Building a 7-Figure Facebook Ads Agency In 3 Years: MY STORY - Exactly how I did it

Nate Tilley built a seven-figure Facebook ads agency in 3.5 years, starting with $100 tests for a car dealership and martial-arts gym. He scaled to roughly 100 local service clients with partner Dylan Vanis by focusing on lead generation and retention, then launched a paid mentorship program teaching his systems and client-acquisition frameworks.
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In this video, I'm going to show you the one thing that helped me to make over a million dollars in the last three and a half years. Selling agency services and how you can benefit from this, too. By the end of this video, you'll have a clear outlined understanding of how you can do this one simple thing and you can actually get results. So let's take a flashback back to the time when I was broke. I had nothing to my name. I was a college dropout working as a detailer in a gravel lot in the middle of nowhere, South Dakota, and I was not happy with my life. I. I wasn't able to take my girlfriend on dates at the time. I wasn't able to travel. I wasn't able to buy nice things around Christmas time. I always felt ashamed because I couldn't buy the gifts for my family and my loved ones that I knew that they deserved. And I just felt stuck. Every single job I worked at, I always had these big ideas. And I would tell the manager this big idea and he says, okay, go do it. But there was no pay raise. So I was building other people's dreams. And I wasn't being paid for the value that I produced. I was only being paid for the time that I wasted spending, slaving away at menial jobs that didn't really drive my life forward at all. That's when I decided it was time to make a change. I was in so much pain. Having to check my bank account every single day, being negative, having to basically borrow from Paul to pay Peter back and that kind of thing. And I'm sure some of you can resonate with this. And I didn't come from money. My parents weren't fortunate in that regard. And so we had times where the water was off, we had times where the lights were off. And it was hard, to say the least. So fast forward a little bit. I'm detailing cars at this car dealership, working for minimum wage, and I'm training martial arts at this gym. And I made the decision that I was going to figure out how to make a side income and be able to travel and be able to put some more money in my pocket so that I could create more impact on the people that I loved and on the people that I didn't even know. I wanted to do something big. And I knew that I had the potential. So what did I do? I started where I was at. I started spending eight to 15 hours every single day watching podcasts, YouTube, anything that I could soak up related to business. Related to finance, related to side hustles, related to all these things. And I quickly got overwhelmed. I didn't have a coach, I didn't have a mentor, I didn't know where I was going. Tried a lot of different things. I made a lot of mistakes. I tried Amazon, fba, real estate, selling life insurance, and at one point I was even making acai bowls out of my house and selling them to people. I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew that I was going to go somewhere. That was when I started to really focus my life around trying to figure out an idea that would actually stick. And then one day when I was walking home from the dealership, I actually stumbled upon a guy's ad. You might know of him, his name's Tai Lopez. He's the I'm in my garage, my Lamborghini guy, I thought he was full of crap, but he was walking with one of his students and they were just casually talking and he's like, so how much did your social media marketing agency do last month? And the guy just casually and confidently says, around $40,000. And I could tell that it wasn't fake. So that inspired me. At that moment, I could have chosen to just keep scrolling. I could have chose to just not take action. But I said, whatever these guys are doing, I need to figure that out for myself. I want to make $40,000 a month. What did I do? I went to the page, I watched their video and I bought the program. It was $27. I remember sweating over those $27. I remember thinking, wow, $27. This is a big investment. So what I did was I invested the money, I got the course and I watched the course religiously. Watched it front to back all the way through the first time. So started it over, second time, started it over three times. I went through this course, soaked up every bit of information I could and it gave me the confidence to understand that marketing and helping businesses get new clients is a recession proof business. If somebody is able to invest a little bit of money and they're able to get a new client worth a lot of bit of money, they'll keep investing that little bit of money. It was like a light bulb went off in my head. I realized that being where I was at in South Dakota, it was a small market and I didn't see a lot of local service based businesses running any ads. So what did I do? I looked at Denver, I looked at California, I looked at New York, and I saw big local service based businesses were Running ads, and they were making money. So I was like, well, if they can do it there, I can probably do it here. I approached the car dealership that I was working at, and I said, hey, I'm learning a lot about marketing. I would love the opportunity to just spend a hundred dollars on Facebook ads. I'll generate prospective car buyers. I'll follow up with them myself. I'll get them in here. And if you make some money, I would love to use this as a case study to start my business. They said, of course. Sure. Here's $100. Here's my card. Try it out. I also went to the martial arts gym that I was training at, and I said the same thing. Hey, I'd love to help you get more students. I know you just started this kid's program. Let me try running some ads for you. He said, sure. How much do you want to spend? I said, let's do a hundred dollars. He said, okay. And I remember that that $100 commitment I got from them, I felt was like so much money, which really, it was nothing to them. They didn't think it was going to work. They were just supporting me. And so I remember that night so vividly. House was dark. My roommates were all sleeping. I stayed up past midnight. And I started just writing up the ads. And. And I created my first lead generation campaigns. And when I did that, I had this feeling, like late at night, I