How to build a constant flow of customers from Upwork
Luca Giovagnola
Generating Leads and Closing Deals for software houses and marketing agencies
The Hook strategy is used in lead generation and sales when nobody knows you or your services are not mated for a niche.
Your prospects have trust issues with your service, not believing they can be effective.?
Usually, people invest thousands of $ to get the clients they want. This means basically that they get to ROI or they do not get it ( and they lose money), and the likelihood to lose them it’s 0.50 and 0.50.?
Meanwhile, if it is in demand, you’re not likely to lose money with a hook. Most people don’t get it but if you start o sell a service in high order for a small price everybody will buy it!. I mean, you might not get rich, but you will cover the expenses because it’s an in-demand service!?
This can be an ideal beginning to get profit and contacts for your network to build your business.?
An in-demand service means more people are asking than people that can deliver the service, so you need basically to say “ Hi, I’m here,” and unless you’re not a disaster into sales, people will buy it!?
To give you an example: People are looking to sell 2000$/m of ads management after they took their course of social ads. They don’t realize it might take one to two months to close a client like that, and if you want a professional to work on the lead generation, you’ll pay from 300 to 1200$/ month, which thing will make your profit close to zero ( since you have to consider taxes, and your hourly cost to manage ads).?
Meanwhile, those who do only facebook pixel fixing and retargeting, fixing only one or two pixels a day, can make 70$/d which is $2100 a month. They’re much more likely to do them because fewer people want to do Facebook pixel fixing.
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I took as clients these guys that didn't have an Upwork profile. They had not any experience with lead generation. Even the structure of their service was terrible, so I did a thing only.?
I have completely forgotten about their services and started selling exclusively Ga + GTM + Facebook Pixel fixing. I mean the most annoying, not funny solutions that can jump into the mind of someone.?
They did, the first month 1000$, the second month 2000$, then they were able to take jobs outsourced by other agencies on Upwork. Within 3 to 4 months from the beginning, the work only from these agencies was 3000/4000$ a month + the constant revenue from Upwork.?
Every 10 “shitty & fixing jobs,” they had a client that says, “Hey listen, you’ve fixed well my Facebook Pixel, why don’t you handle my campaigns?”.?
So they had a margin ( over the time spent setting up funnels) instead of a loss, as many marketing agencies have to generate clients only for the excellent services.?
A famous motto in the sales world says, “ Are we hunting gazelles or mice?” it is used to ask which target you are looking after for your sales.?
I prefer to convert it into: when you’re a beginner, you’re looking only for profit and traction to know your business will survive.