How To Do Lead Generation (free course)

and what we want to do is we want to find out if we're going to be able to compete with them and rank above them so what we're gonna do is we're gonna head back over to Google we're gonna use a special search string the search string is yo what is going on guys paul james here welcome back to today's video on the channel today so today i'm gonna be talking to you guys about how to do lead generation so as you know one of the big businesses that i run is a lead generation business and it's the process of helping business owners get more customers now I initially pulled you guys inside of the YouTube community tab also pulled you via my email list and asked you guys if you would be interested in a course that was kind of like entry-level to get started in the lead generation business because at times like this lead generation is still one of the business models that you can actually make money with because it's a lot easier of a self than some of the other services out there because business owners always are gonna need more customers so I pulled you guys and I said you know would you be interested in an introductory course like that I would probably put it under $30 and the response was overwhelming so many people raised their hands and said yes I would be interested in that so what I've decided to do is put that together for you right now but instead of charging you for it I'm just gonna do it for free right here on YouTube so what I'm gonna be doing is I'm gonna be kicking off a series of lead generation tutorials that is basically going to be a mini course and this is going to allow you to get started and I'm gonna do everything I can to really help you guys get going now what I need from you is to comment on the video any questions you have along the way to make sure that I'm answering your questions in the next video that I create and also just helps for the feedback and all of that stuff the other thing you're gonna want to do if you want to be participating in this series is you're gonna want to make sure that you're subscribed to the channel and have the bail notification icons turn on because the future videos I release on the channel are gonna be on this topic and you're not gonna want to miss them also as far as this goes I want to make sure you're taking action on it so if you could do me a favor and if you're gonna follow along please take action on I'm taking my time to actually put this together for you I hope it helps a lot of people and what I ask from you is that you take action I know a lot of people have some time right now that they can actually devote to doing this so I think it's great timing all the way around so anyways we're gonna hop on my computer I'm gonna break this down and we're gonna get started with it there are four phases I go through whenever I build a new lead generation business or new lead generation site and that's what I'm gonna explain to you and we're gonna actually get started and get you taking action right now today alright so smash the like on this video and comment below I'm ready if you're gonna follow along if you're gonna take action alright let's hop on the computer and break this down six quick slides just to kind of break down everything so that you guys know what you're getting into and what it is what it's not all of that stuff so what is a lead generation or lead gen business you may hear this term being thrown around a lot basically a lead is something that is considered like a customer so if you have you know a restaurant out there it would be getting them someone to come in and place an order or like a takeout order if you have a roofing contractor out there it would be like getting a new roof install that is what lead generation is and the business model around it what you do as someone who owns a lead generation business is your job is to generate them more leads get them more customers and they pay you to do that usually they pay you on a per lead basis which is why this is one of the easier services to sell so how is this different from an SEO or a Facebook ad agency because a lot of the ways that we generate leads in this business model is we utilize things like search engines and we utilize things like ads but it differs because usually in those models you're collecting a flat monthly fee and you're performing a service like you'll optimize their website and get them ranked in Google but you're not really responsible for the leads and it just basically stops and ends there you're also utilizing usually the customers website or any properties that they have and then when it comes to a Facebook ad agency the difference would be like they usually pay you to run ads on behalf of their company and you get to basically run those ads those models although they are good and people make a lot of money with them and I make money with those models too there are a lot harder for beginners to get started with because as a beginner you don't have proof of concept you don't have a list of customers that you've worked with in the past and also in hard economic times it's a lot harder of a sell because people business owners are out there struggling they just want more customers and if you already have those customers to give them which you do in lead generation business you're literally you generate the leads ahead of time and then you sell them to them on a Perley basis it's gonna be a lot easier sell and that's just the nature of how it goes because you can charge on a per lead basis so do we have examples of successful lead generation businesses like people who have gone off there and done this before and event successful with it we do we have companies out there that exist home advisers one of them there's Angie's Lister's porch there's thumbtack there's so many of them out there that exist homeadvisor is a good example because they are one of the biggest last I checked and don't quote me on this number it was somewhere around there was that they did 500 million dollars annually which is an insane amount of money I mean if you could even capture a small portion of that I think you'd probably be doing all right but yeah it's it's it's not so there's definitely big proof-of-concept out there and it's definitely why a lot of people look towards this industry if they want to work from home if they want to work remotely if they want to stay behind our computer because it's a profitable industry is it saturated though I named off some of those larger companies like is there a room for you is there a room to get started and and get going with it as someone who's just getting started working from home you're working from their computer the answer is yes and the reason why is because there are things that you can do to separate yourself from those companies number one number two there's just a lot of businesses out there that need leads that aren't hiring these companies and there's different niches that those companies don't focus on as well one of the edges that you could