started out in 2016, I got into what I like to call the website mentality. Where okay, you know, I decided.

Okay, I want to start social media marketing. So the first thing I did was I googled how to build a website, because I thought, okay, if I am an agency, I need this. This no fancy looking website, but I did not know how to build a website and I didn’t have the money at the time to you get someone else to build the website, because I actually spends all my money on online courses. So I spent the first month, you know basically trying to figure out how to build a website with WordPress, I readed all the articles on YouTube, etc.

Finally, built a website after like a month of trying to figure it all out, and then I saw this YouTube article of a guy that had a lead magnet. I had no idea what a lead magnet was at the time, so again went back into discovery. Mode starts looking into lead magnets, then I, I listened, wrote out an entire book on like the 10 steps that businesses go wrong or make same mistakes that businesses make with social media marketing.

So once I he book, then I tried to figure out how to actually sell it as a lead magnet and before I knew I was like three four months down the line and not a single business was reached out soup. Not a signal single message was since to potential clients, so if you are starting out, the first thing you need to do is outreach. Okay, again, like I said we will get into how to do that, how to pick an easy touch in a late stage of the article, but you want to start with the four pillars here.

So the first pillar is outreach. The second pillar is sales okay. So you reach out to a business and in the second pillar, is you need to sell that business on your service, the great or the easy way to do? This is, unless you ask them, okay: where are you now? Where do you want to be, and if you think that the service that you are offering can take them from A to B, then you offer your service. Then we’ve got project management, which is, let’s see what it says.

You know you are managing the project, so each individual clients is or can be seen as an individual project, and you need to manage that. So you need to make sure that the clients is happy that he is getting reports every now and again or updates. Every now and again that, basically all of the demands calls on quotes of the clients, rbms KPIs are being hit, and so on and so forth and in the last pillar is project development, and that is actually you getting the results for the clients so actually Brewin.

The Facebook Ads, if that is what you’re offering actually building the website, is that if that’s what you’re offering actually posted on the social again, if that is what you are offering okay, so this is SR MA in its simplest form: outreach sales project, management’s project developments; Okay, now I have said that this will be you you know before while explaining this, but that does not necessarily mean that you need to be doing every single one of these pillars.

So, for example, with outreach you can have appointment status. Let me just see if I can actually change this column out. No still gray still can’t figure out how to change it. I’ve got something to do with something here. I better go. That’s black so I’ll quickly erase this on the eraser there we go okay, so I said you can get appointments setters to set appointments for you. You can find data miners that will find email addresses for you.

You can even run Facebook Ads to generate meetings, etc. You know there are so many ways of doing outreach that does not necessary need to be you manually reaching out these businesses. Okay same goes for sales. You can get a hi to her closer to do. You know the way for you to close the client for you and you can even just get a sales team that does it for you, and this can all be on commission basis.

So, for example, the appointment set that you can say: okay, you will get 10 % of the first month for setting the appointments. If the client actually closes, then the hi ticker closer again, you can say: okay, you get 20 %, Ricky Roe or 40 % off the first month. For example, I’m just just make it up like basically numbers out loud here, but the way my business now is set or path just got a full time employee.

That basically manages most of the front end for me, and I’m extremely grateful for that. But when you’re starting out this is something that you can look into then project management’s, which is basically managing all the clients. You know, speaking to the client, communication, etc. You can just hire a VA to do this, and this does not have to be expensive. You know you’ve got VA s for anywhere from one to three dollars an hour depending on where they are based.

You know how fluent they are and English Chamonix how much experience they’ve got and so on and so forth. So we can get a VA to do. The communication with the clients and in terms of project development – again, it’s also does depend on what sales you are offering. I am offering Facebook ads and basically a full generation etc. Bought me, you know my main core offer is Facebook Ads and I currently do this myself.

So I’m actually the one that’s running the ads in the pub on the back end, but you can also just get a media buyer to do this on your behalf and immediate, buy a good media. Buyer will be a little bit more expensive. Most media bias that I have dealt with nowadays are anywhere between 500 to 800 a month. If your media buyer is more expensive than this, they will need to be able to back that up with good results, but anyway, team 581.

German is you know the normal price for a decent media buyer now quick disclaimer with the media buyer? If, because, obviously there are a lot of people now, they start your claim to be a media buying X, base Facebook, ads experience, etc. When you are speaking to a potential media, buyer always ask to see the business manager always ask to see their portfolio and always give them analysts access to your clients and ask them to give a detailed report on what they would do.

If they. Actually, you know basic got that client off you. So if you know, if you outsource that client to the media buyer, what they will do in that situation, if you think okay, this guy is the real deal, and basically this pillar does not cost you more than 50 %, so that if this can be outsourced For less than 50 percent of the retainer then do it. If not, then I would not go for it because you know you want a healthy profit margin at the end of everything.

You know basically cause it’s your agency and you are actually build, not this agency. Okay, so that is it in terms of the four pillars: Minster weights, as I scroll down further or always think move this up there, we go tapes that have moved off, and then so these are. This is the this is literally social media marketing in its purest form the four pillars of social media marketing. So when you are starting out what I would recommend doing, because again with the mistake that I made was that I created the website, I tried to figure out how to set up a lead, magnet, and I rewrote as an e-book and stuff like that.

