@@sharlenesmith2042 Thanks for signing up. Assuming this is Maker School and not MMWM (latter is waitlisted), send me an email at nick@leftclick.ai and we'll sort it out for you. Cheers!
I'm interested in learning Make and finding ways to use it to help my clients. I Maker School a good fit or are there better ways to do this. I'm a relative beginner to Make
Warren motivates investors. As an investment enthusiast, I don’t even know where the stock market is headed to right now. my portfolio of around 200k is not increasing more than 5% and people are predicting a crash .
A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850k.
My CFA Aileen Gertrude Tippy a renowned figure in her line of work. I recommend researching her credentials further... She has many years of experience and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to navigate the financial market..
Hey Nick, really moved by your honest reflections on this journey. You always provide tons of value, and I'm grateful to be part of your community. Always learning so much from your videos-looking forward to growing and learning more with you!
Your business model is truly impressive, as is your ability to deliver a 50-minute UA-cam video in a single take. I've become a definite follower and plan to sign up for the monthly subscription to evaluate its value before committing to the annual plan. Thanks Nick
I really appreciate your honesty and breakdown on HOW this is affecting you and where you came from. The idea of sharing for the good of others in similar situations is really admirable. Thank you. (systems geek working as a coach and consistently wondering why I focus on this stuff so much 🤩)
Well said Katherine! I've gotten so much out of seeing real, transparent breakdowns that I figured I had to do one too. Appreciate you and good seeing you in Maker School 👊
The one tricky thing about retainers is that you have to keep "finding" things to do, where you're likely to have done a lot of the heavy lifting at the start. What I've found the easiest to manage expectations as well is to do a bigger upfront build, and then the retainer is more like maintenance, you're not "looking" for things to do. It likely is lower ticket but i find its easier on my mind and managing expectations.
Great point Gavin. I agree-you can also bundle maintenance into your retainer to split the load between "new project time" and "upkeep time". Latter is usually minimal so you get to make multiples on those hours. Keep up the channel man.
I'm building an app right now. It's a little complicated to explain but if you ever decide to make am app again I would look at weweb front end and supabase as a backend. For what you built and your intelligence you could prob build it in a few days. Love the channel by the way
Thank you for sharing this speech was really inspiring and the examples and the way the smooth way of you talking me through let me realize a lot of things. We're grateful that I find your channel studying by myself. I will definitely just stick around and learn more from you and thank you for your work and the ethic you emphasize. Dogs I think is the biggest enemy or friend your perspective is very effective.
This is a very dope one. Watching in chunks here as he drops quite valuable insights almost in passing. We could make a whole workshop only based on that one. So I take it that the fact he talks about his Upwork strategy (quite good actually) means this thing is already saturated, no?
Not at all! 18M registered freelancers on Upwork alone, and there are a few other platforms you can employ similar strategies on. Lots of space to crush it 😤
If it were u and u were to drop the consulting part what could be the one thing u could scale up to make say 50k a month? But more solopreneur?? Great content dude! I think the next should be your time management with this income 8n consideration. I bet u systiniz2 your time dialy like u do ur biz and would love to see how u do that!! If that vid gets 200k views remember me 😅😅
If you could time travel back to Feb-March 2024 and had to re-think from scratch how to start your Skool, how would you do it? Would you do things any differently?
1. I would have started building lists much earlier-namely, instead of giving away blueprints on Notion/Google Drive, I would have signed up for Gumroad or an equivalent and collected at least an email in exchange. This list would have made my launch much stronger and the demand would have justified a higher price point. 2. I would have charged substantially more. MMWM started at $28/mo and scaled to $128/mo; the low pricing was more a function of my own lack of confidence in communities than in the value I thought I was providing. Many people pay $500/mo or more for this stuff so I sold myself a little short. All good learnings though. 3. I would have nailed the value proposition earlier, and created separate programs for different avatars. I.e I would have had a program that takes you from 0->1 (like Maker School), another that takes you from 1->10 (like Make Money With Make.com) and a last that takes you from 10->100 (like a high-ticket mastermind or similar). Differentiating in this way lets you more effectively tackle customer needs, since advice that you give to an agency at $10,000/mo will be very different from advice you give an agency at $1,000/mo. Strategically, it also ensures me customers for the second and third tiers, since if I do my job right members will naturally upsell themselves at each step. This is what comes to mind right now-great q Ujj 🙏. Hope you're crushing it man.