give yourself over all of these other companies I mentioned is offering what's called exclusivity to your leads so when a custom or like a company goes and hires homeadvisor they are actually getting their lead that they get also sent to five other people so like if you're a roofing contractor and I'm home advisor and I sell you a lead that lead is also going to like four other roofing contractors so then it becomes a bidding war regardless of you know even if one of the other contractors got the job you still have to pay for the lead so home advise is basically like quadruple dipping there so that is why you can compete in why it's not completely saturated so this series that we're gonna talk about right now will cover the four phases that I go through from start to finish and this series is gonna take a lot of videos just being honest with you when I said this is a mini course mini course it really is it's gonna be a lot of videos and it's gonna be a lot of homework so I want to make sure that you're in the right mindset for it going into this some things you might want to have handy are a notepad and pen to take notes because we're gonna be covering a lot of stuff we're going to be actually setting things up and what I want you to do after each video is I want you to legitimately put in the work that I talked about because if you don't put in the work on this stuff it's not gonna work it's not gonna work for you but if you put in the work and you don't give up I don't see why you can't also get this business model going like so many others have so let's just go ahead and jump into things and now that we've covered what it is and exactly what you can look forward to let's jump into Google and just start doing some research so the first phase that we need to do is we need to pick out a niche niche selection is important it's basically you know like what kind of company we're gonna go after what kind of like industry we're gonna pick roofing are we gonna pick pools so we're gonna do landscaping and we also need to come up with a location so by the way I know we got a lot of viewers here who are not in the United States if you're not in the United States you could definitely do this in your country but the other thing is is you can target the United States even if you're not living in it because with the lead generation you don't have to like meet with business owners or even you don't really even have to do phone calls with them although sometimes you might want to but you don't have to you can communicate by email and you can do it so that is gonna be part of what we're gonna talk about right now coming up in Faison so I'm gonna open up a Google window here and what I'm gonna do and by the way I am using a plug-in in this video called keywords everywhere its keywords everywhere com it's a little Chrome extension it shows up on your screen right here this keyword tool used to be free they charge now ten dollars for a hundred thousand credits of it you can go to keywords everywhere com click install for Chrome or install for Firefox and then you can go and click get API key once you're set up and then you'll have keywords everywhere set up and again I would recommend just buying that ten dollars worth of credits and you'll be good to go with what we're gonna do here next so what we're gonna do now is we're going to think about an industry if you're having trouble coming up with industries you can visit a site like home advisor or porch or thumbtack and you can look at some of the industries that they have there but I've got some in mind that I'm gonna look into the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna target a city and I'm gonna pick a city in Wisconsin Milwaukee particularly but what I don't want to do is I don't want to focus on a large city the reason why is because that's gonna be super competitive most likely there might be some golden niches that I could find in this city and that's worth doing I've got a lot of actually niches in this city believe it or not because I grew up around here and nearby so I know the area really well but what I'm gonna do it in this example is I'm gonna teach you guys how to go after in micro niche down so what I call it and the way you do that is you zoom out on the map a little bit and instead of going after the big city you look at some of the other bigger ones that are kind of outside of the border of it and the theory here is that even though there's gonna be less people there there's gonna be less competition there's even less everything there's still going to be people there that are going to be buying these services because people live there right so like if I go and I target roofing in this city I mean they're still gonna be people there even if I don't see a lot of search results so let's go and show you some examples I'm gonna show the example of Grafton and Cedarburg so one of the ways I like to start doing this is let me go back to Google is I like to just start by typing in my cue so maybe I'm thinking of roofing I'm just gonna get do a quick gauge of which keyword is more popular is it roofing or is it a roofer just to grab kind of a quick gauge it's not super important yet so roofing looks like it's more popular the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna compare it to the larger city because a lot of times with these smaller cities we're not going to see as big a volume or sometimes any volume with local keywords sometimes it'll show zero volume on these smaller cities so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna append Milwaukee after it which is the nearest bigger city this can suck it some 480 searches let me try roofing Milwaukee and see how many packets if it's one bigger than the other okay so they're both about the same okay so we'll just go and we'll say I'm roofer roofing Milwaukee okay so now we're gonna append it with the city we want to target so I'm thinking like Cedarburg so if I type in roofers Cedarburg you can see now the search results say zero but in reality this is not going to yield no searches like that's just not reality there are a lot of people who live in Cedarburg we could probably pull up like population facts if we wanted to but I usually don't even bother like you don't really even have to worry about this we got a population of 12,000 people living in Cedarburg and that's enough I mean we're going to have people there who own houses you'll probably even look up specific data of how many people own houses here there are certain sites you know people own houses here at average median household income of $82,000 property value of two hundred eighty one thousand like people live here they're gonna have houses here they're gonna need their roofs repaired the roof fix so roofers Cedarburg in my opinion is still going to draw traffic is my point so I based my keywords in my searches off of a larger city nearby and that is why I do that because technically on this one we will probably see zero but what this is gonna allow us to do is it's