Getting My First Ever YES (Video Marketing Agency)

[Andy Black]

It's a feeling where you know you're valuable

I think it’s more than knowing you or your product is valuable. You also know you can make sales.

 

[Marcos Morales]

Wanted to share some more of the hard parts of the process - not just the great parts.

The past two days have been so difficult as I've been trying to figure out how the hell to use website software. It's been quite frustrating to understand and I feel like I wasted a lot of time so far trying to figure out how to set this thing up. As of right now, I've probably got another day that I need to put in to get the site fully up and running.

It's honestly been teeth-gritting frustrating lol. I now understand why people hire web designers, but I personally didn't see the value in giving someone a thousand bucks to make it, rather I could just make it myself.

I just know that once I just get this damn website up I can get to the fun stuff of this business I'm in.

It's turning into what seems to be the real entrepreneurial grind, It wasn't until I got a couple clients that I actually feel like I have an ability to sit in a chair and work from 8 am to 10 pm at night. I almost lost track of time today and caught myself at 1:00pm and got myself to get my a$$ to the gym.

That's the current update!

Hey, brother!

I've read all your thread (after searching for "TikTok"-related posts) and the least I can say, is that I'm happy for you.

That successful peace of mind you're talking about is really what we all unconsciously seek when doing business.

Now, is there something I can help you with related to fully setting and running up such a website you're talking about?

I'll do my best to help with the knowledge and experience I acquired helping several clients for 2 years with my Esports-based Marketing agency. Of course, free of cost.

Being completely transparent here, I'm more into seeing if we can fit our needs by offering TikTok marketing services together.

 

[mikecarlooch]

Lol. I'm always slightly worried when people get logos made...

Lol!! don’t worry i spent about 5 minutes talking to the designer

 

[Edgar King]

Dude, your story is uber-inspring and the growth is phenomenal! I'm super proud of you lol! What mattered was correcting the heart and aligning it with your work and once that's done, well, things tend to fall into place. Regardless, here's to going further beyond!

 

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[Andy Black]

We create short videos that help businesses (in a specific niche) get thousands of eyeballs.

That’s pretty clear.

I notice a few people in their progress threads struggling to find consistent/competent video editors. Do you want to change your thread title to get more of their eyeballs?

 

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[Diego Liu]

Awesome progress thread. Just read through it all. Really inspiring.

I'm recently looking to upgrade the video quality but have felt overwhelmed with everything that needs to get done. This is what my checklist looks like:

Update -

So today I went through the process of posting a job on a VA website

Until today, I never knew that people actually will do quality work for 4 dollars an hour.

My goal of posting this job wasn't just to hire a VA, but also to get them to do my SOP's FOR me. In my job description, I told them that in the e-mail they send to me, list out every single step of the process that you do while creating the work (i didn't mention this was for SOP's, I made it so that it's an "entry barrier" that most people on there won't do. The ones that did do it AND sent quality work are the one's i'm giving serious consideration to hiring.)

As soon as these VA's started sending me their work (i told them to edit something I put in a folder), I realized that these people were doing better work than I could do myself AND the were desperate to join my team for such a low cost, it taught me a very valuable lesson.

You don't need to know how to do the services in the business, you just need to have the skill and capital to find and hire people that do know how to do it.. And then all you need to do is focus on selling. I've heard people say this a lot, but never really understood it until I experienced it today.

It's quite amazing.. I've gotten 20 real e-mails with work sent to me today, and it just puts it into perspective. 20 people took 20-30 minutes out of their day to compete for me to give them $240 a month in a job.

Man, I love learning. The only barrier I've ever had in my life when I didn't know what to do (which felt like the end of the world) was knowledge. It sounds cliche, but KNOWLEDGE is everything for me. I didn't know it was possible to hire a video editor for 4 dollars a video until I asked the question to someone who KNEW it.

Thanks for giving me the perspective. My limiting belief really held me back. I thought I must do everything myself first so that I can document the process and outsource later, but making other people do the SOP for me is freaking genius.

Keep up the great work!

 

[Andy Black]

making other people do the SOP for me is freaking genius.

Yes. Hire people who’ll create the SOPs as well as do the work.

People, processes, technology. In that order. The right people will create the processes for less experienced people. Even better if they create the technology to help implement those processes.

 

[Andy Black]

if you were a customer of mine and you found out that I was paying people in the Philippines $4 a video for your services, would you want to continue working with me? Hell to the no.. right?