pressed the green button. I published the ad, and I had this feeling. And I knew in that moment that that was the start of something new, that that was going to be big, that that was going to transcend and transform my life. Little did I know how well it was actually going to work. Right away, they started getting leads for the jiu jitsu place. And I would download the leads, I'd call them, I text them, I'd email them myself. I'd get them in the door. Also, in the same time period, the car dealership, same thing. I'm detailing cars, I'm cleaning cars. But I started to work the leads. I started to bring people in the door. Before I knew it, I had sold three cars and made the biggest commission check I'd ever made in my life. It was like $3,500. I was ecstatic. I was like, wow, this stuff really, really works. The gym, it started to grow. Multiple members coming in, parents bringing three or four kids at a time, signing them all up, adding four or five hundred dollars to the gym. Just amazing. And so this is when I realized that I Had a big business here, an opportunity. But instead of just going all in on that opportunity, I said, let me master what's right in front of me. Let me just do this right now. And so I spent the next year just literally running ads for those two companies. I helped the martial arts gym to add over $100,000 worth of revenue. They got new flooring, new mats, new windows, new lights, and the gym was packed. They actually had to go to a new location because they outgrew that one. The car dealership I was at, they started selling a bunch of cars, and I just started making commissions. I was living good. I started having dinners, I started to travel. I started to do these different things, but I still wasn't there. And I knew that I was still meant for more. That's when I got the opportunity. I'd been training jiu Jitsu a lot. I got the opportunity to go to Las Vegas for a competition, but I still wasn't making a ton of money. So it was between going to Las Vegas for this competition, the national competition, or paying rent. What do you think I chose? I went to the competition. I went to Vegas. I barely had any money in my account. And when I was there, I was like, wow, I'm not going to be able to eat out when I'm here. Let me go to Whole Foods and let me get some supplies. So I went to Whole Foods, and I was walking around. I was waiting for my friends to get into the airport so they could come pick me up because I couldn't afford a bus pass and I couldn't afford an Uber. So I was sitting around, I was eating this $40 salad that I got that I had to preserve for the whole weekend. And I see this guy next to me, and he's talking about what I thought was Jiu Jitsu. I butt in the conversation, oh, you do Jiu Jitsu? He wasn't even talking about Jiu Jitsu. Oh, yeah. I actually do, though. So then we start talking. I get his Instagram and I say, hey, man, you know, on his Instagram, it said seven figure income stream before the age of 24. And I was like, man, what do you do? And he said, oh, actually, I'm a digital marketing agency owner in real estate. And I said, no way. I've been doing digital marketing for car dealerships. I've been doing digital marketing for martial arts gyms, and I'd love to have your help. And we connected. And he said, sure, man. I'll help you really get your agency off the Ground. And that guy was actually Dylan Vanis, who I think some of you guys might already know. And if you don't, you're about to. So what happened then? I ended up actually winning second at the tournament. I went back to South Dakota and my ex, my girlfriend at the time, she was furious. She's like, are you serious? You went to this tournament instead of having our rent, like, what are we going to do? I knew I'd figure it out. I'm, I'll figure it out type of guy. But that wasn't enough. And so this created a lot of friction, a lot of pain. And I said, I'm going to figure this out now. I'm going to get this agency off the ground. I'm going to start making money. So I messaged Dylan and I said, hey man, I can do lead generation, generation. And he said, well, I've actually got some local service based businesses that need leads. And I said, perfect, send them my way. The first week he sends me six businesses. I'm getting a real estate company over here, e commerce client over here, all these different businesses. And I just started doing the system over and over. Over six months later, now we've done over 100 small local service based businesses together and we've actually created a massive impact. People are getting great results. We're seeing the ads just become profitable and we're really seeing how the system works. After working with those first hundred clients and making a lot of mistakes, taking a lot of time, you know, things went well, but they weren't as good as they could be, I realized that this wasn't simple but it was effective and there was a process that we were following that was allowing us to have a lot of success. So me and Dylan came together and whiteboarded out what that process actually looked like and how we were able to get these local service based businesses and clients. So now I'm going to share with you exactly how we do that and the systematic approach that we take in order to help get new clients in the agency and then how to get them great results so that they stay with you long term. They bring you new clients and referrals and testimonials. Step one, you need to find local service based businesses that are already doing well. We like to help winners to win more. There's so many businesses and this is a recession proof opportunity because you can literally help a client get a new customer that stays with them for life. And not only is the client going to be impacted, not only are you going to be Impacted, but the person on the other end of your ads is going to be impacted. This isn't making websites for people doing graphics. This isn't branding. This is called direct response inbound marketing. We put appointments on local service based businesses calendars. We help those people to show up and they get new clients out of the deal. The problem is most businesses know nothing about social media. They don't want to take care of it. They know nothing about following up with leads and that's where you come in. So step two, you need to have a proven framework for getting them results. If you can't get them results, you shouldn't even be selling them. So many agencies and gurus and courses are all about get clients, get