Please tell me you do more with your voice than just UA-cam. Voice-overs, lending your voice to AI, reading to the blind, etc, ASMR. You've got potential in the creative space too beyond just content.
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This is the issue I have and here is my 2 cents worth lol . If I do make a product sell and it brings in the big bucks (yeah right), In the UK, this would take us over the basic tax threshold and we start paying the high rate of tax (currently 40% between £52k and £150k). What if I don't hit that target the next time and the next deals are £2k or less ? It's hard to live in the peaks and troughs and why many don't give up their 9 to 5s. I know it's not a guarantee to earn this and so many posts they earned "$500k in 3 months" but not showing what they got the rest of the time. I understand you have to work at this and learn how to find the right process and products (both digital and physical) to sell. I feel this is also another reason why people don't do it or fail.
@@gavinwiener it is but as we are nearly in Quarter 4, so anyone in band 3 will be paying the higher rate if tax (40%). Band 1 up to £12,570 = 0 tax Band 2 £12,750 to £50,270 = 20% tax Band 3 £50,271 to £125,140 = 40% tax Band 4 over £125,140 = 45% tax If I'm a 9 to 5 person in band 3 and I earned the $102,514 (£78,904) then I will be in band 4 tax So there has to be a point when you give up 9 to 5 and go full on with this and work hard to keep up that level or stay "Working for the Man" lol Even if you do salary sacrifice, you couldn't cover it all and not get tax heavily but I think you will get a letter from the tax man to tell you how much of the $102k you have to pay as one lump sum
I understand where you're coming from. And I get the idea of wanting to optimize your return-on-effort by being mindful of tax brackets. But imo the issue you raise is more general than making money online-you're hitting on a core principle that impacts all of us, which is that "striving to improve your station in life makes things more difficult". It does. It's harder, more stressful, more uncertain, riskier, lonelier, and (at times) quite depressing. In my view, choosing to work for yourself is, knowingly or unknowingly, trading all of the things I touch on above for a small chance at a better life many years from now. Your point on being taxed 40% between £52k and £150k is certainly one way to look at it. But you can also look at it as "since I make 60% of every dollar I generate between £52k and £150k, I have the opportunity to add £58.8k to my bottom line". If you don't hit it the next time... so what? At least you'll have made an additional £58.8k. Entrepreneurship is *not*, like many people want you to believe, the "best path forward" for everyone. Some of us have responsibilities and circumstances that make it logistically infeasible to run a business. Others don't want to experience the peaks and the troughs you mentioned, nor do they want to spend years striving towards something that is not guaranteed. It was not until recently that I've become able to cash in on my uncertainty, doubt, loneliness, and risk for monetary reward. Many people never reach that point. So I will not try to convince you to embark on this journey-it's your decision. But I'll support you in whatever you choose. GL Aaron 🙏
@@nicksaraev Thank you for replying and sharing your troubled path. I am just starting out and maybe overthinking the earnings, which I havent earned lol Definitely will take on board your view of the earning and looking at the difference of 60% with a scope of another $58k My company is looking into Gen Ai automation and I will hopefully gain a good skill but would rather earn the money myself. I know the path is going to be hard and not the golden path many sell to you on UA-cam but I have the grit to do this and will learn better when I do fail. Thanks again. Hope I can let you know how I got on.
Very interesting insights. :) Hope to see more insights also how to build a good crm for own use etc :) Why you have only 5 clients for Leftclick? How much time you spend managing this clients because when the system is in place usually there is not much to do?
