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

Thread:

 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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How to become an expert and charge $4,000 minimum.

Part 2: How to build a service-based agency

{{Hint: This can make you $25k easy!}}


For this thread, I am assuming you have:

1. No results
2. No testimonials
3. No previous clients

And if you haven't already,

Here's the part


What you'll be learning:

1. How to position yourself so your prospects don't ask for testimonials?
2. How to get those clients?
3. How much you should charge them?

Positioning:

You don't have to:

> bEG them and say I am willing to work for free

This usually puts all the risk on the other person.

They have to:
> Train you
> Teach you
> Pay for your mistakes

Not worth it for them.
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DONVESH 🗺
@DONVESH
I spent $1000s on software apps in the past 1 year

Here are the top 11 you'd love if you want to start your own agency and make money online

Thread

1/ Notion

For all my writing, SOPs, documentation, drafts, summaries, notes, everything

@NotionHQ is THE BEST out there.

If I had to choose just one app from this list, it would be Notion.

2/ Carrd

I use @carrd for so many 1 page websites that's I won't even count

Simple to use easy landing page builder with no learning curve

You can signup now and have a simple landing page published within 30 minutes

3/ Go High Level

I use @gohighlevel for everything from managing leads in the pipeline to sending emails and text messages.

If you have any kind of agency or use any other CRM, just signup to high-level today and replace like 10 apps by

4/ Figma

If you need to make any kind of graphic, just use Figma.

So much easier than photoshop and really powerful!
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I had no experience.
No testimonials.
No confidence.

I had $150.
A money-back guarantee.
Nothing to lose except my time.

Service?
Lead gen using cold emails.

10+ calls with highly qualified leads every month.

Target?
SEO & FB ads agencies

Price?
$1,200 for month 1
$2,000 from month 2

Guarantee?
100% money back + $100 extra

Here's what I did:

Got 2 domains + Gsuite (~$30)

Got card pro ($19)

Got d7 lead finder & any mail finder (~$70)

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@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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DONVESH 🗺
@DONVESH
How you can increase your revenue by 5000% with a simple content touchpoint strategy.

With a free template

A thread:

Let's start with a basic question:

"What does my prospect already know?"

This question will help you develop your complete funnel in such a way that you can close 50x more deals

Now, let me set this straight right now

You have 3% of your target audience at a stage where they can/will buy from you right now.

The rest 97%?

They are either clueless or they don't care.

Now it's your job, to take them from their current clueless position to a position where they are dying to pay your invoice.

How do you do this?
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Here are the 20 steps of my wild & strange journey:

Hope it's helpful to someone.

[🧵 thread]

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I wrote content every day before I even had a business, just to find my voice.

I started on LinkedIn.

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a thread

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