Why would it matter to me what your costs were or how you produced my results?

 

[Edgar King]

**PROCESS UPDATE**

This is more of a mindset post. I've been in complete producer mode the past month, its been some of the happiest days of my entire life.

For the first time, I feel like if I lost everything I could start over and be successful.

For a long time, it wasn't like that. I was extremely scared of what the hell I was going to do with my life after high school.. I would always put on a confident act to make it seem like I had my sh*t together... but in reality, I was all over the place.

Every time someone would ask me "So, what are you going to do with your life?", I'd get extremely insecure about it and every time I'd say "entrepreneur" people would look at me like "ooo...kay this kid is a nut job and probably has no future"

The reason I felt insecure about it is because I had no knowledge and I knew deep down that I hadn't taken any action, and I didn't know how.. THAT was my deepest insecurity. The fact that I was uneducated on the very thing that I wanted to be my entire life.

Now when someone asks me what I want to do I look them in the eye and tell them I identify as a motherf**king entrepreneur. I say it with confidence. throw me on the side of the road with a dollar and I'll figure out how to provide value and do it.

If you're someone who doesn't yet have that confidence yet, don't worry. It's just a lack of education and a lack of action that is making you feel that way. Every single time I get stressed out about a particular thing relating to business, I now understand that it's just a sign I need to pick up a book relating to it and learn something new.

For example, one of my biggest stressors used to be time management. I had no idea how to do it until I started reading and found out in a book called The Ultimate Sales Machine that time management is as simple as writing down the 6 most important things you need to do, limiting distractions, getting the most important stuff down in the morning, and estimating the amount of time each task is going to take.

Now with that knowledge and having taken action on it, I have mental clarity. Stress is just a sign that you need to learn something new..

I want to learn to advertising. My first thought was fear and stress. That was until I reminded myself there's about 17+ amazing books on advertising that have actionable things you can do.

-

The past few months for me have made me completely forget about the normal way of living - the way I've been told to live by family, teachers, and guidance counselors in school.

I now have a solidified belief that holding a job is even more risky than entrepreneurship. For years while I was in high school everyone would constantly be telling me to get a job and it was an absolutely miserable time in my life even though I was making good money reselling things online.

They would say "All you do is sit at your computer, eat, and go to the gym, when are you gonna get up off your a$$ and get a job?"

Nowadays this doesn't affect me. I now live by the following: If I have something someone wants, it will pay 100X better than working a desk job at the gym. Not just in money, but in time and knowledge. Finding that thing, finding customers/clients, and putting that into action is a much better use of time, even if it fails, than spending 12 hours a day twiddling my thumbs on Instagram behind a desk.

For some reason, for us young people, our parents and people around us see getting a job as a more productive thing than offering value to the world. When we say we do something else, we are labeled a loser. It makes no sense!

The other day I was with one of my slowlane mentality family members, I looked at the sky and said "did you know some stars are bigger than the sun?" They were like "WOW OMG REALLY.. YOU'RE SO SMART LOOK AT YOU!!"

But then when they ask me what I want to do with my life and I explain an entire opposite way of thinking to them and the Fastlane cents commandments like the back of my hand, there's no excitement. Instead they look at me like a lost kid and go behind my back and chit chat about how they're worried for my future.

But now it doesn't matter anymore - all that matters is my results. I've taught myself to completely blockade all of those comments and instead understand the reality of the world: Money is an exchange of value between two parties and if you have something someone wants and deliver on it, they will give you money for it.

That's all for now, had a urge to put this message out there.

Thanks for reading

Mike

Well done! Reminds me of the saying that "All value is, is taking people from where they are (Point A) to where they want to be (Point B) and letting them know that your solution is the vehicle to get them there.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MipRmAY7rs

 

[BizyDad]

Hey Looch, you gotten your second and third Yesses yet?

I was thinking with your background, it'd be pretty easy for you to target gyms for content creation on TikTok. Help trainers get clients. Maybe branch in the massage therapists and chiropractors.

 

[mikecarlooch]

Hey Looch, you gotten your second and third Yesses yet?

I was thinking with your background, it'd be pretty easy for you to target gyms for content creation on TikTok. Help trainers get clients. Maybe branch in the massage therapists and chiropractors.

I'm actually at my 5th currently !

Probably a good idea yea.. haven't tried those niches because i'm not sure how many of them can afford it. Maybe a limiting belief but I'll get back to you after prospecting them!