Organic will be Good Cause They are Hitting you up Not you In cold email mostly people avoid Cold DM is also Good but its's less chances they get back to you
@@solomusic-mx7fu I'll agree with you. Which platform do you think is best for organic content. In my opinion its Linkedin but I would like to get some opinions.
Yes! The only reason I was able to build multiple revenue streams is a single minded focus on each while I grew them. Eventually you get to the point where you can hand off management, operations, etc-but before then, it's very difficult to reliably scale a company if you're juggling multiple imo. Hope this helps Kas 🙏
@@nicksaraev Agree now a day making Software is easy but the sales and operations remains hard just like a service based business so I'm only focus on my agency for now :)
That's an ai avatar isn"t it? Well done though! Quite curious about the production process to be honest. Do you mind sharing with us what apps you used?
It is unfortunately just squishy old human me. But you can do something similar (albeit a little more uncanny valley) with HeyGen 🙏 hope this helps Quentin
Would you give away the blueprint from make to your clients? Or do thes use the automations in your Account and are deppendent on your automations? I sold the blueprint. Maybe this was the wrong way? Not sure. I mean there are Tons of Templates and blueprints, right?
Selling blueprints certainly sounds scalable, but in practice I find this approach leaves a lot on the table. Two reasons: 1. Blueprints solve a different problem/customer avatar than implementation. You sell the former to people that know a bit of Make.com, and the latter to people that just want you to take care of everything. Lot more money in the second audience. 2. Providing the perception of 'white glove service' is a big multiplier. You could have probably charged 10x what that blueprint cost, for instance, by selling it as a service; doing an onboarding call, consulting with the client, and then "building" it for them (in your instance, pasting it into the client environment and making a few edits). $300 project -> $3,000 Hope this makes sense Sven 🙏
Bro if you could run two communities you could run two communities. Doesn't make it a cash grab. Think of how Jensen runs Nvidia. He basically somehow manages multiple communities in pursuit of a common vision. So you run two 400-person communities in pursuit of the common goal of business administration or agency management. You played a solid hand, you gonna leave the chips on the table? That'd just be MORE people getting skilled up from your knowledge and experience.
So, hes using AI, instead of the b2b founder using it themselves? Which in 2025+ is increasingly likely. Sounds like hes made good money off early adoption of being a AI Consultant. Aka he gets questions/problems to solve and then he goes and gets AI to go do it.. right?
Yup - we hacked it together with GPT-3 along with Outreach.io's prospect stages. When a reply came in, we'd catch a webhook with the text, categorize it as "interested", "sample requested", etc, and then update the stage. Outreach had rules where you could link a stage with a campaign, which let us autonomously manage conversations.
For someone trying to land their first client on Make, what kind of offer would you recommend? Also, do you have any advice on crafting an effective DM for Twitter outreach?
You don't get a client on make. You get a client by offering a deal they would feel stupid to turn down. like guaranteeing 30 new lead acquisitions a month. client don't give a shit about make. Don't even tell them you're using Make tell them you're gonna drive them business and make them money.
@@chillydoog Thanks for the reply. What i meant is that beside getting them leads, what are the automations that are good go use for cold dms to offer for free that are too valuable to refuse?
GPT-3 was released back in June 2020! I gained access shortly thereafter and started employing it for my own uses, but it wasn't until around half a year later I registered 1SecondCopy. By then, though, I had integrated it firmly into our ops. Of note-still ~1.5yrs before ChatGPT was released, so very few people knew about it.
Pragmatically speaking, I think a lot of SMB owners will probably choose to carte-blanche replace team members, honestly. Unfortunate but makes sense considering cost constraints etc. One can hope though 🙏
@nicksaraev I have roughly 30 employees in a trades business. We are seasonal and have big spikes of admin work in spring and fall. We were possibly thinking adding another office staff but we then have to carry additional salaries in our slow mo ths. Rather than hiring, I found all the work that could be automated such as job creation and customer communication. I have significantly reduced the current workload of our CSRs and avoided hiring an additional employees giving them the ability to nurture existing relationships It became very clear when we started hitting capacity issues with our current staff that a change was needed. No matter what, I think people do business with people (with exceptions like Amazon considered) so I wouldn't advocate completely removing my staff but it definitely helped me avoid having to hire unnecessarily.
