Since I need money to pay my bills, and a friend of mine needs a funnel, I want to ask my friend if he would be willing to pay me for my time working on generating leads for him.
The problem is I'm afraid I'll waste his money because the results won't be good enough.
Here are the results from past clients:
Should I offer my "services" to my buddy?
Should I try to land some copywriting gigs from Upwork?
Am I scam artist? Do I waste people's money?
Should I give up and get a job?
Am I even qualified to try to get a job in the digital marketing field?
The problem is I'm afraid I'll waste his money because the results won't be good enough.
Here are the results from past clients:
- Auto insurance provider... Couldn't track leads due to no access to website. 549 clicks from 16,748 impressions (3.28% CTR) in 4 months. Don't now how many leads, if any. Charged $600 a month ($300 in ad spend, $300 for management). She cancelled services after 4 months. It's possible she got leads, but it's also possible that I wasted her money.
- Network marketing company... Couldn't track leads due to no access to website. 690 clicks from 5600 impressions (12.3% CTR) in 5 months. Don't now how many leads, if any. Charged $600 a month ($300 in ad spend, $300 for management). They cancelled services after 5 months. It's possible they got leads, but it's also possible that I wasted their money.
- Realtor... Couldn't track leads due to no access to website. 242 clicks from 2772 impressions (8.73% CTR) in 3 months. Don't now how many leads, if any. Charged $800 a month ($300 in ad spend, $500 for management). They cancelled services after 3 months. It's possible they got new clients, but it's also possible that I wasted their money.
- Private school... Couldn't track leads due to no access to website. 87 clicks from 1298 impressions (6.7% CTR) in 1 month. Don't now how many leads, if any. Charged $800 a month ($300 in ad spend, $500 for management). They cancelled services after 1 month. It's possible they got leads, but it's also possible that I wasted their money.
- Pressure washing company... Made him a landing page but did not set up call tracking. Relied on him to tell me what clients he got. 287 clicks from 9135 impressions (3.1% CTR) in 3 months. According to him, he got 8 clients from 14 leads, producing $2,055 in revenue. I charged $800 a month ($300 in ad spend, $500 for my management; for 3 months). He cancelled services after 3 months. It's possible he got returning clients, but it's also possible that I wasted $345 of his money ($2,400 marketing budget — $2,055 revenue).
- Returning pressure washing company... Charged him$2,000 to make him a website (critique my work here). No call tracking on web site, but there was a lead form. 550 clicks from 16,000 impressions (3.4% CTR) in 7 months. 9 phone calls directly from the ad call extension, 8 lead form submissions, and I don't know how many phone calls directly from his website. Neither he, nor I, know how many of these leads became clients, or how much revenue he made. He paid $600 a month ($300 in ad spend, $300 for my management) for 7 months. He cancelled services after 7 months. It's possible that he got returning clients, but it's also possible that he didn't get any and I wasted $4,200 of his money.
Should I offer my "services" to my buddy?
Should I try to land some copywriting gigs from Upwork?
Am I scam artist? Do I waste people's money?
Should I give up and get a job?
Am I even qualified to try to get a job in the digital marketing field?
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