What I would do in your situation when starting out or if I had to start from scratch again now? What I would do is. I would create a Facebook profile. Okay, so it not a business profile, not a facebook business page not like that. Just a personal profile and on a personal profile, you’ll have a cover photo that looks professional. I would remove all tanks, show you in focus of parties and friends, etc.

So remove all the tags. Why? Because you want this to look as professional as possible, but you can also do LinkedIn if you’d rather do that. So LinkedIn is the next one board Facebook business profile for me, a facebook profile. Sorry, not a business page like that. What we’re going to do is build out a profile funnel so Facebook profile with a professional-looking image a cover photo. That explains what you do, so you can have a cover photo with text.

That says, I help Realtors get more leads for more buyers and sellers and Sesa for their state agents, or something like that. Okay and then another thing you can actually have is a featured image. Okay, so a featured image is basically what you have. On the left hand, side just on your bio and it’s just a quick image that you can upload and basically explains again what you can do for your clients, okay, so this is what you’ve got on your Facebook profile.

So the number one thing that you can do is the Facebook profile or LinkedIn profile. Okay. The second thing I want you to do is to pick a service yeah. In fact, you can actually pick two services. Okay max so pick two Max services. Why? Because we want to source a niche down what we actually offer them, we don’t want to be a jack-of-all-trades. We don’t want to offer SEO Pinterest Instagram blog posts, VA services, social media management, funnel building, etc.

Okay pick two services: why? Because it will be much much easier for you in the long run, to manage this as a business. So, yes, you might have the time now to basically take on all of these different types of services, but just think imagine if you’ve got like eight nine clients. All quests and all these different types of services you’re going to be all over the place, so just pick two services max.

So for me, if I had to start again, it would be Facebook Ads and a follow building. So I just put let’s see for an old big okay, so funnel building and Facebook ads. Those will be the two services that I would offer you can do social media management website design. It completely depends on what you want to offer on what kind of agency you want to be, but that is basically what I would choose: okay, so Facebook Ads and funnel build.

So now, we’ve got our profile set off. We’ve gotten our two services or one service. You can also just pick one service that is completely fine, so we now have our social presence. We’ve got our service now, it’s time to actually start with the first pillar, which is outreach, so we need to start reaching out to potential businesses. What I would do is, I would look into cold email outreach. Why? Because it’s just effective okay, you can reach out to the owner of any type of business.

You know, there’s the so many difference apps for little plugins. I use Hunter dot IO to basically see like, for example, this website is called AWWA, P, P calm and I should see here. We’ve got hello, I AWA P comm info at and then this is the CMO which is door Rita or door ot. I’r not sure. I pronounced that so, as you can see here, these are emails that I can use to reach out to this software and say: listen either on Facebook ads for you guys, hey so hunter dot, IO, which what you can use are with our agency.

Now the entire outreach path is automated. Slash, outsource. We’ve got this hybrid automation going on for those without in the coaching program. You guys won’t know what I mean, but for those who are just starting out start off with cold email or log into Facebook groups white, because regardless of the niche or industry, there are always Facebook groups of that initial industry. So, for example, if you’re going to reach out to spas, there are groups, Facebook groups of spa owners that are basically sharing ideas.

Okay, if you are reaching out to real realtors again, there’s Real Estate’s Facebook groups out there of Realtors. You know basis sharing ideas and you know helping each other out. So you know it’s it’s it’s true to say you know you are the average of the five people you spend most time with, so everyone that his entrepreneurial, that has their own business will want to. Basically surround themselves with other like-minded people, so people that are in the same industry and business and the same I am always trying to get in contact with successful agency owners.

You know just to pick their brains to share my knowledge and experience, but also get knowledge and experience back from them, so find Facebook groups and find the groups that they are most likely to be in okay, so you’ve got email and you’ve got Facebook groups. Okay and then the third one, which is sort of low-hanging fruits, if you will, is freelancer websites. Why? Because people that pull up job post on freelancer websites are actively looking for people like you to take on these services, so you no longer need to convince these businesses that they need facebook ads.

They need social media management, they need a new website because they already know that, and that is why they put up a job post on these freelancer websites. You know asking for someone to help them. Okay, so the one I like to use is called up.Wake and yes, there are a lot of people that have like quake courses and stuff, like that. I actually just have a free beginner course that basically explains the entire awkward business model, and if you want access to that, all you need to do well, there’s two ways of getting it.

Basically, you can subscribe to my youtube blog and click on the little bell. Icon and I actually run Facebook YouTube ads, YouTube, pre-roll ads literally a euro or two euros a day. It’s not special! I run ads to my subscriber list, so your basic and advertisements explaining how you get access to my course. You might have already seen that the advertisements or you can request access to my free lifestyle design, Facebook group.

