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Lead Generation Guide
Owners:
How To Build An $18,000/month
Lead Generation Agency In 4 Weeks
Using Positive Feedback Loops
…With No Case Studies
Author: Leevi Eerola
Btw, if you want help building a lead gen agenycy, talk to us:
agencyvelocity.io/call
Fuck everyone else, I’m here to make you a metric fuckton of
cold hard cash.
Before we jump into the sauce of the doc, I want you to realize
that I had to seriously neglect my mind & body through +100
hours of researching and writing to make this doc.
I’ve rewritten this 5 times and spammed all my friends to read
it so they could give me feedback.
SO DON’T FUCK AROUND WITH IT.
If you don’t know me, my name is Leevi Eerola, and back in September 2021, I
had $0.62 in my bank account, and I had to sell my Ipad for $100 to get food.
(This is the exact picture I posted on Facebook Marketplace to sell my iPad)
I had spent the last 5 years trying to build an online business that would give me
complete location & time freedom and let me pursue my entrepreneurial side.
I worked at different sales companies as a sales rep and team leader during this
time.
I got my first sales job at the age of 14, and it turned out to be a great career
path for me. I was good.
And I wasn’t a natural-born salesperson. I struggled a lot when starting.
But I stuck with it and kept grinding, doing overtime, and learning from people
better than me, and I managed to become good at it.
At the age of 17, I was managing a 15-person sales team. We were selling B2C
electricity contracts going Door-To-Door.
It wasn’t always fun. We were knocking doors through the winter, and since I
lived in Finland back then, winters are cold (-30°C wasn’t rare to see).
During this time, I always knew that I didn’t want to take the traditional route of
studying in school, getting a degree, working a 9-5, and retiring at 65 while
seeing others pursue their dreams around me.
So building an online business was the only thing that made sense in my head.
I spent my high school years working in sales and trying to build various online
businesses. I knew that I wouldn't go to college.
The only real education I can be proud of is my education at the Reserve Officer
School of Finland's Military, where I graduated as a Second Lieutenant in Military
& Strategic Leadership.
(That's me, posing proudly with my new rank & me with an RK-62 & LV 241
radio on my back.)
I tried to run dropshipping stores, build a Social Media Marketing Agency, learn
affiliate marketing, and sell different low-value services as a freelancer.
Even though I saw some traction with some of these models, it wasn’t what I
signed up for. I needed more.
So after buying A LOT of courses, watching endless amounts of youtube videos,
reading books for 5 years, and still not seeing any success, I was naturally
disappointed.
I had spent all this time trying to find that one “secret.” I just needed that one
clear step-by-step framework that I could execute.
And since I still hadn’t found it, I knew I needed to create it myself.
I didn’t want to make excuses anymore; I was ready to take the hard route and
learn to do it by myself.
So in September 2021, I joined a marketing agency as an outsourced sales
consultant and decided to take matters into my own hands and run a series of
experiments to get them leads, sales, and of course, make the whole system
profitable.
I immediately started running cold emails & automated LinkedIn outreach
campaigns for them.
They were in a typical situation that many marketing agencies find themself in:
No specific customer profile
No idea what is their best service, so they are offering EVERYTHING
No predictable way to get new leads & clients, so they are praying
on the referral gods to bring in some new clients
So while we were building their outreach systems, we also started figuring out
what is the best customer segment to focus on and what do we offer them.
It was my first time doing it properly, so it wasn’t a perfect execution, but it
worked.
Without the blueprint, we won’t know where to place the parts; even if our parts
are of the highest possible quality, the car will not function. Let me show you
why.
So to understand the new and better way to do this, we first have to understand
the old way of picking a niche.
The old way involves picking a specific niche right off the bat and crossing your
fingers without any actual data supporting the niche's profitability.
However, this results in you wasting a lot of time trying to make your niche
work and understand the niche.
If the niche doesn't work, you return to square one and start again with no
feedback or data on the broader industry.
Service delivery is extremely hard because you don't understand the niche.
These were the exact things I dealt with when I started my first agency.
I had to learn the hard way that the only way to make this model sustainable is
to build your foundation right.
I realized that the better way is to pick a broad niche based on your experience
& advantages and speak to people directly inside the niche while collecting
feedback, learning about the market, and seeing what aspects of the niche are
profitable and what are not, then using the feedback & data you get and dialing
in the niche down step-by-step.
As a result of doing things this way
You can find a service-market fit in 1-3 months while getting
paid for learning and researching.
It will take you way less time to sign your first client. (After
following this process, it took me 12 days, to be exact)
Sales calls become easier because you understand the
specific pain points that the niche is currently struggling
with. You can precisely describe them to prospects when
you’re on calls, positioning you as an authority figure.
Service delivery becomes streamlined because you’re
working with the same type of customer and solving the
same problems every time.
Because you’re working with the same avatar every time and
service delivery is streamlined, you’ll produce better results
for your clients.
Because you produce better results for your clients, you
collect better case studies which help you get more clients,
charge higher prices, and have less churn.
Want to know how I know?
Because that is precisely what happened to me when I did things the new way.
And I’ve seen it happen countless times with others I work with.
And it will happen to you if you follow this process.
So, in conclusion, starting with a broad niche and dialing the niche down based
on feedback & data leads to quicker service-market fit.
You don’t waste time taking blind guesses at the niche so you can make the rest
of the process seamless, sign better clients, get better results to get better case
studies, and charge higher prices.
As I mentioned earlier, your Agency is a car - a self-sustaining feedback loop.
The machine has different moving parts
(1) Niche - (2) Offer - (3) Funnel - (4) Lead Generation - (5) Sales - (6)
Onboarding - (7) Delivery - (8) Scale.
What’s at the beginning of the feedback loop affects the remaining parts of the
equation.
If we screw up the beginning of the feedback loop, all the feedback we get from
the remaining parts of the machine will not be accurate.
If you don't already have immense knowledge and understanding of the niche, it
is impossible for you to know what the niche actually struggles with and how it
needs to be solved.
When you start out broad, you can get data based on outreach campaigns,
discovery calls, and client projects.
Then, after you have enough data and knowledge on the niche, you can exclude
its unprofitable aspects while doubling down on its profitable elements.
Example: You have a 3% close rate. You might think you suck at sales. Maybe
you do. Or perhaps you didn’t correctly niche down. Maybe your offer sucks.
Maybe your funnel is not lighting up your prospects.
Each part of that car needs to be dialed in to have a properly functioning car.
Each bottleneck needs to be addressed from start to finish in the correct order.
