I've been visiting the local business networking groups

You know what I returned home with?

4 SEO clients who I've provided a free healthcheck report to via my website Pule Consulting

I spoke confidently enough to persuade one guy to suggest I look at his 100,000 product site and introduce an affiliate scheme. Now that could be a big contract.

I joined WA just over 4 months ago. My knowledge was patchy before then.

You gotta learn article marketing but see that as the starting point. PotPieGirl spends a fair bit of her time with local SEO clients nowadays.

Go out and try your hand at the local networking groups. All you need to offer is to get their website to above the fold on Google page 1. That's the holy grail for many of them. That's also part of your basic training in WA.

But remember to give them something of value for free first so they "buy into" you and it proves you know your stuff. Without that you'll be viewed by them with the same cynicism as every other SEO consultant.

I feeeeeeel a tutorial coming...