Just Billed My First Client...

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n_huffhines

n_huffhines

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...that wasn't a friend or relative. I do SEO and it will be great to have this client as a success story.

Anybody else have a side hustle? What do you do?
 
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Congrats. Pardon my ignorance but what is SEO?

I do a little statistical consulting on the side - pharma clinical trials.
 
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I do bicycle repair on the side. I also have a part-time weekend position as a salesman/mechanic at a local bike shop. I worked for almost 4 years as a professional bike mechanic, but now I'm back in school full-time and I work full-time at a law office. The original bike shop I worked at closes in March, after the owner made a series of terrible decisions over the course of the last two years and never banked money for the winter slowdowns.

The sidework helps me pay for my own bike parts and helps keep my friends on their bikes at reasonable cost. It's not something I advertise, though, because my current employer would not exactly be happy that I do sidework at home.
 
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BEATBAMA12 said:
I need something to make some side cash.
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There are so many things you can do. It's crazy. I am always amazed at what people come up with. My bro-in-law makes simple kitchen tables with really nice finishes, and ends up with about $100/hr of work.

I know people that get junky furniture at Goodwill and paint it then sell it at flea markets for 10x what they paid for it.

Make a salsa.

Whatever. The problem with my side job is it's the same as my regular job. I need to change things up. Been thinking about driving for uber. It's not bad money and it'd be a fun social experiment.
 
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I do SEO/copywriting/blogging for a specific industry. It's a fantastic gig. I'm not sure how much longer Google will reward sites for what I do, but I do know that once this "gig" is up, I will find something else. I'm never going back to an office if I can help it.
 
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I've linked in with some business folks who are expanding in the area. They've taken the best of social media and e-commerce and developed a unique and awesome business model. My partner and coach has a long track record of 25 years around the business. In fact, he made millions more than the guy who introduced him to the business. It has absolutely changed my life so far!
 
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Aesius said:
I do SEO/copywriting/blogging for a specific industry. It's a fantastic gig. I'm not sure how much longer Google will reward sites for what I do, but I do know that once this "gig" is up, I will find something else. I'm never going back to an office if I can help it.
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There will be value in content for a while. The way SEO has been trending has been towards on-page factors and away from off-page. Structure and content will always be important, IMO. If you don't already, get a technical understanding of SEO. That's where it's at.

Now as far as rules of thumb, like 500-1000 words per page, keyword usage, etc. that's becoming less and less important.

Writing for users is where it's at.
 
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School full time and repair phones/tablets/computers "on the side" even though I generally get over 40 hours a week doing it.

Gotta love capitalism, where to afford school you also need an above average job full time to barely have money to get an education and feed yourself. Who needs fun, studying, or sleep. It's for the weak and commies.
 
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At first I thought you said "killed my first client". Thought you may be a veterinarian or perhaps a caterer. Lol.

Being in medical sales I turn down product lines to sell a lot. But if something is cool and I see value in it, I will pick it up and sell it. So I guess I have a side gig that is in the same field as my regular gig.
 
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Daloth said:
School full time and repair phones/tablets/computers "on the side" even though I generally get over 40 hours a week doing it.

Gotta love capitalism, where to afford school you also need an above average job full time to barely have money to get an education and feed yourself. Who needs fun, studying, or sleep. It's for the weak and commies.
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The cost of college has risen exponentially because the federal government is on the student loan business.

The typical supply and demand curve does not apply because the typical change from prices is blunted by government interference
 
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InVOLuntary said:
How much does typical SEO services cost?
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Depends on what you need and who you get it from, but typically you will pay between $100-250/hr of work.

At my old company we would charge $400 for an optimized page, which includes keyword research, optimized title, meta description, and 500 words of content. That's full retail, tho...we'd end up selling it for like $300 a lot of the time.

I charge $100 for that because I cut out all the overhead.

$250/hr for auditing site for structural issues is typical.

I do that for $100.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
So you're saying it's a pay-for-click kind of thing?
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Or pay for results. With ReachLocal you deposit funds for a campaign and if it does what it's supposed to do then the deposit is drawn down. ReachLocal is often resold by local media companies that brand the process as their own.

Resellers have to either get their clients to pay in advance or monitor it closely and turn it off before the charges pile up and clients get upset. Margins are pretty thin for the resellers... one client refusing to pay wipes out the profits from about 10-20 clients that do pay.
 
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What you should pay for in terms of SEO (not to be confused with pay per click) will vary greatly, depending on your industry and your business model.

Without getting into specifics if you want your site to remain anonymous, what kind of site is it, how do you make money, and is it a niche thing? Competitive?
 
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govols09 said:
The cost of college has risen exponentially because the federal government is on the student loan business.

The typical supply and demand curve does not apply because the typical change from prices is blunted by government interference
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Don't remind me. I have more in student loans than my sister and brother-in-law took out to buy their new house two years ago. It's one of the main reasons I switched from a private school to UT to be honest.

I just wish 18 year old me knew half as much as 25 year old me does about getting jobs in the real world, I would've told every private school that offered me to shove it and went to a state school for free. Outside of the ivy league's and a few select others, it doesn't matter where you get edumacated at, it just matters who you know (and that's the main reason the ivy's are better as well) and that you even have a diploma of some kind.
 
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