Otherwise, the data from everything that comes after may be inaccurate, causing
you to make the wrong decisions and stay stuck spinning your wheels trying to
address the wrong problems.
“But what If the niche I pick is already saturated?”
1 - You don’t have to stick with it forever.
2 - Saturation is mostly a myth and only occurs when people are blasting the
same offer to the same group of people with the same messaging. If you have
great results and tweak your messaging you’re not going to have issues.
“How do I pick the first broad niche?”
Write down your experiences, interests & advantages and start piecing them
together. It will be clear.
Think about past jobs, things you’ve studied, or business ventures you’ve tried to
make work.
You probably understand something well enough to start working in that niche.
Let’s say your experiences, interests & advantages look like this:
Experience & interests:
Coding
Gym & Fitness
Cats
Twitter
Advantages:
Speaks German
Good hairline
Has gone to a coding boot camp
Bench Press 2 plates
Software & coding is a clear commonality here. So I’d go for Software
Development companies as the first niche.
Also, since you speak German, it would make sense to go after the German
market since you can reach out to them in their native language, and you’ll stand
out a lot this way.
To ensure that we don’t waste our time in a niche that would never work, you
need to do surface-level research.
Do they struggle with lead generation?
Are there enough companies in that market?
What are they doing right now for client acquisition?
Are there any trends in the market we can take advantage of?
Of course, we’ll find a lot of information while doing outreach and taking
discovery calls, but it’s always good to check those few variables.
(Picture above is a screenshot of a search I did using a prospecting tool called
Apollo.)
In the screenshot above, we can see that 900 Software Development Industry
contacts in Germany are hiring for sales roles.
How many of those do you think would be interested in a service that helps them
in the most challenging part of the B2B sales process?
(Screenshot above is from the same search without the hiring filter)
If we take away the hiring filters, we get 29100 contacts.
If you get 0.01% of that contact pool as a client, you can make $10,000/mo
realistically.
Based on this research, we know that going after Software Development
companies in Germany would be a great idea IF you already have experience in
the field of software & coding and you speak the native language.
Activity 2: Create A Benefit-Focused Niche Specific Offer
If your agency is a car, and your niche is a skeleton, then your offer is the core
engine.
To have a powerful core engine (your offer), we need to have the highest
possible quality parts and assemble them together in the correct order while
ensuring that the engine fits into the car.
Without an irresistible offer, building your business will be an uphill battle.
You’re already competing with people selling the same services as you.
Without a good offer, you’re the same as all the other lead generation agencies
out there.
So how do we equip our car with a powerful engine?
So again, we must first understand the old way of creating a lead generation
agency offer.
The old way of creating an offer for your lead generation agency involves
offering generic results ex. 10-15 qualified sales calls every month that the
prospect has seen a thousand times.
In The Old Way, you have no edge.
Firstly, you and every other Joe Schmo in the game that has ever taken a Lead
Gen Agency course or scrolled Twitter for more than 15 minutes can claim that
they run a Lead Gen Agency that sells 10-15 qualified sales calls a month.
Secondly, that’s not even an offer. As soon as you present yourself like this, you
get labeled a commodity.
You’re get boxed with all the other Lead Gen Agencies who present themselves
that way.
Doing things this way results in:
Your messaging & offer doesn’t resonate with your niche, so your
outreach doesn’t perform well and closing sales calls seems
impossible.
You can't charge high prices since you don't solve an actual
problem, so you work for dirt cheap while doing more work than
expected.
You’ll have low cash flow because your clients will see you as a
commodity and churn regardless of how good of a job you do.
You’ll be overwhelmed because you have no standardized
operational procedures, given that you’re offering different services
and there’s no established result.
No unfair advantage. You’re just a guy who sells a service and gets poorly paid
to do so.
That is why in the new way we are creating an offer based on your niche's
awareness & sophistication level and the most painful problem that you can solve
with your vehicle (cold email).
You get feedback from your niche on what they actually want and offer that
transformation, taking them from their painful situation to their dreamland using
your niche's exact language.
Not only that, you offer it in a specific time frame increasing the perceived value
of your offer in your prospect's head.
On top of that, you remove all risk by adding a guarantee that ensures that if
you don’t deliver on that transformation, they won’t lose anything covering all
possible objections in their head to make it easy for your prospect to justify the
purchase.
In The New Way, not only are you not a commodity, but you’re a premium.
You get so involved in your niche that you know exactly what problems need
solving.
You offer an End Result. Dreamland. Not only that, you offer it in a specific time
frame, the exact transformation they want in the exact time frame they want it.
And to ensure your niche understands your offer's value, you present your offer,
so it fits into your niche's awareness & sophistication level.
This results in:
You’re no longer considered a commodity and can’t be compared to
the other agencies that provide lead generation even if they are in
the same niche.
You know precisely the major pain points of your niche and how to
solve them so you become so valuable to each company that they
can’t afford to replace you.
You can command higher prices because the transformation you’re
offering has a much higher value perception.
Sales calls will become easier because the offer is so enticing that
they’ll feel stupid if they say no.
There’s complete clarity on the process you’ll put your clients
through. Therefore the expectations are set right, and the clients
are happier even though you’re offering the same service.
Since you command higher prices, you don’t need to work with as
many clients to make more money.
It’s a lot easier to acquire leads because the offer is better and
when you put it in front of people, they’ll react more often and buy
more frequently.
If the niche is the skeleton, the offer is the engine. The offer is the heart that
pumps blood and oxygen into the rest of the body.
The entire business is built upon it. When you have an irresistible offer, the
remainder of the process flows very easily and naturally.
It’s choosing to have smooth sailing rather than an uphill battle.
When the offer is good, you can still mess up in various aspects of the business
and people will still buy.
Let’s go back to the feedback loop
(1) Niche - (2) Offer - (3) Funnel - (4) Lead Generation - (5) Sales - (6)
Onboarding - (7) Delivery - (8) Scale
If you simply nail these two, everything else will become disproportionately
easier.
So much so that you should allocate a lot of time and attention to making sure
you nail both of these core aspects down.
So in conclusion:
When your offer matches your niche's awareness & sophistication level it will
resonate better with them & they'll immediately understand the value of your
offer.
They also understand how it solves their most painful problem in the most
efficient way; hence outreach & sales calls will be easier even with a 3-5X higher
price.
As a result, you’ll no longer be considered a commodity, command higher prices,
make sales calls easier, work with better clients, and ultimately, have a much
better experience running your own business.
For example, one of our students, Oliver tried to run an Social Media Marketing
Agency for 2 years.
His record month was $1000/mo. After pivoting to lead generation, he still wasn't
getting the results he was looking for.
