Hey @SweetSuccess! Congrats on getting going. It's nice to hear that there is more in the pipeline. In my experience it is a bit delicate though. If you bring up the point of many more projects down the line, in my experience, it is an excuse to get some free work. In my experience, people...

Hi @TheIntrepidEntre, I personally find giving life advice always a bit delicate, but I can share what I have done in a similar situation. I cut expenses as much as I could, started working less to get better health-wise again and tried to avoid taking a job at all costs. Is there anything...

How do you feel so far? I am using an Emporia Flip Phone meanwhile and am pretty satisfied.

I can confirm your findings 100%. I feel that it basically takes me away from my actual core as a human being. Although it was hard to admit, I realised I was buying things I wouldn't normally buy. I was thinking things I wouldn't normally think. I was striving for things that were not me. It's...

Amen to this @AgainstAllOdds. It seems like more and more things in our lives are set up for the general population to lose. It is well disguised, but it seems there's a goal of creating dependency where ever possible - think modern slavery. Now... if the ones using these systems in their...

Sooo... We have been testing a new campaign structure for various clients. Here is some data for this week - which is only around half way through - for the B&B owner in South Africa: Learnings: While visitor intent is not comparable to dialed in search campaigns, generic display campaigns...

Hmm... I think I'll move that to be a low priority. I watched a video yesterday that really resonated: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe59Sr_MTic My key take-away from this video is: focus. Do one thing, and do it right. Have I seen many videos of Shopify's CEO? No? There's a reason...

Bumped into my neighbors the other day. They are family of 5 with 3 kids. They are both working for a massive player (the market leader) of TeleCom locally. He told me that they both got sent home to work from home until further notice. Somebody in our mastermind told me that his employer...

While we were waiting for a bit of data to trickle in to define our next actions, our first conversion from the new campaign came through. We are very pleased with this result. Now we are off to dig deeper into this:

Here's something I posted in our private Mastermind chat today: Guys, what a ride. I decided to focus 100% of my time on YouTube ads in combination with Google Display Network ads. This is my new high-ground. While I can build and manage search campaigns too, I'd rather focus on the two...

I agree with these posts 100% from my experience. I personally analysed successes as well as failures @mon_fi, but I only started learning for real once I started doing something. It helps me to keep some best practises for common problems in mind, but ultimately each situation is highly unique...

This week, we went deeper into the rabbit hole. Right now, we have 5 paying clients on a MRR model for video ads + YouTube campaigns. They come from 4 different verticals. While we could generate loads of responses with our campaigns quickly for little money, we are not working on really dialing...

Thanks for the reminder Andy. I personally am trying to not take myself too seriously lately. I realised that loads of potential for bickering suddenly evaporates. It's a nice feeling and I don't stand in my way so much anymore mentally I think. From what I can tell so far due to my own...

Hi @Pat D. Rick, brilliant progress thread, love it. I like how you write things up. It's an interesting strategy you are using - something I haven't done so far. It seems like we started out in very similar positions. Fiverr, freelancing - you name it. Seems like we are in the same location...

Pay-Per-Lead. No retainer, but a % of the additional profit you generate. Zero risk, no brainer offers for clients. You need experience and really know your skill though.

@maverick thanks! Definitely agree. We are using Basecamp at the minute. I find Asana way too complex for what we need right now. I think of it more as a productised service - get results for $X/mth including ABC. The rest would be an upsell. @Sharron Zoss definitely.

Here's a thought about CPA... If you buy media, you tend to think in metrics when talking to new prospects. It happened that I ditched clients because they couldn't afford an acceptable monthly rate in my view. But here's the deal. Let's put CPA, hourly rates and CLTV into perspective. Let's...

So, it's been more than a week and I am guilty. I used my smartphone meanwhile, but I am back to my flip phone now. It went kind of sneaky... I had an appointment and my car's GPS is a bit outdated compared to Google Maps, so I just swapped SIM cards and went ahead. A few days later I realised...

Lesson #3 Don't spend money that's not in your account yet. This was a tough one to learn. When starting out my business journey, I cut all my costs and saved where I could. I imagined the day I could finally buy stuff without looking at the price tag. I am not talking about Ferraris or Yachts...

Digging deeper into this, I found out that we had roughly 150k views since January 22nd: These views cost us ZAR590, which are roughly 35€ today (including clicks): This is pretty incredible!