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2 HOUR AGENCY.
ROBERT NECKELIUS
Copyright © 2018 Robert Neckelius
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INTRODUCTION
REDIRECT THE TRAFFIC STREAM TO YOUR WEBSITE 78
WHERE TO GET CLIENTS FOR FREE 79
GETTING CLIENTS USING SOCIAL MEDIA 81
GETTING CLIENTS USING SEO 87
GETTING CLIENTS WITH COLD EMAIL 89
GETTING 1400% ROI USING PAID ADVERTISING (HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED) 90
THE EASIEST MONEY YOU’LL EVER MAKE 96
INTERVIEW WITH 7-FIGURE 2 HOUR AGENCY OWNER 151
RESOURCES 158
THE ULTIMATE 2 HOUR AGENCY SOFTWARE & TOOLS LIST
158
MARKETPLACES FOR BUYERS AND SELLERS OF SERVICES
158
There is an ever growing opportunity to create a
digital agency that delivers digital services to clients
all over the world, from anywhere in the world. You
can do it from your bed, the beach, the car, or an
office if that’s your thing. I’ve been doing this since
2012, and I’ve taught others along the way. This is the
first time I teach it in a book like this, and you’re
going to find it to be a good resource. Most likely this
is not a book you read once from cover to cover and
put on the shelf, but rather it’ll act as a resource that
you can pick up and read individual sections from
based on where you are with your agency.
you already own an agency you’ll find some strategies
on getting more clients (on autopilot), and working
less, including how to eliminate some of the
soul-crushing work that most agency owners put up
with, such as going to meetings and creating
proposals (say goodbye to those).
Reading this book will give you the tools and the
guidance needed to start your agency, or to transform
your current agency into a machine that can bring in
more sales and eventually not being entirely
dependent on your constant attention.
client services business to this level, my pursuit with
this agency is not creative. My agency is simply a
money machine. If you care deeply about the creative
aspect of your work and take extreme pride in it, this
book will do nothing for you, if anything you’ll
probably despise it. The key differentiator is that the
pursuit of art/creativity does not go hand in hand with
automation and profits. Additionally, charging
extremely high prices for a project is often the goal
when your pursuits are creative as prices are a
reflection of your skill level, whereas lower prices and
bulk sales are neither looked down upon nor
undesirable in my mission of profit and freedom. Just
felt I’d get that off my chest in case you want to win
creative awards and this book somehow ended up in
your hands.
MY $200,000 TWO HOURS
PER WEEK AGENCY
I started my video production agency in 2012. At first
I was doing everything. Prospecting. Cold calling.
Fixing our website. Project management. Networking.
Client calls. And the list goes on. Current agency
owners are nodding their heads.
expecting the majority of them to ask about “getting
more qualified leads”. It’s not a bad request, however,
getting leads is not something we focus on. Leads are
a side effect of us failing to make the sale. Our primary
goal is to make the sale, and if someone is interested
enough to leave their email address or other contact
info, they are considered a lead, but again that is a
side effect of us NOT making the sale, which is our
primary goal.
run their digital agencies. This was also how I ran my
agency for a long time, until I found a better way.
Not only that, since they really are just a glorified
freelancer, they can’t sell their business, because it’s
not a real business. They don’t have repeatable
systems and procedures for getting and delivering to
clients, so their “business” is simply based on the
hours that they put into it.
important topic when it comes to your 2 Hour Agency.
I’ve dedicated a whole section to it later in this book.
I could literally sell my business, give someone access
to my Google Drive and a little bit of training and they
could operate the whole business in a week.
Need some software to make your life easier? If you
got clients coming, just buy it. Want to spend $5,000
on advertising? You got new clients coming every
month, so go for it.
Sure you can sell your business and invest the money,
but there is something to be said for the mental
advantage of KNOWING that your bank account is
growing every single month.
Many people that sell their business end up in a
position where their bank account is decreasing every
month. So even though they got a nice lump sum of
cash, their account is decreasing month after month,
leading them into a bad mindset that causes them to
make bad decisions, even though they might actually
be okay financially.
They’re networking. They’re prospecting. They’re cold
calling. They’re emailing. They’re writing proposals
(EW!). They’re following up.
