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by ssharp 4123 days ago
There are six listed examples of tasks you could do. None of those could be effectively done in the 30 minutes you wish for a task to take. Marketing evaluations even on small companies with a low number of pages, landing pages, emails, and conversion funnels should take several hours. In 30 minutes you could provide heuristics/best-practices which could be effective, but could be a waste of everyone's time. I doubt you're going to be able to implement anything in 30 minutes, so you're just giving advice on what to do, which will then take someone else many hours to implement, which is very wasteful if they're implementing the wrong thing. Planning is extremely important.
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On the unlimited plan I can execute on the initial advice in bursts.

For example, if you have a spa in Toronto, Canada. I can make a channel or campaign suggestion and then spend your sessions in the month setting up and optimizing that campaign.

I would leave this thread, but comments like this make me think that you're actually dangerous so I'm going to follow this up. In thirty minutes, you CANNOT learn enough about a single spa, its services, or its competition in its particular area of Toronto to gain any sense on whether or not Adwords is a good channel. I think that you simply have bought so many Facebook/Google ads that it is the only game you know, so it is the only channel you will ever recommend.

I wish you the best and I hope that your advice does not outright kill any companies.

Learning and executing are 2 very separate things.

In 30 minutes you definitely can execute a campaign. Then come back a few days later and spend another 30 minutes reviewing and optimizing.

Learning is something that is very separate from the request process. The 30 minutes is execution time post-learning.

That being said, for quick results Google AdWords is a very reliable channel for hyper local businesses. There definitely are other passive lead generation channels like Instagram, but as an example Google AdWords is an easy go to.

This still doesn't add up. You offer a 24 hour turnaround, yet you hope to learn about a company, plan a campaign around that situation, figure out appropriate metrics to evaluate whether it is effective, and then execute on that in 30 minute bursts.

Even if you can do that, you will have an incredible amount of trouble making a consistent profit unless you can keep your acquisition costs very low. And, frankly, based on what I've seen it's very hard to trust you so I'm not sure how low your acquisition costs could get.