It will be linked below it’s the same course, because I’ve gotten that question a lot. It’s the same course. The one in the Facebook group is the same course as the course that you get. If you read the advertisements but like I said it explains the entire awkward business model, how to get onto the platform, how to apply for jobs and how it’s actually get clients through up where okay. So we now understands the four pillars.

We now understand how to build a social presence, so a facebook profile, for example oil linkedin profile. We have now picked a service or two services, and we now have three methods of reaching out to potential business owners or with a freelancer website, no.2 on our potential business to potential clients and then with the freelancer websites. We’ve actually found a client that is actively seeking your help.

Okay, now before we actually wrap up this article, I want to share with you guys a basically a concept that I see a lot of all that I say guru’s frown upon because they say it’s unnecessarily. It’s not needed, but when you are starting out you list, you have nothing. Okay, and one of the main issues that I see a lot of people have when starting out is that they are hit with a question: okay, send over your portfolio.

Why? Because I’m the same, you know I’ve just told you to do. The same thing is to ask for portfolio material when you are in contact with a freelancer or something that’s going to take over the Facebook Ads. So you know you will get hit with this question. As well, you people will ask you: okay, show your portfolio what previous experience have you got so when starting out, if you have the time, I would highly recommend to offer a free trial.

Okay, now I don’t mean to do freeway from this point onwards and hope that someday someone will say, listen, I will pay you for it. What I want you to do is, for example, in those Facebook groups, you can do on email as well. If you want or freelancer or fuel instructions, if you want as well but go to these Facebook groups and explain that you are a digital marketer, that you have the knowledge and you have the work ethic.

But basically you don’t have the experience. Okay. So what you lack in experience, you basically compromise with knowledge. Okay, so you know exactly what to do. You just haven’t, got the previous experience to back it up, okay and then offer for people, so a max of four people, the opportunity to work with you in exchange. So it also mentioned that the time is less than let’s say four weeks you can say YouTube.

It can be up to you. You know two weeks one month, anything like that. So, for a limited time, you are opening doors for for business owners within the niche to work with you for free, in exchange for a testimonial article ants that you can use the busy day business manager as portfolio material okay. So you will be doing one month’s work for free and you’ll get a article testimonial and you are allowed to use their business manager to show other potential clients.

Now, there’s two reasons why I want you to do this number one, because it’s the easiest way to get a client. Why? Because it’s free okay, so there’s no risk on their path. You can let you do this and get a client’s by the end of this evening, but the main thing that I want you to learn here as well is to have to actually go through the process of onboarding the clients of experience from what it’s like to.

Actually set off the four pillars you know to actually have all of this open room and so have the agency opening its experience, what it’s like to run the ads, etc. Okay, so, yes, you will need to do this yourself. You can’t outsource it because you will be out of pocket, but this will give you the experience that no not of these courses and gurus can basically give you, because you are now tuned in yourself and the the confidence that you’re build up from.

This is priceless. Okay, because every single time you speak to a business owner from that point onwards, and they hit you with a question. You can just say: well, listen the previous clients had this and this I come back to this or I tackle this by doing this and that and then, if they say okay, well, let’s see your portfolio, you can just send them the case. Let me say: listen! This worked on for client say you are client bait.

I can do the same for you. You know sign your name with a dotted line, okay, so that is why I recommend a free trial when starting out – and yes, you know the on, if you let’s say yeah, but people that opt-in for a free trial, they will never become a paying clients, but That is not what we’re trying to achieve here. We are list. We go into part ways in a month’s time and, yes, you know domains also be some of you guys that are doing such a good job for this client that the client list she says, listen, let’s continue with this.

I want to pay you for this, but we’re not going to go into this thinking that that is going to be the outcome. Okay, the outcome is experience, portfolio material, a testimonial. So in four weeks time you will 100 % part ways and while it’s in maintenance in part way because, like I said the always going to be businesses, that will want to continue with you. But this is why I recommend the free trial, ok, experienced portfolio material and the testimony or article that you can show to the next clients.

It’s like a almost a bootcamp, if you will for social media marketing, because from that moment onwards after you finish, therefore, the four that fails clients you can go out and actually get a real clients and then, if they ask for a portfolio, you’ve got it and That way, you know you will get everything overall and sooner rather than later. Ok, so I hope you enjoyed this article hope you got some out of it.

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The Best SMMA Service To Offer in 2020

My name is Sidney Bechet me and for an entire year I’m doing one YouTube article per day, so make sure that you are subscribed to this blog and also activate the notification. So you don’t miss any articles. Alright, so for an entire year, if you have any questions, you can ask ask me on Instagram. So basically, every Friday, I’m doing a pull on my story, and you can ask you know whatever questions that you have.

It can be on sales. It can be on negotiations, it can be on Facebook cards, just everything alright on LinkedIn, just ask me the question and I will make a article for you answering it. So the question of today is community management or paid media. So first, let’s define both of them. So community management, the role of a community manager, is, you know, as the name state, to manage the community.