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you want is to build repeatable systems. Systems to
get new clients, deliver to them, and generally how to
operate the business. This is also what makes your
business attractive if you ever want to sell it for a big
lump sum of cash.
You have to make sure to create an agency, not a new
job. That is not why you are here reading this, to get a
new job.
THE OPPORTUNITY
How many people out there do you think want more
Instagram followers? A lot.
How many businesses out there do you think want a
new website? A lot.
How many people out there are looking for a job and
need help with their resume and cover letter?
Hundreds of thousands!
A need for professional 15 second videos in a vertical
format, ready for use in Instagram stories was
created, and just like that a new type of agency could
be born.
This is a very important section. 99% of people will
immediately disagree with me on this topic, until they
hear me out, and until they try it my way. You see
most people will tell you something along the lines of
“Want to make more money? Double your prices.”
deliver your service to them without your
involvement!
Obviously the $5k. Now what if I told you that the $5k
profit business charged significantly less for a similar
service as the $1k profit business. Would you care?
Now let’s say you were one those glorified freelancers,
who only got 1 new client every couple of months, can
you see why charging higher prices is very appealing
to them? First of all it would actually give them higher
profit because they have so few clients, but it would
also give their ego a boost, because remember they’re
not running an actual business, they are the business,
so if they charge higher prices, it must mean they are
worth more, as their prices are a reflection of them as
a person, and their skillset.
I don’t have anything against charging high prices,
you just have to realize that it can in many cases work
against you in your quest for freedom.
#3 WITH HIGHER PRICES COME HIGHER
EXPECTATIONS
profit per month in order for it to make any sense for
your client to keep hiring you.
Another thing to realize is that your agency will have
refunds no matter what you charge. Whether it’s $10
or $10,000. Now let’s say you have 2 clients at $5,000
each, totalling $10,000. Or let’s say you have 20
clients at $500, also totalling $10,000. Let’s say all
other variables are kept equal. And now let’s say you
get a refund request. A $5,000 refund ruins your
month. A $500 refund ruins your afternoon. I’ve had
both, and I know which one I’d rather take.
machine keeps on running without you. One of the
problems you find when you charge premium prices is
that on top of having less people to sell to, it requires
more effort to make the sale (this is not always true,
but again tends to be reality). This means that with
your premium prices you tend to have less clients
than someone who charges less.
If you have 1 client at $10,000 what do you think
you’re spending your time on? Correct, getting your
next client. There is no asset value there.
This really is the main point. Again the point of your 2
Hour Agency is profit and freedom. One of the major
keys to making that work is getting clients on
autopilot, and when you are charging say less than
$1,000 for a service you can, with some work, make
the sale right off of your website, without ever talking
to the client, sending them a proposal, or anything of
that nature.
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and I found my life and bank account to prefer the low
to medium priced services by far. It also doesn’t mean
I don’t end up with making less money. Our front end
offer is about $700 and yet our average client spends
$2,000.
FIND YOUR IDEA & START
YOUR PROFITABLE 2 HOUR
AGENCY (“2HA”)
In this chapter I want to give you a list of ideas to
choose from, as well as show you where you can find
your own ideas.
35. Site speed optimization 40. Cold email services
36. Instagram growth 41. Facebook™ and LinkedIn
37. Webinar slides creation group management
38. Recover failed payments
39. Conversion rate
optimization
exist, in order to have a big market share in a small
market.
So, what are people already buying lots of? If you look
at the list above some of the agency ideas stand out
more than others. Website development for example.
Of course lots of other businesses make websites too,
don’t worry about this. The point is that people are
buying websites, and they will continue to do so for
the foreseeable future.
being posted by buyers. I was astonished to find the
demand for Swedish (my native language) to English
(and vice versa) translators. If I wanted to start
another 2 Hour Agency I would 100% tap into that
market. I would start off focusing on just
Swedish-English translations and get all my systems
and procedures in order. Then I would expand into
other languages, transcriptions, and other related
services.
PICKING WHICH AGENCY TO START
you can easily get a snapshot of the competitor
landscape.
to create, that are consequently met with a
non-response from the prospect, only to let the whole
thing dwindle out before it even started.
