Nate TilleyCo-Founder, ROAS · Direct Response Expert

How I started my agency from nothing

Name: How I started my agency from nothing
Uploaded: 2024-01-28T16:00:30+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Nate Tilley
Description: The speaker (Nate Tilley) recounts launching an agency from scratch: designing a PDF sales sheet, planning to begin cold-calling on March 14, and facing…

28 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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The speaker (Nate Tilley) recounts launching an agency from scratch: designing a PDF sales sheet, planning to begin cold-calling on March 14, and facing discouragement after a difficult first day. Despite doubts, he resolved to persevere with a personal commitment to work intensely for 36 months. The piece is a first-person narrative focused on early-stage hustle and founder resilience.

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March 14.

36 months.

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I was literally selling to put food on the table. Nothing will give you more motivation than that. I started the business up. I never forget. I designed a little PDF that I was going to start cold calling people with and was like, this is the date, you know, start on the 14th of March. That's go time. After that first day, just getting bruised up on the phones, I was like, this is a lot harder than I remembered. I hadn't done selling for a while. That negative talk starts to kind of seep in. Maybe you can't do this, the market has changed. But then I just basically sat down with myself and had the commitment. It doesn't matter how hard this is. You, you're going underwater and you're not coming up for oxygen for 36 months.