An agency owner making $80,000 a month reflects on why he earned more selling services directly than building a scalable business. His visible success, from moving to a bigger house to hosting larger events, sparked questions from friends and family about how he got there.
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Cash flow is funny when you start building an agency. Y'all agency builders, we're bringing $80 grand a month. Yeah, how much you spending? You're like, damn, I was making more when I was selling. Anyone feel that? I know that feeling well. Other people are like, wait, what? I make more selling than building? Day one? Oh yeah. I was taught biggest override's on yourself. My entire world changed when I started producing at a real level. People were attracted to it and they wanted to know what I was doing. And then everyone in my network, all our friends and family and kids, baseball coaches and teachers, and just my community, the people we live around every day, they got to watch my life change. Any of y'all have like kids' parties at the house, end-of-season baseball parties, just little things like that? Well, you have those in the little house, and then the next year you have it again and it's in the big house. People are like, what the fuck do you do?