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what you feel like selling. This usually means there
will be plenty of competition and this turns people off.
The truth is that it is a lot wiser to get 1% of a big
market than 90% of a small market. What if you
succeeded in getting 90% of that small market? You
would only have 10% left to grow before you’d either
need to reinvent your entire business (which would be
a bad idea given the success you’d be having at that
point), or start something new from scratch.
one day as he was forced to cough up a dollar at a hot
dog stand (remember this was in the 1950s so some
things have changed). Since then IKEA has sold
hundreds of millions of hot dogs for 50 cents all over
the world. They’ve ignored the standard practice of
adjusting prices for the natural inflation that occurs
over time and opted with sticking to the arbitrary
number set by their founder. I actually grew up in the
small town of Älmhult where IKEA and its founder is
from, and my dad worked at IKEA for almost 30
years. My grandmother is from a town just 15 minutes
away and tells tales of the young man who was hosting
his first exhibition of self-assembly furniture back in
the 50’s. It’s pretty amazing to see something that was
always part of your life become part of millions of
people’s lives around the globe. Kind of like when you
discover a comedian or a singer before they blow up.
you go to IKEA, you buy hot dogs, plural. It is a
ridiculous offer. If you are remotely hungry and not a
gluten-allergic vegan, you’re an idiot if you don’t buy a
hot dog. This is the thinking we aspire to accomplish
with your offer.
project has a different scope and consequently a
different price.”
variables that change in each project are simply added
as options that visitors can select based on their
needs, and their price will be calculated accordingly,
immediately.
So once the client has chosen the length of their video,
they simply choose template or custom graphics, and
again the price is adjusted accordingly, right there on
the spot. Not 11 days later in the proposal when
they’ve already cooled off.
yet the sliced cheese is usually more expensive while
also being less cheese.
should clearly explain what problem you solve and
what you offer.
Vs.
We make cheese.
and presenting that on your website so that there is
zero confusion as to what you sell, and why they
should buy it.
Maybe they’re planning on making a sandwich. They
might need bread, butter, mustard, a toaster, and a
butler to make their sandwich for them. Some
percentage of your customers will always buy more
stuff, and again, this is a crucial component of making
your 2 Hour Agency profitable. You want to make
maximum money.
- Marketing services (from $220)
and Done-For-You. DIY can be an online course
showing the buyer how to do what you do for your
clients. It should cost less than your done-for-you
option, but once the course is done it requires no work
for you deliver on the DIY offer.
client. In an ideal world you have offers for each of the
3.
who speak Swedish. This meant we had to translate
their feedback into English (EVERY TIME) so the
Ukranians could understand it. The whole process
was a mess to be honest.
started having projects where the client was so happy
they approved the first draft. That was literally
unheard of during the previous years. It never
happened. That’s when I really knew this was the way
forward.
You do not have to know how to personally deliver the
service that your agency sells. In fact, it’s better if you
are incapable of delivering. This forces you to get
other people to do the work, and prevents you from
“I’ll just do it myself” thinking. That is the fastest way
to end up as a freelancer, not an agency.
websites such as themeforest.net, audiojungle.net,
graphicriver.net codecanyon.net, videohive.net, and
so on. They sell template based work that you can use
for your clients, and I highly recommend this way of
working. The work itself is as professional as if you
hired someone to do it from scratch, the difference is
not in the quality of the work, only the uniqueness. If
you buy template animation graphics of course similar
ones will be find in other videos. What you’ll find is
almost no one cares about this. However there is a
great opportunity to offer custom made work to the
10-20% of your clients that want to stand out a little
more, and of course you should charge more for it.
Another thing I want to note when it comes to
expanding your offer is to keep your ears open. Your
clients will ask you for other things, and whatever
they ask for is often the best thing to start offering all
your clients. We had several clients ask us for subtitles
to their videos, eventually we started offering it to
everyone. Same thing with still images of the graphics
from our client’s video: a couple of them asked for it,
eventually we turned it into an addon they can select
during checkout.
subtitles or not we sell more of them than if we wait
for clients to come up with the idea on their own.
