My girlfriend just got up and went to work. She's 22 and has been working a costume design job for like 6-8 hours a day and the going to her server job at a restaurant for 8 hours a night. She's been working her balls off. She loves it. She's made more money than I have, but I've also spent the last two weeks doing whatever I wanted with maybe a total of 8 working hours.
I'm laying in her bed drinking coffee trying to work up the focus to put together an automation for a client. I have 2 automations:
Currently, I have 5 clients. 2 have been with me since September, 2 since October, the other just signed up. 2 others are in the pipeline. 1 is about to bounce.
My primary client acquisition strategy has been partnerships. 1 with a business consultant and the other with a parts distributor. No ads have been ran. No cold calls have been made. Tbh, I haven't applied 1/4 of the sales effort for my own business that I've applied in sales positions I've held in the past for other companies.
These are the kind of results a client got with my database reactivations:
Another client got even more hand-raisers, but only made like 2.5x on her money.
Another client using both automations got these results:
Hand-raisers mean the contact responded "Yes" to a prompt like "Reply YES if you're interested". I've got call recordings where a client calls someone and it's the easiest slam dunk sales call ever. The automations can always be improved but they are definitely doing what their supposed to do (which is reactivate databases and rehash estimates to generate sales opportunities).
Sometimes I get overwhelmed with confusion over what the next best move is to make.
How do you guys know what the next best move is to avoid action-faking?
If I executed better and was more motivated to make money, it's within reach. I just don't want to spend time working in the wrong direction.
I'm laying in her bed drinking coffee trying to work up the focus to put together an automation for a client. I have 2 automations:
- Database Reactivation: Niche clients give me a list of contacts (or access to their CRM). My pre-built text automations promote a certain offer to these contacts prompting for "Yes" replies. When they reply "Yes" (or call in or ask a question), my system alerts the company to call those interested people.
- Rehash Automation: Niche clients give me access to their field management software. My custom report API posts data to a pre-built Make scenario (way better than Zapier btw) and triggers a pre-built text follow-up to estimates that didn't get sold the previous day. The idea here is to salvage sales opportunities and reactivate the sales convo.
Currently, I have 5 clients. 2 have been with me since September, 2 since October, the other just signed up. 2 others are in the pipeline. 1 is about to bounce.
My primary client acquisition strategy has been partnerships. 1 with a business consultant and the other with a parts distributor. No ads have been ran. No cold calls have been made. Tbh, I haven't applied 1/4 of the sales effort for my own business that I've applied in sales positions I've held in the past for other companies.
These are the kind of results a client got with my database reactivations:
Another client got even more hand-raisers, but only made like 2.5x on her money.
Another client using both automations got these results:
Hand-raisers mean the contact responded "Yes" to a prompt like "Reply YES if you're interested". I've got call recordings where a client calls someone and it's the easiest slam dunk sales call ever. The automations can always be improved but they are definitely doing what their supposed to do (which is reactivate databases and rehash estimates to generate sales opportunities).
Sometimes I get overwhelmed with confusion over what the next best move is to make.
- Should I cold call a 100 businesses today?
- Should I spend my day DM'ing people on FB?
- Should I work on making my products better? (They can always be improved).
- Should I change my pricing structure since the number of contacts and estimates a company has varies so much?
- Should I spend the day digging in the client's CRM to find the result of each hand-raiser to see just how much revenue they were able to generate?
- Should I try to find an office to work at to discipline myself to be somewhere at a certain time every day instead of working at home?
- Should I find a convention or trade show or something like that to attend?
- Should I try to hire someone for something?
How do you guys know what the next best move is to avoid action-faking?
If I executed better and was more motivated to make money, it's within reach. I just don't want to spend time working in the wrong direction.
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