How to land your first AI Lead Generation client in 30 days or less

Jimmy Fung walks through starting an AI lead-generation business: pick a B2B niche, build prospect lists with Apollo IO, send cold emails at scale using ChatGPT and Smartly AI, then close clients for $1k-$3k/month on sales calls. He landed his first client in 60 days and hit $1M+ revenue.
Questions this video answers
End of 2022.
Within his first ~60 days.
Over $1,000,000.
Over 300 people.
$1,000 to $3,000 per month.
AI lead generation is hands down one of the craziest business models right now. It has literally never been easier before to start an online business completely from scratch and then land a paying client who pays you anywhere between one to $3,000 a month, all within the next 30 days, even if you never ran a business before. And in this video, I'm going to be showing you exactly how to do it. Because I started my own AI lead generation business back at the end of 2022, and within my first 60th days, I signed my very first client who paid me over $3,000 a month. But looking back, if I knew what I'm going to be sharing with you right now, I'm super confident that I could have done it in literally less than 30 days. Because fast forward to today and I've made over a million dollars online with my own AI lead generation business. But more importantly, I've also helped over 300 people get started and sign the first client. So trust me when I say that what I'm able to share with you right now, it literally just works. So here's what we're going to be covering in this video. We're going to be covering how to find an endless list of businesses who actually want what you're offering. We're then going to cover how to send cold emails that guest replies and book calls. But more importantly, we're going to close it off with how to close those calls that pay you for anywhere between 1 to $3,000 per month per client. So stick with me until the very end and you'll be walking away with a step by step game plan that you can literally follow starting today. So before we jump into the how to, let's actually start with the basics. What exactly is AI lead generation? Well, AI lead generation is simply helping businesses get in front of new potential customers. That's it. So think of it like this. Imagine going to a gym that has the best trainers, the nicest gym equipment, the coolest facilities in town, but the place is literally empty because nobody knows that it exists. That gym, they don't need more treadmills, they need more people walking through the door. And it's the exact same thing with these B2B businesses that we're helping. Whether it's a marketing agency, a software company, a consultant, their entire business literally survives on having conversations with new potential clients. And if they don't have enough of those conversations, well, the revenue just simply dries up. Because in business terms, those conversations are simply called leads. But really it just means helping a business owner get more people booked onto the calendar to talk about the services or the product. And that's the problem that you are solving as an AI lead generation business. And here's the craziest part. Harvard Business Review actually found that over 65% of businesses actually say that their number one problem is finding new customers. And Forbes also reported that companies are literally spending billions of dollars every single year just trying to generate more leads. So if you could be the person who solves this problem for them, well, you just instantly become extremely valuable. Now, why do I call this the best online opportunity right now? Well, that's because AI just completely changes the game. Because just a few years ago, even when I first got started, only the biggest agencies with teams of people, with expensive tools, with a ton of cash could do this effectively. But today, AI does 80 to 90% of the heavy lifting for you. From finding businesses to contact, to writing the emails, to helping you with the conversations. It basically levels the playing field so that regular people just like you and I, with no previous business experience or tech experience could literally jump into this and come compete with the big guys. But this is important because this window of opportunity, well, it won't stay open forever because right now we're in a unique moment where AI is still new, where businesses desperately need help and very few people actually know how to combine the two things. And that's why this is the best moment to get started. Because a year or two from now, when everyone else finally catches on this opportunity, well, it probably won't be as wide open as it is today. So now that you understand what AI lead generation is and, and why this is such a big, powerful opportunity, the very first step to actually landing a client is deciding who you want to work with. And this is actually called choosing a niche. But don't let that word intimidate you, because all it really means is picking one type of business that you're simply going to be helping. And here's the key. You want to work with B2B businesses, meaning businesses that sell to other businesses. Why? Because they're usually charging $5,000, $10,000, even sometimes more than $20,000 or more for their own services. So when you come in and say, hey, hey, I can help you bring in new clients consistently, and I'm charging for $1,000 to $3,000 a month, well, the math just instantly makes sense for them because if they land one new client, they're already in the profit. So think of it like this. If you were selling A water bottle for $2 each. And I told you that I'm going to be charging you $2,000 a month to help you sell more of these $2 water bottles. You literally laugh at me because the math, it just simply doesn't work. But on the other hand, if you're selling a service for $5,000, $10,000 or more, paying $2,000 a month for customers is literally a no brainer. So what are some good niches? Well, think of things like marketing agencies, recruitment agencies, software companies, consultants. Basically businesses where the value of one client is high enough to justify paying you 1 to $3,000 per month. Because once you pick your niche, the very next step is to actually find people to actually reach out to. And this is where most beginners actually get stuck. They're like, okay, I, I know I want to work with marketing agencies, but how do I actually go out and find