 

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[Andy Black]

I know what my product is and what it does.. but how the hell do I communicate it in a way where i'm not talking on the phone for 15 minutes.. how do i communicate my product in a simple way without all of the above happening?

Keep talking to people, but trying to help instead of trying to sell?

Have you watched/listened to "Who have you helped?" in my signature?

 

[mikecarlooch]

My Cold Call Journey Part 2
​

Before I started my journey with cold calling, I thought it was going to take me hours upon hours to build a list of people to call..

But then I remembered, there's people in different parts of the world who have been doing lead generation for YEARS.. why should I do it when I can just hire someone on upwork?

So I did. I posted a job on upwork detailing the exact criteria for businesses I wanted to contact and in what area. I asked for 100 leads and said I'd paid 25 cents per lead (got that price after watching a video relating to this topic)

Within 15 minutes, I had 8 applicants, chose the best one, and put $25 into an escrow!

I was given a sample lead and was happy with it.. I'm currently waiting on the full list until tomorrow.

Since my first experience with cold calling at the beginning of the week, I have gone through Josh Braun's B2B course as recommended by @IceCreamKid and it helped me put together and personalize almost every single piece of communication I need from cold calling prospects to getting a sale.. (Josh preaches education based marketing just like in the book The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes)

I now feel much more confident in my upcoming cold calls!

 

[mikecarlooch]

Followed the whole thread and I think you're doing an amazing job!

I am into Dropshipping, but until now it's been a roller coaster for me...

From what I understood - you are focused on diff funnels to get prospects:

1)grabbing a video in Loom with an explanation of what the customer could be doing better.
My Q: Where do you send that video? Do you also try to send to the company's general email ( high chance it will land in the trash )? Or do you only contact the company's owner ( via email ) or DM them via IG or TikTok?
How do you see the effectiveness of this funnel, and also the response from the leads as they are the ones you have found?

2)Cold emails, ( leads from Upwork or another freelance platform) -> sending people to a landing page with an offer.

3)Cold calls ( same as above, leads from Upwork or another freelance platform).
My Q: do you schedule Zoom meetings with the folks from cold calls to talk more about the service or try to close the deal on call?

Have I missed some other funnel?

Loved your editing skills, especially with that video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/psfMLZ9uQNQ
- do you take stock footage from some pages or directly from TikTok?

Cheers!

Thanks Mike!

I've actually grown to not use any of the above anymore.

They were just small snippets of times when I was super confused about how to get more clients, and I also hated going and intruding on someone else's attention through a cold call or email trying to get them to buy something.

It has been a MUCH better strategy so far to create value and then distribute all of that value, such as articles on this forum (I can't say I've done too much distribution of articles yet, but for the little I have it's working!)

The thing I love about the current strategy to get inbound leads is that people are already warmed up. They already know who I am, they are coming to ME because something I said on the forum was valuable.. Therefore they proceeded to click the links in my account and see that I offer unlimited video editing.

If this is something they need, they will automatically think of me first whenever they're thinking they need video editing.

So instead of building cold calling skills or cold email skills, I'm actually taking a different approach.

I've declared that I need to be unbelievably knowledgeable, I need to be extremely entertaining, and I need to publicize myself as much as possible through short videos, articles, podcast appearances, etc.

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In terms of editing, all of those motion graphics are from motion array.


-mike

 

[mikecarlooch]

Curious about this part. How was he aware of you and your TikTok skills? And how did you know he was aware of you?

Friend Of a Friend!
So he didn't know me, but was in need of what I knew, and since he trusted my friend, I guess he trusted his word on me
(and so my friend gave me the phone number of the client and I texted him)

 

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[mikecarlooch]

Add writing well to your list of talents.

Glad you got out of your way and just started helping people (and getting paid).

Nice sized Yes too.

PS: Think of him as a client rather than a customer. That conjures up images of white glove treatment.

Thank You Andy!

 

[Odysseus M Jones]

2019

Sitting in my dark room with things all over the place, I scrolled through YouTube. Video after video, trying to figure out exactly how to make a my "own business" by constantly watching videos about how Warren Buffett made 100 gazillion dollars and I would walk around talking about how I had "3 businesses I wanted to start." None of which ever happened.

All of the content I was consuming was from people who weren't giving actual advice on how to start a business, but just saying "work hard" and "do what you love" and it got so hard in my head trying to figure out what to do that I had panic attacks and constant anxiety thinking about how the hell to start a business!

