How to Start Your Own SEO Agency | Find Quality Leads For Your Digital Marketing Agency

So you want to start your own SEO agency? Here's how you do it.

How do I start my own SEO agency?

First, you have to believe in yourself.

The second thing you need to do to build your own SEO agency is to find out who's doing a ton of ads on Google AdWords, using SEMrush, and it will tell you how much money they're spending on ads each month.

That'll give you an idea of how much money a company has.

If they spend $500,000 a month or $1 million, or $200,000, there's a good chance they could pay you for SEO.

You don't want to go after the ones who spend a half a million or a million a month because those guys are big organizations.

You want to go after the ones who are spending 20, 30 grand a month.

Now that you've figured out who to go after, the third step is to start your own SEO agency is emailing these companies.

Another strategy is to use Crunchbase.

They list out all the companies that are recently funded, their valuations, how much money they raise.

When these companies raise $4 or $5 million, and you hit them and their investors up, tell them what they are doing wrong and how you can help solve the problem.

Investors never want to hear that a company they just funded is messing up.

So you know they're going to forward the email over.

The investor's not gonna spend any time or energy solving the problem, but they're going to be sure the problem is addressed.

The investor will go straight to the person who's running the company.
Don't hold anything back when you send these emails.

If these companies have $5 million, they're not going to take the time to learn things on their own, they're going to pay the person who just outlined their problems to fix them.

You want to charge five grand a month for someone who raised $50 million or $5 million?

They don't care; it's a drop in the bucket.

The genius part about this is you didn't go for the marketing director or even the CEO of the company; you went to the people who were funding those people.

So it's guaranteed money.

And if you do well for those investors, they're gonna tell all their portfolio companies "Hey, this guy did this for one of my investments. "You should hire him for your business, too." And that's a great way to get clients.

There you have it, that is how to start your own SEO agency.

Make sure you leave a comment and your questions below. We're going to be doing this Q&A Thursdays every week.

Anytime you need help with anything marketing-related, whether it's starting an agency, online or digital marketing or you're a founder, or entrepreneur or marketer, or just anyone who's interested in getting into the field, I don't care what your qualifications are, how much money you have, we're here to help, so feel free to leave a comment.

[DigitalMadeEasy]

Neil is the master for Digital Marketing. Digital Marketing is one of the fastest growing career for 2022 and it really helps with the new age companies to market themselves. Coming from a Digital Marketing agency myself I find these kind of videos very helpful for updating myself. We create Digital Marketing videos on topics specific for "Small Business Owners" in youtube channel to learn and implement from our Tips. Thanks for all the work Neil, you are an inspiration.

[AllInOnekuldeep]

Kindly, make a detailed video on how to start a Digital Marketing Company/Agency. Also, please mention all the ideas to get clients. Thank u very much

[DucNguyenMinh]

I really enjoy this new type of videos. I’m starting my own marketing agency. These small tips are of great value, thank you Neil! Please keep making videos like this

[hasnaatsaimtec]

Hi
Get quality information in this video. I have a question Neil: How to create strong back links for any website without spending money?

[Dezeek]

Great tips Neil. Thanks for sharing your secret!

[danypharel]

This guy is smart AF and he understands how people work

[LawnCrack]

Hey Neil! I have a question! Maybe it would make a good video topic!?!

I personally don't think backlinks are a 'major' ranking factor for local businesses. Could you please share your thoughts on this? And, what do you feel is most important for local businesses? My company excels in local SEO, specifically for our niche of lawn and landscape companies. I personally believe getting all the basic technical SEO correct is very important along with having a good-looking, easy to navigate website that makes it very clear what they do and who they serve. Then schema markup, reviews (specifically Google reviews), getting the Google My Business fully populated and remaining active on it(posting and review fetching), and citation building. And, if they are willing to blog on specific topics of interest to their potential clients, they will crush their competition.

Thanks so much for everything!

[mr.angshuman]

Can I get my site to the first page of Google for any keyword with a site hosted on Wix or Squarespace???

[JasonValasek]

Genius advice to start your own digital marketing agency. Thanks for sharing Neil. You are a good man!

[ScrubInstitute]

Another great stuff! I think i have gone through most of your videos now

[nashvijeyandra]

Greetings Mr Neil Patel,


for starters awesome channel with pointers. Just a question, does this concept works in our country of Singapore. Kindly advise. Thank you sir!

[najverjetnejsa]

Hey Neil, I was wondering how you define confidence vs. arrogance? From the video, I can tell you are super confident and rightly so. Now, the credibility is for sure there but how did you do starting out ?

[ashishtiwaripundit]

Kindly help me with second point? The point about semrush and google adwords... What should I search for? What was the thing discussed? I was unable to understand.

[sainulhasanshahan]

I got my answer. Well, it's 2020 coming. We will be using this strategy. Thanks, Neil.

[subramanianchenniappan]

I need to see all your videos again if I forgot or missed important points . I got bored after being a programmer for 16 years . I need to do independent consulting . Few years back I nranked my family biz website to first page of Google just by seeing your and backlinko(Brain Dean) videos and websites . Now I have some confidence to rank potential clients website . Need to see all your videos on starting agency. As you say checking crunch base is a great idea 😊😊

[BeFoundOnTheWeb]

Thank you, Neil. You are indeed a rocker.

[vdurga-whsw]

Is there any GPS (maps) based marketing tool inorder to do digital Marketing for products / services to the particular locations..

[beckersboxing]

How many campaigns should we run a month for facebook campaigns in order to get a positive roi for restaurants approximately, i know its kind of broad but what kind of spectrum will guarantee repeat clients

[afworld]

Very helpful video sir. thank you both of you I'll apply all these things In my agency that Neal talked in this video.

[AxialWorldwideOnline]

Informative. Nice to understand these. Keep it up! 🥳