these marketing agencies? And that's where tools like Apollo IO, it just comes in because think of Apollo like a giant phone based of businesses, except instead of flipping through pages, you could just type in exactly what you're looking for. So let's say you choose marketing agencies. Who are the decision makers? Well, it's not the interns running their Instagram pages, it's the founders, the CEOs, the owners, the person who actually makes the call on whether to invest into your lead generation services. And Apollo I.O. will actually let you filter down to exactly those people. So in just a very few clicks, you can pull up hundreds, even thousands of contacts of the exact people that you want to talk to. It'll give you their names, their emails, their companies, all in one centralized place. And here's the best part. You don't need to be technical to use this tool. If you know how to type into the search bar, then you could use Apollo IO. You just decide who you want to target and click a few filters and boom, you've got a leads list of decision makers who you can start reaching out to. So once you've chosen your niche and you built out your list, the very next step is actually what matters, actually reaching out and sending cold emails. Now let's actually talk about how we can actually reach out and book calls with the decision makers. And that's exactly through cold emails. So why cold emails? Well, the studies show that cold emails is still the single most effective way to get new clients for B2B businesses. And that's true not only for them, but for you as well. When you're starting your own AI lead generation Business, because this is super simple. And compared to all of the other ways that people online will tell you how to get clients, it just makes the most sense. So just think about it. If you want to run ads, you need thousands of dollars upfront just to pay Mark Zuckerberg. Plus you need to spend thousands every single month learning how to actually run them without losing all of your money. Or on the other hand, if you try to do things like cold outreach through social media like DMs, I could tell you firsthand, as a business owner myself, I literally get hundreds of outreach messages every single day and they all sit in my request folder. I don't even look at them. It just simply doesn't work. But cold emails, this is how real B2B deals are actually made. Because it's direct, it's professional, and most importantly, it just simply works. And here's why. I love cold emails, especially for beginners. Because it's affordable. You don't need thousands of dollars. With two to $300, you can literally set up a proper cold email system and, and you'd be ready to go. You could reach out directly to decision makers, directly, CEOs, founders, owners, the people who actually have the power to say yes. And this scales on autopilot. With tools like Smartly AI, you can send hundreds, even thousands of emails every single day automatically. Whether you're at the gym, out for dinner, taking a nap, your emails are still going out. And that's called leverage. So think of this like hiring a full time employee whose only job is to send personalized emails for you every single day. Except this employee, that they don't quit, they don't get sick, and it costs you less than 100 bucks a month. And that's what Automation Plus AI gives you the advantage to do. Now here's the most important thing that I need you to understand. The biggest mistake that beginners make with cold emails is they send like five emails and then they say, well, cold email simply doesn't work. If you want to land a client in the next 30 days, you have to understand volume is king. You need to be sending hundreds of emails a day, properly, not spamming emails, but, but sending highly targeted emails to the right decision makers. And here's the best part. You don't need to be some copywriting genius. You don't need experience writing cold emails AI, it literally does 90 to 95% of the work for you. And you can literally open up ChatGPT, paste in the company name, add a little context, and literally in under two minutes, it will spit out a solid code email for you. And you just take that, personalize it, edit it a little bit, and you're done. Because even just five years ago, you would have had to spend months, maybe even years learning how to write these emails and setting up the systems. But today, AI actually writes them for you. AI sends them for you, and all you have to do is focus on the responses. And that's why this business is so beginner friendly, because it literally levels the playing field. So now that you're probably wondering, okay, cool, but what do I actually say in these emails? And here's actually a screenshot of a cold email that AI wrote for me, that I literally sent for my own AI lead generation business that, that got an interesting reply and actually booked a sales call. And notice how simple this cold email is. So at this point, you've picked your niche, you built your list, you sent out some cold emails, you got some replies, they're interested, and now you book some calls. And at this point, this is where most beginners will really start freaking out. They think, oh man, I'm just not good at sales. I've never sold anything before. This is going to be impossible. And let me actually stop you right there, this belief is completely false. Because if you ever gotten a job from a job interview in your life, then you can literally do this. Because what a job interview is, is you're literally sitting down, the employer has a problem, they need someone to fill an empty role, and you're literally explaining why you're the right person to solve that problem. And that's literally what a sales call is. Because these business owners, they have a massive problem, they need more clients and they're secretly hoping that what you have, your AI lead generation services, is the solution. That's it. That's all this is. You're not going into the call to be some Wolf of Wall street style hardcore closer. You're not tricking anyone. You're just having a simple conversation with a regular business owner who wants more customers. And here's what this actually looks like in practice. Because these calls will be hosted on zoom, it's usually 30 to 45 minutes. And you don't need to overthink it. Start up casual, break the ice, talk about something light, and then shift into asking them about their business. How, how do they