Nate Tilley breaks down what actually goes into running an online business: long hours managing clients, fulfillment, marketing, and content. He says starting an agency with two clients can replace a 9-to-5, and that it works if you pick one approach and show up every day.
Two clients.
Building an online business is not as glamorous as it seems. Guys, all week I've been working like 12 plus hour days. I'm thinking about this all the time. It's either thinking about how I can make my service better, worrying about fulfillment, my clients, making sure their accounts are good, or worrying about how I can grow my business and prospect and market and gather more clients, or even how I can create more content and how I can like represent and show and value the most amount of people. And guys, this isn't an easy journey, but it's well worthwhile. I feel like I'm in complete control of my destiny since I started my online business. And you can literally get started as an agency owner with just two clients and that can replace your 9 to 5 income. So if you're somebody that's watching this and you're like, hey, I want to start online business, my number one advice to you is that it's a lot harder than it seems. One and two, it's very possible. Three, it's going to take a lot more work than you think. Okay? So it's going to be a lot harder than it seems. You're going to get started, you're going to realize it's really hard. But you can also see that it's very possible. This is proven stuff. It's been working for years, okay? But three, you're going to realize that it's going to take a lot more work than you think. So four, you have to decide exactly what you want to do, okay? If you want to start an online business, you have to know exactly what you want to do and you have to stick with it. It will work if you stick with it, but it's going to take a lot more work than you think. Okay? So five, you have to stick with something, okay? Decide and stick with it and just go and take action. Take action, take action. It doesn't matter if you're doing drop shipping or, or if you're doing, you know, your own business opportunity, whatever's in your mind up here, if you start taking action on that every day, it's going to come to fruition. You're going to become that guy, you're going to know how to do the stuff and you're going to reach bigger opportunities. You know how surprised I was when I started to close dealerships and businesses that had multiple locations and now we're spreading throughout the country by referrals and word of mouth? I was surprised at first, but now I see that when you show up and when you're that guy, you can literally make yourself do anything. It's going to take a lot more work than you think. Be prepared for that. But I hope that that helps you if you're getting started as entrepreneur.