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Once you’ve got that part figured out we can get you
new buyers, then we simply need to finish your funnel
by offering other valuable things to your customers.
If you sell Instagram growth services such as liking
and commenting on other people’s posts, offer to
create content for them, run ads to their account, etc.
labor. Once you’re in space floating, things are easy.
One of the most important tasks that you have in
these beginning stages is to get your first clients,
deliver to them with overwhelming success (ideally)
and collect testimonials to be placed on your website,
making your next sale slightly easier.
HOW TO GET YOUR FIRST 3 TESTIMONIALS
surprised at who in your existing network may end up
being your first client.
looking for 1 or 2 people that I can help with this. It
will be free of charge, all I ask in return is a
testimonial when the job is complete. Comment below
or send me a PM!”
- Not every post is created equal. Text only posts
are not that sexy. Image posts (nice images) are
sexier. Videos are sexier than images (depends
on the platform but generally that is the case).
So if you can make a video you should! A live
stream would be even better!
- We say 1-2 people in the post to create scarcity
and urgency to take you up on the offer. I
highly recommend you say yes to 5 people. 1
will fall off. 1 won’t pan out. So by saying yes to
5 your chances of actually getting 3
testimonials are very good!
WHAT MAKES A GOOD TESTIMONIAL?
For example if being in a different city than the client
is your most common objection, and you’ve
successfully delivered to clients outside your city,
simply have them mention that in their testimonial so
that they will help overcome the objection for you as
visitors on your site read their testimony.
image, and video! But like anything else, any
testimonial is better than no testimonial.
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There were plenty of nice Audis that we sat in, read
about, and played with. We decided we liked the Q3
and that we wanted to buy it.
Most agency websites have a bunch of information, a
portfolio, and a contact form, but no buy button. This
is a key to your 2 Hour Agency, ESPECIALLY if you’re
in the low-mid price range where making the sale
right on the page is fully feasible.
If you dream of spending less time on trying to close
sales, this is a crucial step in your 2 Hour Agency.
The template was built on Clickfunnels™, and you can
get access to my 6-figure template here ->
#1 HEADLINE
#2 PROBLEM
#3 SOLUTION
#4 PORTFOLIO
will be doing. Start some conversations with a few
freelancers that look promising, and once you find
someone that you like simply let them know that you
are currently looking for clients and once you get one
you’d like to hire them to do the job. They’ll be very
happy. Then ask them if they’d like to be on your
website, and if it’s okay that you post some of their
work in your portfolio. This is a legitimate way of
building credibility on a brand new agency site as you
are only showing work that is done by the same
person that will do the work for your clients.
#5 TESTIMONIALS
One way to get some testimonials immediately is to
get testimonials about you. I’m sure you’ve worked
with other people in some capacity before, and if you
can get testimonials about your character, well as the
owner of your 2 Hour Agency that’s actually really
valuable. Eventually we want the testimonials to be
about the service, but if you don’t have any, or enough
of them, simply get some people who like you to write
some nice words about you. Remember that your
testimonials should ideally overcome objections that
your visitors have.
#6 PACKAGES
#7 GUARANTEE
#9 CASE STUDY
#10 ABOUT US
Super short section that shows pictures of your team,
again if you don’t have a team just recruit some
freelancers that you will eventually hire, and ask if
they want to be on your site. This is not a crucial step.
#11 FAQ
#13 MORE TESTIMONIALS
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our ridiculous offer. We want them to become clients
right then and there, and that is the sole purpose of
our salesman website.
WHERE TO GET CLIENTS FOR FREE
customer information. He solved this problem by
adding a TypeForm link in his brief so that all his
clients had to go fill out the form in order for him to
deliver on the service they bought on Fiverr. This
allowed him to get customer info, and subsequently
upsell them other services without Fiverr.com taking a
commission. He was making over $10,000 per month
doing this, and the key he said was getting a lot of five
star reviews. You can do something similar on all the
marketplaces out there. Simply take your ridiculous
offer and post it up on all the marketplace websites,
and make sure to get a lot of good reviews, and if
possible get the customer contact info so that you can
upsell your backend.
If you HAD to make a sale.. who would you pitch to..?