Overall this would be waaaay more interesting video if it wasnt a bunch of generic business speak and instead an example of how he aquired a client, a problem he was given by that client, exactly how he built that system with AI followed by how much he charged to solve that problem. This isnt a video explanation how how to do his business its an advert for his business.
@ maybe the fact that the audio and his lips movements are not perfectly synced made me think that.. im not sating its AI, just for a second it looked like it
I haven't finished watching this yet... as a matter of fact I'm only a few seconds in and I'm sure it's a great video but I just have to say this... Dude sounds like Barack Obama.
Hey nick , awesome video! Your unique style really stands out. I'm a video editing specialist focused on UA-cam growth, and I can help enhance your content with high-quality edits and engaging thumbnails. If you're ever open to exploring new ideas or strategies that can boost your channel further, I'd love to connect and see how we can collaborate. Let me know your thoughts
Want to grow your own automation business? Join Maker School here: skool.com/makerschool/about. Price increases every 10 members 🙏😤
Hi nick I joined your skool group but can't seem to get in any tips on what I'm doing wrong
@@sharlenesmith2042 Thanks for signing up. Assuming this is Maker School and not MMWM (latter is waitlisted), send me an email at nick@leftclick.ai and we'll sort it out for you. Cheers!
dude you must make about £40k a month just from your skool group... good way to give back.. hahaha
Outside of the monthly subscription, are there more set up costs?
If yes, approximately how much?
I'm interested in learning Make and finding ways to use it to help my clients. I Maker School a good fit or are there better ways to do this. I'm a relative beginner to Make
Warren motivates investors. As an investment enthusiast, I don’t even know where the stock market is headed to right now. my portfolio of around 200k is not increasing more than 5% and people are predicting a crash .
I’d advise you redistribute assets in your portfolio with the help of a pro so you don't get burnt in the market
A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850k.
How can I reach this advisers of yours? because I'm seeking for a more effective investment approach on my savings?
My CFA Aileen Gertrude Tippy a renowned figure in her line of work. I recommend researching her credentials further... She has many years of experience and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to navigate the financial market..
Just ran an online search on her name and came across her website; pretty well educated. thank you for sharing.
Amazing journey, Nick! Truly inspiring to see you do so well. Thanks for all the value you put into the world.
Appreciate you Jan 🙏🏼
Hey Nick, really moved by your honest reflections on this journey. You always provide tons of value, and I'm grateful to be part of your community. Always learning so much from your videos-looking forward to growing and learning more with you!
Thank you Rush! Love seeing you at the office hours man, great q's 🙏
Your business model is truly impressive, as is your ability to deliver a 50-minute UA-cam video in a single take. I've become a definite follower and plan to sign up for the monthly subscription to evaluate its value before committing to the annual plan. Thanks Nick
Single take? Get a clue
There are tons of jump cuts lol.
I feel the video is made by a IA video generator
This unedited video is very well done.
One of the most transparent videos I've seen. great content, great guy 🤝
Congrats Nick! You work hard and deserve the success. I love the Make Skool. The smaller MMWM community is awesome.
Stoked to hear you're enjoying the program 🙏
I really appreciate your honesty and breakdown on HOW this is affecting you and where you came from. The idea of sharing for the good of others in similar situations is really admirable. Thank you.
(systems geek working as a coach and consistently wondering why I focus on this stuff so much 🤩)
Well said Katherine! I've gotten so much out of seeing real, transparent breakdowns that I figured I had to do one too. Appreciate you and good seeing you in Maker School 👊
This is a really insightful video! Thanks for the transparency!! I can't give you enough thumbs up!! Much appreciated.
Np Dwain, thanks for the energy man
I love listening to this guy yap. He’s incredibly intelligent and has a soothing voice. #subscribed.
You're so deserving of this - happy for you and your fam Nick! 🤝
Appreciate you always chiming in and motivating me Diego!
