Find out how inbound marketing can help you attract the right customers for your venture, and make you grow much faster than traditional marketing channels. Plus, it's much more economical as well!

1. How to
Gain Financial & Time Freedom
as well as
Kickstart Your Entrepreneurial Career
with
INBOUND MARKETING
By Syed Irfan Ajmal
CEO, DigitalMarketingROI
Blog: InboundZone

2. Presenter: SYED IRFAN AJMAL
• Serial Entrepreneur
• Co-Founder at the award winning Silk
Route Interactive
• CEO at MQC (inbound marketing agency)
• Certified/approved in Inbound Marketing
from HubSpot, Clarity.fm and
Business.com
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3. • Columnist @ The Huffington Post
• Syndicated Columnist @ Business.com
• Author at InboundZone
(www.inbound.zone)
• MBA from Sweden
• Worked in Sweden & Denmark previously
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Presenter: SYED IRFAN AJMAL

4. Let Me Scare You First
• My first pay was 1500 PKR ($26.31)
• My first online freelance project was worth $10
• I have tried, more than once, to create a
business…
• And so…everyone LAUGHED at me and thought I
was STUPID for trying to work online
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5. Let Me Scare You First
• I work on weekends + national holidays +
Eid days.
• Even worked on the day I was getting
married. (But secretly).
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6. • But I love what I do so it never feels like I
am WORKING
• Inbound Marketing can help you kick start
an entrepreneurial career where you do
what you love and love what you do.
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7. What is Marketing?
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8. Defining Marketing in Less Than 10 Words?
?
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9. Defining Marketing in 9 Words
• Marketing is the act of connecting
customers to products. – Jeremiah
Owyang
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10. Whether you like it or not:
• You are all in the marketing business!
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11. Inbound Marketing
• Rather than going after the clients
through cold calls, spam mail and intrusive
ads, you make them come to you through
helpful content.
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12. Inbound vs Outbound Marketing
Source: www.semdrive.com
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14. Why SEO
• The best place to hide a dead body:
• Page 2 of Google
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16. Why to do Inbound Marketing
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17. Success Story # 1
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30897077
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• Adnan Ibrahim
• Runs Car Throttle
• “Aimed at young car enthusiasts like himself, and filled with videos and articles, he started it in
his bedroom back in 2008” while studying
• 4 million unique hits + 2m FB followers + 250K youtube subscribers
• Revenue in 2015: 1 million GBP

18. Success Story # 2
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Source: http://www.getspokal.com/top-11-most-powerful-content-marketing-examples-by-small-businesses/
• Goodgreens - healthy gluten free, dairy
free bars
• Increased their to $50,000/month (50%
increase in 120 days) by reaching out to
bloggers
• Now sold at 1200 stores

19. Success Story # 3
• Farrukh Zafar
• Sold Gagism.com at $100,000
• Business Model: It’s a jokes site!
Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/413898/early-pay-day-pakistani-sells-web-start-up-for-rs9-5-million/
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20. Online Scams
• Online Surveys
• Spam emails
• Ad Clicking
• Captcha Schemes
• If someone says says: “Pay me $200 & I’ll
give you a job?”
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21. Real Ways to Earn Online
• Freelancing Sites
• Affiliate Marketing
• Blogging (and not just adsense)
• E-commerce Sites
• Online Service Provision (beauty parlor,
psychological therapy, fitness tips,
translation, web design, graphic design,
delivery services)
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22. Skills You Need
• Communication
• English Language (preferable)
• Writing
• Reading
• Online Social Networking
• Coding + Design (preferable but not necessary)
• Psychology
• Business Development
• Marketing
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23. Final Nuggets
“Read 500 pages like this every day…That’s how
knowledge works. It builds up, like compound
interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee
not many of you will do it.”
– Warren Buffett (Billionaire, Investor, Mentor
to Bill Gates)
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24. Final Nuggets
'You are the average of the five people you
spend the most time with.' – Jim Rohn
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25. Final Nuggets
• Shun Mediocrity
• Embrace  Entrepreneurship + Inbound
Marketing
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26. Stop Thinking | Start Acting!
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