u/Ethanos_666

I haven't made a single cold call or spent a dollar on ads in over a year. Here's exactly how.

I'm going to keep this as straightforward as possible because I genuinely think this is one of the most overlooked ways to make consistent money online right now and I don't see enough people talking about it honestly.

Quick disclaimer before I get into it. This is not a get rich quick thing. It took me time to figure out and refine. But once it clicked it has been the most consistent income I have ever generated and I want to share exactly how it works.

So here is the model.

You set up a Google Business Profile for a local service business. Plumbing, HVAC, car detailing, cleaning, landscaping, pest control, whatever. You optimise it correctly so it shows up at the top of Google Maps when people search for that service in that area. People find it, they call the number, you take the booking, and then you send a local subcontractor to actually do the work. You keep the margin. They do the job.

That is the entire business. There is no cold calling. There is no ad spend. There is no inventory. There is no personal brand. You never have to show your face. You never have to physically do any of the work yourself.

The people calling you are not cold leads who need convincing. They searched for the service on Google. They found your listing. They need it done. You are literally just answering the phone and booking the job. The conversion rate on these calls is significantly higher than anything involving cold outreach because the customer already wants what you have before they even dial.

Finding the right market

The first thing you do before touching anything else is validate your market. You need to find an area where there is enough search volume for your chosen service and where the competition is beatable.

For search volume you want to find areas where at least 400 people a month are searching for your service. This gives you enough organic traffic to generate consistent calls once you are ranking.

For competition you open Google Maps in an incognito browser and search your service in your target area. Look at the top three results. If two out of three of them have under 100 reviews that is your signal that you can compete there. You do not need thousands of reviews to outrank people who have been in business for decades. You just need to do the optimisation better than they did which is not a high bar because most of them have no idea what they are doing online.

Mid sized suburbs just outside major cities tend to be the sweet spot. Enough population to generate solid search volume but not so saturated that every listing has 500 reviews.

Setting up your profile

Once you have validated your market you go to Google's business platform and create your listing. The single most important decision at this stage is your business name because it is very difficult to change later without risking your profile.

Your business name needs to contain the exact keyword people are searching for plus the city. So if people search "plumber" more than "plumbing" then your business name needs to include the word plumber not plumbing. This sounds like a small detail but it is one of the most powerful ranking signals you have and most established businesses got it wrong when they named themselves years ago.

Set your service area to the specific suburb you are targeting. Keep it tight rather than trying to cover an entire city. Google rewards relevance and a business that clearly services one area ranks better there than one trying to cover everywhere.

For your phone number use a dedicated number rather than your personal one. This keeps things clean and professional and allows you to track calls and forward them wherever you need as you scale.

Add a website link even if the website is not fully built yet. Google likes to see a complete profile and having a website linked signals legitimacy.

Getting verified

This is the step that trips most people up so pay attention.

Google requires you to verify that your business is legitimate before it will show you in search results. The most common verification method right now involves recording a short video proving your business is real. Google wants to see three things. Your location, proof that your business is an actual operation, and proof that you have access to it.

For a service area business the video process involves filming a street sign near your address, walking to your vehicle which should have some form of your business name on it, showing yourself unlocking the vehicle and opening it, and showing some equipment inside. The AI reviewing these videos is not checking whether your equipment is specifically related to your niche. It just wants to see that you have access to a vehicle and some kind of operational setup.

Film during daylight. Be slow and deliberate with the camera. Make sure everything is clearly visible. Most people get through on the first attempt.

Once verified your profile goes live on Google Maps and local search.

Optimisation and SEO

Being verified is not enough on its own. You need to optimise your profile so Google ranks it above your competitors.

Fill out every single section of your profile completely. Google rewards completeness and activity. Write a description that naturally includes your main keywords multiple times. List every service you offer with individual descriptions for each one. Upload at least ten high quality photos related to your niche. Set your business hours to cover as much of the day as possible. Fill out every attribute and characteristic section even if some of them seem irrelevant.

Respond to every review you receive whether positive or negative. This signals to Google that your business is actively managed.

Post updates on your profile regularly. Google has a posts feature and using it consistently tells the algorithm your business is active and engaged.

The keyword you are targeting should appear in your business name, your description, your service listings and your posts. Not stuffed unnaturally but woven in wherever it makes sense.

