How This MSP Went from $0 to $10K MRR in Just Months!

My name is Don Mangiarelli. My business is Enterprise Technology Solutions, DBA Cybersecurity Hawaii. I joined seven figure like right at, I think it was like March 28th of this year. I have been in the, in the break fix space since 2011, so for 13 years. And we service big box retailers and have been doing infrastructure and such and from last year to this year business is off like 60%. And so I was looking for a way to secure my revenue so that it's not just based on project to project that we have monthly recurring revenue. And I came across an ad on Facebook that said learn how to double your revenue in six months. And I said okay, I'm down the doubling my mrr. I mean I joined the 0-10k program because at the, at the point that I joined I had zero recurring revenue clients. Everything was based on projects. And so monthly recurring revenue really appealed to me and being able to kind of fast track that in a six month period was extremely sexy I would say from a business standpoint I'm at 4000amonth recurring revenue. Currently I have one client with 18 users and 15 servers that we are providing cybersecurity, encrypted backup, file level encryption. We're monitoring their Microsoft 365 space for security incidents. And this was a client that I have helped on and off for the last 13 years. And I'm now pretty much working about probably about 15 hours a month in their, in their ecosystem. So it's been a good start. So currently following the plan, I have four more deals that are in the pipeline. Some are in, you know, any, any number of stages. Some are in the very beginning. I have two that are close to the finish line and I'm hoping to be at 10k probably by the end of September I think is a realistic goal. Before joining Seven Figure I was full of fear and doubt, especially where I was full of self doubt. And so what has really helped is talking to some of the members in Elite has been like invaluable. Being able to talk to Cindy and Chris and Lindsey directly and having direct access to them has been invaluable and it really has helped to alleviate a lot of the fears. I think that fear is kind of one of those things that you see until you're able to. It's kind of like a balloon, right? The balloon gets really big and it gets tight and then you poke it with a needle and it disappears. And that's basically what has happened to the fears as we've encountered them one by One, One of the things that's really helped me a lot has been being involved in the, in the community, in the community groups and having people viewing me as kind of a resource, like somebody who has it all together. Because as we learned this morning, it's hard to see the label when you're inside the box. And when you're inside the box of me, the labels are really hard. I mean, people are like coming to me and asking me advice and I don't see myself as that smart or that successful. So that was a very big confidence builder for me and it kind of came out of nowhere. So I think, I think that's been like one of the major things in the program that's helped. So my goal for 2024 is to finish the year at 25k. Mrr. And how is seven figure going to help me get there? Running the play? Man, the sales process in seven figure is amazing. And if you follow it, you can be successful. Takes a lot of hard work. You know, there's a lot of head trash in here that, that tries to derail me from running, running the play and following the process. So I have to keep reminding myself to do that. But the sales process is so solid in this program and it's been put together by people who have so much experience doing what they do that it really, if you, if you follow the process, it's very well laid out for you and it's very easy to follow. You can be successful. Someone on the fence joining the program, I would probably tell them that the, the program has, you get so much more value out of the program than what it costs. The resources that are in the program are incredible and the peer groups that are in the program help you to be able to recognize the success that other people have had in the program. So you may come to somebody in the program with a problem and it's likely that somebody here has already encountered that problem and has a solution. And so it's, it's extremely quick to get those solutions, whereas when you're on your own, you're kind of on your own to try to figure it out. And here it's already been figured out and there's plenty of people here that are willing to help you. I think that's, that's what I would probably tell somebody is that, that that's an invaluable asset. You can't really put a price.