currently get clients? What's working for them? What are they struggling with? And once you understand that, you then explain how your service works, that you'll be sending targeted cold emails using AI on their behalf to book sales calls directly onto their calendar. And all they have to do is focus on what they do best, which is closing these calls and serving their clients. And when these conversations go well, and trust me, most of them do, if you just keep it simple, that's when you talk about your offer. And you don't need to overcomplicate it. You just need to say something like, for us to run this for you, it's going to cost between 1 and $3,000 per. That's it. You're not selling them on some giant complicated system. You're selling them on the outcome that they care about most. More qualified calls on the calendar. So think about how simple this is. You're not promising to close the clients for them. You're not promising to build a whole marketing funnel or anything complex. You're just handling one thing, which is booking them sales calls. And here's what I really want you to understand. Every single person that I work with who has started their own AI lead generation business people who are now making $5,000, $10,000, even $20,000 per month, all started with zero sales experience. None of them had any case studies, none of them had a background in business. But they all booked their very first call, had a simple conversation, explained their service, and landed the first client, paying them anywhere between 1 to $3,000 per month. So if you're sitting there thinking, well, I'm different. I don't know if I could do this. I never sold anything before. I want you to realize you already can. You already done it in a different context, like a job interview. This is just a conversation with higher stakes, with better upsides. And when you see it that way, the fear of sales, cause it just completely disappears. Now, before we wrap up, I actually want to talk about the mindset. In order to actually get started with this. Actually landing your first client is always going to be. Now, before we wrap up, I actually want to talk about the most important part of this, which is the mindset side of this. Because landing your first client is always going to feel like a massive mountain in your head. And that's completely normal. That's just how humans work. Because whenever you try something new, it just feels weird, it feels hard, it feels uncertain. And your brain actually starts creating doubts for you. Can I really do this? What if this doesn't work? What if I'm not good enough? What if I fail and become the laughingstock of all of my friends and family? And when I first got started with this, I literally had Zero clue what I was even doing. Every single person I've worked with, over 300 people up until now, they all felt the exact same way when I first got started. But here's the truth. Once you actually take action, once you send your first cold email, once you get your first reply, or even book your very first sales call, you will realize that this isn't a giant mountain. It's just a series of small hills. And once you find and sign that very first client paying you one to $3,000 a month, literally everything clicks. You will literally look back and think, wow, this really wasn't that hard. It's just all in my head. And that's the most important thing with this, it's consistency. Because you don't give up after two weeks. You send out emails every single day. You stick with the process and you just keep going. That's literally all it takes. And honestly, I'd be shocked if you didn't close at least one client paying you in your first 30 days if you just followed the roadmap that I laid out in this video. So let's recap the roadmap real quick. The very first step is picking a B2B niche is which where the math just simply makes sense. Step two is building a list of decision makers using a tool like Apollo. Step three is send out targeted cold emails at scale by using AI. Step four is hopping onto these simple sales calls and close those deals for one to three thousand dollars a month. And that's literally it. That's the entire process. Nothing complicated, no complex funnels, no massive startup costs. Just a simple beginner friendly system that just simply works. And here's the thing, AI has leveled the playing field because when I started back in 2022, I just simply didn't have the AI tools that we have today. I had to figure this stuff out manually. And it literally took me 60 days to land my very first client. But once I did that, I was able to get to my very first $10,000 month within that same exact month. But if I had access to what you have right now, all of the AI tools, the scripts, even free content like this very video that you're watching right now, I know for a fact that I could have done it way faster. Probably landed my very first client in under 30 days. Now you could take this video and run with it on your own. If you're resourceful and you stick with it, you will get results. It's literally that simple. But I know you probably have more questions. You probably have doubts. You might even be thinking of questions right now as you're watching this video. And that's totally normal. It's called learning. You can figure out. Oh. Or if you rather just skip through the trial and error, you get direct help and have me in your corner every step of the way. That's exactly what my mentorship program is for because we already helped over 300 regular people, people working nine to five jobs, people who just wanted more income online, more freedom, more time with their families, and they've gone on to build their own AI lead generation business that makes them $5,000 a month, $10,000 per month, even $20,000 a month or more. So if that's something that you're interested in, click the link in the description, book a call, and let's see if I can help you do the same. But either way, I hope this video just lit a fire under you. It exposed you to the billion dollar opportunity that is AI lead generation. Because right now, AI lead generation is the best opportunity in the world to start in an online business. But this window, it just won't stay open forever. You don't want to look back in a year once everyone else has jumped in and regret not starting when you have the chance. So stay consistent, take action, watch what happens. 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