Getting reviews

This is the most important trust signal on your entire profile and the thing that will determine whether you rank above or below your competitors more than almost anything else.

You need to reach a review count that is comparable to or exceeds the weakest of the top three competitors in your area. In most suburbs this is somewhere between 15 and 50 reviews to start seeing real results.

Getting these reviews legitimately takes some creativity. Asking friends and family is the obvious starting point. Going to university campuses or populated public areas and asking people around your age is surprisingly effective. Reaching out to local small businesses and offering to exchange reviews with them is another solid method. Some people offer small incentives like a drink or a snack in exchange for an honest review which works well at busy campus areas.

The key thing to understand is that reviews need to come from real accounts that are plausibly located in or near your target area. Reviews from accounts in completely different cities or countries tend not to stick because Google cross references location data.

The fulfilment loop

Once your profile is optimised and reviewed up calls start coming in. Here is what happens from that point.

The phone rings. You answer professionally with your business name and ask how you can help. The customer explains what they need. You take their details and book them in. Then you immediately go and find a local subcontractor who does that service in that area.

Facebook Marketplace is one of the best places to find subcontractors. Search for the service you are offering and reach out to people who are offering it. The pitch is simple. Tell them you are generating consistent calls and cannot take all the jobs yourself. Ask if they would be open to a partnership where they do the work and you split the revenue. A 60/40 split where they take 60 and you keep 40 is a fair starting point and most people doing this work on their own are very open to consistent guaranteed jobs coming in.

For services that can be quoted over the phone like car detailing or basic cleaning you give them a quote immediately and book them in. For higher ticket services like plumbing or HVAC where you cannot accurately quote without seeing the problem you offer a paid inspection. The customer pays a small fee for a technician to come out and assess. The technician quotes them in person. Because they already have skin in the game from the inspection fee the conversion rate to a completed job is very high.

Your subcontractor does the work. The customer pays. You collect your margin and follow up for a review which strengthens your profile and generates more calls.

Rinse and repeat.

Scaling

Once one profile is generating consistent calls you replicate the process in a neighbouring suburb. Same niche, same system, new location. Each additional profile you add compounds your total call volume.

As volume grows beyond what you can manage alone you bring in help to handle the calls and coordinate the subcontractors. There are platforms where you can find virtual assistants in the Philippines for a few dollars an hour who are excellent at exactly this kind of work. Once your VA is trained and handling the day to day your role shifts to oversight and expansion.

The end goal is multiple profiles across multiple niches and cities all generating organic inbound calls with zero ad spend, all fulfilled by subcontractors, all coordinated by a VA. At that point you are genuinely hands off and collecting the margin on every job.

The honest part

I want to be real with you. The first profile takes the most work. Verification can be frustrating. Building your initial reviews takes genuine effort. The first few weeks feel slow because you are laying groundwork rather than seeing immediate results.

But the model is sound. The demand is there. Google sends millions of people to local service listings every single day and most of those listings are owned by tradespeople who have no idea how to optimise them. You come in with a properly set up keyword optimised profile and you take calls they should have been getting.

Give it 60 to 90 days of genuine consistent effort and the results are real.

I have been running this model for a while now and it generates consistent five figure monthly income. I also help a small number of people build and scale their own version of this. If you are serious about actually doing this and want some help getting it off the ground properly just shoot me a message. I am not going to pitch you anything here. If it sounds like a good fit we can talk.

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u/Ethanos_666 — 12 hours ago

I haven't made a single cold call or spent a dollar on ads in over a year. Here's exactly how.

I'm going to keep this as straightforward as possible because I genuinely think this is one of the most overlooked ways to make consistent money online right now and I don't see enough people talking about it honestly.

Quick disclaimer before I get into it. This is not a get rich quick thing. It took me time to figure out and refine. But once it clicked it has been the most consistent income I have ever generated and I want to share exactly how it works.

So here is the model.

You set up a Google Business Profile for a local service business. Plumbing, HVAC, car detailing, cleaning, landscaping, pest control, whatever. You optimise it correctly so it shows up at the top of Google Maps when people search for that service in that area. People find it, they call the number, you take the booking, and then you send a local subcontractor to actually do the work. You keep the margin. They do the job.

That is the entire business. There is no cold calling. There is no ad spend. There is no inventory. There is no personal brand. You never have to show your face. You never have to physically do any of the work yourself.