The main problem he had was his offer. He was offering something that everyone
else was offering. He was a commodity.
We took his offer and re-crafted it so it matched his niche's actual pain point and
desired end result while making sure the wording of his offer matched the niche's
awareness level.
He launched his new campaign, booked 9 qualified meetings on the first day, and
scaled from $0 to $13,000-$17,000 in 35 days.
“We help US-based Seed Stage Tech Start-Ups find the right target market to
focus on and scale from $2,000,000M ARR to $3,500,000 ARR using personalized
cold outreach at scale.”
Notice how I use “$3,500,000” instead of “$3.5M”. I’m doing this for the simple
reason that the first number seems “bigger” even though it is exactly the same.
“But what If people are already selling good offers in the niche?”
Then you differentiate yourself using a different mechanism. You change your
messaging. You change your angle.
There are many ways to circumvent this. Saturation is a myth. It only exists
when you operate in commodity land.
The key here is to be involved with the niche, talk to the people inside the niche
as much as possible, take feedback & collect data on what they ACTUALLY need
& want.
This way your offer will always be a home run since you are selling something
that people want to buy. (Sounds simple I know, but I see people messing up
with this daily)
“How do I know which offers to sell?”
If you didn’t skip the first step, and you’ve actually spoken to people inside the
niche then you’ll know exactly what to offer them.
If not, you just look at a competitor’s offer and see what pain points and desires
they’re targeting. You reverse engineer the process and create something better.
In the beginning, I advise you to go with a “generic” or in other words a
“surface-level thesis” offer that you use to book discovery calls in your niche.
Then when you present your offer to your niche, you’ll probably hear questions &
statements like:
“Actually X has been easy for us, but the bigger struggle has been
Y.”
“It would be better if you did X instead of Y.”
“Do you also help with X & Y? We could use help with those things
as well.”
Then you take note of those questions and statements and model your offer so it
matches them (as long as it makes sense for you).
“How do I know if my offer matches my market's sophistication level?”
I recommend reading Eugene Schwartz’s book Breakthrough Advertising.
In this book, Eugene Schwartz outlines the 5 stages of market sophistication and
how you can identify the best level to place your product or service by
understanding each stage.
Market sophistication is the market level relative to your service (cold email lead
generation).
If the buyer in a highly sophisticated (matured), market is going to be much
harder to convince with basic claims than a buyer in a relatively new and
unexplored (less matured) market.
(Image above showcases the 5 different levels the market goes through)
The simplest way to find out your market's sophistication level is to look at your
competitors and see what kind of claims they are using in their marketing.
You’ll also find it out by taking discovery calls with people in your market since
they’ll immediately tell you if they’ve heard of your service and offer or if it is
something entirely new for them.
If you are on Level 1, your customers have never seen or heard about your
service before, you are a pioneer, you have no competition, everyone is blown
away when getting presented with your offer, your cold emails work amazingly
well and you are closing sales left and right.
This is a great place to be. This stage doesn’t last for long. When I started with
my lead generation agency in the Finnish marketing agency space in 2021, I was
in this situation.
After 3 months of being in the market, I started seeing A LOT of people copying
what I was doing and now 13 months later, everyone has heard the basic claims
in that same market.
So if you find yourself in a situation where you clearly are on Level 1, take
advantage of it, it won't be this easy forever.
At this stage, your marketing & sales are going to be easy.
The market is unsaturated and completely fresh, so all you need is a simple
straight-to-the-point claim or an angle without any extra bells and whistles to get
people interested in your offer.
For example: “We generate more leads for your marketing agency.”
Level 2 means that others are picking up on what you are doing.
They are seeing how well you are doing and they want a piece of the pie as well.
You are no longer alone in the market; others are creating alternative offers and
starting to compete with you.
Because now your customers have alternative options to choose from, you must
expand your claim. Make your offer bigger, better, faster, or cheaper.
For example: “We generate 10 qualified sales calls for your marketing agency
every month.”
At Level 3, you are now competing with a lot of competitors. Their offers and
services are similar to yours and everyone is trying to one-up their offer by
making their claims faster and bigger.
Your market has been blasted with a bunch of unrealistic claims and everyone is
getting skeptical about what you offer, even if your claims are the biggest in the
market.
Shouting louder no longer works, your market has become sophisticated enough
to recognize exaggerated claims and isn’t easily influenced.
Now you need to add credibility to your claims. You have to come up with a
unique mechanism that nobody else has.
The unique mechanism you present needs to be logical. Your market is already
skeptical about these claims so if the unique mechanism doesn’t make sense in
their head, it won’t work.
Your unique mechanism can be software, a concept, a process, or an invention.
For example: “We generate 10 qualified sales calls for your marketing agency
every month using personalized video outreach.”
Personalized video outreach is the unique mechanism in the example above.
At Level 4, the market is extremely sophisticated. They’ve heard every big and
fast claim, they’ve seen all sorts of unique mechanisms your competitors have
presented to the market and they are getting bombarded with something “new”
on a daily basis.
Now to stand out from the crowd and show the market that your offer is the best
and most logical option to go with, you need to do the same thing you did when
going from Level 1 -> Level 2.
You EXPAND your unique mechanism claim. It’s not enough to have a unique
mechanism anymore, it needs to beat all the other unique mechanisms.
At this point, the strongest unique mechanism wins the market.
For example: “We generate an extra $300,000 in new revenue for your
marketing agency in the next 6 months by using AI-powered personalized video
outreach at scale or we’ll give you your money back.”
At Level 5, the market is filled with different versions of your offer and service,
the buyers are extremely sophisticated to the marketing messages out there and
only respond to a certain level of marketing, which is level five.
At this stage, it’s not about the idea or the service. It’s about the experience and
emotional side.
How does your market feel and what experience does your service offer them
that they can’t get anywhere else?
For example: “We will make you the coolest agency owner that everyone wants
to have lunch with in your next mastermind event.”
So as you can see, for your offer to work, you need to be matching the market's
sophistication level.
If your messaging is at Level 1 but your market is at Level 4, you won’t find
resonance.
This can be only done if you understand your market at a deep level.
So while you are taking discovery calls and talking with people in your market
about your lead generation services, take note of these things and adapt your
offer and messaging accordingly.
“Okay now I understand market sophistication but what about market
awareness?”
“This is the exact strategy that Justin McGill, the founder LeadFuze, used cold
email to grow his company’s revenue to $30k/month in 12 months.”
This won’t be as powerful but it will get the job done in the beginning.
Your main goal in this stage is to get your first own case study and re-create the
VSL using it.