Nick, you are an impressive young man! Great trainer!
Smashed it, thank you for another one! From all the way in the UK
Appreciate you Isabella ❤️
The one tricky thing about retainers is that you have to keep "finding" things to do, where you're likely to have done a lot of the heavy lifting at the start. What I've found the easiest to manage expectations as well is to do a bigger upfront build, and then the retainer is more like maintenance, you're not "looking" for things to do. It likely is lower ticket but i find its easier on my mind and managing expectations.
Great point Gavin. I agree-you can also bundle maintenance into your retainer to split the load between "new project time" and "upkeep time". Latter is usually minimal so you get to make multiples on those hours. Keep up the channel man.
I'm building an app right now. It's a little complicated to explain but if you ever decide to make am app again I would look at weweb front end and supabase as a backend. For what you built and your intelligence you could prob build it in a few days.
Love the channel by the way
Just poked around-WeWeb looks great. Thanks for the rec Steve 🤝
first and biggest fann..love ya Nick!
Thanks for the positive energy Abdul 👊
Iv been here sub 1k followers your growth is amazing! So much freakin value.
Thanks for being with me from the beginning Lopez!
Thank you for sharing this speech was really inspiring and the examples and the way the smooth way of you talking me through let me realize a lot of things.
We're grateful that I find your channel studying by myself.
I will definitely just stick around and learn more from you and thank you for your work and the ethic you emphasize.
Dogs I think is the biggest enemy or friend your perspective is very effective.
honesty is terrifying for most people. i love it. that's why i never get promoted lol
This is a very dope one. Watching in chunks here as he drops quite valuable insights almost in passing. We could make a whole workshop only based on that one.
So I take it that the fact he talks about his Upwork strategy (quite good actually) means this thing is already saturated, no?
Not at all! 18M registered freelancers on Upwork alone, and there are a few other platforms you can employ similar strategies on. Lots of space to crush it 😤
Happy to be a part of Maker School!
Hey Nick, what's the difference between Maker School and the other community?
Just wanted to say => Awesome Video!
Just wanted to say => Awesome Comment 🥹
That new apartment lookin nice brotha. 😎
Thx brotha 😎
If it were u and u were to drop the consulting part what could be the one thing u could scale up to make say 50k a month? But more solopreneur??
Great content dude!
I think the next should be your time management with this income 8n consideration. I bet u systiniz2 your time dialy like u do ur biz and would love to see how u do that!!
If that vid gets 200k views remember me 😅😅
If you could time travel back to Feb-March 2024 and had to re-think from scratch how to start your Skool, how would you do it? Would you do things any differently?
1. I would have started building lists much earlier-namely, instead of giving away blueprints on Notion/Google Drive, I would have signed up for Gumroad or an equivalent and collected at least an email in exchange. This list would have made my launch much stronger and the demand would have justified a higher price point.
2. I would have charged substantially more. MMWM started at $28/mo and scaled to $128/mo; the low pricing was more a function of my own lack of confidence in communities than in the value I thought I was providing. Many people pay $500/mo or more for this stuff so I sold myself a little short. All good learnings though.
3. I would have nailed the value proposition earlier, and created separate programs for different avatars. I.e I would have had a program that takes you from 0->1 (like Maker School), another that takes you from 1->10 (like Make Money With Make.com) and a last that takes you from 10->100 (like a high-ticket mastermind or similar). Differentiating in this way lets you more effectively tackle customer needs, since advice that you give to an agency at $10,000/mo will be very different from advice you give an agency at $1,000/mo. Strategically, it also ensures me customers for the second and third tiers, since if I do my job right members will naturally upsell themselves at each step.
This is what comes to mind right now-great q Ujj 🙏. Hope you're crushing it man.
Please tell me you do more with your voice than just UA-cam. Voice-overs, lending your voice to AI, reading to the blind, etc, ASMR. You've got potential in the creative space too beyond just content.
You nailed it. Awesome insights❤
My bro Kabir! Appreciate you man
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You're amazing Nick
thanks for this Nick great business model. So all your Skool communities are paid?
