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Ankesh I love that idea probably very little competition.
About how many do you have to contact to get a client?
I Know it may vary. Trevor

Originally Posted by Ankesh

Thanks Skip for trying new things and taking action.

Here is an idea: Read a couple of tutorials and learn how to upgrade WordPress (its not that hard or time consuming).

1. Then find blogs and websites that use an older version of WordPress
2. Find their email addresses via WhoIs search
3. Send them an email with the offer: we'll upgrade your WordPress and make it more secure for $100

The conversion rate will be low than folks who don't have a password - because that is a more pressing problem. But the volume should be higher if you can automate the emailing part.

You could potentially do the same thing for Drupal and Joomla and Magento and vBulletin and other CMS systems too.

[Ankesh]

Its not something I have done. So I have no idea how many people you will have to contact to land a client. But it is something that can be automated - so contacting people shouldn't be time consuming.

This is just something that came to my mind when Skip shared his idea. It should be easier to find people who have out-dated WordPress installations than to find people whose designers don't respond anymore. And thats why I shared it - if anyone wanted to twist Skip's idea and test it out.

Here is one more tip: if you do indeed test this WordPress tweak out - then you don't want to use Google to do your research. You want to use a search engine that allows you to search through the "meta tags" of a website. WordPress embeds a meta tag in all their websites that gives the version number.

You want to search for the string:
"generator:wordpress"
or
"generator:wordpress 3"
in a meta tag search engine.
You can replace the number 3 with older WordPress version numbers too.

I personally have my hands full and don't intend to follow through with this idea.

Just some Quick add-on Research related ideas...

Related to Professional Marketing and Finding $$$ Revenue $$$ {Spins} and Ideas in Regards to Everything WordPress connected...

Whether it's Product type development, packaging of WordPress plug-in's, themes, misc. Services, Consulting, JV's, Brokering deals, Fiverr Outsourcing, Specialized Affiliate marketplaces, WordPress networking etc. etc...

Dig into Finding, Spying, Communicating and Neworking with Other's that are Doing Similar business models, ideas, Creative concepts, Especially with Advertising & Pricing of their Services!

You Can Learn a Lot of Great information that way...

Communicating and Brainstorming with the Competition is Nothing to be Afraid of and Can Lead into All Kinds of Mutually beneficial arrangements...

In my books and Many others, it's All about Researching & ''Spying'' on the Particular needed interests within Select Marketplaces...

And with What Other's are Constantly Up Too and Doing? ...

Testing! Testing and More ongoing Testing & Tweeking of Smart intelligence Out There, Especially the Higher-end of Expertise...

I Can tell you WordPress has an ''Incredibly'' Huge marketplace with Lot's of Professional Services out there...

Low End... Selling for Big Bucks!! Bet Ya! Just Look Around well...

Buying... Selling... Outsourcing... Selling... Buying... Outsourcing...

BROKERING! ... Wheeling & Dealing! ...

Definitely! Study their Marketing Campaign's if you're Aiming for the Higher-end Marketing areas...

Always keep an Open Mind whether Digging into Google, Fiverr or Wherever in Deciding your Starting point(s)

Quick Examples...
http://nolanwalker.com/wordpress-web...bsite-pricing/
http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=wordpress&x=0&y=0
https://www.google.com/search?q=Word...ient=firefox-a
https://www.google.com/search?q=crai...ient=firefox-a
https://www.google.com/search?q=word...ient=firefox-a

The Link/Lists/Ideas & related Keyword type Phrases are Truly endless & Easily Simply Done! ...

Phil

Originally Posted by Ankesh

Its not something I have done. So I have no idea how many people you will have to contact to land a client. But it is something that can be automated - so contacting people shouldn't be time consuming.

This is just something that came to my mind when Skip shared his idea. It should be easier to find people who have out-dated WordPress installations than to find people whose designers don't respond anymore. And thats why I shared it - if anyone wanted to twist Skip's idea and test it out.

Here is one more tip: if you do indeed test this WordPress tweak out - then you don't want to use Google to do your research. You want to use a search engine that allows you to search through the "meta tags" of a website. WordPress embeds a meta tag in all their websites that gives the version number.

You want to search for the string:
"generator:wordpress"
or
"generator:wordpress 3"
in a meta tag search engine.
You can replace the number 3 with older WordPress version numbers too.

I personally have my hands full and don't intend to follow through with this idea.

Thanks for the additional tips, now if I only knew what search engine to use...

Eva

[Ankesh]

http://www.gigablast.com is one that I've used before which allows meta tag searching.

There may be others like it too. There are a lot of search engines out there - bing blekko cuil duckduckgo. And then there are API's for search engines too - which you can ask a developer to use to automate the searching and the emailing part.

I've not looked into search engines and their APIs in a long long time - so have no idea which one would be useable however.

But yes - if you want to implement this idea manually - gigablast is a good one to start with.

Beat me on that within {2} Minutes from Around the other Side of the Globe...

Good ol' internet... Simplifying Great information...

Phil

Maybe Ankesh has some better ideas regarding WordPress related search engines...

But in the meantime, my basic formula for Getting Started and Expanding as you Learn from there, Evolve and need more information...
http://www.google.com/search?q=wordp...ient=firefox-a

Phil