Looking for younger like-minded entrepreneurs (18-35yo) from Australia who are at different stages in their business journey. Im 27 years old, from Sydney, love watching/playing almost all types of sport and going to the gym. I've always considered myself an innovator/ideas person and obsessed with the idea of creating something that delivers value. I've found it tough as a solo founder sticking to one offer, one niche and finding the motivation to keep going when i'm not seeing results. I'm looking to constantly push myself outside my comfort zone and connect with people, which is why I'm creating this group. The Concept: For those who aren't familiar, with Steven Bartlett (Diary of a CEO) and his gym accountability group on whatsapp, every time a group member works out, they post a pic in the group chat and at the end of the month the top 3 gym goes get a gold, silver and bronze medal with the last place evicted and replaced by a new member to the group. The point is its meant to help drive motivation by having both a reward (bragging rights) & a negative consequence (removed from group). I'd like to recreate this in a business sense to create a motivating, but fun & competitive environment to meet new people, have some banter, collaborate/work together and most importantly win together! I'd like to start with around 5 people from here for the first month and see how that goes, then each person can invite another new person, expanding the group/network. The point is to keep the group relatively small but diverse, we don't want small groups within the group. We want to build lasting relationships where we can contribute value to each other. For those interested I'm open to ideas as well, the group decides how it will work and what the rules are. p.s: Im not trying exclude anyone, I just feel for this group its important to be in similar life stages with similar experiences. By not meeting the criteria, it just means we may not be as like-minded as each other and i'd encourage you to find your like-minded people too! I know in my life, there aren't many people (friends or family) who are doing or have done what i'm trying to do, so i want this group chat to be for the people who think differently, have great ideas and want to push themselves outside their comfort zones.

Getting clients is obviously important, but once you're juggling outreach, lead gen, ads, automation, client communication, reporting, and fulfillment by yourself, organization becomes a serious bottleneck. I've found it helps to keep the workflow ridiculously simple: 1. Lead generation Keep prospecting and follow-ups in one repeatable system rather than constantly reinventing the process. 2. Sales Have your offers, call notes, proposals, and follow-up tasks organized so leads don't fall through the cracks. 3. Fulfillment Turn your recurring client work into checklists and repeatable processes. Especially useful when you're handling AI automations or paid ads. 4. Client management Track what's currently being worked on, what's waiting on the client, and what needs attention next. 5. Daily execution This is where I like using Floment. Having projects, tasks, resources, and AI-assisted work in one workspace makes it easier to see what actually needs to get done instead of bouncing between a bunch of tabs. The goal isn't to build some insanely complicated agency operating system. It's to create a workflow where you always know: Who needs attention → What needs to be done → What's next → What can be automated That becomes especially important when you're the salesperson, account manager, strategist, and fulfillment team all at once. For the one-person agency owners here, what's currently taking up most of your time: getting clients, fulfillment, or keeping everything organized?

Every week there's a new tool, a new model, a new automation everyone swears is a game changer. And if you're anything like most agency owners right now, it's quietly paralysing you. You feel like the goalposts are moving faster than you can run. Like there's this constantly growing pile of stuff you're supposed to learn before you're allowed to move, and you're falling further behind on it every single day. Here's the truth that takes the weight off, wherever you're at. The agency owners scaling the fastest right now are not winning because they built some magical AI automation nobody else has. I work with a lot of people moving very quickly, and almost none of it comes down to a genius use case buried in their fulfilment or some clever system running in the background. They're winning on the fundamentals. A good offer. Solid ads. A tight sales process. Clients they actually retain. The exact same things that worked 5 years ago, executed well and consistently. Nobody wants the hear that because it's not exciting. But it's the truth, and the people chasing the shiny stuff instead of doubling down on the fundamentals are the ones spinning their wheels. Now let me be clear, because I'm not anti-AI at all. There are genuinely powerful things AI is doing that make this business dramatically easier. I use it constantly. But here's the distinction almost everyone is getting wrong, and it's the whole thing. AI enhances a skillset. It doesn't replace one. The people getting real leverage from it are the ones who already had the skill. The great media buyer. The strong copywriter. The sharp creative strategist. The operator who already knew how to build a workflow and, just as importantly, knew which work was actually worth doing in the first place. AI makes those people faster and more powerful because they know what good looks like, so they can steer the tool and catch it when it's wrong. The people getting stuck are the ones treating AI as a substitute for a skill they never built, or as an excuse to tinker instead of sell. They can't tell good output from garbage, so they just ship whatever it hands them, or they disappear down a rabbit hole building something impressive that produces nothing.

A lot of agency owners start by doing everything themselves. Then the agency grows… And suddenly you’re the salesperson, account manager, strategist, marketer, and fulfillment team. That might work at the beginning, but eventually it becomes difficult to scale. How many of you are currently trying to get out of the “I do everything” stage?

Helping agency owners get out of client work and hand over media buying/account management to a team member is one of the most important transition points required to scale an agency sustainably. So many people get stuck here and have so many limiting beliefs and mental roadblocks that cause them to self-sabotage following through with this transition. It goes back to the first person you ever delegated to. For almost everyone, that's a VA doing something repetitive. And with that role, you do have to make it grandma-proof. Click by click, screenshot every step, leave nothing to interpretation, because the whole point is that the person doesn't need to make decisions. That's correct for that role. The problem is you learn the wrong lesson from it. Then you go to hire a media buyer and your instinct fires the same way. So you spend weeks building an elaborate SOP that teaches someone how to media buy. Sit with what you're actually doing there. You're making yourself the bottleneck for the brainpower in your own business. If your decision-making is the ceiling on theirs, what exactly are you paying them for? You want a media buyer who's better at media buying than you are. I'll be honest about my own path here. I came up learning the strategy myself. I spent a lot of time in the trenches getting good at it, and I wrote all my SOPs from scratch because I'd personally worked out how to get results in my market. I kind of wish I hadn't spent as much time on that as I did. Media buying isn't that hard of a skill to develop. There are plenty of people out there who already know how to do it. If you're early and trying to scale quickly, all that time you're pouring into over-engineering the SOP should be going into talent acquisition instead. So here's how I'd actually filter out applications to hire an A-Plan Media Buyer for your agency. 1) Objective qualifiers in the application. Not "tell me about yourself." Yes or no and numbers only: Have you run campaigns for this specific industry, in this specific location, before?