Local Lead Plan

Blogger reviews

2012-01-22T02:06:39Z

Some of the buzz on the Local Lead Plan course...

John Chow
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Andrew Wee
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Adhustler
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Ian Fernando
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Jonathan Volk
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Uberaffiliate
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Zac Johnson
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Click Consultants
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Sebastian Ashear
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Welcome!

2012-01-10T07:23:20Z

Glad you found your way here! This is the forum to discuss all your local lead gen successes, failures, attemps, frustrations, questions, tips and basically anything related to the local lead gen/affiliate/marketing field. Let's help each other figure out how to make some money doing local lead gen. Everyone is welcome here.

Pay Per Lead Vs. Monthly Retainer

2011-12-02T12:43:11Z

I know this excellent course is primarily focused on selling leads, but I was wondering if anyone here manages PPC and SEO campaigns for local businesses on a monthly retainer basis. I have mainly been doing this due to the fact that I like the recurring income that a group of monthly clients provides. Of course, some of them only stick around for a few months but if you have enough of them and you're sending them a steady stream of business, then why not do this? It just seems easier and more stable to me to do it this way than to have to constantly start from scratch.

In particular, with local SEO, it's sometimes really easy to get a decent ranking for local businesses by just changing the on-page SEO factors. Almost no link building is required. In other markets, I have spent months building links before seeing any results at all. It's tedious work most of the time but can really transform a client's business in some markets.

Clarification about the negative keyword list

2011-11-09T22:15:18Z

Wanted to clear up why you might use the cities/states in the negative keyword list. Ideally if you are setting up GEO targeting in your campaigns as described in the course you wouldn't need these negative keywords, but think of it as a quick insurance policy for recieving clicks outside your targeted area. GEO targeting isn't 100%.

This is also to protect against grabbing a large keyword list that isn't properly scrubbed. Say you have used a keyword tool that has generated a lot of keywords and you didn't carefully go through each one and remove geo tagged keywords from other areas. For example if you are targeting "seattle chiropractor" you might have other cities like "portland chiropractor" in the keyword list. So by adding the list of major cities to your negative keyword list (taking out the ones you are targeting from the neg list), the search wouldn't pull for those other keywords in the campaign you forgot to take out.

How is it working LLG?

2011-10-22T08:35:52Z

would like to hear how is LLG is working for you?
so far I am doing PPC as a monthly maintenance but will jump in LLG.I know more work for me but at least for the clients nothing to lose.I will tell them 1st 20 calls/email is free to see how is it working for them.after that everything becomes live.

Adwords for local lead gen

2011-09-29T02:29:00Z

Do you just use an MCC account and create new client accounts or just keep everything all together since they're not paying for your ad spend.

Also, can you talk more about what google wants to see for the landing page? You stressed to keep the lp as short and concise as possible but from my experience, google likes lots of unique content on the actual page.

Handling Lead Quality

2011-09-23T08:28:24Z

How do you handle these types of leads?

1. Phone leads that go into voicemail, but don't leave a message. The lead could be good if someone picked up the phone.
2. Web leads that the client can't get a hold of.
3. Leads that are interested, but don't qualify. For example, someone interested in teeth whitening, but can't get it because they have braces. In my case, my property management lead had a property that is just outside my property manager's service area.

LLG and Demographics

2011-09-23T08:23:55Z

I know I might be asking a big favor here, but can anyone provide an example of an existing LLG Campaign that works, and provide some Demographic info?

For example,

Keyword
Keyword Search Volume
Town Population
Industry, etc.

It would be great to be able to see an existing campaign that we could replicate in our area.

Thanks.

How much to get paid

2011-09-23T08:21:45Z

I was reading the LLG ebook one thing not quiet sure when establishing how much we have to get paid we have to ask
value of a lifetime customer to the business worth OR
how much it cost to acquire a new customer?

they might say does not cost much to acquire a new customer,our sales are through referral.at the mean time value can be much higher during the years.no?

Do you ever offer pay per sale?

2011-06-29T03:30:31Z

Right now for the couple of clients that I have (networking friends), I'm offering to do it as pay per sale. It's easier to get them signed up that way, but I am nervous about the fact that they might get a sale and not tell me. A little of "my word against theirs" at that point. For those of you offering pay per sale, how do you protect yourself from getting screwed.

Poll: What is your experience level?

2011-06-27T21:36:38Z

Just curious to see what most people's level of experience with local lead gen is.

Facebook Dries up That Quickly?

2011-06-15T01:20:47Z

I really believe in the local lead business. I have a client (dentist) and started running ads for him on Facebook. I got everything sorted out with pricing and estimates and for the first 2 days, I was good at 100% ROI. Then, terrible. Today, and later in the afternoon, I got barely any leads. My CPC's are dropping with testing but can my leads in the area really have dried up already? I am still getting a good amount of clicks.

Also, I tried adwords, and it says my QS is good and everything, and my bids are high enough, but ZERO impressions. Don't know what to do on that front. So far just focusing on facebook i guess. Any help is apprecaited!

LP Design?

2011-06-15T00:53:50Z

Hey there,

Are you guys using the clients logo on your landing pages or simply not including any information about the client? I am interested whether its important to include this information on the landers.

Pricing leads

2011-06-13T00:48:37Z

I have a potential lawyer client lined up. I can do the whole information gathering portion, however I'm still very unsure about what to expect in terms of pricing leads. I looked at the average CPCs for his main keywords, and they range from $4-$6 CPC. Assuming a conservative 10% conversion rate, I should expect at least a $40-$60 payout for a 3-4 field submit. Does this sound right?

Adwords Conversion Tracking

2011-06-13T00:46:11Z

I am using wordpress for my landing pages. I am not very good at web design, and as of now Wordpress is the platform I know best, I am having trouble placing the adwords conversion tracking code into my wordpress landing page I looked for answers on google and did not find any, but I noticed other people had the same problem. Does anyone know how to place the conversion code for adwords on a wordpress site. If not any alternatives or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Pete