The people calling you are not cold leads who need convincing. They searched for the service on Google. They found your listing. They need it done. You are literally just answering the phone and booking the job. The conversion rate on these calls is significantly higher than anything involving cold outreach because the customer already wants what you have before they even dial.

**Finding the right market**

The first thing you do before touching anything else is validate your market. You need to find an area where there is enough search volume for your chosen service and where the competition is beatable.

For search volume you want to find areas where at least 400 people a month are searching for your service. This gives you enough organic traffic to generate consistent calls once you are ranking.

For competition you open Google Maps in an incognito browser and search your service in your target area. Look at the top three results. If two out of three of them have under 100 reviews that is your signal that you can compete there. You do not need thousands of reviews to outrank people who have been in business for decades. You just need to do the optimisation better than they did which is not a high bar because most of them have no idea what they are doing online.

Mid sized suburbs just outside major cities tend to be the sweet spot. Enough population to generate solid search volume but not so saturated that every listing has 500 reviews.

Setting up your profile

Once you have validated your market you go to Google's business platform and create your listing. The single most important decision at this stage is your business name because it is very difficult to change later without risking your profile.

Your business name needs to contain the exact keyword people are searching for plus the city. So if people search "plumber" more than "plumbing" then your business name needs to include the word plumber not plumbing. This sounds like a small detail but it is one of the most powerful ranking signals you have and most established businesses got it wrong when they named themselves years ago.

Set your service area to the specific suburb you are targeting. Keep it tight rather than trying to cover an entire city. Google rewards relevance and a business that clearly services one area ranks better there than one trying to cover everywhere.

For your phone number use a dedicated number rather than your personal one. This keeps things clean and professional and allows you to track calls and forward them wherever you need as you scale.

Add a website link even if the website is not fully built yet. Google likes to see a complete profile and having a website linked signals legitimacy.

Getting verified

This is the step that trips most people up so pay attention.

Google requires you to verify that your business is legitimate before it will show you in search results. The most common verification method right now involves recording a short video proving your business is real. Google wants to see three things. Your location, proof that your business is an actual operation, and proof that you have access to it.

For a service area business the video process involves filming a street sign near your address, walking to your vehicle which should have some form of your business name on it, showing yourself unlocking the vehicle and opening it, and showing some equipment inside. The AI reviewing these videos is not checking whether your equipment is specifically related to your niche. It just wants to see that you have access to a vehicle and some kind of operational setup.

Film during daylight. Be slow and deliberate with the camera. Make sure everything is clearly visible. Most people get through on the first attempt.

Once verified your profile goes live on Google Maps and local search.

Optimisation and SEO

Being verified is not enough on its own. You need to optimise your profile so Google ranks it above your competitors.

Fill out every single section of your profile completely. Google rewards completeness and activity. Write a description that naturally includes your main keywords multiple times. List every service you offer with individual descriptions for each one. Upload at least ten high quality photos related to your niche. Set your business hours to cover as much of the day as possible. Fill out every attribute and characteristic section even if some of them seem irrelevant.

Respond to every review you receive whether positive or negative. This signals to Google that your business is actively managed.

Post updates on your profile regularly. Google has a posts feature and using it consistently tells the algorithm your business is active and engaged.

The keyword you are targeting should appear in your business name, your description, your service listings and your posts. Not stuffed unnaturally but woven in wherever it makes sense.

Getting reviews

This is the most important trust signal on your entire profile and the thing that will determine whether you rank above or below your competitors more than almost anything else.

You need to reach a review count that is comparable to or exceeds the weakest of the top three competitors in your area. In most suburbs this is somewhere between 15 and 50 reviews to start seeing real results.

Getting these reviews legitimately takes some creativity. Asking friends and family is the obvious starting point. Going to university campuses or populated public areas and asking people around your age is surprisingly effective. Reaching out to local small businesses and offering to exchange reviews with them is another solid method. Some people offer small incentives like a drink or a snack in exchange for an honest review which works well at busy campus areas.

The key thing to understand is that reviews need to come from real accounts that are plausibly located in or near your target area. Reviews from accounts in completely different cities or countries tend not to stick because Google cross references location data.

The fulfilment loop

Once your profile is optimised and reviewed up calls start coming in. Here is what happens from that point.

