The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner - This Simple Playbook Built a $120M AI Business (in 3 Months) w/ Sam ⏐ Ep. #200
Episode Date: July 25, 2025Check out my newsletter at TKOPOD.com and join my new community at TKOwners.com.If you've ever gotten a newsletter from me, it was powered by Beehiiv. Built by the team behind Morning Brew, i...t's the only platform I’ve found that actually moves the needle. Go to beehiiv.com/chris and use code chris30 to get 30% off your first three monthsI sat down with Sam Thompson again and we talked about how anyone could shamelessly copy the strategy behind Cluely, the $120 million AI company that blew up in just three months. We broke down their viral content machine, how they hired 700+ clippers, and why they only pay per view, not per video. Then we talked about how to spin this strategy into your own clipping farm or media agency, even if you're starting from scratch. We also riffed on business ideas using public records of new LLC registrations, and how to turn that into a high-margin lead gen or service business. Finally, we talked about AI’s limits, what’s still very human, and why action always beats overthinking. You can find Sam on Twitter (https://x.com/ImSamThompson) and check out what he's up to at https://www.unlimitedcontent.com/Timestamps below. Enjoy!---Watch this on YouTube instead here: tkopod.co/p-ytAsk me a question on or off the show here: http://tkopod.co/p-askLearn more about me: http://tkopod.co/p-cjkLearn about my company: http://tkopod.co/p-cofFollow me on Twitter here: http://tkopod.co/p-xFree weekly business ideas newsletter: http://tkopod.co/p-nlShare this podcast: http://tkopod.co/p-allScrape small business data: http://tkopod.co/p-os---00:00 The Rise of Cluely: A Viral Sensation02:30 – Why Controversy Is the New Marketing05:20 – Where AI Still Sucks (And You Should Focus)08:15 – Can AI Replace Real Human Creativity?10:15 – Inside Cluely’s 700-Clippers Growth Strategy12:40 – Clipping: Organic Reach on Steroids15:10 – Steven Bartlett’s Viral Content System17:30 – Can’t Track It? Still Worth Doing It19:45 – Movement Over Perfection: Just Start Clipping22:20 – Pay View Bonuses, Not Editors (Clipping Hack)24:45 – Cold Outreach SaaS Idea Using New Biz Listings27:10 – Vibe-Coding a Local Marketing Agent (Step-by-Step)
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You heard about Cluelly? It was just this AI tool that could help walk you through job interviews.
AI is feeding you answers so then you can regurgitate them. The caption is genius. Cheat on everything.
It goes massively viral. They hit 7 million ARR in two months. They're worth 120 mil today.
This whole experiment is three months old. Cluelly has hired over 700 clippers. Every single Cluelly related piece of content gets cross-posted across thousands of accounts, generating tens of millions of extra views.
Here's everything you need to know about starting a massively viral clipping farm.
If anyone listening wants to run my clipping campaign, email me because I want to start doing this.
Welcome back to the Kerner office.
I had Sam on again, and this was just so good, guys.
We talked about viral clip farms on TikTok, scraping cities' websites for new businesses that have been listed and building agents around them.
You're going to love it.
All right, dude, please tell me you've heard about these Cluelly guys.
Have you heard about Cluelly?
I have.
Okay, dude.
So let me fill in everyone.
Correct me where I'm wrong, because I don't know this exactly, but these two guys, Columbia
University students, very smart.
They had this business called the interview coder.
And it was just this AI tool that could help walk you through job interviews for coders,
right, through the technical aspects of it, right?
So they're asking you all these complicated questions.
AI is feeding you answers so then you can regurgitate them and hopefully get the job.
Then they use this on themselves to try to get a job at Amazon.
They filmed themselves.
They post it.
The caption is genius, it's not ethical, but it's genius, which is cheat on everything.
It goes massively viral.
It gets back to Columbia.
Columbia says, you can't do this.
They kick him out of school.
They say, peace out.
We're going to San Francisco to make a billion dollars in AI anyway.
Do I have that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the short version for sure.
What did I miss?
What else is cool about these guys?
Because there's a lot we can learn from it.
Yeah, yeah.
It's an interesting one.
I similarly like have seen kind of the snippets of it on Twitter.
It goes back to one of the things that.
