Over the past week I drew the interest of a local landscaping business for SEO services. Now this client was somebody who had to be really be worked on as the owner of the business wasn't a big believer in online marketing or SEO services and felt that many of them were scams as he had be been burned by bad marketing in the past and had known other landscapers with similar experiences. We emailed back and forth for a few days and after showing him examples of my past successful clients he finally was ready to jump on a phone call. This phone call lasted about 2 hours and we discussed all the visions for his business, how his business is doing currently, and even his past experiences he had with "cheap overnight SEO services" where he had paid someone overseas and was ghosted almost immediately.

It hurt my heart to hear this and it was one those "you get what you pay for scenarios"; however, I knew his business was struggling and wanted to explain to him how SEO worked and would even go as far as sending him a 10 minute audit walking him through a proper SEO strategy and comparing his current SEO prowess to those businesses around him. He emailed me back very hopefully with a new perspective on SEO saying how glad he was and how he saw the potential in SEO and would consider me when the time is right to continue as he currently isn't a position where he could hire an out of house marketing team yet but thanked me for my services and educating him on SEO.

Now I know many of you are probably just saying that he didn't even watch the video and probably just told me those things to get rid of me, and although that may be true I would like to think that I potentially helped someone from getting scammed on fake SEO services moving forward and even changed a perspective on how people view the SEO industry as a whole and maybe one day he might not be my client but he could be one of yours.