The phone rings. You answer professionally with your business name and ask how you can help. The customer explains what they need. You take their details and book them in. Then you immediately go and find a local subcontractor who does that service in that area.

Facebook Marketplace is one of the best places to find subcontractors. Search for the service you are offering and reach out to people who are offering it. The pitch is simple. Tell them you are generating consistent calls and cannot take all the jobs yourself. Ask if they would be open to a partnership where they do the work and you split the revenue. A 60/40 split where they take 60 and you keep 40 is a fair starting point and most people doing this work on their own are very open to consistent guaranteed jobs coming in.

For services that can be quoted over the phone like car detailing or basic cleaning you give them a quote immediately and book them in. For higher ticket services like plumbing or HVAC where you cannot accurately quote without seeing the problem you offer a paid inspection. The customer pays a small fee for a technician to come out and assess. The technician quotes them in person. Because they already have skin in the game from the inspection fee the conversion rate to a completed job is very high.

Your subcontractor does the work. The customer pays. You collect your margin and follow up for a review which strengthens your profile and generates more calls.

Rinse and repeat.

Scaling

Once one profile is generating consistent calls you replicate the process in a neighbouring suburb. Same niche, same system, new location. Each additional profile you add compounds your total call volume.

As volume grows beyond what you can manage alone you bring in help to handle the calls and coordinate the subcontractors. There are platforms where you can find virtual assistants in the Philippines for a few dollars an hour who are excellent at exactly this kind of work. Once your VA is trained and handling the day to day your role shifts to oversight and expansion.

The end goal is multiple profiles across multiple niches and cities all generating organic inbound calls with zero ad spend, all fulfilled by subcontractors, all coordinated by a VA. At that point you are genuinely hands off and collecting the margin on every job.

The honest part

I want to be real with you. The first profile takes the most work. Verification can be frustrating. Building your initial reviews takes genuine effort. The first few weeks feel slow because you are laying groundwork rather than seeing immediate results.

But the model is sound. The demand is there. Google sends millions of people to local service listings every single day and most of those listings are owned by tradespeople who have no idea how to optimise them. You come in with a properly set up keyword optimised profile and you take calls they should have been getting.

Give it 60 to 90 days of genuine consistent effort and the results are real.

I have been running this model for a while now and it generates consistent five figure monthly income. I also help a small number of people build and scale their own version of this. If you are serious about actually doing this and want some help getting it off the ground properly just shoot me a message. I am not going to pitch you anything here. If it sounds like a good fit we can talk.

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u/Ethanos_666 — 12 hours ago

I haven't made a single cold call or spent a dollar on ads in over a year. Here's exactly how.

I'm going to keep this as straightforward as possible because I genuinely think this is one of the most overlooked ways to make consistent money online right now and I don't see enough people talking about it honestly.

Quick disclaimer before I get into it. This is not a get rich quick thing. It took me time to figure out and refine. But once it clicked it has been the most consistent income I have ever generated and I want to share exactly how it works.

So here is the model.

You set up a Google Business Profile for a local service business. Plumbing, HVAC, car detailing, cleaning, landscaping, pest control, whatever. You optimise it correctly so it shows up at the top of Google Maps when people search for that service in that area. People find it, they call the number, you take the booking, and then you send a local subcontractor to actually do the work. You keep the margin. They do the job.

That is the entire business. There is no cold calling. There is no ad spend. There is no inventory. There is no personal brand. You never have to show your face. You never have to physically do any of the work yourself.

The people calling you are not cold leads who need convincing. They searched for the service on Google. They found your listing. They need it done. You are literally just answering the phone and booking the job. The conversion rate on these calls is significantly higher than anything involving cold outreach because the customer already wants what you have before they even dial.

Finding the right market

The first thing you do before touching anything else is validate your market. You need to find an area where there is enough search volume for your chosen service and where the competition is beatable.

For search volume you want to find areas where at least 400 people a month are searching for your service. This gives you enough organic traffic to generate consistent calls once you are ranking.

For competition you open Google Maps in an incognito browser and search your service in your target area. Look at the top three results. If two out of three of them have under 100 reviews that is your signal that you can compete there. You do not need thousands of reviews to outrank people who have been in business for decades. You just need to do the optimisation better than they did which is not a high bar because most of them have no idea what they are doing online.

Mid sized suburbs just outside major cities tend to be the sweet spot. Enough population to generate solid search volume but not so saturated that every listing has 500 reviews.