Chat GPT said about your who you are the human being, which is like controversy is marketing,
right? Or whatever, whatever that line was. And I think that they just did a phenomenal job of
leaning into that. I haven't tried their tool. So I can't speak to that piece. But it's one of
those where it's like, you know, if you have something go viral or whatever it is, like sometimes
you just got to lean into it, you know. And I think that they're doing a good job of that. Then they
raise so much money also. Yeah. They raised 5.3 million in April. That was a seed round. Then they raised
a series A of 15 million by led by Andries and Horowitz last month. And they're worth 120 mil today.
Like this whole experiment is three months old. And they probably gave away 10 to 20% of their
company. So these guys are worth 50 million each after three months. As long as they can actually
liquidate that and do the whole thing.
But if they do a series B, they'll have a secondary round and pull out.
Oh, for sure.
For sure. For sure. And unless AI is becoming unpopular in three months, that will happen.
I was going to say, I don't think they have much of a problem there.
Yeah, I mean, the demos of the product and all those videos, like one, entertaining.
Like, they do a great job of leaning in. But it also looks sweet.
I have not concerns, but like, I think at a macro,
outside of Cluelly, like, curiosities around how this AI stuff will play long term,
like almost like a dependency from people on it, right?
Where it's like, it is how AI takes over.
It's like AI gets you the job interview.
Then you use Cluelly on all of your job tasks and the AI is doing all of your job for
you.
Like at some point, the next big disruptor will just say or Cluelly could.
when they have enough data.
They'd be like, you can just fire that guy.
We've been doing their job this whole time anyways, right?
Yeah.
And so it just starts to, it gets interesting on like, I think about like where does AI struggle the most?
And like thinking about that as the spot to like focus more energy on getting good at.
You know, there's like AI voices, right?
Like there's like bland AI.
There's a handful.
I think you interviewed a couple of those guys, right?
That like run the AI receptionists or whatever.
Yep. One thing that I've seen AI, like, really struggle with is like salesmanship, right? Like, they can be an order taker. Hey, you want an appointment for this thing. But like convincing somebody that's unsure of something. Like going full used car salesman on them. Like pulling out all the stops. Right. Like actual salesmanship of like that side I've seen struggle with a lot. It's getting obviously better visually. But like true creativity is going to be something that I've been.
I think it struggles with like because it's it's a model built off of inputs and so like you have to
build to create something that's more than an input and so it's just interesting to watch that of like
you watch a lot of these people jump in and they're like writing their landing pages with chat GPT
which is cool but like at some point most landing pages will be written with chat chbt which then
what makes you stand out from that yeah probably the fact that yours isn't yeah right like
I'm curious.
I'm starting to notice things in the real world that very clearly aren't chat GPT.
I was on the subreddit from my favorite band brand new.
And this guy was sharing his story about how his wife had a miscarriage and he went to this concert.
And it was beautifully written.
I literally had the thought like, chat GP can't write this.
It's like I just know this is a real story.
It just feels raw.
And I feel like it's going to take a lot longer for chat.
to close that gap, just like it took Elon Musk 12 years after the time he said that full self-driving
would be like fully autonomous.
Like we're still waiting for it, you know?
Yeah.
It's going to take such a long time for that gap to be closed to where it's truly indistinguishable
because I'm getting emails every day.
Like not like cold emails, but like I'm emailing with people and it's like, oh, it's just
chatybt.
It's just so obvious.
You can just tell.
Yeah.
So I feel like good writer.
they're still going to, like, they're just going to stand out even more today, you know,
but you have to tell like real stories.
Yeah.
And you see it, you see it on the, on the, like the video content that we've talked about
on multiple episodes.
It's like you can just tell like your AI is not going to replace you sitting here with
me talking about this stuff and the dynamicness of it.
And the random, you know, like you and I will talk like chat GPT is not going to go.
It's not going to context switch.
Funny, right?
Like we're talking about it at the beginning.
It's not going to context switch quickly based on all these other different pieces where it's like, dude, I don't think it will pull, you know, some niche learning from running direct to consumer ads into a conversation around PPC for home service, the way that we, we do.
Because that's just how the brain works, or at least ours do.
I think it would keep talking about direct consumer.
or whatever the actual topic at hand is.
And so I wonder about that sometimes of like,
I think you lose some of the other inputs that impact the output.
Yeah.
I think that they don't have the breadth of it the same way that like a human with real experiences would of like,
yeah, one time my mom said something and I made me think about this ad creative differently.
Like Chachapit doesn't have that.
