What is a good way to sell SEO for small businesses?

Believer: What is a good way to sell SEO for small businesses?
What is a good way to sell SEO for small businesses like how would you indentify the best targets?

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Answer by sid serious
Selling SEO services for small business and in particular SEO for small businesses for the local markets has become a high demand and lucrative thing indeed! Depending on your level of expertise you could go about selling SEO for small business in various ways. It is amazing that there are many small business websites that still have “Home” as their main title page. Of course one way is to research the local business websites that have next to nothing in the way of basic SEO in their websites. And to further research the local keyword search market for keywords that may be profitable for that business. This way you have something that would be of value to offer these local small businesses in the way of your seo services and you can either email them, write to them or even go see them in person! You could have a small presentation prepared explaining how you could make their business more profitable. This is only a very basic scenario on how you could sell SEO for small businesses. Because there is such a great demand for local SEO, there are a few people who have created and do sell detailed courses on how to sell SEO for the local business markets. There are a few courses that are pretty good to invest in because you learn most of what you need to for successfully selling your SEO services to local small business.

This is one of the recommended courses to learn how to sell successful SEO for small businesses in the local markets. Google places for for small business is very hot right now and this tells you all about it, there are detailed techniques on how to do it properly that I do not have enough room here to go into.
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Answer by Nate J
The best way to sell SEO to small business is to understand what value you bring to the small business vs. the other guy. SEO has been around long enough that most small business know what the discipline is. However, what they might not know is how to tell a hack from a reputable SEO. That is where your SEO skills need to come in to play. Do some research and find areas where you can capitalize on un-tapped search volume. Create a blog and start targeting those individuals with targeted posts. Also, use LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media outlets to find prospects. The best way to sell SEO to small business is simply to call them up and find a way to get a meeting. After that, it’s up to you to promote yourself as the right SEO for them.

I’m starting a new SEO blog that is targeted to large & enterprise level business ). While the content is light – again, I’m just starting it – the blog roll on the right will point you to more information.