You can also say:
“This strategy is built on what I’ve learned from working in Companies like X, Y,
and Z for the past 7 years in my career as a software developer.”
3. Identification (Who is this for?)
Before you introduce the content of the sales letter, you need to call out the
audience and identify with the prospect.
This is an important step to showcase to the viewer that they are in the right
place & that you understand their situation.
So for example you could say:
“So if you are a B2B SaaS Founder who has just raised a seed round and you are
looking to break that $3M ARR mark before the year ends, then stick around.”
This way also the lead quality will be better that you take calls with since the
leads that aren’t qualified for it, will drop off.
4. Background story / credibility
Here you need to answer the question: “Who are you and why are you talking
about this?”.
Here again, we need to increase your credibility so the prospect listens to what
you say and believes in what you are saying.
You can use things like:
Track Record
Achievements
School
Awards
Career
Just quickly get them to know you a bit better.
5. Core Concept (What is this?)
Now you are going to present your mechanism.
So if you are selling a cold email lead generation service, you need to sell them
the idea of why it works and how it works.
If they don’t buy into the mechanism you are using to deliver results, they will
never buy your offer.
Based on your niche's awareness & sophistication level, educate them on why
your mechanism is powerful, how it works and why it works.
You don’t need to give them the exact step-by-step instructions for doing it, you
can give them a high-level overview of what it is and why it works.
If your market is high on the awareness & sophistication scale, you’ll need to
come up with methods and strategies that they haven’t seen before and show
that it is the better way of getting results.
6. Option 1 or Option 2
Here you’ll show them 2 alternatives. Option 1 of doing it themselves or with
another service provider versus Option 2 of paying you to do it.
You need to have a logical point of why they should choose your offer instead of
just doing it in-house.
For example:
“Now you can start building your own cold email system in-house, however,
you’d need to spend thousands of dollars in tools, months into learning all the
small nuances in the process, and spend 2-4 hours every day into managing the
cold email campaigns.
Or you can work with us and and start getting results in the next 2 weeks from
starting.”
7. Benefits
Now you need to sell yourself more. You need to paint a picture in their heads of
what happens if they work with you.
Don’t focus on the features of your service. Talk about the actual end benefits
that they desire.
For example:
“When you work with us, you’ll be able to:
Go from $100,000 MRR to $300,000 MRR in 7 months
Grow so fast you’ll be featured in inc 5000
Have investors reaching out to you daily since you clearly have a
product with demand
Focus on building a better team without having to focus on lead
generation”
Again, the better you understand your niche, the better you know what their
actual desires and dreams are and you are able to target them.
Remember, you are a bridge between their painful state now and the dreamland
they want to be in.
8. Features (How it works?)
Now you finally can present the features in your offer. Your features need to
make sense based on what you’ve explained in the core concept part of your
VSL.
You need to show that your features make it easier, faster, or cheaper to use the
mechanism.
Give a monetary value to all your features and stack the value of your offer.
9. Call To Action
Now, you’ve shown them everything you need to show to get them sold on your
mechanism + prove that the best option for getting results with the mechanism,
is by working with you.
Now you need to answer the question: “How to get this?”
Make a call to action:
“So, if you are interested in seeing how we can use this system for your
company, click the button below and book a 30-minute discovery session for us.”
10. Urgency / Scarcity
Now, they need a reason to act right now instead of putting it to the side and
coming back to it later.
For example, if you can only work with a certain number of clients at once or if
you plan to increase prices in the future, let them know about it.
Make sure it’s real. Fake urgency & scarcity will always come back and do more
damage than good. Don’t lie to your prospects.
11. Bonus
If your offer has a bonus, bring it up now. Some extra things that they get if they
book a call with you right now.
This gives more urgency and pushes them to take advantage of the opportunity
now.
12. Guarantee
At this point, your prospect might be thinking “what if I hop on a call, get sold
something, and won’t get these results.”
Take away the risk by presenting your guarantee and making it a no-brainer
option to hop on the call.
13. Summary
You’ve given them a lot of information about your offer and service. Summarize
everything into a clean list and remind them about everything they’ll get if they
work with you.
14. Call To Action
After the summary, make a new call to action to push them into booking the call.
“Leevi, how long should my VSL be?”
The length of the VSL does not matter as long as the content is interesting.
If you are teaching someone valuable information they’ve never heard before
and they truly believe it can change their business, they’ll listen.
“How do I record my VSL?”
Don’t spend too much time creating a crazy movie-production-level VSL. You’ll
be going back to it and changing and tweaking it a lot so the production of the
VSL needs to be simple.
You can either make a google doc and record yourself going over it with Loom or
make a simple slideshow and do the same.
“Do I need to show my face?”
It isn’t necessary, but there isn’t a reason why you wouldn’t do it.
Of course, you might be shy in the beginning and don’t feel comfortable on
camera but now is the perfect time to get over that fear.
Having your face on the VSL makes it easier for the prospect to connect with you
and they’ll already feel familiar with you when they hop on a call with you.
“What language should my VSL be in?”
It should be in the language your prospect speaks. If your niche is French IT
Company founders, film & write it in french.
“What software do I use to create my landing page?”
Use Carrd.co - It's $19/year and simple to learn and use.
Activity 4: Setup An Outreach Process & Close Clients
If our Niche is our skeleton, the offer our engine, our LP, and VSL the design that
connects the two, then our outreach process is our wheels.
It’s what will take us to where we want to go.
It’s literally what makes the business come to life or death.
This means that if you suck at acquiring new clients, you’ll have no business
running.
Luckily for you, I’ve been selling since I was 14, trained +100 sales reps, ran my
own sales outsourcing agency, and generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in
lead generation agency contracts.
I’ll walk you through the exact framework I use to do it.
But first, we need to understand why this is so important...
Going back to our dating example.
You could be the highest-value guy in the world, but if you’re not around girls,
what’s the chance you’ll get any? Very low.
This is the same concept.
We must put our offer, LP, and VSL in front of as many eyes as possible. There’s
a right and a wrong way to do this.
In the wrong and old way, you try to do everything at once. You use different
outreach channels at the same time.
You send some emails, some DMs, you cold call, and maybe you even throw
some money on ads.
Worse than that, not only do you spread yourself too thin, you don’t even know
what works, so you’re just sending a bunch of messages off the cuff, not
knowing if they’re effective or not and just hoping someone’s going to respond.
And if someone ends up responding and booking a call, you book a 30-min sales
call without any structure or plan for the call.
You try to close the client immediately while time is running out.
As a result of doing things this way, you’ll have lower reply- & booking rates.
