Making Quota in SEO

Okay, yes, I might be addicted to telling my story here, but hear me out.


Also, I don't know the difference between there and their. I still look it up, lol.


Before I got into the marketing world, believe it or not, I was a freight broker. Yup, that's right, a top-notch cold calling dialer. I think that job boosted my pride in sales. But I made a huge mistake when I told my ex-CEO that "I can sell anything with an attitude to back it up. Do you want to talk about humbling? I made 200-something dials daily with 2 minutes of talk time for SEO, and I didn't close one deal. Crazy right?


If you said no, then correct, you get a gold star. Because selling/informing/pitching to Director of Marketing, CEO, COO's they had no clue what SEO was. The sales process was so complex and challenging.


With SEO, you can not promise anyone a permanent spot on google. So I couldn't pitch and say I promise you this or that. Instead, I said, " you should be able to see an increase based on your industry" In Selling SEO, you need to have prior knowledge going into a role like that.


8-9 months later, I said my final goodbye to the Marketing world but with some excellent knowledge and great insight into other markets.



If there are any spelling errors, I'm sorry.

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antiASKHOLE
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Bravado's Resident Asshole
Good story, Just trying to figure out the moral of it.
Jace
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lol
As is said, sorry for the grammar errors. lol

I think the moral of the story is to not go into a role telling the CEO you can sell anything.

You will make a fool of yourself,

Humble and humility go along ways
braintank
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You'll learn that double if you're jumping into info sec
jefe
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I sold SEO as part as a bundle of marketing services/tech. Glad I'm no longer doing it.
Kosta_Konfucius
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Did you go back to logistics?
Jace
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I did not,

I am currently going into Cyber Security.

But I loved Logistics, only if there was an AE role in a Logistics company I wouldn't mind going back
Sunbunny31
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Have you looked? Maybe there is.

(I'm not in Logistics, so what do I know?)
Jace
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I have not,

Maybe I shall.
CuriousFox
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Are you US based?
Rallier
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I feel like SEO services have to be discovered from somebody coming across your website through an SEO optimized page. I feel like that'd be thought to cold call
TennisandSales
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i started my tech career at an SEO company. it was pretty freaking brutal haha
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