So you, your job, is you know to take care of the image of a brand, so you need to interact with the community. You need you know to give information. You are just managing a community so giving as much information as possible interacting with the community. What else can you do? You know you can answer comments. You make sure that you know bad comments or handled also, so you answer them just to show that you know that the brand has have a voice, that the brand is caring about its community, so very important right.

On the other side, we have paid media so paid media. You know you use social media, so the platform’s you use Facebook, for example. You can use. Also, Google, you have Google Ads, you can use snapchat, you have snapchat ads, so you use those platforms and you put an ads on them. So you use, you know you use the placement and you will create and manage the ads of a client. Alright, the difference between those two services is that paid media is a monetary or o.

I service. So, basically, when, if a client is investing with you, he will make a return of investment. So the thing with paid media is that you will make a return of our investment for your client. Compared to you know, content management, community management – you won’t make any you know visible return of investment. Of course it’s important, but you are not making return of investment and that’s my biggest point.

That’s why I love so much paid media, because my clients can see directly the value. On the contrary, if you take community management content management which are non-monetary services, your clients can’t see can see the returns for the simple reason that community management and content management is the social return of investment. It’s not a monetary return of our investment, and you need to explain that to your claim that you know, community management is important that it’s a long term work all right that you will see the result after you know, I mean that you will see a visible Result after six months one year and that it’s just important for the image of the brand right now, if you run a digital agency, I recommend you to always have to always propose you know a monetary return of investment and not a social return of investment.

You can do both right, you can have an agency that is doing paid media and also that is you know, can offer a content, management or community management, but I would say to always focus on a paid service right, so on paid media, because the thing is That we’ve paid media you’re really very, very extremely important to a company all right, because you’re bringing money, you’re, bringing new flow of leads new clients, new traffic and the company, love that and they won’t get rid of you.

Whether. But the thing is that if you are only doing content management or community management for a company, if the company is going, you know nuts, if it’s not going so well or if, let’s say there is a recession or the economy is not so good, you will Be in trouble, so I would say to always: you know, diversify between paid media and also you know those social return of investment. If you want to do them thing is you can do only paid media? Alright, you can focus on this and that works very well or you can also focus on community management and content management.

But if you are doing this, I would recommend you to have or to explain it really well to your clients that they will see the result. After six months, alright, but that’s why again I love so much paid media because you are bringing a real difference to the lives of people and to you know to a company you’re, changing a company by increasing its profit, its revenue. So yeah guys. That’s that’s my view on those two types of services.

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Apps I Use and Recommend to get to $10K Month | SMMA

Hey guys, I hope that you are doing well. My name is Salim Shamy and for one year I’m doing one YouTube article per day related to SM MA sales negotiations. Just everything related to business – and you know articles that will help you start and grow your social media marketing agency, six figures in 2020. So I hope that you are doing well that you are having an amazing week guys and today I wanted to talk to you about the apps that they use and that I recommend to get your agency to six figures.

So there is no particular order, but it’s just apps that I have in mind and that I love and that I’m using every single day so before to get started guys. Make sure that you get this article a big thumbs up, make sure that you’re subscribed to this blog and whenever you have a question you can follow me on Instagram. Ask me your question there and I will make a article for you answering your questions.

So the first app that I recommend is fully led funeral ilex for the lytics, and I love this app honestly like before, to get a client like before to run a project for clan before to run ads. I’r always with my team doing a funnel if it’s econ, if it’s legion, if it’s you know, cultures or an online course, you need a funnel like what will be. What will be the road from you know, consideration to purchase.

You need to know that and federal ethics is just amazing and it allows me and my team to be on the same page to know which campaigns we will build, which are the metrics just everything alright. So I love these apps and I really recommend you to get it. Basically, you have a felon in mind alright and you just plot it on this app. So now all your team can go on, it can see the matrix and it makes everybody go on the same page and you can even sell your clients this.

You know it can be a marketing blueprint. It can be a strategy that you sell to your grind and honestly, if you’re good at selling, you can price it for 1k 2k, depending on which brand you are talking to. So I really like this app and I really recommend you that when you get a client like before to run any any ads like have the funnel plot and know what you are doing – and you know have a naming convention just have everything on paper so that Before to do something, you have a GPS, you know where you are going, why you are doing something, and I really recommend you this app too to get started like you know, you get started running ads for your clients, then I recommend you Squarespace.

So Squarespace is an amazing app, especially for you know, lead generation. So when you’re building a funnel, you can get also click phone. Also, I’ve tried both and I recommend my clients Squarespace, because it’s like half the price of tick funnel per month and you can basically do the same thing, but with click funnels, it’s really it’s a little bit. You know everybody is on click funnel. So in Squarespace, the design or, in my opinion, better better than click funnels like I prefer the design on you know on Squarespace than on click funnels, and I recommend you this app because it makes you stand out directly got the website the funnel that you can Build for Legion clients is so much better than with click funnels.

In my opinion, I know that quick funnel is number one, but this is a great alternative and also it will. You know for your client its how the price all right. I know that 100 or 50 dollars per month. It’s the same thing right approximatively, but I just love the design. I think that it converts better and there is not in. I think that there is not so much integrations as click funnels or so many you know, features, but you can do like you know from what I’ve tried you can do absolutely the same as click on also.

