Yes, I know $2,000 isn’t a lot for some, but for me it’s a figure I’m pretty damned happy about. Especially as it looks like it can be scaled up.

Sometimes in life you just have to jump. Especially if the risk isn’t that big – why not try something to see how it goes.

As little as ten days ago, I had no idea about anything related to offline marketing. Yes, I had read a lot about it in theory, and spoken with (and even met) people that had made high five figures with it, but as for trying it myself – not really. I wanted to get started once or twice, but excuse came up – I didn’t feel like doing it so I put it off till tomorrow; the football was on so I held it off for the weekend – you get the idea. At the state before this week, I doubt I would have done much with offline marketing.

Then Hostican killed the blog. I’d like to thank them, actually as without them doing so there is probably no way in hell that I would have done the work, being a lazy ass – anyways, I had some spare time during that week and decided to give it a go. One of the most profitable decisions I’ve ever made, in fact.

The basic idea of (what I’m doing) offline marketing web services is contacting local services in your area and offering to build them a website. Nothing spectacular, nothing too difficult. As I mentioned before, most local businesses don’t have a website of their own but certainly would be interested in getting one, especially if you can do the hard sell and really tell them the benefits – you’re a webmaster and you know the joys of having your own website, so all you have to do is explain those joys to someone that has no clue about getting some virtual estate on the web. :razz:

Seriously though, by providing website services to others – others in a business world where similar local services charge around $5,000 – $10,000 plus (and it looks like a load of shite in the end) you can make some money. How do I know? I’ve done it.

I contacted just two people – people that I know somewhat well, but people I’d never done business with before… and within half an hour of speaking with each of them, I walked out with two orders for a website that will let me bank $1,000 each. Not bad, at all. And you can do the same.

I was surprised that few others wanted to take part in the local niche project – the ones that are seem to be doing fairly well – if you haven’t, sign up to Blog Premiere and join the discussion. The great thing about this is that everyone can make money – a couple thousand is great for starting up an online business, and if you can make it easily why not.

This will actually take me less than an hour to create, as a) I already bought Brian Gardner’s Revolution Theme series and b) the rest of the work will be outsourced. I’m looking at getting involved in creating a few online niche websites too – today I started up a football website, which I’ll slowly be promoting over the next few days and the goal will be a slow increase – get it to a dollar a day, then two dollars, then five, then ten… it will add up. I’m also running the online niche thing as a project on Blog Premiere under the private section, so if you want to take part, sign up :)

The basic message of this post is get started, stop wasting your time. Hardly a unique, or uncommon pointer made, but few actually do it. As soon as you finish reading this post, I want you to brainstorm domain ideas – either for a local website offering web services, or for an online niche website that you WILL be starting – the faster you start, the quicker you will make money. How much? That’s unknown, but if you work at it smart you will reap the rewards.

Blog posts may be shorter over the next few days as I’ll be working on these projects – I’m also looking at getting some guest posters in, so if you feel up to the task send me an email. :)

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