That's right! Maker School is ~$60/mo at the time of this writing. Make Money With Make.com is $1,382/yr.
This is the issue I have and here is my 2 cents worth lol .
If I do make a product sell and it brings in the big bucks (yeah right), In the UK, this would take us over the basic tax threshold and we start paying the high rate of tax (currently 40% between £52k and £150k). What if I don't hit that target the next time and the next deals are £2k or less ? It's hard to live in the peaks and troughs and why many don't give up their 9 to 5s. I know it's not a guarantee to earn this and so many posts they earned "$500k in 3 months" but not showing what they got the rest of the time. I understand you have to work at this and learn how to find the right process and products (both digital and physical) to sell. I feel this is also another reason why people don't do it or fail.
I'm pretty sure tax in the UK is taxed on tiers. So you only pay the higher tax amount on the amount HIGHER than the previous tier threshold
@@gavinwiener it is but as we are nearly in Quarter 4, so anyone in band 3 will be paying the higher rate if tax (40%).
Band 1 up to £12,570 = 0 tax
Band 2 £12,750 to £50,270 = 20% tax
Band 3 £50,271 to £125,140 = 40% tax
Band 4 over £125,140 = 45% tax
If I'm a 9 to 5 person in band 3 and I earned the $102,514 (£78,904) then I will be in band 4 tax
So there has to be a point when you give up 9 to 5 and go full on with this and work hard to keep up that level or stay "Working for the Man" lol
Even if you do salary sacrifice, you couldn't cover it all and not get tax heavily but I think you will get a letter from the tax man to tell you how much of the $102k you have to pay as one lump sum
I understand where you're coming from. And I get the idea of wanting to optimize your return-on-effort by being mindful of tax brackets. But imo the issue you raise is more general than making money online-you're hitting on a core principle that impacts all of us, which is that "striving to improve your station in life makes things more difficult".
It does. It's harder, more stressful, more uncertain, riskier, lonelier, and (at times) quite depressing. In my view, choosing to work for yourself is, knowingly or unknowingly, trading all of the things I touch on above for a small chance at a better life many years from now.
Your point on being taxed 40% between £52k and £150k is certainly one way to look at it. But you can also look at it as "since I make 60% of every dollar I generate between £52k and £150k, I have the opportunity to add £58.8k to my bottom line". If you don't hit it the next time... so what? At least you'll have made an additional £58.8k.
Entrepreneurship is *not*, like many people want you to believe, the "best path forward" for everyone. Some of us have responsibilities and circumstances that make it logistically infeasible to run a business. Others don't want to experience the peaks and the troughs you mentioned, nor do they want to spend years striving towards something that is not guaranteed.
It was not until recently that I've become able to cash in on my uncertainty, doubt, loneliness, and risk for monetary reward. Many people never reach that point. So I will not try to convince you to embark on this journey-it's your decision. But I'll support you in whatever you choose.
GL Aaron 🙏
@@nicksaraev Thank you for replying and sharing your troubled path. I am just starting out and maybe overthinking the earnings, which I havent earned lol
Definitely will take on board your view of the earning and looking at the difference of 60% with a scope of another $58k
My company is looking into Gen Ai automation and I will hopefully gain a good skill but would rather earn the money myself.
I know the path is going to be hard and not the golden path many sell to you on UA-cam but I have the grit to do this and will learn better when I do fail.
Thanks again. Hope I can let you know how I got on.
Very interesting insights. :) Hope to see more insights also how to build a good crm for own use etc :) Why you have only 5 clients for Leftclick? How much time you spend managing this clients because when the system is in place usually there is not much to do?
Hey Nick, thanks! Big fan. I would like to learn more from you but one on one if possible
Thank you nick ❤
Красавчик, Никитос!!
Спасибо друг 🙏
Wait… It’s not capted at 400 at all! There are currently 776 members in this Skool community!
