Hey Synthesizers, right now I'm just trying to practice making thumbnails and improve my skills so I could increase my portfolio. I'm not charging for any of the thumbnails, in fact, you don't even need to use the ones I make for you, I just want practice because I'll probably do thumbnails for a few freelance gig's and use them for my own videos. Here's some of my work I've done so far, again, I'm not charging you, and you don't even need to use the thumbnails I make. I just want some practice.

Check it out: https://youtu.be/zP6DGVv58oc

I ran an inconsistent lead generation agency for 11 months, never scraping above $5K/month. I pivoted toward lead gen+consulting and made my first $10K month within 10 days this last November - Here are the exact steps I took, with client acquisition strategies, hires, pivots, and timestamps on each major decision I want to take a moment to show gratitude to Andrew! He is one of the first YouTuber's I watched that inspired me to go down the path of entrepreneurship. I don't know if I would be here if it wasn't for him and his videos. I am sure a lot of you feel the same! This will be a long post. If you don’t like to read details or specifics, best that you skip this. BUT, for folks who take the time, I’m pretty much revealing all the pieces that took my business from zero to my first $10K Month. Background (Sep 2020) For context, I had my first sales role out of college during COVID, where I was cold calling for a grocery store hardware and software company. This was not a great time for me. I was very avoidant and just dialed all day. It taught me some of the volume needed for cold outreach, but realized this wasn’t what I wanted to do. During this time I started my first ecommerce brand on Amazon! Selling footrests for office use. This was my first taste of entrepreneurship. (May 2022) About a year and a half in, I had discovered some of Alex Hormozi’s first videos and started to watch Hamza. I realized I wanted more and started to improve my skills and mindset, eventually getting hired at an Amazon Agency for double my salary. It was a great symbiotic relationship as I got to learn more for my Amazon business and the role at the same time. This was my first experience with LinkedIn. I was reaching out to 7, 8, and 9 figure eCommerce brands to set meetings, create proposals, and close clients. The outreach process was all manual and very time consuming, it took me 3-4 hours to send out my daily 20 connection requests and do around 25-50 follow ups. I was working 60 hours+ a week just to create and close enough pipeline. Having to juggle lead gen and closing with the manual processes was a nightmare.

Anyone has an insight about consulting and high ticket clients? Been pondering lately about switching up how I offer my services, I've started with the agency "format" but it is a hassle to produce quality work for each and every client. But having 2-3 clients where I can over deliver value to, is my type of jam.

1st rule of online business: >> Learn from people ahead of you << Simple, but true. What do you think could be the 2nd rule?