I recommend you Squarespace, then another app is simple invoice and or paid funnels. Alright, I’ve tried both personal is a little bit. You know it’s costing more than simple invoices, but with simple invoices you can do absolutely the same as a funnel, so I will recommend you guys to if you’re starting to get simple invoices so that you can do you know subscription I’ve done a article on it On my blog, and so that you can get paid directly and basically simple invoice will allow you to autofill your clients and also to to get paid automatically so Auto billing and Auto invoicing, and trust me for $ 10 per month like this will be really saving Your life, because you won’t have to be invoicing your client every single month.

Everything will be just automatic and trust me. It saves a lot of struggle. All of this integrated to stripe all right for payment, just go with stripe. This is secure. This is don’t go with PayPal all right. I had a very bad experience with PayPal where they just block your money. Basically – and this is a struggle, especially if you are taking, if you are in boarding high ticket clients, I would just tell you to go out like don’t use PayPal.

You stripe it’s perfect to put seven days for you to get your money, but you will get it for sure all right, four contracts. I recommend you DocuSign. This is a classic all right! Docusign! You can go on it. You know, put your template, have your send! It talk to your client, your client. Have everything fooled. He just click one button he put his name, so you know last name, he click one button and boom it’s signed.

Then you sign and you’ll have your contracts. You know sign and ready, and then you just have to send in invoice with simple invoice and boom. You can store the project so for the contract again DocuSign. This is great. This is a great tool. Alright DocuSign is a great tool, so I highly recommend you for your contract to get the cosine and always have a contract. Alright, this is not legal advice.

By the way. Just you know, if you need legal advice, you can go on Legal Zoom. I think it’s called like this. There are just so much website at the moment if you need an accountant, if you need you know a lawyer, you can just get one on a website and it’s not costing a lot right if you’ve gone Legal Zoom. This is not costing a lot, then another tool that I recommend is up spots. So all of you guys reading this, if you are an SME owner, you need a CRM.

Alright, you need a CRM to know when you will follow up which deals is on which stage you know. If you, if one is on a contract, if one it’s just a lead, if one you have an appointment, you need to have a CRM and the serum will help you so much trust me. So web spot is free. I just recommend your app spot. Alright! No! I know there is a there are a lot. I’ve tried a lot, a lot that are cool but app spot is just this all-in-one solution that I love, so I just recommend app spot all right and finally, this seven lead finder to find your leads.

This is a little bit more expensive than simple invoice. You know it’s costing like thirty euros per month. I believe, but really great tool, alright and – and you will be able with this 7 is finder – will be able to find all the leads that you need for any industry. So trust me, it’s it’s saving life like you will find more leads, you’ll, find more opportunities, and when you are combining this with app spot, when you are putting the opportunities that you find on this 7 did finder to your CRM to your app spot.

Life is becoming easier, alright guys, so I hope that you enjoyed this article. Those are the tools that I believe you need to grow an agency to six figures. You don’t need more tool than this. I really really believe that you don’t need more than this to to scale to six figures. This is the absolute minimum, in my opinion, so guys this will cost you like $ 100 per month. This is the cost of your agency, and you can make six figures for one hundred dollars cause.

This is why SME is the best business model to start in my opinion. So I hope that you enjoyed this article guys, if, yes make sure that you give it a thumbs up, make sure that you’re subscribed to this blog and also, if you want to start and grow your own social media marketing agency. I’ve done a one-hour free training covering everything all right: sales, niche Facebook, Ads team building. Just you know everything that you need to start and grow an agency to six figures and for the tools that I’ve put there.

In this article, I will put affiliate link in the description so that, if you want discount, you just click on the link and you get the tool alright. So I hope that you enjoy this article guys, and I will see you tomorrow, you

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How To Start Social Media Marketing (SMMA) As A Beginner In 2020 – STEP BY STEP

I often referred to myself as like the guinea pig, so I test things out see what wakes myself and then, basically I passed it on to you guys or to those that are in my coaching program. So, as you can see here on this virtual whiteboard fun fact that has actually got a real whiteboard, any more used to have one in the office, but don’t actually have one at home. So that’s why we’re using this virtual whiteboard for now, but as you can see, we’ve got four pillars if you will – and these are basically the four pillars of social media marketing.

So what I like to do, when I have a business model or a funnel or a flow or anything that I want to map out, I always try and break it down into its simplest form. I try and keep it as simple as possible. You know I see all these gurus trying to make this sound, extremely complex. It just to confuse you and to source to try and impress you with their knowledge and skills, but to be fair. Social media marketing is extremely simple.

It’s just a service based business model where you offer your services to clients in exchange for a monthly retainer. So, as you can see, these are the four pillars of social media marketing and the first pillar is obviously outreach, so you need to be reaching out to businesses to see if they actually need your help. Let me just quickly erase that and go for a black font where they change that here we go, so I think it’s black now, no, it’s still great okay, fair enough, the others.