I made my fair share of money in sports cards, ebay, amazon, and crypto currency, but every single time I'd see someone making a REAL business that was my age, I would envy them. Because for a long time my life was sitting in my room constantly refreshing ebay prices to see if the prices of my basketball cards were going up in price. I would scroll on social media ALL day and see these kids my age making all this money.
ff
"How... HOW ARE THEY DOING IT?" "WHAT IS THE SECRET? I'LL DO ANYTHING.. HOW DO I START??"

My heart would be racing, I wouldn't be able to socialize with people, I had so many limiting beliefs, because every second of the day was about trying to figure out how a business is ran by teaching myself by telling myself thoughts in my own mind, but doing this would just lead to more stress.

But still, there was only one influencer that I would listen to (garyvee) and everyone that was NOT garyvee I considered a scammer. I didn't read any books, didn't even take into account that there were people OUT THERE giving ACTUAL business advice (If I had found MJ 3 years ago, my life today at 19 would be significantly different)

For a while, I gave up. My literal reasoning for why was "maybe they have some kind of wiring in their brain that I don't". or "I guess I'm just not a natural entrepreneur like gary vee said and I didn't want to accept it this whole time"

I started trying meditation, trying to live a "media-less" life, getting into spirituality, as a way to get out of the constant anxiety I was in trying to figure out how to start my 3 businesses. I had quit trying to make content on the internet for a long time after spending literally whole days trying to think of videos to make for each platform.

Then, in January of 2022 (yes, I had a "new years resolution" to figure this out for real) I quit watching gary vee, I quit watching all the stuff that clearly wasn't moving me forward for the past two years except for some luck with basketball cards and crypto currency. I had tens of thousands of dollars as an 18/19 year old, but no idea what to do from that point on because all the money I had made came so easy in market booms.

For the first time, I ripped ADHD self apart and picked up a book for the first time. Next thing you know... I was READING FOR 5 HOURS. Holy crap. This was a book about nutrition, what if I read books about business? Could I find the answer?

While listening to a podcast, I did. someone mentioned Unscripted , and I read the entire book, and was completely fascinated by it, but still didn't understand HOW business worked. I didn't know that. But I was SO Excited.. I felt such a sigh of relief, feeling like I had cracked the code. For the first time I got myself to schedule a session for "deep work" after reading deep work by cal newport, and I made a promise to myself that every single morning, before the gym, before eating, I would go and get into a state of depth for work even if I had no idea what to do.

Overnight, my life went from an absolute mess, to having a planned out daily schedule for the first time in my life

Wake Up->Meditate->Cold Shower->Deep Work With No Phone->Make TikToks->Gym->Read->Deep Work->Brazilian Jiu Jitsu->Sleep->Repeat

My "deep work" was writing self improvement books and setting up a kajabi website to sell some kind of product (I didn't know what the hell I was doing, but I still got it set up.) After a week, I had my kajabi website set up and I was reading Russell Brunson's DotCom secrets. I didn't really take what Russell was saying to heart at the time, because I still viewed him as a "scammer". (Looking back now though, that book is one of the best books I've ever read.)

After staying consistent, I put together one of the worst products someone could ever create. (a book that had no plan behind it and took me 5 days to write) and put it out there and sold 10 copies because my audience was growing well because I understand TikTok very well and started growing my following for self improvement.)

Even though the product was awful, I had never felt more accomplished in my life. I felt like I was actually "DOING BUSINESS". Was 99% of what I was doing action fakes? Yes. But it didn't feel like it at all.

After realizing that it wasn't working, I tried something else. I was still so excited that someone would even BUY my book in the first place, so I decided to make MORE products. I tried to add coaching programs, tried to sell 1-1 consultations on fiverr, I planned to make a fitness course, I put all of these products out into the world and just went on social media and told people "Buy this", but no one did.

I was proud of myself for taking action, but very frustrated because I didn't know why the hell I wasn't rich yet?

I decided to forget about it, and for a few months I just decided to read more books because that's where I got my first bit of information from. I read TMF , The Great Rat Race Escape , Influence, ALL of these different books which finally started to give me the answers to HOW to do business.. I had one part of it down..

Value. Okay. I need to give Value.. But what else, How do I give Value?

I found another book that I had been putting off for a long time because I again perceived the author a scammer. His name is Alex Hormozi. One day, I got my head out of my a$$ and I read his book $100M offers, all of it in one day.

