Finally... How I Leased My Pre-Made Roofer Website For $197 a month... For 5 Years.

[ozlat]

congratulations... i think i should be doing this for my australian solar site

if you have any pointers or tips... be sure to share them!!

[toddc]

This is another great thread. I want to learn more about the rental model. Thank you.
Todd

[TheWeb2YouDotCom]

This is great! Very inspiring story! Good ob!

[Cato]

Hi Jimian.

How is your site doing?

When looking your returns, Rent-a-site business model is just amazing.
11 820$ rent from just this one site. And after 5 years, you still own the site.
That is a real wow factor right here.

best regards

¤Cato¤

[drdan]

I just started following through on this method after wasting 6 months on setting up clients on their own sites and dealing with all the hassles of the design and layout etc. Never again! That is why I am now going to do all lease sites which is awesome!

I am following Jack Mize's program from his offline x factor "Online Landlord". He provides the lease agreements, videos, and more. He also includes a 1 page WP theme that has the lead capture form built in and looks great for business owners.

I just started doing this with realtors and mortgage people, and sold 4 in 3 days! Actually I did these a little different. I sold them the site at $200 which they loved! Then I rented them the web promotion at $197 per month using paypals auto bill function. So I made $200+197 = $397 up front and then each month I will collect $197 per client.

The wordpress site took me about 1 hour to set up with the design the header and add plugins (1st time)

I will keep you all posted.

[Cato]

I just started doing this with realtors and mortgage people, and sold 4 in 3 days! Actually I did these a little different. I sold them the site at $200 which they loved! Then I rented them the web promotion at $197 per month using paypals auto bill function. So I made $200+197 = $397 up front and then each month I will collect $197 per client.

The wordpress site took me about 1 hour to set up with the design the header and add plugins (1st time)

I will keep you all posted.

Hi, Drdan.

4 sites in 3 days is awesome result.

What does your "$197 per month" web promotion include?

¤Cato¤

[drdan]

Hi, Drdan.

4 sites in 3 days is awesome result.

What does your "$197 per month" web promotion include?

¤Cato¤

Thanks and just sold 2 more since then.

I am following the Offline X Factor system which is amazing! Basically it consists of me post 4-7 clickable ads for my clients on classified ad sites like Craigslist, backpage, oodle, olx, etc. Choose the right long tail keywords (search phrase) for your clients and you can easily get them all over the first page of google for various search terms with just doing a quick 10-20 social bookmarks per an ad.

I have 1 realtor that I targeted san francisco and he still shows up on the front page for a search in san leandro which is 30 minutes away. My clients are eating these up like hot cakes!

I could make a program out of this, but honestly I would just be rehashing 90% of what Jack teaches in his offline x factor course. Its a closed course right now, but I hear there will be another launch coming real soon.

[banditu]

drdan,

You said you sold them the site for $200, then you are charging the $197 for promoting their webpage on classified sites for long tail keywords targeted to their business? and these sites will get ranked(i guess) !? Are you just saying them , "The price for the lead generation site is only $200, and you have to pay $197 for web promotion, 6 month contract(maybe, price discounted if you pay in advance) "
Did i got it right?
Are you using any tracking at all and report them every week or so?

Thanks

[drdan]

drdan,

You said you sold them the site for $200, then you are charging the $197 for promoting their webpage on classified sites for long tail keywords targeted to their business? and these sites will get ranked(i guess) !? Are you just saying them , "The price for the lead generation site is only $200, and you have to pay $197 for web promotion, 6 month contract(maybe, price discounted if you pay in advance) "
Did i got it right?
Are you using any tracking at all and report them every week or so?

Thanks

I just sell them the site since they want there branding on it since they are realtors and mortgage businesses. Then charge them the $197 per month via paypal auto bill (subscription). I dont want to mess with the pay me upfront and get a better deal because then I have to deal with invoicing after 6 months etc.

As far as tracking goes, I will send them a screen shot of the google results that I find them on the first pages for. I only do this because I look for them to use for using as proof to get more clients. But after awhile I will no longer do that.

Its like Jack says, if they buy a billboard or a yellow page ad, do they expect them to give them weekly or monthly updates or tracking etc?

This is honestly a goldmine doing this approach. You can also use this to do some trades with local businesses if your just starting this out to get some referrals and use them as case studies.

We are doing trades with a popular acupuncturist for a trade and also a hair salon. Free haircuts, manicures for my wife, etc. This will get your foot in the door and they will be happy and send you referrals.