Yeah.
Or at least not yet.
And I think that that part is, it's actual.
What I would define it as is true originality.
And on the opposite end of that spectrum, I tweeted about this, but I found this YouTube
video about Penn State wrestling.
And it was like a 20 minute documentary.
And I click on it and I start watching it.
And the voice sounds very realistic, but I know it's AI.
I can hear it's AI.
And the way it's talking, it was scripted with AI.
Okay.
And the only thing that's not AI is the video.
This guy took B-roll footage of people wrestling.
as he was talking, but it was so well assembled that I watched all 20 minutes of it. And I loved it
and I shared it. And it was just kind of an unlock to me that's like, we still need questions
answered. And there are still a lot of pockets of information out there on the internet.
Like when I run a deep research prompt in chat GPT about something I'm genuinely interested,
I read it verbatim. Like, of course that's AI. I'm reading it in chat GPT. But that's a question
I need answered. And so a lot, I completely agree with everything.
you said, but on the other end of that spectrum, it's like, we're not going to care if it's AI
in a lot of cases, a lot of situations, because we're getting our question answered.
You're getting the value that you want out of it.
Yeah.
So interesting.
Dude, so back to Cluelly.
So did you see the founders post?
By the way, they hit 7 million ARR in two months.
I neglected to mention that.
Yeah.
Yep.
So it's not just an idea.
One of the founders of Clule tweeted this.
And I know you're probably in this boat where when I hear stories about people like creating dozens of TikTok accounts and clipping all these things and like I have so much FOMO.
Because that is such an opportunity right now and I'm not doing any of it.
Yep.
So he says, so Cluley has hired over 700 clippers.
And for those listening, a clipper is someone that takes long form content and they edit it down.
You can use automation tools like Opus to do this or you can do it manually.
And then they just post it short form video.
And on their own account.
On their own accounts or like multiple burner accounts and nine out of 10 times, maybe 49 out of 50 times.
They do nothing.
They do 300 views.
And then sometimes they do hundreds of thousands or millions of views.
So Cooley has hired over 700 clippers.
Every single Cluelly related piece of content gets cross posted across thousands of accounts generating tens of millions of extra views.
Here's everything you need to know about starting a massively viral clipping farm.
Number one.
Finding clippers.
I'm going to share my screen real quick.
But this is like gold, gold info.
As always, the answer is to scroll more.
Scrolling on Instagram and TikTok,
every single time you find a clip of anything,
DM the account,
which is like such a good framework because a lot of times it's like,
where do I find good clippers?
Wop has like a clipper marketplace.
And you go to all these marketplaces and it's not good.
Why not just go to the people that are doing it?
Directly.
You know?
So he says,
DM the account.
Paid clipping opportunity,
in quotations,
gets responded to nine out of ten times.
The people running these accounts are hungry Slovakian teenagers.
Two, pay per view, not video.
We pay clippers, zero dollars per video.
We only pay view bonuses.
X dollars for every thousand views.
This makes sure we lose nothing from bad clippers and we only pay what we want.
When you find someone good, pay them more.
Same with employees.
If you have a good employee, proactively pay them more.
Power log exists and everything, including clippers.
1% of your clippers will generate 99% of your clippers.
percent of your views. Make sure the top 1% are rewarded well. And stick with you. For,
make sure you have enough content to clip. I go on at least two podcasts weekly. Now,
it's interesting. He's not spreading his gospel with the podcast. He's just doing it as a,
as a way, a convenient way to record video for all these clippers. It's input.
Everyone at Cluley creates content. Our Clippers clip everything. The biggest reason not to have
400 clippers is because you do.
don't have 400 clips a day to post. Make more content. Five, tracking ROI. Don't do it. Clipping is
cheap and its value isn't in direct product ROI. It's in squeezing all virality out of potentially
viral moments. Everyone has made a single post that flopped. Posting it 699 more times will make
sure you get the virality it deserves. Clipping is only relevant for YouTube shorts, TikTok,
Instagram, where we will start focusing our efforts. We've done 100 million views.
in a matter of weeks and scaling.
I believe you can speed run your way to Mr. Beast with enough money.
And clearly, we can't stop making money.
It's so good, dude.
What are your thoughts on this?
Oh, it's huge.
Content creators are obviously the easiest to do that for it, right?
Because you're just, it's an impression game, right?
You're just trying to get top of funnel awareness across the board.
