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Building a business while working a 9-to-5? I’m sharing my real journey From Job to CEO - what's working and what's definitely not!

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111 contributions to Sage Grayson's LEAP
I got ZERO sales for 6 months 😬
For the first 6 months of my business, I made exactly . . . ZERO SALES. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. 😭 And do you know what I was doing about it? Sitting on my couch watching Star Trek reruns, tweaking my logo, changing my fonts and colors, and writing blog posts no one was reading. Basically everything EXCEPT telling people my business existed. Eventually, I figured out the painfully obvious thing I’d been avoiding: No one was going to magically find me. I had to GO where my ideal clients already were, get in front of them, prove I had useful solutions, and give them a reason to come back to my website. So I started leaving helpful comments on blogs and YouTube videos. Not 5 comments and then taking a nap. Not “I’ll do some outreach when I have time” and doom scrolling for hours. My goal was 80 comments PER DAY, and within 3 months, I grew my email list to more than 3,000 people and finally started getting paying clients. Fast-forward to today, and I now earn $30K months. The specific marketing tactics have changed since 2011, thank goodness. 😂 But the lesson hasn’t: You need to get in front of your ideal clients, and you need to do A LOT more outreach than you’re doing now. Posting randomly and hoping someone notices you isn’t a marketing strategy. Waiting for people to start conversations with YOU isn’t a marketing strategy. Your business probably isn’t broken. You just haven’t been telling enough people you exist. That’s why I loved contributing to the new Before It Clicked guide. Fifteen business owners are sharing what things REALLY looked like before their businesses finally started working. This is absolutely NOT the polished highlight reel. You'll see the failed strategies, the wrong turns, the messy middle, and the realization that finally changed everything. GET THE FREE GUIDE Inside, you’ll discover:
I got ZERO sales for 6 months 😬
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Loved your contribution to the guide @Sage Grayson, thanks for sharing 🤩 🥳
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Most business advice assumes you've already quit your job. I haven't. Two kids under nine, a senior day job, about 15 hours a week to build this thing. So instead of guessing, I run a real 30-day business experiment every month and log the results publicly, including the days it flops. Started with 4 email subscribers in October. Now 1,000+, and the community's grown to 194 members since launching in April, all from running one experiment at a time and reporting honestly on what worked. From Job to CEO: The Experiment is for employed people building a business on the side who are tired of taking action without knowing if any of it's actually moving the needle. Free to join. 👉 From Job to CEO: The Experiment If you're in the messy middle of building something around a job that isn't going anywhere yet, come say hi.
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Building a business on the side and don't know if what you're doing each week is actually moving the needle? I built a free 5-stage framework for exactly this: Discover the business already inside your skills, Validate it before you burn six months guessing, Build with a clear weekly focus, Sustain it without burning out, then Accelerate when you're ready to go all in. No hustle, no theory. Just the steps. 👉 Grab it free here: From Job to CEO
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This reminded me I have this but actually haven’t watched the ‘How to run a get it done week’! 😱 off to get that done 🤭 🏃‍♀️
⭐ Power Hour Replay: Your First Client in 24 Hours With Skool
The replay of today's Power Hour is now in the Classroom. Inside this live training, I’ll help you: - ✅ Steal my exact $15K-in-7-days DM funnel - ✅ Set up your automated welcome and follow-up messages - ✅ Turn silent members into real conversations (get them talking!) - ✅ Move people naturally toward a strategy call or offer - ✅ Choose the right downsell offer if they’re not ready for your main offer - ✅ Use advanced Skoot CRM tactics to increase engagement and sales Start your free trial of your own Skool group. So you can follow along and have your DMs running by the end of the Power Hour. Start your free trial of Skoot CRM (optional). This is if you want the spicy advanced automation moves. Click here to schedule your FREE Goodbye 9-to-5 Strategy Call. Click here for this month's Affiliate Challenge.
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1 like • Jul 13
@Sage Grayson thank you! ☺️
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Still in my 9-to-5. Building my business live. I track everything in the CEO Dashboard and share real results every month in my free community.

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