[Winston]

drdan,

How often are you posting the ads?

[Jimian]

Hi Jimian.

How is your site doing?

When looking your returns, Rent-a-site business model is just amazing.
11 820$ rent from just this one site. And after 5 years, you still own the site.
That is a real wow factor right here.

best regards

¤Cato¤

Hey All,

I haven't been on here in awhile...things are going great, especially for the roofing business with all the snow in the past month:

See videos:

Offline Consulting & Leasing Websites


Jim

[Jimian]

I just started following through on this method after wasting 6 months on setting up clients on their own sites and dealing with all the hassles of the design and layout etc. Never again! That is why I am now going to do all lease sites which is awesome!

I am following Jack Mize's program from his offline x factor "Online Landlord". He provides the lease agreements, videos, and more. He also includes a 1 page WP theme that has the lead capture form built in and looks great for business owners.

I just started doing this with realtors and mortgage people, and sold 4 in 3 days! Actually I did these a little different. I sold them the site at $200 which they loved! Then I rented them the web promotion at $197 per month using paypals auto bill function. So I made $200+197 = $397 up front and then each month I will collect $197 per client.

The wordpress site took me about 1 hour to set up with the design the header and add plugins (1st time)

I will keep you all posted.

Awesoooooooome!

Dr Dan

Can we take a peek at one of these sites?

JIm

[drdan]

Awesoooooooome!

Dr Dan

Can we take a peek at one of these sites?

JIm

Thanks Jim and because of past experience of posting our clients sites on open forums getting bombarded with people trying to either steal the client or just trying to call and email them on their results, I wont put the links here.

But I will PM them to you to take a look at. they are really nothing special, but they are freaking powerful since its wordpress and I just made a video for my niche "real estate professionals" showing them a site I created in less than 24 hours and it was on page 1 and number 1 spot of Google search results for the search phrase "City Home Mortgage Loans" without quotes.

But for anyone else that wants to see what these sites look like: http://houstondiscountroofing.com/ this is a site that Jack created for his students to model after. It is the same theme I used and looks almost the same except I added some pics of my clients and houses etc.

But I am going to do more like Jacks, where he made them generic and doesnt have to change anything if he has a client cancel since he owns the site, domain, and virtual number.

[drdan]

drdan,

How often are you posting the ads?

You only need to post most of them once and then they send you an email every 30-90 days letting you know its time to renew which is just a click of a button usually. Its pretty freakn awesome!

[drdan]

Here is a screenshot of all the sites pointing back to my clients site on the first page of Google. This is a broad search and he dominates not only his city but pretty much 3-4 surrounding cities as well! This was done in about 2 hours of work at most and I took this screenshot less than 24 hours after I set them up.

I obviously blurred the links and keywords :-( Sorry



I am setting up a membership site where I will be teaching my niche "Real Estate Professionals" how to do it all themselves. Should be up in 2 weeks.

[kari2]

Just a quick question, how did you figure out which keywords to focus on? I read a comment on another forum about using google trends and google's keyword tool just like Jack in his offline x factor videos. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Kari

[drdan]

Just a quick question, how did you figure out which keywords to focus on? I read a comment on another forum about using google trends and google's keyword tool just like Jack in his offline x factor videos. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Kari

Yea.. I use google insights tool and then the suggestion tool in the search bar. Plus alot of it is just getting in the mind of the local searcher.

Example would be "get in shape for summer city" opposed to "city gym" the ones searching for "city gym" are not ready to buy right now and alot of them are B2B's looking for places to sell. The person typing in "get in shape for summer city" is ready to make a change and trying to get answers or help. I know they are not typing in the city usually at the end of that type of search, but google will put that on the page if they are searching from that city. You can test it for yourself. type in "plumber" and you will get results from local plumbers and not plumbers in another state.

on a side note: I talked to Jim today and he said I should put together either a product or webinar on this. Would anyone be interested if I did this? After switching to this model I have been able to sign up over 80% of the clients I meet with. I have clients paying me from $197-$400 a month on auto-pay which is great. Let me know :-)

[kari2]

Thanks for your detailed answer. Would your product/webinar be a spin off of the offline x factor?

[Jimian]

Yea.. I use google insights tool and then the suggestion tool in the search bar. Plus alot of it is just getting in the mind of the local searcher.

