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I think it’s about time to start taking this shit seriously.
As I’m writing this, I currently have a grand total of £198.85 in my account, with no credit cards and no known ways of getting a loan.
I have around £420 on the way from previous client work, £40 in crypto, and £280 in the pipeline for leftover client work. I still need to pay for outreach tools though (~£110/month).
As I’m currently living in Medellin, Colombia, that means I should have just about enough to last me one month or so.
I was making decent money earlier this year - until I decided to burn my boats and leave all my freelance copywriting clients. Being able to live by the beach in Thailand or Bali doing just 1 hour of work a day (thanks to @Lex DeVille) was nice, but I always knew I wanted something a bit more fastlane.
For the past 2 months, I’ve been focused on building this new agency I’ve wanted to create for so long. I’m mostly following a course/mentorship run by a couple guys who run their own successful agency (and no... their names are not Tai Lopez and Grant Cordone). I’ve learnt a lot from it so far and feel like I’m making progress, but sadly no clients signed up yet.
Aaand that’s pretty much why I’m here... I want to share with all of you guys what’s working for me and what’s not. Hopefully I can provide some value, and hopefully you’ll hold me accountable without roasting me too hard.
I have about 4 years experience in marketing, (both agency and freelance work) so I’m not exactly fresh off the boat, but I’m sure I still make plenty of mistakes you seasoned veterans will pick up on.
So here’s what I’ve done so far:
And what my plans are to try next:
I’ll be updating this thread regularly with major actions I take and any considerable progress. Feel free to ask questions, tear apart my plans, or offer new ideas. I’m clearly in a bit of a tight situation, so I’m open to (almost) anything.
As I’m writing this, I currently have a grand total of £198.85 in my account, with no credit cards and no known ways of getting a loan.
I have around £420 on the way from previous client work, £40 in crypto, and £280 in the pipeline for leftover client work. I still need to pay for outreach tools though (~£110/month).
As I’m currently living in Medellin, Colombia, that means I should have just about enough to last me one month or so.
I was making decent money earlier this year - until I decided to burn my boats and leave all my freelance copywriting clients. Being able to live by the beach in Thailand or Bali doing just 1 hour of work a day (thanks to @Lex DeVille) was nice, but I always knew I wanted something a bit more fastlane.
For the past 2 months, I’ve been focused on building this new agency I’ve wanted to create for so long. I’m mostly following a course/mentorship run by a couple guys who run their own successful agency (and no... their names are not Tai Lopez and Grant Cordone). I’ve learnt a lot from it so far and feel like I’m making progress, but sadly no clients signed up yet.
Aaand that’s pretty much why I’m here... I want to share with all of you guys what’s working for me and what’s not. Hopefully I can provide some value, and hopefully you’ll hold me accountable without roasting me too hard.
I have about 4 years experience in marketing, (both agency and freelance work) so I’m not exactly fresh off the boat, but I’m sure I still make plenty of mistakes you seasoned veterans will pick up on.
So here’s what I’ve done so far:
- Set up a LinkedIn profile from scratch and optimised it for my audience - I’m targeting a specific niche, helping them get leads via Facebook Ads funnels.
- Sent around 1500 connection requests while aiming not to get banned. I’ve gone from 0 to 250 connections.
- Ran followup messaging campaigns to these people, testing and tweaking, using automation software called Meet Alfred.
- Had 5 “discovery calls”. 2 resulted in a followup sales/strategy call which I sent a proposal to each for $1500-2000.
- Rewrote Upwork profile and applied to a bunch of related jobs, got just a few replies and one sales call + proposal.
And what my plans are to try next:
- Continue current LinkedIn outreach and Upwork activity.
- Post more content on Linkedin to provide value to my niche and show that I know my shit.
- Create a basic website that tells people how I can help and shows 1 or 2 mini case studies.
- Find some emails and start doing cold outreach with the new website in my email signature.
- Do warm calls or followup emails to the people I’ve connected with on LinkedIn - at the start of Jan when everyone is back to work.
I’ll be updating this thread regularly with major actions I take and any considerable progress. Feel free to ask questions, tear apart my plans, or offer new ideas. I’m clearly in a bit of a tight situation, so I’m open to (almost) anything.
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