Formal qualifications aren’t required for this role, however, you will need the confidence to engage with senior managers, business owners and CEOs, with a view to introducing our web marketing services.

This is a home based role (although you may work from one of our offices, if you prefer) and would suit somebody with digital sales experience seeking to work on a full or part-time basis.

While initially a commission-only role, however, we are happy to cover the cost of expenses (such as transport and telephone calls), as well as providing as much as online marketing, SEO & PPC sales training as required.

The terms of your commission are negotiable; for a newly acquired client we envisage paying something like the following:

30% of the first month’s revenue
+ 20% of the second month’s
+ 10% per month for the next 4 months

At the moment most of our clients pay between £500 and £2500 per month. If you bring in one £1,000 client per week, your commission works out to just over £40,000 OTE, although we’re happy to consider part-timers too.

We’re ideally interested in working with freelance or self-employed new media sales people on an ongoing basis, with a view to offering permanent, salaried roles to the right people, as we continue to expand.

About Us

Market Appeal Ltd. is a small (currently 3 staff), but fast growing SEO and paid-search marketing consultancy with offices in NW and Central London and a passion for profitable search engine marketing. We’re determined to secure a significant share of the UK SEO market and are skilled enough to make a difference, yet still small enough to care.

How to Apply

For immediate consideration for this position please email your CV to recruitment@marketappeal.co.uk

Current London, UK market rates for SEO:

Freelance Consultants
SEO day rates here in the UK vary from £200 to £300 for a half decent SEO consultant and probably more for a seasoned specialist.

SEO companies
British SEO agencies tend to range from around £400 to £1,350 with most charging £500-£750 for linkbuilding and £750-£1,000 for SEO audits and other more technical work.

The trick to justifying the higher fees is to work for on bigger companies on larger projects.

For example, if a client approaches me to optimise a website that makes £600 per month then even if I can triple its traffic (and sales) the client is still only £1,200 per month better off, and that’s revenue, not pure profit. At that level it’s hard to justify fees of more than say £500 per month for most clients unless they’re not fussed about making a positive return on investment.

For a client with a website turning over £100,000 per month however (and there are many businesses making more than a million year) even a 10% rise in performance is worth a welcome £10,000 per month to them. At that level fees in the region of £1,000+ per month could well be justified.

And if you imagine lifting the sales of a £10M+ per month business by over 20% then it’s easy to see how fees upwards of £10,000+ per month could become “reasonable”, as long as you can the desired results.

Of course, winning such big contracts isn’t easy and will probably require you to have several years’ experience, a high profile within the SEO community, some big names on your CV and probably a team of support staff too. – In short, the confidence, capability and credibility to manage clients and projects of that scale.

Having said that, I have, once, made the equivalent of £1,000 per hour, although I must confess that it was only for 15 minutes. essentially a client wanted some updates made that would have taken them a couple of days to do manually so they offered me £250 to make the changes for them.

Given my familiarity (unlike my client) with the process in question I managed to make all of the changes requested in 15 minutes by making good use of mass search and replace commands and the like… Hopefully, one day all of my clients will be happy to pay that kind of hourly rate!

I should add that many clients ask for a 10-20% discount or more (some up to 50%) on a companies rates.

So, unless you want to end up working for less than expected, it’s generally better to go in a touch higher, just in case. Besides, perception is (almost) everything and somebody who charges $1,000 per hour “must be good” (at something, if only self-promotion).

Fancy earning over $500 per hour without complaints? All you have to do is start telling people that “that’s a massive discount off you regular rate of $1,000 per hour”.