Example would be "get in shape for summer city" opposed to "city gym" the ones searching for "city gym" are not ready to buy right now and alot of them are B2B's looking for places to sell. The person typing in "get in shape for summer city" is ready to make a change and trying to get answers or help. I know they are not typing in the city usually at the end of that type of search, but google will put that on the page if they are searching from that city. You can test it for yourself. type in "plumber" and you will get results from local plumbers and not plumbers in another state.

on a side note: I talked to Jim today and he said I should put together either a product or webinar on this. Would anyone be interested if I did this? After switching to this model I have been able to sign up over 80% of the clients I meet with. I have clients paying me from $197-$400 a month on auto-pay which is great. Let me know :-)

Dr Dan... I'm taking your advice for my next site (fourth one) with the keyword strategy;

[eredas]

Awesome, Jim!

I consultant into a national marketing company and all they do is lease for $200 a month. They provide the client a turn-key website/Places package that has a back-end suite of tools for reporting, text marketing, scheduling, CRM, autoresponder, etc.

They have huge call center and sign businesses up on a free 30 day trial...over a 1000 small service businesses per month sign-up for the trial.

At this point, they are a friendly competitor of mine...since they are paying me buku bucks.

There are some serious players figuring out internet marketing solutions for service professionals is a huge opportunity. Expect to see more start-ups like Yodle and Reach Local popping up with huge capital behind them.

I personally don't think the leasing model is sustainable because businesses are going to painfully figure out that their online properties are one of the most valuable assets they can invest in. When it comes time to sell their business, they'll need to show their online properties are secured assets...not leased and out of their control.

Take note of that from a long-term perspective and the model you are building.

I prefer the build/flip and maintain model and have been having major success with that.

BTW, I bought your Offline Marketing Magnet course and it's great. Thanks for all the guidance, inspiration and ideas.

Brett

Whats a good resource to get more info on the build and flip model

[eredas]

Are you setting up the google places for the site before you sell them

[drdan]

Thanks for your detailed answer. Would your product/webinar be a spin off of the offline x factor?

If I end up doing one, it would be a yes and no...lol

I havent went through Jacks entire course, but I have a good friend that did and I learned alot of Jacks strategies as well as his own strategies that he developed.

So the webinar and or video training would be a complete "how to" system. How to find and get clients, calling, emailing, email tracking who's hot and ready, what to do with them, how to set up the system you are selling, and how to collect $97-$400+ paypal payments every month on auto-pilot.

I have been through many offline programs and most just plain suck! Thats why I would like to teach and show others what I wish I had learned from the beginning.

But it wouldnt be a here are 30 different services to offer. It would be 1 or 2 and thats it. Basic, easy, and anyone could set up. Newbie, oldbie, anybodie!

I just set up a local hair salon on my service that took me about 2 hours to set up and will only take me about 10-20 minutes a month to maintain. Not bad for $200 a month set on auto-pay. Actually to be honest (I am always trying to give full disclosure), my wife found this client and she is getting $100 of credit at this salon every month and another $100 from paypal suscription ;-)

Ok this is starting to sound like a salesletter :O , so im gonna stop now...

[drdan]

Hey guys I wanted to let you know that I just created a full manual/ blueprint on how to do this. Its here in the special offers section of the forum.

[Rich Urban]

This is a great post! I like the "ROOFER" idea since they have quite high margins. One deal can land them several thousand bucks - you could probably charge more.. Believe me, this is INSANELY cheaper than their Yellow Pages ad that doesn't even have proof of leads / tracking / etc.

[ddrum]

I am going through the same thing right now. I made a site and i get calls everyday. i did some cold calling and then kind of put it aside. I have the google call reports to prove that people are actually calling everyday. I like that you said it was for a marketing course. That is clever and I might use that one!

Debbie

[Adhardwick]

That's pretty cool. I have a lot of stagnant real estate sites that collect leads.

[Easyhomebiz]

Hi Millard,

Instead of using the restaurants phone number in the GP listings instead purchase a virtual phone number (do a search there are a lot of services like this and I don't know which is best) and see if you can find a local virtual phone number.

So for example if the restaurant you're representing was in the (425) area code purchase a virtual number with that area code.

Now go into the admin area of the place where you purchased the virtual phone number from and "forward" any calls made to it to your home or cell phone number. Now after you add the virtual number to your GP listings and submit your new GP page Google will call that number for verification, and since you set it up to forward to your home or cell phone you'll get the verification code at home!

After you get the code and verify the GP listing you can now go back to the virtual phone admin panel and forward calls to the restaurant instead of your home.

-Stephen

This has been changed in 2012. Now you will get a postcard in the mail. It usually takes around 3 weeks for Google to send the postcard to the biz address.

EHB