seekerofthelivingword
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I’ve run my own SEO consulting business since 2011. Unfortunately there have been about 4.7 trillion “best ways to work from home” articles published in the last 2 years listing SEO as one of the more favorable ways to make money virtually, so between newbies, ad agencies, and others trying to sell SEO its just becoming too saturated.
I started doing SEO in 2004 because it was clear that people would need a starting point when searching for a product or service on the “web”.
It was clear as day that future potential was there, so I did some side consulting for an agency as a freelancer, got experience, worked for a company for 3 years then started my own business in 2011. I offered web dev and SEO, my first 5 years I killed it.
Around 2018 or so SEO in the legal field (I got into the legal niche which was great from a B2C standpoint) was so saturated that it was impossible to compete. My average client stayed around for 3-4 years and I always had a steady pipeline of leads and referrals, but as the market continued to be saturated I had a hard time landing new clients. Once covid came around and marketing budgets were destroyed it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I maintained a few side clients and had to take a job, spent the last 2 years working for 2 different agencies and hated it.
Looking for a new SEO job but every posting out there either doesn’t pay enough or isn’t what I’m looking for. I’m about to sell my house and I want to find a business idea that I think has future growth potential. I don’t trust any of the nft stuff, I have flirted with a virtual call center to help businesses qualify leads as well as a Turo business near an airport renting out cars. I still have some side SEO work but what are some industries or business ideas that you believe have solid growth potential over the next 5,10,20 years?
I started doing SEO in 2004 because it was clear that people would need a starting point when searching for a product or service on the “web”.
It was clear as day that future potential was there, so I did some side consulting for an agency as a freelancer, got experience, worked for a company for 3 years then started my own business in 2011. I offered web dev and SEO, my first 5 years I killed it.
Around 2018 or so SEO in the legal field (I got into the legal niche which was great from a B2C standpoint) was so saturated that it was impossible to compete. My average client stayed around for 3-4 years and I always had a steady pipeline of leads and referrals, but as the market continued to be saturated I had a hard time landing new clients. Once covid came around and marketing budgets were destroyed it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I maintained a few side clients and had to take a job, spent the last 2 years working for 2 different agencies and hated it.
Looking for a new SEO job but every posting out there either doesn’t pay enough or isn’t what I’m looking for. I’m about to sell my house and I want to find a business idea that I think has future growth potential. I don’t trust any of the nft stuff, I have flirted with a virtual call center to help businesses qualify leads as well as a Turo business near an airport renting out cars. I still have some side SEO work but what are some industries or business ideas that you believe have solid growth potential over the next 5,10,20 years?