Day 63: Step by Step how to build a Digital marketing Agency (easy as hell)
Life has been messy in the last days.
My life is not going 100% super fly .
A few weeks ago I thought … “I got this”…, but clearly I didn‘t.
General life issues, self doubt, kids being sick, dealing with other humans (humans are never easy huh?), startup growth challenges, lack of sleep (?) growth pains (not my bones but my own mindset), and the awareness that “momentum” and “motivation” are never “just” enough.
Sooner or later, any AMAZING idea, becomes work.
So what am I doing to grow this Agency?
I have decided to list all the mental steps and procedures I take every day, to build an growth my agency to become as magnificent as possible
(feel free to steal my blueprint)
Wake up
Realise that I went to bed fully clothed again.
Get the kids ready for school
Make breakfast for my kids
Be sure to forget to eat my breakfast.
Send emails
Pitch a deal to someone that has never heard from me.
Ignore that phone call
Leave an Facebook Audio Message
Expect to receive a reply from “that hot lead”
Try the impossible task of Inbox Zero
Outsource
Talk to Clients
Deliver
Write content
Scream in Spanish bad words after stepping on Lego that my kids lef on the floor.
Do a conference call (Pray that the Chickens don’t make noise in the background)
Record Videos
Engage
Smile
Try not to forget to eat
Try not to forget to drink water
Have time for the family
try to go the toilet…
Write
Spend more time correcting my grammar than writing
Ask someone else to correct my grammar
Reject 10 pitches via Linkedin
Make a coffee. Forget that I made the coffee
join a new group. Post something epic. Move on
Feel like a million dollars!
Realize the last post wasn’t epic. Self doubt
Tweet something smart to someone I want to reach.
Try not to forget to follow X or Y Entrepreneur
Drink cold coffee
Post on Youtube but then leave fast so I don’t get hooked
Check Google Analytics
Be optimistic
Don’t panic when Google change the algorithm
Smile a bit more
Don’t lose faith
Lose a new deal
Ask myself 25 times why are you doing what you are doing
Send that contract again
Pray that the client pays
Read that email of the client AGAIN — even if it doesn’t make sense
Deal with developers
Refuse to give discounts
Give discounts without hating myself
Wait am I charging enough?
Celebrate the new client
Check SEO rankings
Deal with people talking about Games on Thrones online
Change nappies
Kiss my brand new amazing baby boy
Blog more
Oh wait, I didn’t have any breakfast
Be terrified to lose “that client”
Come up with the next mega idea
Launch a course
Fail like a champ
Fail a bit better next time
Celebrate that massive win
Play Chess with my kids
Realize 40 minutes later the massive win was not so massive
Stop looking at other “gurus online”
Email a bit more
Send a message to a random prospect
Get rejected
Close a deal
I’m Fearless!
Send a contract
Re-send the invoice I sent to the wrong email address
Add tasks in that project management tool that I hate
Fuck did I drink water today?
charge my phone
Charge the mac
Charge the phone again
Answer the call.
Explain to the client that I don’t own Google
Outsource a bit more
Correct what the outsourcer did
Pay salaries
Wait where is my phone?
Pay Tax
build a new web site
Feel awesome about everything
Dance alone in my office at 3 am
Block a dozen of trolls on Face Book
Deal with a site getting hacked
Watch UFC at 1 am while I ask myself if I should change career
Work on my book. (the next big thing)
Do a webinar
Do a podcast interview
What is my Paypal password again?
Say yes to a guest post
Say no thanks to another guest post
WHAT? The client hasn’t paid?
Coach people
Listen to excuses of other people
Breath….
Engineer my own excuses
Love my kids
Drink Coffee without milk to lose weight
Eat Carrot cake because fuck it why not.
Watch a movie with my wife. See her fall sleep 5 minutes after we start
Go back to work
Ask myself if I should learn Photoshop
Hire a new staff member
Clean my office
Sleep in the sofa
Clean the dust on an Xbox that I never use
Try to work standing up
I should buy this shit on Ebay… but it looks awesome.
Send more emails
Send a new proposal
Read the latest review of my book. Why Is Gary V higher than me in the best seller list????
Improve that landing page
Work on that sales funnel
Should I learn to do Snapchat now?
Don’t freak out when the stock market goes down
Pretend that I know all the answers
Should I sell my house and buy Bitcoin instead?
Shit I should blog on Medium, right?
Try not to offend anyone , ever, any time.
Don’t use the word Fuck while blogging or emailing
Am I being too polite? Fuck . I don’t know.
Send more emails
Do a happy dance when I get an email from Paypal
Talk to a prospect in China that can’t speak English.
3 am… is that a possum in my office?
Try to sleep.
Wake up at 4 am because I have an awesome idea
Blog more
Think of the next mega partnership
Forget the idea
Go to sleep
Wake up the next morning
Do it all over again.
^^^^^ that’s how I am building a mega agency ^^^^^