Amazing mate
Thank you Jack! Quality of your vids is unreal 👊
Didn't expect an asmr session 😳
What do you think is better for getting your first 5 clients as AI Agency owner?
1. Cold email
2. Cold Dm on linkedin
3. Organic content on linkedin
Organic will be Good Cause They are Hitting you up Not you In cold email mostly people avoid Cold DM is also Good but its's less chances they get back to you
@@solomusic-mx7fu I'll agree with you. Which platform do you think is best for organic content. In my opinion its Linkedin but I would like to get some opinions.
I've got 3 clientes $10k in revenue from my firts cold email campaign (first month), just copying nicks strategies and applying for my own.
Huge work Felipe! If you're up for giving me some more context send me an email (nick@leftclick.ai) & I'll share it with Maker School.
Folks like Alex Hormozi believe we should focus on one business at a time do you agreed?
Yes! The only reason I was able to build multiple revenue streams is a single minded focus on each while I grew them. Eventually you get to the point where you can hand off management, operations, etc-but before then, it's very difficult to reliably scale a company if you're juggling multiple imo. Hope this helps Kas 🙏
@@nicksaraev Agree now a day making Software is easy but the sales and operations remains hard just like a service based business so I'm only focus on my agency for now :)
That's an ai avatar isn"t it? Well done though! Quite curious about the production process to be honest. Do you mind sharing with us what apps you used?
It is unfortunately just squishy old human me. But you can do something similar (albeit a little more uncanny valley) with HeyGen 🙏 hope this helps Quentin
Hi Nick, I'm planning my startup around this domain. I don't see your Upwork profile do you or your company still operate there?
"CONTENTPRENEUR" I HOPE YOU HAVE A TRADEMARK 😮😮😮
Would you give away the blueprint from make to your clients? Or do thes use the automations in your Account and are deppendent on your automations? I sold the blueprint. Maybe this was the wrong way? Not sure. I mean there are Tons of Templates and blueprints, right?
Selling blueprints certainly sounds scalable, but in practice I find this approach leaves a lot on the table.
Two reasons:
1. Blueprints solve a different problem/customer avatar than implementation. You sell the former to people that know a bit of Make.com, and the latter to people that just want you to take care of everything. Lot more money in the second audience.
2. Providing the perception of 'white glove service' is a big multiplier. You could have probably charged 10x what that blueprint cost, for instance, by selling it as a service; doing an onboarding call, consulting with the client, and then "building" it for them (in your instance, pasting it into the client environment and making a few edits). $300 project -> $3,000
Hope this makes sense Sven 🙏
Bro if you could run two communities you could run two communities. Doesn't make it a cash grab. Think of how Jensen runs Nvidia. He basically somehow manages multiple communities in pursuit of a common vision. So you run two 400-person communities in pursuit of the common goal of business administration or agency management. You played a solid hand, you gonna leave the chips on the table? That'd just be MORE people getting skilled up from your knowledge and experience.
So, hes using AI, instead of the b2b founder using it themselves?
Which in 2025+ is increasingly likely.
Sounds like hes made good money off early adoption of being a AI Consultant.
Aka he gets questions/problems to solve and then he goes and gets AI to go do it.. right?
Love your videos /🇸🇪
😤😤 thank you my Swedish friend
who is your mentor?
At 19 where you talk about the system you have built.
Was it ai that part that was done categorization?
Yup - we hacked it together with GPT-3 along with Outreach.io's prospect stages. When a reply came in, we'd catch a webhook with the text, categorize it as "interested", "sample requested", etc, and then update the stage. Outreach had rules where you could link a stage with a campaign, which let us autonomously manage conversations.
For someone trying to land their first client on Make, what kind of offer would you recommend? Also, do you have any advice on crafting an effective DM for Twitter outreach?
You don't get a client on make. You get a client by offering a deal they would feel stupid to turn down. like guaranteeing 30 new lead acquisitions a month. client don't give a shit about make. Don't even tell them you're using Make tell them you're gonna drive them business and make them money.