going to allow us to find low competition beaches now we're gonna avoid ads here because the next start part of our phase once we settle on a niche and a keyword and by the way don't everyone go out there and like copy roofer and copy this city because you'll just saturate it you have any luck doing that and probably everyone's gonna copy each other and that's not good either so try to get creative with what I'm sharing with you here and come up with your own keyword in your own nation location all right just use what I'm doing a model if come up with your own stuff okay so what we want to do it next is we want to go into the next part of this phase of phase one and that is we want to analyze our competition so I'm not gonna pay attention to this Google guarantee or the ads because this is ads this is pay traffic this is not what we're interested in because we're doing lead gen we're also not gonna pay attention to Google Maps here because you need to have a physical location in order to get into Google Maps are we gonna miss out on some traffic there because we're not there absolutely but we just can't do that right now maybe once we get a client we can come back to that but we'll still get some traffic off of the Google organic search results which is right here and this is where we want to rank we want to rank here as high up as possible so what we want to do is we want to grab one of our legitimate competitors someone who actually owns an actual roofing company and we want to reverse engineer the competition this is what I call competitive analysis here and what we want to do is we want to find out if we're going to be able to compete with them and rank above them so I don't look at sites like Yelp sites like Angie's List homeadvisor Better Business Bureau I don't look at any of that stuff these are Directory Sites you could tell they're Directory Sites because their links they say abrade above their title like Cedarburg Home Services Roofing homeadvisor Wisconsin Cedarburg BBB Cedarburg category roofing when you see that like link structure like that that means it's a directory site it means they list a bunch of different companies and we can usually almost always outrank that so we don't need to worry about that but what we do need to worry about is when there's a competitor like this company right here Grafton roof comm I want to click on their website and I want to reverse engineer their entire off page strategy we call it this means how many other websites they are on I want to find out so what we're gonna do is we're gonna head back over to Google and we're gonna use a special search string now that we know their web sites Grafton roof com the search string is you're going to put their website into quotes like that website com so their website was Grafton roof comm and then what we're going to do is we're going to put - in URL and then Grafton roof calm again now don't put the HTTP don't put the WWE you just want to do the URL comm website comm and you want to be exactly like this the first part in quotes the second part followed by - in URL semicolon graph term comma or whatever your competitor is what this is telling Google is it saying hey Google I want to know all websites that Grafton roof is listed on but just don't show me their own website like if they have another page on their own website that they have I don't need to see that and we hit search and what we're gonna do is we're gonna see the number of results now we can see here that it says ten results but we don't actually want to look at that number exactly instead what we want to do is we want to go through and we want to start counting so we can see they're listed on Yelp they're listed on Apollo - io they're lifted listed on Grafton robotics so that's so far three three different sites they're listed on show me local four they lifted out listed on like another Yelp a couple of other yelps like from different countries so we'll say seven eight eight web sites and the majority of them are Yelp and then from there that's it so you can see why we didn't just take it from up there now there might be several pages of results and you'll want to go back and look now I want you to keep this in mind because why this is important is because in order for you to compete with them you're going to need to get listed probably on a lot of those sites not all of them cause like you're not gonna be able to get listed on some of them where it requires you to have like a mailing address but there's other sites you'll be able to get listed on using just your website name your website URL and that kind of stuff and your phone number so we'll talk about how to get all of that it's not a big deal don't worry about it so with that being said if I see you know we only get less than eight sites that means that something I can compete with because a lot of times we can do social media profiles for sites I can come up with a lot of social media profiles off the top of my head like Pinterest LinkedIn Facebook pages YouTube pages or videos so many just so many different sites many I'm forgetting about but anyways just to give you an example there that what we want to do so with that being said I'm gonna leave you with this because I think that we'll leave off a really good place right here for homework for you to do so number one is I want you to come up with some niche ideas write down like four or five Misha ideas like write down like bestest or abatement you know pool cleaning whatever different niches you come up with you can go reverse engineer home advisor you can go reverse engineer thumbtack porch all these different sites and come up with something then what I want you to do is I want you to pick some remote locations or I guess suburb locations not big cities but outside of the big cities okay I want you to come up with those next and then I want you to go into Google just like I showed you and I want you to start digging in and seeing if you can find niches like I just found that aren't super competitive okay and once you have that I want you to write down your number one pick the number one thing that you think is a good choice it gets you excited and want you to write that down and prepare for the next video coming up and again make sure you are subscribed with your notifications turn on so that you do not miss that video guys if you enjoyed this video do me a favor and smash the like button and also share this video with someone that you think this could help if you know someone right now that struggling who could really use this mini course that we're putting together go ahead and share it with them I'm really excited to put out the rest of this content again this is something that I've got a lot of feedback on so I'm really excited to be doing it for you guys anyways guys I will see you in the next video I'm Paul James here signing off peace [Music] [Music]

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Length: 19min 11sec (1151 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 21 2020