"Holy Shit" I thought to myself "This is it. This is all I need to do. This is the secret If I just could have known this whole time I would've understood business!"

Step 1. What product are you going to sell Step 2. Who are you going to sell it to Step 3. How are you going to get them to see it Step 4. Make an offer so good that they can't refuse it.

And then to top it off, I read a post by @Andy Black that was talking about how you don't NEED a website. You don't NEED any of this stuff you think you need. All you need is SALES. Earned traffic, paid traffic, manual outbound, reaching out to PEOPLE. Talking to PEOPLE and showing them MY OFFER. and if they TRUST ME, because they've SEEN ME BEFORE, and they also NEED my product, they will give me money!

"Duh Stupid! This is what you've been trying to find out for the past 2 years and you just found it out within a couple hours!" I thought to myself.

So that's what I did. But what am I good at? What value can I give people? I know how to make tiktoks... I know how to workout... But do people really need this?

In order to get myself to believe what all of these people were saying, I would need to see it work. I would need someone to say yes to my offer..

I decided to call a business owner that didn't KNOW me, but was aware of me to make him an offer on TikTok marketing.

This business owner was a motivated buyer for what I had. He said to me "I want my own personal brand on TikTok, how do I do it??" So we got on a sales call, and I was soso nervous. My first sales call... Ok what do I know.. I had studies Alex Hormozi's CLOSER framework like the back of my hand.. So I decided to go with that.

But the price... What was I going to charge?! This guys my first customer.. He doesn't even know it.. Do I charge $500?? No. $3000 for 2 months of marketing. Alex always says if there's one thing you should do, charge a lot of money. That was what I was going to say..

And so I did.

Guess what happened

"Okay I'll pay the 3 grand just send me a proposal"

"HOLY F**K. WHAT THE F**K?" I thought to myself.

And now here I am today, typing this. Looking for new prospects doing the same thing. Excited as hell for the future.

Am I rich yet? No. But I feel like I know how to be now, and the outcome of ALL of this was mental clarity, something I have been seeking for years.

I hope you guys enjoyed my story,

Thanks for reading!

Tldr
But re this
"Getting My First Ever YES"

Was she pretty?
Was it a she?
And more importantly, was she human?

Well it does say "ask me anything" in your profile

And your post does begin with

Sitting in my dark room with things all over the place

 

[Andy Black]

Friend Of a Friend!
So he didn't know me, but was in need of what I knew, and since he trusted my friend, I guess he trusted his word on me
(and so my friend gave me the phone number of the client and I texted him)

Aha. Referrals is how I get most of my business.

I thought you’d maybe got some TikTok channel about how to grow on TikTok, but then couldn’t imagine a $3k client spending enough time on TikTok to find you.

 

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[mikecarlooch]

That sense of peace comes from *knowing* you can now eat what you kill. Lose these two clients and you know you can get more. Need cash fast? Get a couple more clients.

That peace will help you when you’re chatting to people now. Business owners will sense you’re not desperate, and that will make you more attractive to them.

Well done.

Thanks Andy!!

This is EXACTLY how I feel ! Of course I want to deliver insanely good service so they can be happy and they refer me to others, but I do have that sense of security you're talking about. It's a feeling where you know you're valuable, a good one!

 

[its_me_eddy]

2019

Sitting in my dark room with things all over the place, I scrolled through YouTube. Video after video, trying to figure out exactly how to make a my "own business" by constantly watching videos about how Warren Buffett made 100 gazillion dollars and I would walk around talking about how I had "3 businesses I wanted to start." None of which ever happened.

All of the content I was consuming was from people who weren't giving actual advice on how to start a business, but just saying "work hard" and "do what you love" and it got so hard in my head trying to figure out what to do that I had panic attacks and constant anxiety thinking about how the hell to start a business!

I made my fair share of money in sports cards, ebay, amazon, and crypto currency, but every single time I'd see someone making a REAL business that was my age, I would envy them. Because for a long time my life was sitting in my room constantly refreshing ebay prices to see if the prices of my basketball cards were going up in price. I would scroll on social media ALL day and see these kids my age making all this money.
ff
"How... HOW ARE THEY DOING IT?" "WHAT IS THE SECRET? I'LL DO ANYTHING.. HOW DO I START??"

My heart would be racing, I wouldn't be able to socialize with people, I had so many limiting beliefs, because every second of the day was about trying to figure out how a business is ran by teaching myself by telling myself thoughts in my own mind, but doing this would just lead to more stress.