They were great for nothing so for outreach, so the first pillar of social media marketing is reaching out outreach. You need to be reaching out to a bunch of businesses. You know again we’ll get into the niche pic and etc in in a later stage of this article, but the first pillar. The first thing you need to do before anything else is to reach out to businesses and see a lot of people getting stuck with this.

Where they build the website, they are unsure about what to do, because they don’t know how to get results for clients, etc and obviously guys I just just focus on the outreach first and all the rest will fall into place and i’ve done the exact same. You know i’ve made this exact mistake myself when I first started out in 2016, I got into what I like to call the website mentality. Where okay, you know, I decided.

Okay, I want to start social media marketing. So the first thing I did was I googled how to build a website, because I thought, okay, if I am an agency, I need this. This no fancy looking website, but I did not know how to build a website and I didn’t have the money at the time to you get someone else to build the website, because I actually spends all my money on online courses. So I spent the first month, you know basically trying to figure out how to build a website with WordPress, I readed all the articles on YouTube, etc.

Finally, built a website after like a month of trying to figure it all out, and then I saw this YouTube article of a guy that had a lead magnet. I had no idea what a lead magnet was at the time, so again went back into discovery. Mode starts looking into lead magnets, then I, I listened, wrote out an entire book on like the 10 steps that businesses go wrong or make same mistakes that businesses make with social media marketing.

So once I he book, then I tried to figure out how to actually sell it as a lead magnet and before I knew I was like three four months down the line and not a single business was reached out soup. Not a signal single message was since to potential clients, so if you are starting out, the first thing you need to do is outreach. Okay, again, like I said we will get into how to do that, how to pick an easy touch in a late stage of the article, but you want to start with the four pillars here.

So the first pillar is outreach. The second pillar is sales okay. So you reach out to a business and in the second pillar, is you need to sell that business on your service, the great or the easy way to do? This is, unless you ask them, okay: where are you now? Where do you want to be, and if you think that the service that you are offering can take them from A to B, then you offer your service. Then we’ve got project management, which is, let’s see what it says.

You know you are managing the project, so each individual clients is or can be seen as an individual project, and you need to manage that. So you need to make sure that the clients is happy that he is getting reports every now and again or updates. Every now and again that, basically all of the demands calls on quotes of the clients, rbms KPIs are being hit, and so on and so forth and in the last pillar is project development, and that is actually you getting the results for the clients so actually Brewin.

The Facebook Ads, if that is what you’re offering actually building the website, is that if that’s what you’re offering actually posted on the social again, if that is what you are offering okay, so this is SR MA in its simplest form: outreach sales project, management’s project developments; Okay, now I have said that this will be you you know before while explaining this, but that does not necessarily mean that you need to be doing every single one of these pillars.

So, for example, with outreach you can have appointment status. Let me just see if I can actually change this column out. No still gray still can’t figure out how to change it. I’ve got something to do with something here. I better go. That’s black so I’ll quickly erase this on the eraser there we go okay, so I said you can get appointments setters to set appointments for you. You can find data miners that will find email addresses for you.

You can even run Facebook Ads to generate meetings, etc. You know there are so many ways of doing outreach that does not necessary need to be you manually reaching out these businesses. Okay same goes for sales. You can get a hi to her closer to do. You know the way for you to close the client for you and you can even just get a sales team that does it for you, and this can all be on commission basis.

So, for example, the appointment set that you can say: okay, you will get 10 % of the first month for setting the appointments. If the client actually closes, then the hi ticker closer again, you can say: okay, you get 20 %, Ricky Roe or 40 % off the first month. For example, I’m just just make it up like basically numbers out loud here, but the way my business now is set or path just got a full time employee.

That basically manages most of the front end for me, and I’m extremely grateful for that. But when you’re starting out this is something that you can look into then project management’s, which is basically managing all the clients. You know, speaking to the client, communication, etc. You can just hire a VA to do this, and this does not have to be expensive. You know you’ve got VA s for anywhere from one to three dollars an hour depending on where they are based.

You know how fluent they are and English Chamonix how much experience they’ve got and so on and so forth. So we can get a VA to do. The communication with the clients and in terms of project development – again, it’s also does depend on what sales you are offering. I am offering Facebook ads and basically a full generation etc. Bought me, you know my main core offer is Facebook Ads and I currently do this myself.

So I’m actually the one that’s running the ads in the pub on the back end, but you can also just get a media buyer to do this on your behalf and immediate, buy a good media. Buyer will be a little bit more expensive. Most media bias that I have dealt with nowadays are anywhere between 500 to 800 a month. If your media buyer is more expensive than this, they will need to be able to back that up with good results, but anyway, team 581.

German is you know the normal price for a decent media buyer now quick disclaimer with the media buyer? If, because, obviously there are a lot of people now, they start your claim to be a media buying X, base Facebook, ads experience, etc. When you are speaking to a potential media, buyer always ask to see the business manager always ask to see their portfolio and always give them analysts access to your clients and ask them to give a detailed report on what they would do.