You have a lot of reluctance and anxiety when doing outreach because you’re in
a feedback loop of bad results.
You have a low closing rate and have to use high-pressure tactics to close deals
out of desperation.
The majority of your calls & emails end up without a clear set of next steps and
“I need to think about it” or “I’ll get back to you”, leaving you in limbo.
Because of this, you create an endless follow-up pipeline, where you’re
constantly checking with uninterested and undecided prospects blatantly ignoring
you or, worse off, keeping you on your toes with false promises and constantly
pushing back on a decision.
No predictable system that generates clients on demand. You sign clients you
shouldn’t because you’ll take anything you can.
You spend all of your time spinning your wheels.
This is where most people quit because it legitimately feels like you’re throwing
everything at the wall and trying to see what sticks.
Tieing to our dating example, you’re cold approaching every girl, everywhere,
regardless of how pretty they look, without decent lines, or looks, and with
extremely awkward social skills.
You think there’s something wrong with you because you can’t help but feel like
you’re constantly ramming against a wall pointlessly.
In the new way, you focus on one acquisition channel (cold email) and use
basic structures while testing one variable at a time to make sure you find the
winning combination as fast as possible.
When a winning combination has been found, you scale that one campaign as
long as you can while testing secondary options on the side in case messaging
stops working.
When you book calls, you split your sales process into 2 calls.
You have a clear structure for both calls. You disqualify hard and only move the
highest-quality prospects into the second call.
Before booking the second call, you ensure every decision-maker is attending the
second call and ready to make a decision on that call.
As a result:
You’ll have more time to focus on activities that grow the business.
You jump on the phone with higher-quality leads that are interested
in what you’re offering.
Instead of operating from a state of scarcity, you are operating from
the state of abundance, signing only the most high-quality clients
while charging premium prices.
You create an acquisition system that brings in consistent and
predictable lead flow and revenue.
You have a streamlined process that will allow you to scale with
ease.
You have a clean pipeline of people who have either already made
up their minds or have agreed to do so in your time frame.
You frame yourself as the one who has the medicine they need,
meaning that even if you have a similar offer to your competitors,
your level of competence de-commoditizes you.
You have a higher close rate.
The clients you sign end up being great clients because they quickly
decided to fix their problem and you’re the right person to make
that happen.
You don’t waste time talking to people that were never going to
buy, to begin with.
You don’t chase prospects around because the moment they decide
to avoid your rules, they get removed from your pipeline.
You save time, and energy, and only end up working with people who are the
right fit for you.
You create Win/Win situations and can deliver much better results.
Now it truly becomes a numbers game. Using these 4 pieces of the puzzle, I
could end this document right here; all you would need to do is execute it.
Enough emails sent enough eyeballs on your offer, enough traffic in your funnel
and it’s only a matter of time until you’re at +$18k/month
In conclusion: The acquisition system is what brings oxygen to the business.
You could have the perfect niche, perfect offer, and perfect funnel, but without
driving traffic to it and converting it, none of it will matter.
By leveraging one lead generation channel, you can validate your messaging &
process faster and get traction and better results faster, jump on the phone with
higher-qualified leads, and have an overall better sales process.
You’ll be able to charge more, and you’ll be able to scale with ease because the
most significant component of your entire business machine will be systemized
from the get-go.
From the hundreds of thousands of emails we've sent, we have been able to find
commonalities between all the winning campaigns.
Based on that data we created a simple and powerful framework that we've
validated with +80 lead gen agency owners.
We've literally seen people hop in, launch their first campaign and book 20 calls
in the first 10 days of starting outreach.
(Screenshot above showcases what Emil sent to our channel after launching his
first campaign. He closed 2 clients from these 10 calls.)
Also, by splitting your sales process into 2 calls with a heavy focus on
disqualifying & holding the frame, you'll close more deals, spend less time doing
so and only sign the high-quality clients that you can get great results for.
Since you have a dialed-in niche, offer, and funnel you can clearly identify and
qualify the people you want to target and work with.
By educating them in our email campaigns we agitate their problems and give
them a sense of urgency that they need to act now.
As a result of that, the prospects that jump on calls with you will already be
heavily interested in what you are offering.
Sales calls will also be easier since your offer is a no-brainer for your specific
niche, you understand the niche and your funnel has nurtured them and
explained the value of your offer before the call.
I want you to realize that you won't close a deal because of the exact words you
say.
You'll close deals by making sure you are moving the prospect to the end goal
(happy paying customer) in the most efficient way possible while overcoming all
possible objections before they even come up.
If you need to focus on reading a script, you'll never be able to connect with the
prospect and solve their problems with authority since you'll be so focused on the
script itself.
With this model, we have been able to take complete beginners and get them to
close 40-60% on their first calls.
Screenshot above showcases what Joel sent to your Slack channel one week
after launching his campaigns.
Notice how he was able to close a $10,000,000/year company using the 2-call
sales process.
“What do I write in my cold emails?”
The biggest beginner mistake I see is focusing too much on the exact words and
structure. If you are not booking calls and getting replies to your emails, you
probably think it is because your cold email script is terrible.
Usually, it is not the case. Of course, you can get a 5-20% increase in your
results based on the scripts you use, but most of the heavy lifting comes from
the first 3 steps of the feedback loop.
If you are reaching out to a niche with an offer that they don’t want and your
funnel doesn’t connect your niche with the offer, it does not matter what you say
in your cold emails, you simply are selling something that nobody wants to buy.
You’ll get better results by going back to the foundations and tweaking them
until you find a service-market fit.
But for the actual script writing, we use a simple 3-step structure for 95% of the
campaigns we write.
It looks like this:
1. Personalization
2. Offer / Case-Study
3. Call To Action
Let’s break it down:
1. Personalization
You don’t want to use unique personalized lines for every lead you reach out to.
It’s simply inefficient.
If you need to spend $500 and 2 days on personalized lines for every campaign,
you’ll move too slowly.
We have split-tested the difference between unique personalized lines and
“generic personalized lines” and the difference is negligible.
Of course, if you have a script, offer, niche, and funnel that works amazingly
well, it doesn’t hurt to test out unique personalization, but it doesn’t make sense
in the beginning.
Instead, you’re going to aggregate a list of people with something in common.
For example, you aggregate a list of potential clients who have their business in
a specific country eg: Norway.
From a quick google search, I found out that Norway has 2 versions of its
language that people use in different parts of the country. So I could make a
funny joke and say:
“Hi John,
I didn’t know if I should reach out to you in Bokmål or Nynorsk so I decided to
go with the old and reliable English.”