I'm in a couple WAP communities for Clippers to see the types of deals
that come through those.
And it's like, more people are doing it than you would think.
Like, because I get the emails every time there's a new,
I signed up as a clipper to see who was paying what to like have this done.
You're a Los Angeles clipper.
What are you going to say?
That's it, dude.
You know, go Lakers though.
But yes.
And so I've been like, a lot of it has been podcasters, right,
that are like going and trying to just go.
It's impression farming across the board.
The other piece that I've been seeing people do it in is direct-to-consumer brands, right?
Because your CPM on those is drastically lower than what you can achieve through paid channels.
The biggest hurdle that those brands run into is amount of input content, right?
Because like, easy for a podcast to have enough content to clip.
Branded content, there's not a lot of long form.
you know, style stuff talking about independent products and all of those. And so like,
that's where I've seen more of the lift being required on the brand side. But yeah, I mean,
the Clipper game is a, there's a bunch of people very focused on it because it is, it's organic
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Why aren't I clipping for my podcast?
Like, what am I doing?
You actually need to.
Stephen Bartlett credits, like, most of his podcast growth to that.
And he's gotten so analytical with it that he has a button underneath his desk.
Like, while he's interviewing someone about whatever and he presses a button during an
interesting moment and he's basically telling the clippers, this is a good one.
This is a banger.
at least he thinks it is in addition in his interview prep he will prep questions like solely designed
to engineer a response that's viralable and clippable and he's one of the top podcasts in the world
and it's not for a good reason i mean there's a little there's a little mark button on the bottom
of this riverside thing for no i use it i do use it yeah but it's like it's not super like i don't
engineer any questions that would enlistive of IRA response. We just bro down. And maybe this podcast
would be less good if I did that. Maybe it would be more good. I don't know. Yeah, I think keep it what
it is. I think there's good moments that come out of it. I think it's worth going and trying to get
them to do it. Yeah. Like, again, it's a cost arbitrage experiment through and through. Like,
it's not going to cost you any money unless you get views. So like, why not? I think it's,
it's also very interesting because when I read those bullet points about cluelly and they're
success, seven million ARR, three months old, nine figure valuation. You just think, oh, they got
lucky. It's AI. Oh, it's just AI. Oh, just pick a, you know, it's like blockchain. Just put the
word blockchain in your name and raise $100 million. And there's a lot of that going on. But then I read,
oh, these guys have hired 700. Yeah, they're not. You know, you used the word hired loosely,
right? They've DM'd hundreds and thousands of people. But that's a strategy. And it takes a lot of
discipline to pay these randos in Slovakia, thousands of dollars when you don't, there's no
link to click. You don't know what it's doing for you. You just have to kind of feel it. Like the age
old quote is 50% of marketing works. You just don't know which 50% it is. Right. Yeah. 100%. The
podcast is like this thing is so predictable. Like I can guess when I wake up and I look at my downloads,
I can guess within 5%
how many downloads I'll get that day
because they don't podcast don't go viral.
Right.
So if I were to start clipping,
I start to see this unexpected growth,
it can't be coming from anywhere else.
We talk a lot about like just Lyft, right?
Like versus like if you're doing a channel
on some of like our Amazon brands, right?
Like we don't change a single thing on Amazon,
but we spend more money direct to consumer
and we see Lyft on Amazon.
And like we just call it,
like broadly we call it the halo effect right of like similarly you go and you go and just put yourself
out there on 100 million views across 600 clippers over the course of six to 12 months and like
you are now growing at you know 18% month over month instead of 12% it's like you can't
directly attribute that sure but like there's lift and so you know what you changed like you
didn't increase ad spend by 50%.
Yeah.
Something has to be doing that.
And so a lot of it is like, yeah, incremental lift is how we would measure like your billboard.
The billboard is a great, a great example of that.
It's like you don't have a tangible QR code on that billboard, but you can see lift in a
specific demo.
And I got so much crap for it on Twitter.
They're like, dude, you're an idiot.
First of all, Clear Channel does not allow QR codes on billboards because they don't
want people doing this as they drive. Second of all, it's not like I saw Houston, the city where
the billboard was, go from my sixth biggest market to my first biggest market, whereas those top
five cities never change. Right. So it's like pretty sure. It's funny how oftentimes like opposite
advice is both is always correct, right? I don't like spending marketing where I, that I can't track.