Someone who has never heard of you, or someone
that already knows, likes, and trusts you? Obviously,
the latter. This is the power of having an audience,
and all we have to do is look at Kylie Jenner who sells
makeup for hundreds of millions of dollars direct to
consumers through social media without any paid
advertising.
You can now pixel people in your group to be able to
run ads to them based on their behavior in your
group.
2. Engage your group. This is how you show
Facebook™ that people enjoy your group, and that it
is quality. This makes Facebook™ want to promote
your group for free by showing it as one of the “related
groups” that people see when they are inside other
Facebook™ groups.
Let’s talk about some of the most common problems
and fears that people have when it comes to
Facebook™ groups.
on a certain topic. You don’t have to be the undeniable
number 1 expert in the world just to help someone.
would write a blog post and go to my Facebook™ and
say “hey everyone here’s my latest post: LINK”
that can help you get new clients by offering value and
bringing people together around a certain topic.
Ultimately though, SEO comes down to 1. Finding
which keywords are relevant and possible to rank for
2. Creating really really good content around those
keywords or topics, and 3. Getting other websites to
link to your content, showing Google that you are
legit!
you’ll need to finalize the sale by getting on a call with
prospects. To be a true 2 Hour Agency you’ll want to
delegate this part, but start off doing it yourself so you
know what to expect.
GETTING 1400% ROI USING PAID ADVERTISING
(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
So if you can break even from advertising, especially
in the beginning, that is GOOD! Once you’ve figured
out how much you can spend to acquire a new client,
it’s time to start advertising.
colors on Facebook™ when you could use yellow and
red).
catching low periods every single time. Just the way of
the universe. But I respect that most people don’t
have a ton of money to put into advertising, so what I
recommend that you do is find a daily average spend
that you are comfortable with, and let it run! If you
have $300 spend $10 per day for a month instead of
$100 for 3 days.
Step #1 - Content
Create a video of yourself, or an animated video, 3-10
minutes in length that provides value to your
audience. Start by asking yourself what your audience
struggles with, then ask yourself what you know that
might help them with that problem. For my video
agency I actually made a content video about this
3-step process that I’m describing to you now. This is
valuable to them and since I’m telling them they need
videos to pull off this strategy, some of them become
clients of ours. The point of this video is not to sell,
and it is not a pitch. The point is to give value and be
of service. Immediately we stand out from the crowd
as most people go straight for the sale. You want to set
this ad up to optimize for video views (get as many
people as possible to watch the whole video as cheaply
as possible).
Step #2 - Pitch
Okay now you can pitch them. You can either make a
whole video addressing who the video is for,
identifying their problems, describing your solution,
providing some proof and credibility, and then having
a call to action. Or you just find a short captivating
video that loops and its job is simply to get their
attention. Your pitch will be in the copywriting of the
post anyway and most importantly: we are showing
this video to people who watched our first video so
they already know us! We do this by creating a
Custom Audience in Facebook of people who either
watched 25%, 50%, 75% or 95% of our video, and then
use that audience as the target for our pitch ad. I just
start off with people who watch 25% and if
conversions are no good perhaps make it 50%+.
I love this step, it’s super simple and this is the ad that
had 1400% ROI. All this is, is a slideshow video with
text reviews from our clients. In this example I had 11
reviews, all 5 stars, and I just put them into a square
slideshow using Screenflow video editor, and turned it
into a nice short video. This is a killer ad that you
should implement!
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DOUBLE YOUR BUSINESS
WITH THESE 3 STRATEGIES
Once you have started your agency, you have gotten a
few clients and figured out your delivery process, it’s a
good time to take an overview look at your business
and ask ourselves how we can make it better.
Improving on a situation that is kind of working
already is MUCH easier than starting something from
scratch. I say that because you will undoubtedly get
frustrated at times and dream about starting another
agency that you tell yourself has none of the problems
that your agency has. This is not true. There is no
perfect business, they all have their problems, and
usually the quickest way to reach your dreams is to
improve on your kind-of working business, instead of
starting over.
year. It should be credited to the brilliant marketer
Jay Abraham who brilliantly broke down the task of
making more money in your business to 3 simple
tasks.