Shows that you’ve done some research on the country and it’s still somewhat
personal.
Now we can send this “personalized” line to our entire aggregated list and not
waste any time or money coming up with personalized lines.
2. Offer / Case Study
This is the meat of your cold emails.
This is where you’ll have to come up with different angles and test which ones
are resonating the most with your niche.
This is one of the templates we use:
ICP + Offer + Timeframe + Guarantee
“I’m contacting you since we actually help IT Start-Ups like you to generate an
extra $130,000 in top-line revenue in 11 months with a 100% performance-
based model.”
You could also use a case study and say:
“I’m contacting you since we just helped Company X generate an extra $132,000
in new top-line revenue in 11 months with a 100% performance-based model.”
Case studies in general work better but the difference again is small.
The main difference maker is the actual offer & niche.
We’ve seen “bad” cold email scripts perform amazingly well because the offer
was just so good and it was targeted perfectly for the niche.
3. Call To Action
We need to add a clear call to action at the end of our cold email so they have a
clear thing to act on if they are interested.
Your initial CTAs should be easy to reply to and have low commitment.
The goal is to get a reply and get a conversation going.
For example:
“Can I send you more information on this?”
Your call to action should be quick and easy to reply to. Make it a yes or no
question and low commitment.
“What are good metrics to aim for in cold email campaigns?”
Again, this depends a lot on the niche.
But a good rule of thumb is:
60% Open rate
If you cannot get a +60% open rate on your cold emails, you probably have a
deliverability issue, your lead lists are of poor quality or your subject line is bad.
5% Reply rate
If you are not getting 5% replies, your offer probably isn’t exciting or you are
targeting the wrong title in your niche.
Your CTA also might be too hard.
0.5% booking rate
If you are not hitting a 0.5% booking rate, your offer in most cases isn’t
interesting enough that they’d hop on a call with you.
This in most cases means that your market sophistication & awareness levels are
higher than your messaging.
Also, you might have inefficiencies in your inbox management process and you
are not following up with prospects enough.
“What software to use for getting leads and sending emails?”
For sending emails we use Instantly.ai & for building lead lists we use apollo.io or
scrape LinkedIn sales navigator.
Find out where your niche hangs out and scrape that. There is an unlimited
amount of strategies but in most cases 1 or 2 of them work best for your niche.
“What about GDPR?”
We’ve spent a lot of money & time talking with lawyers and researching laws on
this topic. Do a quick google search on cold email GDPR laws if needed.
It is super easy to follow guidelines and not break any GDPR laws while sending
cold emails.
We’ve sent +2,000,000 emails in Europe and have never had any issues with
laws.
“How many times should I follow up?”
It depends on at which stage the prospect is on. If they’ve never replied to your
cold email campaigns or shown any interest, 4-6 times is perfect spread over 3
months.
If they’ve shown interest in your offer previously, follow up with them until they
give you a clear Yes or No answer.
“What if I don’t have sales experience?”
This is a completely normal state to be in when building your agency. The good
news is that you don’t need any.
If you’ve built your foundations right and your VSL is written right, sales are the
easy part of the process.
Also, the best way to learn sales is by actually doing sales. Hop on calls with
prospects and do 1:1 roleplay calls with your friends or family members.
You’ll learn this by doing.
“What if my English is bad?”
This also is a common question I get. Truth is that it doesn’t matter.
You can use this as an excuse for your poor results but it won’t take you far.
I’m from Finland. We are famous for speaking ridiculously bad English, also
known as “Rally English”.
The most commonly spoken language in the world is Bad English. You have to
jump on calls and you’ll learn better.
Also, by doing practice calls alone or 1:1 roleplay with someone, you’ll be able to
get more comfortable with speaking English.
Most people don’t care about it, it’s all in your head.
“I get anxious / nervous when I think about taking sales calls.”
Again a completely normal situation. Call reluctance is a by-product of having an
unclear sales process. Now you have one.
Build your overall framework based on what I just walked you through and
create your scripts. You’ll have a lot more confidence then.
If you are ready to do things that the majority of people are not willing to do,
you’ll reap rewards that most people will never get. Use this as motivation.
Activity 5: Onboard Your New Clients & Deliver Them Results
Without a solid onboarding process, clients will be left confused, without clarity,
and feeling buyer’s remorse.
This is a surefire way to ensure they churn a couple of months into working with
you.
This is why onboarding & service delivery is the most critical part of your entire
business.
If you can generate good results for people, regardless of what you do, you’ll
always make money.
It’s also why people have to rely so much on marketing.
If you were the absolute best at what you do, would you have to do any
marketing?
You probably could do just fine without and it would serve simply as an amplifier
to expand your already existing massive results.
In the old way of onboarding your clients & getting them results, you sign a
client and start freestyling on the next steps without a systematic and
predictable plan to get results for them.
You send an invoice, craft a quick contract, send an onboarding form and start
building everything out for them without a clear step-by-step process.
And because your onboarding process is unclear and doesn’t set you up for
success, you end up having to freestyle your service delivery.
I’m sure you’ve been there.
You signed a client. You’re ecstatic. But now you actually have work to do.
And you’re panicking because you watched a course or some Youtube videos and
you’re freestyling the entire process.
“What do they even offer?”
“Writing these emails is so hard?”
“What leads should I scrape?”
This is a surefire way to ensure you deliver sub-par results and stay in the
flywheel of always having to acquire new clients.
It's a coin flip every time when you sign a client, you are not 100% sure you'll
get them results.
As a result of doing this, your clients will have an unclear and bad onboarding
process, they'll get buyer's remorse and you won't have good enough
foundations from the onboarding to actually get them results.
Clients ask for refunds and are just a pain in the ass to work with.
You can't give out good guarantees since you are not sure if you'll deliver good
results.
They have wrong expectations about working with you and get disappointed and
churn no matter what results you get them.
Because they get bad results, they are mad, they want their money back, and
you are ashamed to jump on weekly calls with them and feel like a scammer.
You have the negative word of mouth working against you. Doors that were
otherwise open will shut down over time.
You are losing a huge amount of revenue since you are not getting paid your
performance fee.
This is the most critical part of the business because the amount of money you
make is directly correlated to the amount of social proof you have and how much
money you make for others.
In the new way, you have a clear and well-structured onboarding process
structured as efficiently as possible.
You know exactly what you are going to do every single day and during every
single step in the onboarding process.
With cold email lead generation, the process is simple. When we audit our client
campaigns that are not working, the problems are always the same.
You have troubleshooting SOPs to ensure if anything goes wrong, you know how
to fix the situation. You have clear systems for delivering results that you have
dialed in through repetition and data.
