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How to make a $10k/mon agency in less than 3 months
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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 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
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
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
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
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
Hire from Upwork for $7-8/hr
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
AND HIRE MORE EMPLOYEES.
EMPLOYEES WHO LOVE TO DO WORK YOU DON'T WANT TO DO FOREVER AND FOR CHEAP.
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.
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?
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.
> Find a problem
> Skill
> 50 cold emails a day
> Get on sales calls with prospects
> Close
> Fulfill
> $$$
STEP BY-STEP
— Devesh\u26a1 (@Devesh_wy) January 26, 2021
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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?
- Use https://t.co/rFCiIWzocX
- Find the target niche
- Scrape emails
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Many founders don’t want to talk to their customers because it makes them vulnerable, because it's hard work, because it's scary. Creating a tight feedback loop with customers is the one thing that will help you discover PMF.
If a customer isn't one of your cofounders, try to create a customer panel that allows as tight of a loop as possible. Call them daily. Put them in your Slack.
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Finding product market fit is the critical thing to do in a startup.
Everything else: demo day, what investors you get, how much you raise, what press covers you -- it is all window dressing.
Many founders don’t want to talk to their customers because it makes them vulnerable, because it's hard work, because it's scary. Creating a tight feedback loop with customers is the one thing that will help you discover PMF.
If a customer isn't one of your cofounders, try to create a customer panel that allows as tight of a loop as possible. Call them daily. Put them in your Slack.
My Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear has a great analogy on PMF here: it's like rolling a boulder downhill.
1/ What is \u201cproduct/market fit\u201d? I\u2019m not sure I can give you a definition. But maybe I can share what the subjective difference is in how it feels when you have it and when you don\u2019t. Founding a startup is deciding to take on the burden of Sisyphus: pushing a boulder up a hill.
— Emmett Shear (@eshear) July 27, 2019
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