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How to make a $10k/mon agency in less than 3 months

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 The easiest way to start an online business is to make a service-based agency.

Let's get right into it.
1. You need to have some skills.

VALUE THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE TO YOUR CLIENTS SO THEY PAY YOU EVERY MONTH.

YOU NEED TO TARGET RETAINER BASED SERVICES TO GET TO $10k/mon fast.

Now, what can you charge a retainer for?
Not web design.
Not logo design/branding.

Try to sell a service which they need every month.

- Lead generation
- Email Marketing
- High ticket sales
- Cold email

Choose one and watch 25 hours of content about it on youtube dot com

Then buy a good course if you can
MARKET RESEARCH:

Don't sell anything to anyone

SEE WHAT'S WORKING

Cold email 50 people asking for a call
Pay 3 of them $20/hr and get to know all their pain points and problems
Now you have a service to sell and you already know fulfillment.

Next

How to find clients:
Finding clients is a simple But, not an easy task.

2 main types for client acquisition:

1. Organic
Cold email, through Facebook groups, engaging in communities, using your social media followers, etc.

2. Inorganic
Paid shoutouts, Facebook/google ads
DON'T EVEN LOOK AT INORGANIC WHEN YOU'RE JUST STARTING.

You need proof of concept before you try to spend $300/day on ads.

Use organic methods.

Engage in communities, add value in Facebook groups, and so on

BUT WAIT

THE BEST CLIENT ACQUISITION CHANNEL IS COLD OUTREACH
I only use cold email as my client acquisition channel.

How to find clients the right way:

> Scrape emails using kleanleads

> Hire a $8/hr research guy

> Write good & short cold emails

> Send 50 cold emaols EVERYDAY

> Ask for a call
✓ Ask 10s of questions ^ interview your prospects

✓ Pitch your $2,000 service on the call

$$$
The research guy is supposed to research every prospect & write a personalized line about each person one by one.

Hire from Upwork for $7-8/hr
Fulfillment:

YOU NEED TO GET THEM RESULTS TO GET PAID.

If you're just starting, you have 2 options:

> WORK FOR FREE

> WORK FOR A CHEAP PRICE IN EXCHANGE OF A VIDEO TESTIMONIAL
Now you need to find more clients.

AND HIRE MORE EMPLOYEES.

EMPLOYEES WHO LOVE TO DO WORK YOU DON'T WANT TO DO FOREVER AND FOR CHEAP.
Hire a sales closer to close sales for you for a 15-20% commission.

Hire project managers.

Admin guys who report to your client and manage the payments.

Data entry guys who do the most monotonous work.

GET YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR BUSINESS.
Talk to @THETYFRANKEL for systems.
But what should I say in the cold email???
Hey {{first name}}. {{first line}}

My name's X and I just helped {{another company like their}} get {{desired result}} using {{your method}}

Now I would like to do the same for you.

Are you free for a quick call this week or next week?
Follow up after some days if they don't reply.

Send 3-4 follow-ups.
About sales calls:

WORK WITH people only if they fulfill your preset criteria.

If they don't, JUST DON'T WORK WITH THEM.

YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO GET THEM RESULTS AND THEY WON'T PAY YOU ALSO.
Get an integromat/zapier subscription

AUTOMATE STUFF YOU DO MANUALLY EVERYDAY
1 tweet checklist:

> Find a problem
> Skill
> 50 cold emails a day
> Get on sales calls with prospects
> Close
> Fulfill
> $$$
NOW GO & IMPLEMENT

STOP DAY-DREAMING & MANIFESTING
If this tweet gets 150 retweets,

I'll do a free live ama
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Subject line:

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We’ve put together a short PDF that explains how I got the results above (in Case study) without x

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Building your high-ticket offer.

Part 1: How to build a service-based agency

{{Hint: This thread can make you $10k easy!}}

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Let's say you are a web designer.

You have 2 options:

Do everything for everyone.

Or

Sell a productized service.

The first option gets you so many clients.

You have to do 9 different things for 7 different people in 4 time zones.

This is NOT RECOMMENDED.

Option 2:
PRODUCTIZED SERVICE.

You do ONE THING for ONE PERSON.

Fewer clients.
But you can charge more since there will be lesser competition.

Plus you will be doing the same thing over and over again.

> Skyrocketing efficiency.
> You can automate/delegate 75% of your work.

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How to build a real agency business instead of working as a freelancer

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Everyone here is all about getting clients and getting clients.

But why will those clients stick with you if you are not able to get the results?

YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON ONE THING:

AND THAT IS
👉 GETTING RESULTS FOR YOUR CURRENT CLIENTS.

I didn't take any client for 5 weeks after I got my first client.

WHY?

Because I had to get results for them.

Now the obvious question:

> How to get results for my clients without grinding for 12 hours a day?

You need 2 things for this:

👉Skills
👉Systems

First, let's talk about skills:

You should have worked for free or on a performance basis for at least 3-9 months before you start charging real money.

This training period will make you confident about your ability to get results and charge large amounts of money.
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Why do these agencies pay an 18 year only random guy $2,500 every month?

Cold email as a service fulfilment explained

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The steps in fulfilling cold email as a service

1. Domain setup
2. Scraping leads
3. Hiring first line writers and writing first lines (most important)
4. Writing scripts
5. Sending emails

1) Domain setup? (onboarding...)

I make it 101% clear that they won't get any meeting booked for the first 2 weeks.

I charge 50% for the first month.

Everything is fully transparent from the beginning so they won't leave me or chargeback

See it in action:

1. I charge $3k normally but $1.5k normally.

2. I don't send any emails for the first 10 days.

3. I use this time to scrape leads & write sequences also.

4. I keep asking questions and for case studies to ensure my scripts in this period.

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- Use https://t.co/rFCiIWzocX
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