Along the same lines of a small company thinking you are going to screw them over I’ve found that many small shops have been burned at least one or more times when it comes to marketing on the Internet. Below is an excerpt between myself and a past potential client that never panned out.

Client: “This is the point i need to be brutally honest with you, do you know the age old saying of once bitten, twice shy?”

Me: “Yes and I am fairly familiar with it in this industry too.”

Client: “Well in my case, we’re sitting at about 10th bitten, very shy…”

Because I work with local mom and pop operations through out the United States I do believe that what I call the ‘SEO Burn’ is more frequent and troublesome then the other good hurdles you mentioned above.

– 10 minutes of SEO, SEM & Internet Marketing