But still, there was only one influencer that I would listen to (garyvee) and everyone that was NOT garyvee I considered a scammer. I didn't read any books, didn't even take into account that there were people OUT THERE giving ACTUAL business advice (If I had found MJ 3 years ago, my life today at 19 would be significantly different)

For a while, I gave up. My literal reasoning for why was "maybe they have some kind of wiring in their brain that I don't". or "I guess I'm just not a natural entrepreneur like gary vee said and I didn't want to accept it this whole time"

I started trying meditation, trying to live a "media-less" life, getting into spirituality, as a way to get out of the constant anxiety I was in trying to figure out how to start my 3 businesses. I had quit trying to make content on the internet for a long time after spending literally whole days trying to think of videos to make for each platform.

Then, in January of 2022 (yes, I had a "new years resolution" to figure this out for real) I quit watching gary vee, I quit watching all the stuff that clearly wasn't moving me forward for the past two years except for some luck with basketball cards and crypto currency. I had tens of thousands of dollars as an 18/19 year old, but no idea what to do from that point on because all the money I had made came so easy in market booms.

For the first time, I ripped ADHD self apart and picked up a book for the first time. Next thing you know... I was READING FOR 5 HOURS. Holy crap. This was a book about nutrition, what if I read books about business? Could I find the answer?

While listening to a podcast, I did. someone mentioned Unscripted , and I read the entire book, and was completely fascinated by it, but still didn't understand HOW business worked. I didn't know that. But I was SO Excited.. I felt such a sigh of relief, feeling like I had cracked the code. For the first time I got myself to schedule a session for "deep work" after reading deep work by cal newport, and I made a promise to myself that every single morning, before the gym, before eating, I would go and get into a state of depth for work even if I had no idea what to do.

Overnight, my life went from an absolute mess, to having a planned out daily schedule for the first time in my life

Wake Up->Meditate->Cold Shower->Deep Work With No Phone->Make TikToks->Gym->Read->Deep Work->Brazilian Jiu Jitsu->Sleep->Repeat

My "deep work" was writing self improvement books and setting up a kajabi website to sell some kind of product (I didn't know what the hell I was doing, but I still got it set up.) After a week, I had my kajabi website set up and I was reading Russell Brunson's DotCom secrets. I didn't really take what Russell was saying to heart at the time, because I still viewed him as a "scammer". (Looking back now though, that book is one of the best books I've ever read.)

After staying consistent, I put together one of the worst products someone could ever create. (a book that had no plan behind it and took me 5 days to write) and put it out there and sold 10 copies because my audience was growing well because I understand TikTok very well and started growing my following for self improvement.)

Even though the product was awful, I had never felt more accomplished in my life. I felt like I was actually "DOING BUSINESS". Was 99% of what I was doing action fakes? Yes. But it didn't feel like it at all.

After realizing that it wasn't working, I tried something else. I was still so excited that someone would even BUY my book in the first place, so I decided to make MORE products. I tried to add coaching programs, tried to sell 1-1 consultations on fiverr, I planned to make a fitness course, I put all of these products out into the world and just went on social media and told people "Buy this", but no one did.

I was proud of myself for taking action, but very frustrated because I didn't know why the hell I wasn't rich yet?

I decided to forget about it, and for a few months I just decided to read more books because that's where I got my first bit of information from. I read TMF , The Great Rat Race Escape , Influence, ALL of these different books which finally started to give me the answers to HOW to do business.. I had one part of it down..

Value. Okay. I need to give Value.. But what else, How do I give Value?

I found another book that I had been putting off for a long time because I again perceived the author a scammer. His name is Alex Hormozi. One day, I got my head out of my a$$ and I read his book $100M offers, all of it in one day.

"Holy Shit" I thought to myself "This is it. This is all I need to do. This is the secret If I just could have known this whole time I would've understood business!"

Step 1. What product are you going to sell Step 2. Who are you going to sell it to Step 3. How are you going to get them to see it Step 4. Make an offer so good that they can't refuse it.

And then to top it off, I read a post by @Andy Black that was talking about how you don't NEED a website. You don't NEED any of this stuff you think you need. All you need is SALES. Earned traffic, paid traffic, manual outbound, reaching out to PEOPLE. Talking to PEOPLE and showing them MY OFFER. and if they TRUST ME, because they've SEEN ME BEFORE, and they also NEED my product, they will give me money!