clients, sell them, tell them whatever. You have to make a huge guarantee just to get the person in the door. But that's not what we're about here. We're about creating long lasting impact. I've helped the gym that I train at now in Denver, Colorado to add $558,000 worth of lifetime value. And that's one story of a hundred that I could tell you of gyms, businesses that I've impacted because of my ads. Over 150 men and women started training Brazilian Jiu jitsu. That kind of impact on the world, it makes them better fathers, it makes them better mothers, it makes them better leaders, it makes them better brothers, and it makes the community in the world a better place. So you have to have some kind of way of getting them results and you have to understand the whole process process in order for this to work. Step three, you need to help reduce the churn that you're going to be experiencing. And churn is called, is when a client leaves you because they're not happy with the results. You need to keep your clients happy and keep them long term guys. If you've been in the agency space a while now, you know that some people are just going to leave. Not all fits are going to be right and that's okay. But with this systematic process and doing this one thing, we've managed to retain our clients for extremely long time times. I've still got one of my first clients that I ever closed three and a half years ago, paying me $7,500 a month. And I want to show you all of this in the back end. So what do we have for you is me and Dylan have actually partnered up and after making over a million dollars selling agency services, I've decided to peel back the curtain because I want to create more impact on this world. I want to create more impact on you. I want to help you create more impact on your community. And the thing is, I can't run ads for every local service based business around the country. I've already tried. There's just limitations involved with that. And so what I'd rather do is I'd rather partner with you and allow you to come in, learn these proven systems that have taken my agency and helped me to create a sustainable life for myself where I've been able to literally make over a million dollars in my own agency in the last few years. And that's all while training Jiu Jitsu twice a day and competing every single month. My goal and dream was to become a Jiu Jitsu champion. And I've been able to achieve that. I've been able to win big tournaments, I've been able to stress less, I've been able to travel freely. I take my girl out to eat whenever we want. I buy new things, I go to the mall, I don't look at the price tag. And that isn't something that I say to brag to you guys, but it's something that I never thought that I could experience. You know, when I was a young kid, broke, couldn't even afford clothes and my parents were paycheck to paycheck and things were scarce and hard. And now being able to actually help my parents pay rent and give back to them, it's such a blissful feeling, guys. And I want you to be able to create that for you, for your families, for your communities. And so what are we going to do? What I want to do for you is on this page, you're going to see a link somewhere. And what we're going to offer you is this. We will come alongside of you, we will mentor you, we'll work directly with you. My biggest problem in this whole thing is I try to do it alone. For a long time, even when Dylan was there for me, I still tried to go rogue and do it alone. And I made a lot of mistakes. Mistakes you can shortcut the mistakes that you're gonna make by learning from somebody that's already done it and is currently doing it. Just today I got a $6,000 payment from one new client. And yesterday I got a $4,000 payment, $10,000. In two days I've been out here in Vegas. I took a surprise plane over to here. I booked it Sunday night, I flew out Monday morning. That's the type of stuff that I'm able to do with this life. And I want to show you how you can do it too. You're not as far away as you think from living the life of your, your dreams. And I can show that to you. And I want to also be setting the right expectation here because this isn't going to be easy. It's going to take work from you, it's going to take work from me, it's going to take work from our whole team. But we'll be there to support you the entire way through the process. We'll support you, will help to educate you, we'll help you know what to sell, how to sell it, how to fulfill it, how to get clients, keep them long term and stress less in your life. I want to give all these things to you. I want to peel back the curtain because I realized that my time in this world is limited. And what is all this information going to do in my head? Nothing. So what we've done is we've put together one of the best programs for agencies. This is exactly what I needed when I was back in that South Dakota dealership, learning and just trying to get the ropes, when I was failing a lot, when I was taking one step forward and two steps back. I made so many mistakes and I've figured out the fastest way I didn't scale by selling SEO and doing all these different things. I have one service, one offer, one niche and I've been doing that for over one year and that's what's allowed me to build a $1 million business. And we're just getting started guys. 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And once those slots are filled, we're probably not going to open it up again for some time because when we work with you, we want to work with you for the next year, two years, three years to come, and help you make an agency that you love, that allows you to build a life and a business that you love, allows you to scale, and also allows you to look at potentially exiting, retiring, having champions and generals and winners run your company. While you're at the beach, you're, you're spending time with family, you're traveling, you're living the life of your dreams. And I want to give all that to you. It's not going to be easy. This is not a get rich quick scheme. This is something that's going to take commitment, time and effort from both of our ends. But I'm willing to put in the work if you are. So what are you still doing here? Click the link below, book a time, and I want to show you exactly how you can make over a million dollars. 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Thank you so much for spending your time. I appreciate you, and I look forward to seeing you on the other side. Let's go.