If they. Actually, you know basic got that client off you. So if you know, if you outsource that client to the media buyer, what they will do in that situation, if you think okay, this guy is the real deal, and basically this pillar does not cost you more than 50 %, so that if this can be outsourced For less than 50 percent of the retainer then do it. If not, then I would not go for it because you know you want a healthy profit margin at the end of everything.

You know basically cause it’s your agency and you are actually build, not this agency. Okay, so that is it in terms of the four pillars: Minster weights, as I scroll down further or always think move this up there, we go tapes that have moved off, and then so these are. This is the this is literally social media marketing in its purest form the four pillars of social media marketing. So when you are starting out what I would recommend doing, because again with the mistake that I made was that I created the website, I tried to figure out how to set up a lead, magnet, and I rewrote as an e-book and stuff like that.

What I would do in your situation when starting out or if I had to start from scratch again now? What I would do is. I would create a Facebook profile. Okay, so it not a business profile, not a facebook business page not like that. Just a personal profile and on a personal profile, you’ll have a cover photo that looks professional. I would remove all tanks, show you in focus of parties and friends, etc.

So remove all the tags. Why? Because you want this to look as professional as possible, but you can also do LinkedIn if you’d rather do that. So LinkedIn is the next one board Facebook business profile for me, a facebook profile. Sorry, not a business page like that. What we’re going to do is build out a profile funnel so Facebook profile with a professional-looking image a cover photo. That explains what you do, so you can have a cover photo with text.

That says, I help Realtors get more leads for more buyers and sellers and Sesa for their state agents, or something like that. Okay and then another thing you can actually have is a featured image. Okay, so a featured image is basically what you have. On the left hand, side just on your bio and it’s just a quick image that you can upload and basically explains again what you can do for your clients, okay, so this is what you’ve got on your Facebook profile.

So the number one thing that you can do is the Facebook profile or LinkedIn profile. Okay. The second thing I want you to do is to pick a service yeah. In fact, you can actually pick two services. Okay max so pick two Max services. Why? Because we want to source a niche down what we actually offer them, we don’t want to be a jack-of-all-trades. We don’t want to offer SEO Pinterest Instagram blog posts, VA services, social media management, funnel building, etc.

Okay pick two services: why? Because it will be much much easier for you in the long run, to manage this as a business. So, yes, you might have the time now to basically take on all of these different types of services, but just think imagine if you’ve got like eight nine clients. All quests and all these different types of services you’re going to be all over the place, so just pick two services max.

So for me, if I had to start again, it would be Facebook Ads and a follow building. So I just put let’s see for an old big okay, so funnel building and Facebook ads. Those will be the two services that I would offer you can do social media management website design. It completely depends on what you want to offer on what kind of agency you want to be, but that is basically what I would choose: okay, so Facebook Ads and funnel build.

So now, we’ve got our profile set off. We’ve gotten our two services or one service. You can also just pick one service that is completely fine, so we now have our social presence. We’ve got our service now, it’s time to actually start with the first pillar, which is outreach, so we need to start reaching out to potential businesses. What I would do is, I would look into cold email outreach. Why? Because it’s just effective okay, you can reach out to the owner of any type of business.

You know, there’s the so many difference apps for little plugins. I use Hunter dot IO to basically see like, for example, this website is called AWWA, P, P calm and I should see here. We’ve got hello, I AWA P comm info at and then this is the CMO which is door Rita or door ot. I’r not sure. I pronounced that so, as you can see here, these are emails that I can use to reach out to this software and say: listen either on Facebook ads for you guys, hey so hunter dot, IO, which what you can use are with our agency.

Now the entire outreach path is automated. Slash, outsource. We’ve got this hybrid automation going on for those without in the coaching program. You guys won’t know what I mean, but for those who are just starting out start off with cold email or log into Facebook groups white, because regardless of the niche or industry, there are always Facebook groups of that initial industry. So, for example, if you’re going to reach out to spas, there are groups, Facebook groups of spa owners that are basically sharing ideas.

Okay, if you are reaching out to real realtors again, there’s Real Estate’s Facebook groups out there of Realtors. You know basis sharing ideas and you know helping each other out. So you know it’s it’s it’s true to say you know you are the average of the five people you spend most time with, so everyone that his entrepreneurial, that has their own business will want to. Basically surround themselves with other like-minded people, so people that are in the same industry and business and the same I am always trying to get in contact with successful agency owners.

You know just to pick their brains to share my knowledge and experience, but also get knowledge and experience back from them, so find Facebook groups and find the groups that they are most likely to be in okay, so you’ve got email and you’ve got Facebook groups. Okay and then the third one, which is sort of low-hanging fruits, if you will, is freelancer websites. Why? Because people that pull up job post on freelancer websites are actively looking for people like you to take on these services, so you no longer need to convince these businesses that they need facebook ads.

They need social media management, they need a new website because they already know that, and that is why they put up a job post on these freelancer websites. You know asking for someone to help them. Okay, so the one I like to use is called up.Wake and yes, there are a lot of people that have like quake courses and stuff, like that. I actually just have a free beginner course that basically explains the entire awkward business model, and if you want access to that, all you need to do well, there’s two ways of getting it.