Setting up your profile

Once you have validated your market you go to Google's business platform and create your listing. The single most important decision at this stage is your business name because it is very difficult to change later without risking your profile.

Your business name needs to contain the exact keyword people are searching for plus the city. So if people search "plumber" more than "plumbing" then your business name needs to include the word plumber not plumbing. This sounds like a small detail but it is one of the most powerful ranking signals you have and most established businesses got it wrong when they named themselves years ago.

Set your service area to the specific suburb you are targeting. Keep it tight rather than trying to cover an entire city. Google rewards relevance and a business that clearly services one area ranks better there than one trying to cover everywhere.

For your phone number use a dedicated number rather than your personal one. This keeps things clean and professional and allows you to track calls and forward them wherever you need as you scale.

Add a website link even if the website is not fully built yet. Google likes to see a complete profile and having a website linked signals legitimacy.

Getting verified

This is the step that trips most people up so pay attention.

Google requires you to verify that your business is legitimate before it will show you in search results. The most common verification method right now involves recording a short video proving your business is real. Google wants to see three things. Your location, proof that your business is an actual operation, and proof that you have access to it.

For a service area business the video process involves filming a street sign near your address, walking to your vehicle which should have some form of your business name on it, showing yourself unlocking the vehicle and opening it, and showing some equipment inside. The AI reviewing these videos is not checking whether your equipment is specifically related to your niche. It just wants to see that you have access to a vehicle and some kind of operational setup.

Film during daylight. Be slow and deliberate with the camera. Make sure everything is clearly visible. Most people get through on the first attempt.

Once verified your profile goes live on Google Maps and local search.

Optimisation and SEO

Being verified is not enough on its own. You need to optimise your profile so Google ranks it above your competitors.

Fill out every single section of your profile completely. Google rewards completeness and activity. Write a description that naturally includes your main keywords multiple times. List every service you offer with individual descriptions for each one. Upload at least ten high quality photos related to your niche. Set your business hours to cover as much of the day as possible. Fill out every attribute and characteristic section even if some of them seem irrelevant.

Respond to every review you receive whether positive or negative. This signals to Google that your business is actively managed.

Post updates on your profile regularly. Google has a posts feature and using it consistently tells the algorithm your business is active and engaged.

The keyword you are targeting should appear in your business name, your description, your service listings and your posts. Not stuffed unnaturally but woven in wherever it makes sense.

Getting reviews

This is the most important trust signal on your entire profile and the thing that will determine whether you rank above or below your competitors more than almost anything else.

You need to reach a review count that is comparable to or exceeds the weakest of the top three competitors in your area. In most suburbs this is somewhere between 15 and 50 reviews to start seeing real results.

Getting these reviews legitimately takes some creativity. Asking friends and family is the obvious starting point. Going to university campuses or populated public areas and asking people around your age is surprisingly effective. Reaching out to local small businesses and offering to exchange reviews with them is another solid method. Some people offer small incentives like a drink or a snack in exchange for an honest review which works well at busy campus areas.

The key thing to understand is that reviews need to come from real accounts that are plausibly located in or near your target area. Reviews from accounts in completely different cities or countries tend not to stick because Google cross references location data.

The fulfilment loop

Once your profile is optimised and reviewed up calls start coming in. Here is what happens from that point.

The phone rings. You answer professionally with your business name and ask how you can help. The customer explains what they need. You take their details and book them in. Then you immediately go and find a local subcontractor who does that service in that area.

Facebook Marketplace is one of the best places to find subcontractors. Search for the service you are offering and reach out to people who are offering it. The pitch is simple. Tell them you are generating consistent calls and cannot take all the jobs yourself. Ask if they would be open to a partnership where they do the work and you split the revenue. A 60/40 split where they take 60 and you keep 40 is a fair starting point and most people doing this work on their own are very open to consistent guaranteed jobs coming in.

For services that can be quoted over the phone like car detailing or basic cleaning you give them a quote immediately and book them in. For higher ticket services like plumbing or HVAC where you cannot accurately quote without seeing the problem you offer a paid inspection. The customer pays a small fee for a technician to come out and assess. The technician quotes them in person. Because they already have skin in the game from the inspection fee the conversion rate to a completed job is very high.

Your subcontractor does the work. The customer pays. You collect your margin and follow up for a review which strengthens your profile and generates more calls.

