TommyCarey
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I always get people asking me what I do, usually when we go out with friends and they have new people with them. Below are a few of the questions I've gotten and my responses to them 
Questions
How much money do you make?
People will usually ask this because they want to see if it was worth it for me to get into this field. They also want to know because if the number I say is high enough, they'll try to crack into it as well. My response to their question is normally "I make enough to pay my bills, put food on the table, go see a movie or two and have some left over for savings" I won't usually answer this with an actual number unless the person is pissing me off by flaunting how much they make and is a complete annoyance.
What exactly do you do?
Now I don't answer this question thoroughly because I work in the Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Web Design fields. But the most basic answer I can give to explain what I do is this "I do online marketing. Basically people who own websites will come to me if they want to make more money online and I will help them generate traffic through the search engines or optimize their pages in order to increase their rankings in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Higher rankings means you get a flood of traffic and sales."
What is search engine optimization?
I usually get this after the "What do you do?" question because people haven't really heard of SEO if they work a 9 to 5 job for a company. I'll respond to this by saying "It's the act of building links on third party websites to get the search engines to notice them. When a search engine follows through the link they will see that end result website and give it credit for the link. This increases their rankings slowly and once they get to the first page they will get a load of traffic. I will also optimize their pages so they are following the guidelines set forth by Google."
How did you get into freelancing and online marketing?
My response is always "I kind of just fell into it. I was trying to put up a website of my own because I heard you could make money from posting ads on your page. But then I found out you don't make money from those websites unless you have traffic. And that's why I started learning SEO"
Is it easy to do?
Sometimes I laugh when I hear this question lol I'll typically respond to this, after I'm done laughing, by saying "No it's not. It's a tough job and that's not just because it's difficult to learn, but if you're freelancing you have to be diligent and stay on task otherwise you'll fall behind very quick." this is where they always say "oh that's not a problem, I can stay on task" but they've never done anything that wasn't scheduled for them lol
Well those are a few of the basic questions I get each week when talking to new people.
What questions do you get as a freelancer?
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That's pretty great.
lol you're basically in the same boat as me when it comes to people asking questions :D
I never thought about the QR code hahaha :D That's pretty great.
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I work directly with the owner of SeoClerks on PingFarm, IndexKings, and LinkCheckPro where featured listings get shown in the results. Well, I don't actually work with him on them anymore because they're all set up. But I did the initial marketing and optimization for those websites and own 50% of them I was asked if I wanted to help out on the new community discussion and I was more than happy to help out because the owner of SeoClerks has in the past taken some time out of his extremely busy schedule to help me out with some programming problems that would have cost me thousands
I'm an enigma because I don't sell on SeoClerks, but I use it often :D I work directly with the owner of SeoClerks on PingFarm, IndexKings, and LinkCheckPro where featured listings get shown in the results. Well, I don't actually work with him on them anymore because they're all set up. But I did the initial marketing and optimization for those websites and own 50% of them :)
Now as for my seller rating, it shows 0% because I can't sell my $550 to $5,000 Online Marketing services on SeoClerks and be competitive. I can't be competitive because people sell full service jobs that can get the job done for one or two keywords and people see that as the only thing they need to buy in order to get to number 1. I run a full service online marketing company and target the big companies who can pony up thousands a month in order to achieve top rankings. I look for the big fish, not the newer website owner looking to dabble with a few seo service campaigns here and there.
I was asked to help with the community discussion by answering questions that were tough for others to give a detailed response to. I was willing to do the task of answering all the questions I could because I've known the owner of SeoClerks for many many years. I've known him even before SeoClerks was an idea in his head or a line of code on a server :D I was asked if I wanted to help out on the new community discussion and I was more than happy to help out because the owner of SeoClerks has in the past taken some time out of his extremely busy schedule to help me out with some programming problems that would have cost me thousands :)
So the most basic answer to your question would be... I'm just here to help :)
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Sometimes people ask me; So what is you do again, that Internet stuff or something right?
To this I inwardly chuckle and say; yeah, something like that.
I only say that usually or just say "yeah" and that's it lol. It really depends on who's asking me and how much I think it's worth explaining to them or not lol. Sometimes I might follow it up it with a counter question and ask; why, why do you ask?
That let's me know right off the bat whether they're asking because they're genuinely interested or they're just making conversation. Depending on the answer given. Sometimes I'll respond by saying yes I do Internet affiliate marketing and freelancing in the SEO and SMO industry. To which most people respond by asking me what SEO is and or how much money I make from it.
Now depending on my crowd and audience, or if there's anyone sitting by in ear shot, I might just over-exaggerate how much money and earnings I make from it all a little bit. Mainly because I'm always looking out for a way to earn money from people in some way and it could lead to me giving them my business card of website that has my affiliate links on or perhaps I could go on to be their mentor and they even turn into a life long client (you never know).
So I might just say something like yeah it's really good, why do you think I'm wearing this Versace or something like that haha. But usually I'd just say yeah it's good and say about how some people make thousands a day from it which is true ya know. But other times I'll just say yeah it's okay, pays the bills and I get to stay up late at night lol.
But I always emphasize that it's not always easy unless you tap into something that doesn't require much work and pays well. That it can take hard work and working long hours into night and morning to make it pay.
Once they understand this, I tell them about SEOClerks and say that's why I use SEOClerks to do my freelancing on and find clients with as it's much easier than being independent and can use it to find services to promote my site and services with to make more money with.
I kind of gradually socially mold people into a place where they end up saying, great, where do I sign up! ;D
Then I tell them to scan this QR code on their phone and all their dreams and wishes will come true lol.
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