I struggled constantly to keep these clients as they typically can't really afford to pay you that much per month since they're likely looking for you to save their business as a last ditch effort before they have to close up shop.
I'm sure you can relate...
Getting a handful of clients paying your $1500 or more per month fee, only to have one or more drop you within the first three to four months...and just when you felt like you were finally going to start making a decent amount of money per month, you go from a healthy $7500 or so back down to paltry $3000 or so again like a yo-yo.
It's time to get out of the rat race...
So rather than keep banging your head against the wall trying to figure out what you might be doing wrong or questioning if this is for you, you need to come to the realization that most small business owners simply cannot afford it.
The honest truth is that if they could actually afford to pay you those high ticket monthly fees, then they probably would not need you or they would probably be using a high-end digital marketing agency or firm.
One day it dawned on me that there's got to be a better way...
This happened when my wife and I were talking about our budget and trying to scale back our monthly spending and we would look at all major expenses to see what we could do about them, but never thought twice about the smaller 'micro' expenses like that pesky Netflix subscription for $7.99 (back in the day - $12.99 now - I know) as it was just too much hassle to cancel even though when you add up all the $7.99 type subscription fees you're paying per month they end up being as much as one of those major expenses.
Well that's how most small business owners do it too when they are struggling to make ends meet. They look at the major expenses first, you at $1500/mo. or more, and then you're the first to be cut leaving you high and dry looking for your next client to replace that missing income.
That's when I came up with the idea of offering various digital marketing services at no-brainer price points like $99 and $199 per month.
The trick was that those services I was about to offer would have to be pretty much set and forget so I could do the work one time and get paid month-after-month, year-after-year for client-after-client.
That's when Micro Automated Services was born...
So if you're still struggling to have a stable income working as a Local Business Consultant...