Because of this,
Your clients have a better onboarding process so they won’t regret
starting to work with you.
They won’t ask for refunds down the line since you showed that you
are professional and treat them well.
They have all the clarity in the world and feel confident about
working with you.
Clients will be a lot more tolerant even if there are roadblocks
throughout the process.
Even if you deliver sub-par results, your clients will likely go longer
with you and give you more chances to do a better job simply
because you took the time to give them a good onboarding
experience.
You get great and predictable results for your clients that you are
proud of.
You build good case studies that you can leverage in your outreach,
VSL & sales calls.
Word of mouth works for you instead of against you, the referral
machine starts building momentum and you start getting clients
without doing any extra work.
You make more money per client since they pay you more and stay
for a longer time.
You can confidently give out amazing no-brainer guarantees since
you know you can fulfill them.
By leveraging high-level case studies, every single remaining part of
the business becomes more effortless.
This could be the only thing you did well and better than everything else and in
itself, it would drive the business to higher levels than anything else.
This is everything; if you execute it correctly, you’ll make all the money you
want.
In conclusion:
By delivering a streamlined onboarding experience, you remove any chances of
buyer remorse.
Structuring your onboarding process in the most efficient and using the same
exact workflow every time results in happier clients that stay with you for a
longer time, get better results, and are easier to work with.
A significant advantage of this is that since you set the right expectations from
the get-go, if there are roadblocks along the way and we’re not immediately
delivering results, clients will be more tolerant because clear communication is
established.
Also, you are able to systemize and automate the onboarding process way more
since it always works the same way.
Because your onboarding process is systemised, you can have a clear step-by-
step service delivery workflow covering all possible problems ensures you get
stellar results for your clients which leads to higher LTV, better case studies, and
more money.
Like I said, this is the most important element of the entire equation.
If you can nail this part, you can pretty much get loose with everything else and
you’ll still crush it.
(1) Niche - (2) Offer - (3) Funnel - (4) Acquisition - (5) Sales - (6)
Onboarding - (7) Delivery - (8) Scale
It is the second last piece of the puzzle.
By systemizing this phase of our lead gen agency, we've been able to work with
just a few selected high-quality clients since every client is worth more to us.
(Screenshot above showcases results we have gotten for our clients. Notice how
we booked 17 qualified calls in 6 days for one of our clients selling a $25,000
service in one of the most “saturated” niches.)
We've also taught this system to our clients and they've been able to get
excellent results for their clients.
(Screenshot above showcases the results Daniel is getting for his clients. He is
getting multiple 7, 8, and 9-figure inbound referrals every month from his clients
because they are comfortable recommending him to others.)
(One of his 9-figure clients offered to build a separate company with him since he
is providing so good results. The image above showcases what kind of deal he
got offered.)
Not only does it influence the rest of the loop but it’s ultimately what facilitates
the last piece: Scale.
Without being good at what you actually do, you’ll always stay stuck in the small
leagues playing for scraps.
By systemizing your entire process and ensuring that you actually become good
at what you do, you unlock the puzzle of the Lead Gen Agency game.
Get good at this and you’ll never go broke again.
When you dial in the onboarding & service delivery process in well, you are also
able to tie everything together with a few simple automations & team members.
It isn’t something that you should focus on in the beginning.
(1) Niche - (2) Offer - (3) Funnel - (4) Acquisition - (5) Sales - (6)
Onboarding - (7) Delivery - (8) Scale
But when you have the first 7-steps dialed in and they are proven to work, you
can make running your agency less time consuming & you’ll be able to focus on
more of the high-leverage tasks to scale even further.
We start focusing on this with our coaching clients when they approach the
$10,000/mo - $20,000 mark depending on how much they have time & what
their workload looks like.
The biggest mistake people make when trying to scale your agency, you create
complicated Zapier automations, create unclear SOPs that only you understand,
and hire incompetent VAs for $3/h that you need to manage & help every day.
As a result:
Their new shiny systems & automations end up breaking daily, profit margins
drop below 60%, and because they are spending more time managing systems
and automations, your results drop, your business becomes a nightmare to run
and you end up doing everything by yourself.
You kill your strong momentum by adding friction in your agency and burn
everything to the ground.
So don’t start trying to hire & automate too soon.
(Screenshot above is from our agency's process workflow showcasing the main 3
team members we have in our process.)
If you are already at a spot where you need help building a team & systemising
your lead gen agency, we’ll help you, agencyvelocity.io/call
“How do I make sure that my clients have a good onboarding
experience?”
There are 3 main points you need to cover for this to happen.
1. Communication
You need to communicate about everything that you are doing.
This way, the client will always know what's happening and they’ll know that you
are working to get them results.
2. Clarity
Your onboarding process needs to be a clear timeline. Every day needs to be
structured and presentable for the client.
You and your client need to know what happens when it happens and who does
it.
This is the key.
3. Efficiency
You need to be executing everything as fast as possible. Show that they made a
good decision and start getting them the small wins immediately.
Send the contract immediately, book the onboarding call immediately, and do
everything as fast as you possibly can.
“How long should the onboarding process be?”
Our lead generation agency onboarding process is 8 days.
Of course, most of the work happens on our side but we still present the
timeframe for the client so they understand everything that's happening.
We’ve optimized it a lot and made sure that it’s the most efficient way to
onboard a new cold email lead generation client and ensure they get results.
“Should I have an onboarding call with them or send an onboarding
form?”
Have a call. This is a more personal approach and you’ll make sure you get all
the necessary information that you need to deliver results.
In most cases, if you send a form, you’ll get vague answers that the client
quickly answers. This is not enough to get amazing results.
Some of our onboarding calls have been 2 hours long because there has been so
much information to dig through with the client.
As you can see, all you need to do is:
1. Pick A Niche & Dial It In
2. Create A Benefit-Focused Niche Specific Offer That Matches Your
Niches Awareness & Sophistication level
3. Build A Funnel That Connects Your Niche With The Offer
4. Setup An Outreach Process & Close Clients
5. Onboard Your New Clients & Deliver Them Results
And you are able to build an $18,000/mo lead generation agency in 4
weeks without case studies.
Now there are a few ways to get to +$18,000/month with your Lead Gen
Agency.
Option 1:
You keep doing what you’ve done up until now, buying low priced courses,
getting general advice and spinning your wheels hoping something changes but…
How much more willpower do you think you can muster, and how much longer
can you go on without seeing results?
Also by doing this, the opportunity cost is enormous since you could spend the
months you spend on learning on actually making money.