Rinse and repeat.

Scaling

Once one profile is generating consistent calls you replicate the process in a neighbouring suburb. Same niche, same system, new location. Each additional profile you add compounds your total call volume.

As volume grows beyond what you can manage alone you bring in help to handle the calls and coordinate the subcontractors. There are platforms where you can find virtual assistants in the Philippines for a few dollars an hour who are excellent at exactly this kind of work. Once your VA is trained and handling the day to day your role shifts to oversight and expansion.

The end goal is multiple profiles across multiple niches and cities all generating organic inbound calls with zero ad spend, all fulfilled by subcontractors, all coordinated by a VA. At that point you are genuinely hands off and collecting the margin on every job.

The honest part

I want to be real with you. The first profile takes the most work. Verification can be frustrating. Building your initial reviews takes genuine effort. The first few weeks feel slow because you are laying groundwork rather than seeing immediate results.

But the model is sound. The demand is there. Google sends millions of people to local service listings every single day and most of those listings are owned by tradespeople who have no idea how to optimise them. You come in with a properly set up keyword optimised profile and you take calls they should have been getting.

Give it 60 to 90 days of genuine consistent effort and the results are real.

I have been running this model for a while now and it generates consistent five figure monthly income. I also help a small number of people build and scale their own version of this. If you are serious about actually doing this and want some help getting it off the ground properly just shoot me a message. I am not going to pitch you anything here. If it sounds like a good fit we can talk.

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u/Ethanos_666 — 1 day ago

[HIRING] Commission-Based Closer/Appointment Setter, AI Automations & Websites for SMBs, $500–$5,000 Per Deal

I run a business that builds AI automations and websites for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). Think chatbots, lead capture systems, missed call automations, and clean AI-built websites. The kind of stuff local business owners genuinely need but don't know how to get.

I'm looking for a motivated closer/setter to join me on a commission basis. I'll provide you with a full list of pre-researched leads to work through. You just need to reach out, build rapport, and close.

What you'll be doing:

- Cold outreach (calls, DMs, emails) to local business owners

- Qualifying leads and walking them through what we offer

- Closing deals or setting appointments for a follow-up call

- Following up consistently. This is where most deals actually happen.

- Keeping organised records of outreach, conversations, and deal stages

What I'm looking for:

- Proven experience with cold calling and/or closing B2B

- Comfortable and confident speaking with business owners

- Strong follow-up discipline. You don't let leads go cold.

- Organised, detail-oriented, and self-managed

- Positive mindset and genuinely motivated by results

- Hunger to earn. This role rewards consistency above everything.

Compensation:

- Commission based

- $500 to $5,000 per closed deal depending on the service sold

- Very strong earning potential for someone who is consistent, great at follow-up, and dedicated

- No ceiling. The more you close, the more you earn.

If this sounds like you, DM me with a bit about your background and any relevant experience. Loom videos or voice notes are recommended. I want to get a feel for how you communicate.

Looking forward to finding the right person. Let's build something.

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u/Ethanos_666 — 1 day ago

[HIRING] Commission-Based Closer/Appointment Setter, AI Automations & Websites for SMBs, $500–$5,000 Per Deal

I run a business that builds AI automations and websites for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). Think chatbots, lead capture systems, missed call automations, and clean AI-built websites. The kind of stuff local business owners genuinely need but don't know how to get.

I'm looking for a motivated closer/setter to join me on a commission basis. I'll provide you with a full list of pre-researched leads to work through. You just need to reach out, build rapport, and close.

What you'll be doing:

- Cold outreach (calls, DMs, emails) to local business owners

- Qualifying leads and walking them through what we offer

- Closing deals or setting appointments for a follow-up call

- Following up consistently. This is where most deals actually happen.

- Keeping organised records of outreach, conversations, and deal stages

What I'm looking for:

- Proven experience with cold calling and/or closing B2B

- Comfortable and confident speaking with business owners

- Strong follow-up discipline. You don't let leads go cold.

- Organised, detail-oriented, and self-managed

- Positive mindset and genuinely motivated by results

- Hunger to earn. This role rewards consistency above everything.

Compensation:

- Commission based

- $500 to $5,000 per closed deal depending on the service sold

- Very strong earning potential for someone who is consistent, great at follow-up, and dedicated

- No ceiling. The more you close, the more you earn.