@@chillydoog Thanks for the reply. What i meant is that beside getting them leads, what are the automations that are good go use for cold dms to offer for free that are too valuable to refuse?
There is competition coming up with CLAUDE Computer use (beta)
Yeah but it might Take some month or years Till IT will get to the Point IT can compete
In all your 50 minutes, where was the copy n paste thing ?😂 wasted the time
Bro you are getting more expensive faster than i can learn and pay for an hour of your time. I guess i need to learn faster lol
I appreciate that 😂 keep going Efrain!
Bro looks Ai generated
You said to leave a comment if I had a personal request. I do. Is a challenge. Can you get me to make 5 to 10k before next year God willing 😅
You are Social Angel
You started the copywriting agency in 2021? Not sure what you mean gpt-3 in 2021?
GPT-3 was released back in June 2020! I gained access shortly thereafter and started employing it for my own uses, but it wasn't until around half a year later I registered 1SecondCopy. By then, though, I had integrated it firmly into our ops. Of note-still ~1.5yrs before ChatGPT was released, so very few people knew about it.
Maybe not fire staff but not have to add staff 😊
Pragmatically speaking, I think a lot of SMB owners will probably choose to carte-blanche replace team members, honestly. Unfortunate but makes sense considering cost constraints etc. One can hope though 🙏
@nicksaraev I have roughly 30 employees in a trades business. We are seasonal and have big spikes of admin work in spring and fall. We were possibly thinking adding another office staff but we then have to carry additional salaries in our slow mo ths. Rather than hiring, I found all the work that could be automated such as job creation and customer communication. I have significantly reduced the current workload of our CSRs and avoided hiring an additional employees giving them the ability to nurture existing relationships
It became very clear when we started hitting capacity issues with our current staff that a change was needed. No matter what, I think people do business with people (with exceptions like Amazon considered) so I wouldn't advocate completely removing my staff but it definitely helped me avoid having to hire unnecessarily.
How much of that is profit though?
Overall this would be waaaay more interesting video if it wasnt a bunch of generic business speak and instead an example of how he aquired a client, a problem he was given by that client, exactly how he built that system with AI followed by how much he charged to solve that problem.
This isnt a video explanation how how to do his business its an advert for his business.
So you built an entire full stack app for weeks, for the very first time and you do not remember what you built it on? Riiiight… 16:37
🤷🏻♂️ I build a lot of shit
Why don't I believe this dude!!!!!
Hmm-let me know what you don't believe specifically and I'll do my best to answer?
@@nicksaraevYour video sucks and you seem slimy. Coaching... Really?
Cool video, but the community is sitting at 440 right now?
I believe you're referring to Make Money With Make (skool.com/makemoneywithmake), which I capped at 400 🙏
This whole video is ai, ithat's insane.
Dead Internet Theory
28:00 LMAO. ROASTED.
This video looks like AI
HOW?
@ maybe the fact that the audio and his lips movements are not perfectly synced made me think that.. im not sating its AI, just for a second it looked like it
You sound exactly like my chat gpt nick I named St Nick 😅
Why is his mouth moving like that, is this whole video AI?
lol YES
We are taking over 😂🦾
@@nicksaraev I’m right behind ya bro. Let me get cooking immediately. Software u used is very very clean tho! Good work!
The fact these people can't tell this is A.I is SCARY. I hope they bots 😂😂
beep boop 🤖
$100k a month and still UA-camr
you are very handsome
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Dude using AI and still people are buying this.
this guys voice doesnt match his body, is this ai
I haven't finished watching this yet... as a matter of fact I'm only a few seconds in and I'm sure it's a great video but I just have to say this... Dude sounds like Barack Obama.
Nice money laundering funnel you got going there bud 🥳
Hey Nick, loving these videos. How did you get jobs in Upwork? anything I should add to my profile that got you jobs?
Meanwhile I'm stuck with my Degree😭.
Not all is lost! I have one too despite doing jack shit with it 🙏 in hindsight, was great at helping me develop writing/communication skills.
666 likes. Now, I know exactly how you did it.
😂 sold my soul
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