Basically, you can subscribe to my youtube blog and click on the little bell. Icon and I actually run Facebook YouTube ads, YouTube, pre-roll ads literally a euro or two euros a day. It’s not special! I run ads to my subscriber list, so your basic and advertisements explaining how you get access to my course. You might have already seen that the advertisements or you can request access to my free lifestyle design, Facebook group.

It will be linked below it’s the same course, because I’ve gotten that question a lot. It’s the same course. The one in the Facebook group is the same course as the course that you get. If you read the advertisements but like I said it explains the entire awkward business model, how to get onto the platform, how to apply for jobs and how it’s actually get clients through up where okay. So we now understands the four pillars.

We now understand how to build a social presence, so a facebook profile, for example oil linkedin profile. We have now picked a service or two services, and we now have three methods of reaching out to potential business owners or with a freelancer website, no.2 on our potential business to potential clients and then with the freelancer websites. We’ve actually found a client that is actively seeking your help.

Okay, now before we actually wrap up this article, I want to share with you guys a basically a concept that I see a lot of all that I say guru’s frown upon because they say it’s unnecessarily. It’s not needed, but when you are starting out you list, you have nothing. Okay, and one of the main issues that I see a lot of people have when starting out is that they are hit with a question: okay, send over your portfolio.

Why? Because I’m the same, you know I’ve just told you to do. The same thing is to ask for portfolio material when you are in contact with a freelancer or something that’s going to take over the Facebook Ads. So you know you will get hit with this question. As well, you people will ask you: okay, show your portfolio what previous experience have you got so when starting out, if you have the time, I would highly recommend to offer a free trial.

Okay, now I don’t mean to do freeway from this point onwards and hope that someday someone will say, listen, I will pay you for it. What I want you to do is, for example, in those Facebook groups, you can do on email as well. If you want or freelancer or fuel instructions, if you want as well but go to these Facebook groups and explain that you are a digital marketer, that you have the knowledge and you have the work ethic.

But basically you don’t have the experience. Okay. So what you lack in experience, you basically compromise with knowledge. Okay, so you know exactly what to do. You just haven’t, got the previous experience to back it up, okay and then offer for people, so a max of four people, the opportunity to work with you in exchange. So it also mentioned that the time is less than let’s say four weeks you can say YouTube.

It can be up to you. You know two weeks one month, anything like that. So, for a limited time, you are opening doors for for business owners within the niche to work with you for free, in exchange for a testimonial article ants that you can use the busy day business manager as portfolio material okay. So you will be doing one month’s work for free and you’ll get a article testimonial and you are allowed to use their business manager to show other potential clients.

Now, there’s two reasons why I want you to do this number one, because it’s the easiest way to get a client. Why? Because it’s free okay, so there’s no risk on their path. You can let you do this and get a client’s by the end of this evening, but the main thing that I want you to learn here as well is to have to actually go through the process of onboarding the clients of experience from what it’s like to.

Actually set off the four pillars you know to actually have all of this open room and so have the agency opening its experience, what it’s like to run the ads, etc. Okay, so, yes, you will need to do this yourself. You can’t outsource it because you will be out of pocket, but this will give you the experience that no not of these courses and gurus can basically give you, because you are now tuned in yourself and the the confidence that you’re build up from.

This is priceless. Okay, because every single time you speak to a business owner from that point onwards, and they hit you with a question. You can just say: well, listen the previous clients had this and this I come back to this or I tackle this by doing this and that and then, if they say okay, well, let’s see your portfolio, you can just send them the case. Let me say: listen! This worked on for client say you are client bait.

I can do the same for you. You know sign your name with a dotted line, okay, so that is why I recommend a free trial when starting out – and yes, you know the on, if you let’s say yeah, but people that opt-in for a free trial, they will never become a paying clients, but That is not what we’re trying to achieve here. We are list. We go into part ways in a month’s time and, yes, you know domains also be some of you guys that are doing such a good job for this client that the client list she says, listen, let’s continue with this.

I want to pay you for this, but we’re not going to go into this thinking that that is going to be the outcome. Okay, the outcome is experience, portfolio material, a testimonial. So in four weeks time you will 100 % part ways and while it’s in maintenance in part way because, like I said the always going to be businesses, that will want to continue with you. But this is why I recommend the free trial, ok, experienced portfolio material and the testimony or article that you can show to the next clients.

It’s like a almost a bootcamp, if you will for social media marketing, because from that moment onwards after you finish, therefore, the four that fails clients you can go out and actually get a real clients and then, if they ask for a portfolio, you’ve got it and That way, you know you will get everything overall and sooner rather than later. Ok, so I hope you enjoyed this article hope you got some out of it.

Leave a comment down below for those of you that are starting out and have some additional questions about this or, if you want to actually you know if you want to actually have my help with all of this. I have my own coaching program where I list the safety one as a clients, and it help you build up the agency from the inside out. So I’ll show you how to get your first clients how to get results for that clients how to build out your agency automates it and scale it so that you two can live life on your own change.

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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.

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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

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