That's what makes a billboard hard for me to swallow. That's probably the reason why I haven't paid people to do
clipping yet because I can't track it as cleanly as I can on a Facebook ad. So it's like,
and I've heard gurus, and I've said this myself, like only spend on marketing that you can
track, right? And you drive around the country and you're like, why does Coca-Cola pay for 10,000
billboards? Is that doing anything for them? You know, it's like, well, Coca-Cola's probably
smarter than I am. But, you know, in a lot of cases in certain industries, certain campaigns,
it doesn't make sense to do marketing that you can't track. But then in other cases,
you've got to like take the situation not at face value and look into it a little deeper and say you know what
I'm going to take 10 grand and I'm going to send it to a bunch of Slovakian teenagers and I'm just
going to hope and pray that my SaaS subscriptions go up or my downloads go up and if it doesn't
then it's a $10,000 tuition that I just paid to Slovakia right yeah I'm a fan I'm always like
I like movement even if we don't know what the answer is it's like I don't know I always push for
that it's it's the classic like action just take action we've had this conversation every single
time that i'm on the pod like you're not going to know until you do something we can sit here and
hypothesize about it all day but like and then we do it and it's like oh we actually saw no lift from
this or we saw a little bit of lift how can we do this better it was enough that's interesting
like yep instead of should we do clipping as the thought that's on our brain or the question that
we're thinking about all day it's oh how do i get clipper a
to do better because he's the one, right?
Like you just change the question that you're asking yourself.
And I see people get caught in that with the business ideas.
They spend all their time being like, I could do this.
I could do that.
What about this idea?
What about and they're all,
they're having the same thought process over and over and over again versus,
you know,
like people in the Grow Faster community jump in.
I'm like,
go run ads right now.
Like I don't care.
Whatever is on your mind,
whatever you're thinking about today,
it doesn't have to be a good idea,
bad idea.
We don't know.
Just go run some ads.
because you're going to come back to me next week on the live office hours and you're going to say I ran ads.
This is my cost per click.
Nobody booked a call.
Why did nobody book a call?
Oh, got it.
Look at you're thinking about something else now.
You're not thinking about what idea I should do.
You're thinking about how do I get somebody of these 150 people that clicked on my ad to schedule a call?
You're like, you're not thinking about the same thing.
It's like just making the movement happen.
And so it's the same with the clippers.
It's like, yeah, go, you can think about launching a podcast, but like, just go launch one.
Yeah.
Like, go hire five clippers, bro, because then you'll have a different, we won't have this conversation of should I be doing clipping?
It's like, you'll know.
You'll be like, yeah, I should or shouldn't be doing this or I should be doing it a different way.
Or they need this type of content so I can create, right?
Like, I wonder what happens if those guys, you, you just give them all your short.
form content like why do you have to give them the long form give them the short form and let them
clip all that those are more viral vibes anyways like yeah actually you you have that guy in whatever
country he's in that just reposts your videos in a different language we've talked about it and you've seen
how well he's done yeah that's clipping he's a clipper in he Hindi yeah right like he's a clipper
yeah and instead of being mad about it maybe you're sitting there like wait a sec dude maybe i am
I'm getting some of that.
Well, I post my videos in Hindi now.
Yeah.
Because of him.
I remember we talked about it.
Yeah.
I know.
We did.
And I'm doing it every single day.
But I'm not getting any views on these things.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Dude, he's got that Hindi IP address.
I know.
I know.
You should hit him up.
You should hit him up and say, look, I probably should.
I will pay you X number of dollars per thousand views.
But I just need you to put the link to my podcast in your link in bio.
Yeah, and I wonder if he would make more money by being your first clipper than he's making, doing whatever he's doing, posting your content anyways.
I've thought about doing something similar.
I've thought of going to the guys that copy me in English and saying, I'll give you 10 cents for every newsletter subscriber that you get.
And I'll use UTM parameters so I know, just put my link in your bio.
Yeah, like they're already doing it.
You might as well incentivize it.
Like, yeah, go post my stuff.
Like, I hope there's a thousand accounts that post my stuff as long as.
I'm seeing lift on what I'm doing in a way that from a cost perspective makes sense.
Who's mad?
One of the guys that copies me has 500,000 followers and he stopped posting entirely.
And I kind of want to like buy his account or something.
You should.
Yeah.
And hire a Slovakian teenager to run it.