GET MORE CLIENTS
GET CLIENTS TO BUY MORE
So what else can you offer clients? What are they
buying before they get to you? What are they buying
after they leave you? What else would make a perfect
complementary purchase with your main offer? Go
crazy on this one, again this is the easiest money you’ll
ever make in your business and you’ll see results
immediately.
along the lines of “Hey, it’s been 4 weeks since we
delivered your video, I just wanted to check in and see
how it’s going?”
best result, and implement it. Don’t wait. Do it right
away!
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to do. This exercise will always help you figure out
what’s next on your todo list.
REPLACE YOURSELF
(AUTOMATE & DELEGATE)
This is a huge topic! If everything is somewhat going
according to plan as your 2 Hour Agency starts
picking up speed you’ll find yourself increasingly
busy, realizing that “this is not what I signed up for”.
The first step is to get your agency to the point where
you are getting new clients consistently. The next step
is to start removing yourself from the equation by
automation and delegation. It’s kind of like we’re
building this big skyscraper, and once the skyscraper
is finished we have to clean the construction zone, get
all the dust off the windows, and make the place run
efficiently.
VERY important. If you do everything else and skip
this part of the equation you will end up with just
another job. You’ll be a glorified freelancer whose
attention is constantly required by your clients. That
is not a fun place to be in, hence the importance of
implementing this chapter.
I’m going to show you how to take all the tasks that
occur repeatedly in your business and ideally have
them done by computers using off-the-rack software,
or in the worst case scenario, have it delegated to a
part-time employee.
HOW TO AUTOMATE YOUR BUSINESS
down whether that task can be done by a human or by
software.
Search on google /
Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
see ad on Facebook™
Click our website Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
Go through our
Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
website
Place an order Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
Receive brief on TY
Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
page
Fill out brief Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
Receive basecamp
Manual Automated/Delegated
invite
Watch training
Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
videos
Choose speaker and
Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
background music
Receive script draft Manual Manual
Give feedback Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
Approve script Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
Receive video draft Manual Manual
Give feedback Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
Approve video Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
Receive link to
Manual Manual
download .mp4 etc.
Receive thank you
Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
email
Receive “how’s it
going” email after 4 Automated/Delegated Automated/Delegated
week
of 3 months later when you realize you’re missing a
key feature and have to look for a new software.
how they’d handle that situation. Once I’ve gotten
20ish applications I make a shortlist of 5 favorite
candidates. Then I jump on Skype with those
candidates and interview them. I choose my top 2,
and do a 2nd interview with them. I’ll do a paid test
job with my #1 pick, and if it doesn’t pan out I’ll do a
test job my 2nd favorite.
as much time with them as you reasonably can. Face
to face or online, either way works.
worked with them for a while. If they’re not a good fit,
tough luck, go through the hiring process again.
Nothing to cry about.
You can put individual freelancers in direct contact
with clients inside your project management software.
My freelancers even jump on the phone with clients.
What you have to realize is that yes, I’m paying 3x for
my animator, but my project manager works a lot less
because he doesn’t have to act middle man anymore,
and on top of that the projects are generally higher
quality, and our delivery times have decreased
significantly.
Apart from how to hire we also need to discuss
something very important. You might be scared
shitless by the thought of hiring someone, especially if
you’re thinking about hiring someone full time.
place, you’ll start to find yourself having too much
time on your hands.
excellent job, but they’re doing it in a crappy job.
Chances are they’ll be delighted to hear your offer.
But no, these are not full time expensive hires, we hire
people per hour and they only work when we need
them to. This means that they only work when we
have work for them! If we don’t get any clients they
don’t work and we don’t pay them. Everything is on
demand, and this also allows you to start very small. I
recommend starting with hiring someone for just 2-3
hours per week. This is enough time for you to train
them up, and also get a feel for whether they’ll be able
to do the job or not.
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You’ll find some tasks may never be automated or
delegated, that is okay. If you can get 95% of your
workload off your plate, that’d be pretty good
wouldn’t it?
