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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
https://t.co/jewRdcN9Ic

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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.

2) Scraping leads?

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Creative outreach

Close $100k/month deals

And retain your clients for 6+ months

Absolutely no one is talking about this

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You send cold emails

You send LinkedIn connection requests

You tell your SDRs to cold call

You run Facebook retargeting ads

But none of that is working

Today

I'm going to tell you

exactly how you can stand out

And get better results than absolutely everyone else

First of all

You have 2 simple currencies

1. Time
2. Money

If you have more time than you have money

You need to send custom videos to each lead you have scraped

Write personalised emails to each and every one of them

Do this until you have enough money to spend instead of your time.

Now, that you have more money

You need to focus on creative outreach.

DON'T BE A CHEAPO AND STOP BEING SCARED OF SPENDING MONEY.
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How to build a real agency business instead of working as a freelancer

Thread:

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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@DONVESH
How to use a 10-page pdf to close $3000+ deals

With the exact cold email scripts you can use!

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Subject line:

{{name}}, I can help!

Hey {{name}}, [unexpected icebreaker]

{{personalised line}}

I am Donvesh, {{case study}}

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

Just reply to this email with a simple “yes” and I'll send it over!

{{signature}}

Make a lead magnet for your extremely specific niche
And pitch that in your cold emails.

10x more scalable

“I’ve put together a short PDF that explains how I got the results I told you (in Case study section) without xxx”

9-15 page super valuable pdf

And then, ask them if they want it.

The goal here is to make them say YES once and then tag them in another follow-up sequence in your CRM (I use gohighlevel)
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DONVESH 🗺
@DONVESH
How to get your first $2,000 in the next 2 months

Even if you don't have a skill or service to sell

A thread:

I feel you

You don't know anything about this make money online

You don't have any concrete skills

You have no idea what to sell, who to sell, etc.

Well, I was in your position last year

I didn't know anything about anything and was completely overwhelmed by all the information out there

So many threads

So many courses

But none of them tell the basics

Let's solve all your problems, here

No matter how many problems you may have

You will solve all of them and get your first client in the next 60 days
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