Jake SetterlunFounder, Setterlun University™ · 🚀 Helping Scale Your Online Offer to $1M/month @ Setterlun University™ (1,000+ Students) 🏆 2x 2CCX

Taking clients for free to enhance skills! 🌟

10 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, the speaker reflects on the early years of their entrepreneurial journey, describing how they spent two to three years earning little to nothing while deliberately taking on clients for free. The purpose of offering free work was to rapidly develop essential skills and adapt quickly to market demands. They emphasize the importance of making unemotional, swift decisions, constantly switching tactics, and persistently experimenting with new approaches. This mindset of rapid iteration and emotional detachment is presented as the pathway to eventually achieving significant revenue milestones, such as $100,000 months and even million‑dollar months, within a business.

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I worked for like 2 to 3 years where I made very little money. My first year in business, I didn't make a dime. I did a lot of free work. I took on clients for free 'cause it was like, hey, I need to just build this skillset. Your speed to changing and adapting, and when something doesn't work, just don't worry about it. Like, you have to be very unemotional with your decisions. You need to just be very fast, switch things up, and then keep going and keep trying new things because eventually something's gonna stick and something's gonna work. And that's, you know, that's what's gonna get you to the $100,000, million-dollar months. You know, inside of your business.