BECOMING ULTRA
PRODUCTIVE
When no one tells you what to do it becomes your job
to tell you what to do. I’m sure you’re aware we as
humans generally suck at that. How many days have
you woken up without an agenda? How many times
have you skipped out on the gym because you didn’t
feel like it? These are normal human behaviors that
we need to do something about because rest assured
no one is going to build your agency for you. No one’s
going to do anything in life for you. You have to do it,
and since we are all prone to procrastination and
Instagram soft porn you’ll need a system for staying
productive.
I’ve tried a lot of things but the one thing that
consistently works and turns my productivity up is
having an accountability group. But just having an
accountability group is not enough, you have to follow
a proven method. Here’s my method.
the current week. This weeks tasks are all that matters
to you.
When setting your tasks for the week make sure they
are things you can control. There has been plenty of
times where I set a task that turns out was out of my
hands. Set goals that are process oriented not results
oriented. Rather than setting “get 1 new client” set
“make 10 sales calls” for example. As you know the 2
Hour Agency is all about minimizing phone calls but
you see the difference I hope. You can control the
number of calls, you can’t control someone else
paying you money, at least not on the same level.
punishments at all. I missed tasks every week during
that time. As soon as I added thrusters as my
punishment, miraculously all my tasks ended up
being ticked off each week. What a coincidence.
HOW TO GET 150,000 Facebook™ FOLLOWERS
IN 30 DAYS
the audience I want, who have mind blowing content
that hasn’t actually been promoted properly..
He wrote an article exposing what it’s like working in
the restaurant industry, and managed to get it
published in The New Yorker, and the next day his life
changed. He got a $50,000 book contract, which led
to him writing Kitchen Confidential, and off he went
to superstardom.
peak it brought in 11,885 new followers in one single
day. It was an amazing time for many reasons.
But I didn’t give up, so I found another inspiring story
of Dwayne The Rock Johnson. I added subtitles to it
(top tip always add subtitles when you’re putting out
videos on Facebook™ as about 80-90% of people
watch videos on mute, and will not get your message
without subtitles).
my ad costs. Since my page was about inspiration I
created a coffee cup on teespring.com and used that to
recuperate the money I spent on advertising.
It worked.
Let’s look closer at the actual steps of how I grew my
page from 0 to 150,000 Facebook™ followers in 30
days:
made for the social proof of having a lot of Facebook™
followers, but if you’re going to be doing the work you
might as well get the actual people you’re after in the
first place.
Another really good place to look is the list of popular
podcasts out there. A lot of podcasts are just audio,
but some do video as well. In either case if you find
one small piece from a podcast that you think can be
an amazing piece of content you can either take the
audio and turn it into a video, or take the video and
cut it up into a shorter version, add subtitles of course,
and off you go.
The attention span on Facebook™ isn’t very long, so
here’s what you need to do.
when on Facebook™. It’s an annoying extra step, but
it has to be done. You can always get it done by a
professional using services like GoTranscript or
VisualSubtitling from $1-$4 per minute.
credit to someone, even if I used a 1 second clip from
them, they always found me and had a problem. I
never had a problem with the people I properly gave
credit to.
STEP #5 – MONETIZE
Ideally you have monetization already planned, unlike
I did. I literally designed a coffee cup in the morning
on teespring.com when I realized that I was onto
something. Luckily we sold a few and actually made
the money back from our ad spend. It’s important that
what you’re selling is relevant to your page and your
content. Don’t sell cat food when your video is about
how to grow your online business. My final thoughts
on this is that it can be difficult to identify amazing
content, but if it works it works well.
SUMMARY
I grew a page from 0 to over 150,000 Facebook™
followers in 30 days by finding amazing content that
already existed and simply needed to be adapted for
Facebook™, and in this post you learned my strategy
that ultimately led to me having 2 viral videos, both
with over 11 million views and I did it all from my
laptop.
HOW I GOT MY AGENCY FEATURED IN THE
#AskGaryVee SHOW
Instagram handle onscreen and that’s what you see in
the image above. You can watch the segment here
https://youtu.be/DQHV6n3X0lU?t=486. This
led to thousands of dollars worth of sales over the next
few weeks, and I’d like to share how I planned the
whole campaign as this was not the result of luck so
much as it was strategic and if I may say so myself:
executed perfectly.
voiceover myself, and sent it to our animator, making
sure to tell him it needs to be a guy standing in front
of Mount Rushmore. So I got the video done, the next
step was really the tougher part, actually breaking
through and getting selected to be on the show as you
would imagine I was not the only one who was trying
to do that.