If anyone listening wants to run my clipping campaign, email me chris at cofounders.com because I want to start doing this.
Yeah, there you go.
I'll send you an email right now.
I'm going to just pose an opportunity to you and I want you to come up with a business idea for it on the fly no prep all right so I'm going to share my screen guy in my community so tkowners.com his name's al he sent me this email and he says hey in my city which I think is baton Rouge Louisiana they publicly post all of the new business listings on the website and he basically said like what would you do with this what business could you start around this so I'm sharing
my screen of the April 2025 new business listings,
a pristine clean, Ava Cafe, Specialty Hospital, Bay's Oyster Bar,
these are local businesses.
What kind of agent or SaaS product or vibe coding product could we build
that leverages these?
Because surely there's a lot more cities than just Baton Rouge, Louisiana doing this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
These are business owners that either have money
or are expecting to spend money, right?
Yeah.
on stuff. Yeah. I mean, it comes the first question I always ask when when people bring stuff
like this to me is like, what do you want out of it? Right. And so like, do you want to go launch
a software business on the back of this? Do you want to just maximize this for income? Do you
want to create enterprise value? Right. Like you got to build a little bit of a box for yourself,
right? If your goal is make as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time as possible off of
something like this, you're talking about a service business. If it's for a business that just started,
you're like, it's marketing. Like, yeah, lead gen forever will be a service that you can sell is like,
we help you get more customers in whatever vehicle you want. You just use that list as a unique
angle to get in the door. Right. Or you go, you go one layer deeper, right? And,
instead of starting the service agency yourself, you take those and you sell them as leads to other service businesses.
We're thinking the exact same thing.
Yeah, you go take every new business and you can do that.
I mean, most secretary of states, like Texas is notorious for it.
Like you see all those guys, like the moment that you file for an entity in Texas, there's companies that will send out automatic like mailer, direct mail campaigns to the address.
saying, hey, for $99, we'll claim your EIN for you or you're right, whatever that is.
And it's like, dude, you can get your EIN for free.
But like most people don't know what to do with that.
Yeah, I had an employee pay $80 once because she got a letter that said,
hey, you're registered in the state of Alabama, but you don't have your workforce posters
up on the wall showing like what your employee's rights are.
You need to buy those for $80.
So she just wrote them a check.
And they arrived.
I'm like, what are you doing?
We get those for free.
that's a scammer.
But it's smart.
I respect that scammer.
Like they're playing the game.
But what they're doing wrong is they're doing,
they need to go one step further.
They're doing the lazy route.
Because if you remember when I shared my screen,
all they provide are the name of the business and the address.
They're just scraping the address and they're sending the generic mailer to it.
What you need to do,
this is what I think someone should do,
is go to Replit or whatever in vibe code,
an agent that scrapes this every morning.
And it just plugs in like,
Hey, John's Restaurant LLC just opened in plug-in, city name Baton, New Louisiana.
I really need John's email.
I need you to find his email, whatever you can.
Go to LinkedIn, go to Manta, find his email, send him this cold email.
Hey, John, I do marketing for insert industry name here.
Can we hop on a quick call to where I can help you get more customers?
And then so you send out 100 emails every morning.
I do marketing for salons.
I do marketing for copy shops.
I do marketing for whatever.
And so it feels real to them.
It's relevant to them.
It has their first name.
It's going to their email.
You're not competing in a C.
In the direct mail.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Because these guys go check the mail for the next month and they see 10 things that are all the same.
So they all go in the trash.
But if you show up in their email or in their text, then you'll stand out.
And then you can either start a $2,000 a month marketing agency or you can sell those leads for 50 bucks per call to local $2,000 month marketing agencies.
Yep.
The difference between the $2,000.
or the selling it of $50 is a matter of scale and speed to significant income.
That's always what I tell people is like making $10,000 a month on your own is a lot easier
if you're selling a higher ticket product.
Software generally is not that.
And so like you might want to jump into software because it's sexy, fun, cool, whatever.
But if your true goal like at your core is to not work a nine to five or replace your income
or hit a specific income target, services the easiest way to make that happen.
And again, it like gets the ball rolling.
It's like every service, not every single one, but most of the service businesses that
have been involved when have stepped into software after because like that's just the natural
progression.
And so like I would go be the $2,000 a month agency.
If you're just starting from scratch and you have that data, I would just be the agency
and then start just making money.
Like prove to yourself you can do that.
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