If this sounds like you, DM me with a bit about your background and any relevant experience. Loom videos or voice notes are recommended. I want to get a feel for how you communicate.

Looking forward to finding the right person. Let's build something.

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u/Ethanos_666 — 1 day ago
▲ 89 r/SideHustleGold+1 crossposts

Okay so I made a post a few weeks back about how I make five figures a month with GMB drop servicing. It got over 30k views and I had an insane amount of people reaching out asking questions so I figured I'd write something more detailed and raw for anyone who genuinely wants to understand this model.

Fair warning this is going to be a long one. If you can't be bothered reading it then honestly business probably isn't for you and I've just saved you a lot of time. No offence.

So first things first. This is not a get rich quick scheme. I know that's what everyone says right before they try to sell you something for $3,000 that turns out to be four PDFs and a ghost. I'm not doing that. I'm just going to tell you exactly what I do.

I run what's called GMB drop servicing. GMB stands for Google My Business. You know those listings that pop up when you search plumber near me or car detailing near me on Google Maps? The ones with the star ratings and the phone number? That's what I build. I set them up, I rank them at the top of Google organically, and when people call I send a local subcontractor to do the actual work and I keep the margin.

No ads. No cold calling. No personal brand. Completely faceless. I don't do any of the physical work. I just run the listing.

Here's why this works when everything else feels oversaturated. The people calling you are already warm. They searched for the service. They found you. They need it done. You're not convincing anyone of anything. You're just answering the phone professionally and booking the job. The conversion rate on these calls is insane compared to anything cold.

The market is also genuinely undersaturated right now. Your competition in most suburbs is just actual tradespeople who have no idea how to optimise a Google profile. You come in with the right keywords, the right photos, a solid review count and you outrank someone who's been plumbing for 30 years. Not because you're better at plumbing obviously. Because you understand how Google works and they don't.

Now here's the part most people skip over because they want the shortcut. The setup actually takes work. You have to validate your market using search volume tools. You have to set up the profile correctly with the right business name, the right category, the right keywords in your description. You have to get through video verification which takes patience. You have to build reviews which takes effort and creativity. None of this is difficult but all of it requires you to actually do it.

The people I see fail at this model don't fail because it doesn't work. They fail because they overcomplicate it or they give up after two weeks when their profile hasn't gone viral on Google yet. This is a business. It compounds over time. Your first profile might take a month to start generating consistent calls. Your fifth profile feels like printing money because you've already done it four times and you know exactly what works.

Once the calls are coming in you go on Facebook Marketplace, find a local subcontractor for whatever service you're running, agree on a split where they get the majority since they're doing the actual work, and you keep your margin on every single job. You then just manage the relationship, answer the phone, book the jobs and collect the difference.

Scale it to multiple suburbs. Multiple niches. Hire a VA from OnlineJobs.ph for a few dollars an hour to handle the calls and coordination. At that point you're genuinely hands off and the business runs while you sleep.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you this is easy or that you'll be making ten grand a month in thirty days. What I will tell you is that if you actually set it up properly and give it ninety days of genuine consistent effort the results are real. I've done it. I'm doing it right now.

If you have questions drop them in the comments. Happy to help where I can. If you want to go deeper I put together a full breakdown video on YouTube recently covering the whole process start to finish with zero gatekeeping. Just search ethanwhho on YouTube or drop a comment and I'll send you the link.

Go build something.

u/Ethanos_666 — 9 days ago

I've been doing this for a while now and I don't really see many people talking about it so figured I'd share.

The model is called GMB drop servicing. Basically you set up a Google Business Profile for a local service, plumbing, car detailing, cleaning etc. You optimise it so it ranks at the top of Google Maps organically. People search for the service, find your listing, and call you. You take the booking and send a local subcontractor to do the actual work. You keep the margin.

No ad spend. No cold outreach. Completely faceless. You never do any of the physical work yourself.

Here's what makes it different from every other model:

  • You're capturing people who are already searching and ready to buy, these are warm inbound leads not cold traffic
  • The market is genuinely undersaturated, most local businesses have no idea how to optimise their Google profile so you outrank them easily
  • It scales, once one profile is working you just copy paste the system into new areas and niches
  • Startup costs are minimal, you basically just need time in the beginning

The hardest part is getting your first profile verified and getting your initial reviews. After that it's mostly just a numbers game.

Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

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u/Ethanos_666 — 11 days ago

I've been doing this for a while now and I don't really see many people talking about it so figured I'd share.

The model is called GMB drop servicing. Basically you set up a Google Business Profile for a local service, plumbing, car detailing, cleaning etc. You optimise it so it ranks at the top of Google Maps organically. People search for the service, find your listing, and call you. You take the booking and send a local subcontractor to do the actual work. You keep the margin.

No ad spend. No cold outreach. Completely faceless. You never do any of the physical work yourself.

Here's what makes it different from every other model:

  • You're capturing people who are already searching and ready to buy, these are warm inbound leads not cold traffic
  • The market is genuinely undersaturated, most local businesses have no idea how to optimise their Google profile so you outrank them easily
  • It scales, once one profile is working you just copy paste the system into new areas and niches
  • Startup costs are minimal, you basically just need time in the beginning

The hardest part is getting your first profile verified and getting your initial reviews. After that it's mostly just a numbers game.

I just put together a full breakdown video going through the entire process step by step. Let me know if you want it.

reddit.com
u/Ethanos_666 — 11 days ago

I've been doing this for a while now and I don't really see many people talking about it so figured I'd share.

The model is called GMB drop servicing. Basically you set up a Google Business Profile for a local service, plumbing, car detailing, cleaning etc. You optimise it so it ranks at the top of Google Maps organically. People search for the service, find your listing, and call you. You take the booking and send a local subcontractor to do the actual work. You keep the margin.

No ad spend. No cold outreach. Completely faceless. You never do any of the physical work yourself.

Here's what makes it different from every other model:

  • You're capturing people who are already searching and ready to buy, these are warm inbound leads not cold traffic
  • The market is genuinely undersaturated, most local businesses have no idea how to optimise their Google profile so you outrank them easily
  • It scales, once one profile is working you just copy paste the system into new areas and niches
  • Startup costs are minimal, you basically just need time in the beginning

The hardest part is getting your first profile verified and getting your initial reviews. After that it's mostly just a numbers game.

I just put together a full breakdown video going through the entire process step by step. Happy to have a chat.

reddit.com
u/Ethanos_666 — 12 days ago

I've been doing this for a while now and I don't really see many people talking about it so figured I'd share.

The model is called GMB drop servicing. Basically you set up a Google Business Profile for a local service, plumbing, car detailing, cleaning etc. You optimise it so it ranks at the top of Google Maps organically. People search for the service, find your listing, and call you. You take the booking and send a local subcontractor to do the actual work. You keep the margin.

No ad spend. No cold outreach. Completely faceless. You never do any of the physical work yourself.

Here's what makes it different from every other model:

  • You're capturing people who are already searching and ready to buy, these are warm inbound leads not cold traffic
  • The market is genuinely undersaturated, most local businesses have no idea how to optimise their Google profile so you outrank them easily
  • It scales, once one profile is working you just copy paste the system into new areas and niches
  • Startup costs are minimal, you basically just need time in the beginning

The hardest part is getting your first profile verified and getting your initial reviews. After that it's mostly just a numbers game.

I just put together a full breakdown video going through the entire process step by step. Happy to have a chat.

reddit.com
u/Ethanos_666 — 12 days ago

I've been doing this for a while now and I don't really see many people talking about it so figured I'd share.

The model is called GMB drop servicing. Basically you set up a Google Business Profile for a local service, plumbing, car detailing, cleaning etc. You optimise it so it ranks at the top of Google Maps organically. People search for the service, find your listing, and call you. You take the booking and send a local subcontractor to do the actual work. You keep the margin.

No ad spend. No cold outreach. Completely faceless. You never do any of the physical work yourself.

Here's what makes it different from every other model:

  • You're capturing people who are already searching and ready to buy, these are warm inbound leads not cold traffic
  • The market is genuinely undersaturated, most local businesses have no idea how to optimise their Google profile so you outrank them easily
  • It scales, once one profile is working you just copy paste the system into new areas and niches
  • Startup costs are minimal, you basically just need time in the beginning

The hardest part is getting your first profile verified and getting your initial reviews. After that it's mostly just a numbers game.

I just put together a full breakdown video going through the entire process step by step. If anyone wants me to send it over just drop a comment or DM me.

reddit.com
u/Ethanos_666 — 12 days ago