I did not get a response from India for 3 days, so I
sent a quick follow up asking if she got a chance to see
the video. 5 hours later I got this reply:
I delivered on it. What do the people on your list want
that you can deliver?
between follow ups, and if you don’t hear back move
on to the next person on your list.
the time posting video summaries of his episodes, and
I knew there was tremendous value in that. So I made
him one.
You can use this strategy of creating valuable content
for people who you want exposure from and sending it
to them with no expectations. Some will pay off and
some will not, but don’t be discouraged if they don’t.
Look at the net payoff from the whole strategy and
you’ll find it to be highly valuable.
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HOW I GET FREE BUSINESS
CLASS FLIGHTS, EVENT
TICKETS & OTHER STUFF
There are some really cool benefits that come with
owning your own business, and you should take full
advantage of them if you ask me. As a business you
will spend a lot more money than you do as a private
person (well, probably). Spending money is a good
thing, and other businesses like when you spend
money with them, so they will take care of you. In this
chapter I want to give you some ideas of how to
upgrade your lifestyle now that you have a business to
help you do so.
HOW TO GET $15,000 BUSINESS CLASS
FLIGHTS FOR FREE
the results however, so let’s talk about how you can
apply this to your life, and business.
Now that you have your card(s) we need to get you
some points. There are many ways to do it, but in my
experience only 2 activities are really worth put any
effort into: 1) spending money, and 2) referring other
people.
come back and buy again), plus the award points, that
is pretty good, especially if you are able to scale this
up. Imagine if you could spend $1,000 on social
media, get $300 in your pocket and $1,000 worth of
credit card points for free flights. Pretty cool right?
incentivize other people to sign up for a credit card
with your link.
the Dusseldorf - Tokyo flight is actually available for
award bookings, as a direct flight, they just didn’t
want to show it to me. But since it does actually exist I
can just call the airlines and make the booking on the
phone.
Let’s say I sell a video for $2,000. It might cost me
$1,000 to make it. This means I basically created
$1,000 worth of value. That’s $1,000 you can use to
buy goods and services that you want!
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can’t say no. Then I had the idea for my offer pretty
much the same day, and created it that week. And by
the end of the week sales were coming in.
time. If you keep doing that and learn from
your mistakes eventually you’ll strike gold.
3. Try to find mentors or friends that are also
doing similar things so you can get insights
that you’d never have if you were just doing it
by yourself
brainer offer I spoke about and few people seem to
pay much attention to the offer.
particularly hard. You should always be in charge of
your marketing but the donkey tasks should be done
by someone else. Hire donkeys.
Sales enquiries, but that was a mental block rather
than a mechanical block. You have to find a person
that has some social skills and finesse. We have some
stock answers to common questions and they need to
be able to use those but still make it personal, so it
doesn’t seem like we’re just giving them a robot
answer.
was all working the tasks that remained are now
mostly things done by other people.
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FINAL WORDS
I’ve armed you with the tools and mindset to find and
choose a 2 Hour Agency idea. I’ve showed you how to
get your first testimonial clients. I’ve laid out some
other strategies for client acquisition to get the ball
rolling. I’ve shown you how to create a ridiculous offer
and direct traffic to your website for automatic client
acquisition. I’ve shown you how to get help managing
projects by hiring an on-demand project manager. I’ve
shown you how to break down each step in your
business and either automate or delegate each task. If
you do everything in this book you can build a life of
freedom for yourself and your family. I believe in you.
RESOURCES
● Basecamp
● Billogram
● Trello
● Active campaign
● Zapier
● Clickfunnels
UpWork.com
PeoplePerHour.com
Fiverr.com
Guru.com
Freelancer.com
Outsourcely.com
Witmart.com
99designs.com
TopTal.com
DesignCrowd.com
Twago.com
Textbroker.com
CrowdSpring.com
TaskRabbit.com
OnlineJobs.ph