More Clients, More Growth… More Grey Beard Hairs? 🧐

Sep '25 (edited) • Intros & Wins

Not a founder (yet). I’m just a guy who built and now runs the PPC department at an auto repair marketing agency: 140+ Google Ads / LSA clients, 5 specialists, and a Frankenstein stack of automations I stitched together out of necessity.

It’s a decent role on paper… but, the “10 new clients onboarding tomorrow” treadmill feels less like scaling and more like auditioning for Hamster CrossFit. I’ve had more pronounced grey beard hairs pop in recently…and I’m not yet ready to truly embrace that style of being just yet 😆

What I HAVE:

Deep expertise in Google Ads, LSAs, CRO, automation, and duct-taping AI into places it probably doesn’t need to be.
A knack for turning complex problems into clean system solves.
Grit: self-taught on Google Ads/CRO/web design at midnight with bills due - just 4 years ago.

What I WANT:

To make our PPC ops (where I’m at) run smooth enough that I can actually take a lunch break without Slack catching fire.
To graduate from fixer/operator → ownership (because being “human duct tape” gets old).
To build a personal brand around clarity + automation — not just “that Google Ads guy for auto repair shops.”

What I NEED:

Tactical insight from founders who’ve already escaped the agency hamster cage.
Frameworks for turning hard-won expertise into scalable plays that don’t eat family time brain space on the regular.
Accountability to stop building cool sh*t in the shadows and actually ship in public.

Excited to contribute where I can, learn from those who’ve already made the leap into more “freedom” 🤘

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More Clients, More Growth… More Grey Beard Hairs? 🧐