"Duh Stupid! This is what you've been trying to find out for the past 2 years and you just found it out within a couple hours!" I thought to myself.

So that's what I did. But what am I good at? What value can I give people? I know how to make tiktoks... I know how to workout... But do people really need this?

In order to get myself to believe what all of these people were saying, I would need to see it work. I would need someone to say yes to my offer..

I decided to call a business owner that didn't KNOW me, but was aware of me to make him an offer on TikTok marketing.

This business owner was a motivated buyer for what I had. He said to me "I want my own personal brand on TikTok, how do I do it??" So we got on a sales call, and I was soso nervous. My first sales call... Ok what do I know.. I had studies Alex Hormozi's CLOSER framework like the back of my hand.. So I decided to go with that.

But the price... What was I going to charge?! This guys my first customer.. He doesn't even know it.. Do I charge $500?? No. $3000 for 2 months of marketing. Alex always says if there's one thing you should do, charge a lot of money. That was what I was going to say..

And so I did.

Guess what happened

"Okay I'll pay the 3 grand just send me a proposal"

"HOLY F**K. WHAT THE F**K?" I thought to myself.

And now here I am today, typing this. Looking for new prospects doing the same thing. Excited as hell for the future.

Am I rich yet? No. But I feel like I know how to be now, and the outcome of ALL of this was mental clarity, something I have been seeking for years.

I hope you guys enjoyed my story,

Thanks for reading!

Awesome man!

Thank you for the motivation boost!

 

[mikecarlooch]

@Andy Black a couple months ago you told me to read a book called the automatic customer.

Wanted to let you know I'm in the middle of the book and loving it!

I also just finished John Warrilow's other book Built To Sell.

Thanks for introducing me to these.

 

[Andy Black]

@Andy Black a couple months ago you told me to read a book called the automatic customer.

Wanted to let you know I'm in the middle of the book and loving it!

I also just finished John Warrilow's other book Built To Sell.

Thanks for introducing me to these.

Glad you like it.

For me, if it isn’t MRR then it doesn’t happen.

 

[mikecarlooch]

Hey, brother!

I've read all your thread (after searching for "TikTok"-related posts) and the least I can say, is that I'm happy for you.

That successful peace of mind you're talking about is really what we all unconsciously seek when doing business.

Now, is there something I can help you with related to fully setting and running up such a website you're talking about?

I'll do my best to help with the knowledge and experience I acquired helping several clients for 2 years with my Esports-based Marketing agency. Of course, free of cost.

Being completely transparent here, I'm more into seeing if we can fit our needs by offering TikTok marketing services together.

Hey Man! Thanks for reading and glad you like iti! I setup my website but I'm ALWAYS looking to learn. I'll message you privately! Anything you need that I can do for you, i'm also here.

 

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[Fastlane Liam]

Congrats, I'm really happy for you and amazed how far you came. Im stuck at the stage of knowing what the hell to even do.

Tiktok marketing, so you're creating him content for tiktok?

 

[Fastlane Liam]

I had the same challenge recently, but I think it's just about stepping back and asking yourself, "What can I offer that would make someone happy? What do I have or can get that would make someone happy?" And sometimes ideas just flow. Else, you could just ask yourself, "What can I offer at all?" and get it in front of the people who would most benefit from it.

That's great advice, thank you! I have 2 ideas from that already

 

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[mikecarlooch]

Dude, your story is uber-inspring and the growth is phenomenal! I'm super proud of you lol! What mattered was correcting the heart and aligning it with your work and once that's done, well, things tend to fall into place. Regardless, here's to going further beyond!

Thanks Edgar! just blessed to finally be on a path that feels like it's going somewhere

 

[Andy Black]

I recommend reading some of @Andy Black 's posts. He makes business so damn simple that you can't not know what to do after reading his posts.

Thank you for this.

I was starting to wonder if I was oversimplifying it and repeating myself.

 

[mikecarlooch]

That’s pretty clear.

I notice a few people in their progress threads struggling to find consistent/competent video editors. Do you want to change your thread title to get more of their eyeballs?

That'd actually be great thanks! I think i'll keep the title I have currently but then put "(Video Marketing Agency)" at the end

 

[Andy Black]

That'd actually be great thanks! I think i'll keep the title I have currently but then put "(Video Marketing Agency)" at the end

Done.

 

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[mikecarlooch]

Done.

Thanks!!