Or…
Option 2:
You can work directly with agencyvelocity.io, follow the exact step-by-step
instructions I’m going to give you, sign your first client in less than 30 days, and
hit at least $10k/month in less than 90 days.
Again, this is for
Aspiring Lead Gen Agency Owners who want to take control of their
life, build a reliable lead generation agency and make +$100,000 in
the next 12 months by providing actual value to the market
Existing Lead Gen Agency Owners who have been actively trying to
get past the $10k/month mark for months but haven’t been able to
do so.
This stuff works.
We’ve been able to take these frameworks and help people like:
Daniel Sannagård, Uppsala, Sweden
When Daniel started working with us, he was working a 9-5 as a sales rep,
dreaming about running his own agency and just spending his days learning
about cold email, building an agency and business.
Now 4 months later, he is working with 11 clients. Making over $15,000 a month
while working 4 hours a day from home.
(Screenshot above showcases Daniel signing his 3rd client for 2000€ + 200€ per
call booked after 26 days of working with us.)
(Screenshot above shows what Daniel said to us after signing his 10th client.)
(Screenshot above showcases Daniel booking 4 calls for one of his clients for
300€ each in 4 hours.)
(Screenshot above showcases Daniel getting 4 referral clients from one of his
clients for 8000€ in starting fees total + 200-300€ per a booked call.)
(Screenshot above showcases Daniel booking 8 calls for one of his new clients in
2 days of starting campaigns for them.)
(Images above are screenshots of what Daniel has sent to our private Slack
channel about his results & progress.)
As you can see he is signing clients & delivering amazing results. He will 100%
sure make multiple 6-figures in the next 12 months from his agency and build a
fantastic reputation in his niche.
What we did:
Immediately when we started working with Daniel, we created a roadmap
together & goals we are trying to hit and reverse-engineered the action steps we
needed to take.
We hopped on a call and went through his experiences & and advantages.
We were looking to find a blue ocean niche where he could quickly start
dominating the market.
After finding the niche that matched our criteria, we crafted an offer directly
targeted towards that niche based on Daniels & my experiences.
Then we built a simple funnel that explained the offer and the mechanism that
the offer is delivered with.
We built a list of leads and crafted 3 different email variations + follow-up
sequences for cold email campaigns.
Immediately after our 27 email accounts warmed up, we launched campaigns
and booked 25 calls in the first 48 hours.
We went over the sales process with Daniel and he started closing deals.
After 17 days of working with us, Daniel signed his first client for $2000 setup
fee + $200 per call booked.
After 22 days of working with us, Daniel signed his second
client for $2000 setup fee + $200 per call booked.
After 26 days of working with us, Daniel signed his third
client for $2000 setup fee + $200 per call booked.
So in 26 days, he had already made $6000 without taking any performance fees
into consideration.
After closing the first deal we made sure that the onboarding sequence is as
seamless as possible and that we'd get all the necessary information we needed
to deliver results so we can start building up the first case study.
We kept reaching out to prospects, booking calls, and closing clients.
After the first 2 months we started seeing clear commonalities with the best
clients Daniel was working with so we doubled down on those types of
companies.
After 4 months of working with us, he has built predictable systems for service
delivery, client acquisition, and onboarding.
His clients are happier than ever and he's even getting huge referrals from them.
He's spending 4 hours a day on his agency and he's making $15,000/mo with big
plans for scaling with us.
We've helped Daniel with daily operations, questions, and troubleshooting 1:1
and he's been able to scale with clarity.
This is what Daniel said about working with us:
"Before I jumped on Agency Velocity with Leevi I worked as a sales rep.
Same company, same service, and had no plans... Just stack money and stay
stuck at a 9-5 I didn't enjoy.
Over the past 4 months, I have learned in-depth stuff about cold email that
would take me over 12 months to learn if I was doing it alone.
And not only about cold emails, but I have also learned stuff about myself as
well and how to use myself as a resource and only focus on high ROI tasks every
single day.
Now 4 months later I'm working with 11 clients, just got 4 new clients through a
referral because of the amazing results I've generated for one of my clients.
I also have 4 new projects that are launching during this and next month for my
own services that I'm selling.
Leevi is amazing and truly a genius.
It has been an honor to work with him. He is also a really good friend that really
cares about my success.
Agency Velocity isn’t just a coaching program, it is a movement.
We are making huge progress together and everybody is winning."
We’ve also done an interview with Daniel, where he talks about how he has
scaled his lead generation agency so fast.
You can check it out here:
How Daniel went from sales rep to making $15,000/mo with his lead generation agency
We’ve also helped guys like:
(Screenshot above shows Wyatt signing his first client 3 days after launching his
campaign.)
(Screenshot above shows Wyatt signing his second client 6 days later.)
(Screenshot above showcases Wyatt signing his 5th client after 10 days of
launching his campaign.)
(Screenshot above shows Wyatt hitting his first $10,000 a month after a few
months of starting to work with agencyvelocity.io)
(Screenshot above shows Wyatt signing a $2000 + $600 per call booked client a
few days after hitting his first $10,000 a month)
What we did:
When Wyatt started working with us, he had already tried to run a lead
generation agency for a month. He had gotten one client through a referral but
wasn't getting any results for him.
His own cold email campaigns weren't performing, he needed a better video
sales letter & his offer and niche could have been better.
We hopped on a call and started planning the roadmap on what steps we need to
take before starting new cold email campaigns for him.
We picked a new niche & created an entirely new offer focusing on end benefits
to fit our new niche's market awareness & sophistication level and situation.
We also created an entirely new VSL & a landing page to ensure our foundations
were set before we launched.
He only had a few email accounts he was using for his campaigns so we got him
10 more accounts to increase our sending volume as much as possible.
We scraped a list from Goodfirms data based on top companies in Wyatts niche
using Instant Data Scraper & VAs to enrich the contact information.
We started working together on the 4th of August, 2021. After a few weeks of
building foundations, we launched his new campaign on the 3rd of September.
He booked 6 calls in the first 48 hours and closed his first client for $3000 +
$250 per call booked 3 days later.
6 days later, he signed his second client from the campaign for a $2000 setup
fee + $3000/mo retainer + 10% revenue share.
One day after that he signed 2 clients. One for $4000 starting fee + $250 per call
booked & one for $5000 starting fee paid after 5 calls + $1000 per call booked.
In the first 10 days of running the campaigns, he had made $9000 just in
starting fees.
Now he had 4 high-quality clients to work with. We started focusing on service
delivery to make sure he gets paid well.
We started building a reliable method for service delivery and scaling.
Also, we aimed to get the first sick case study as soon as possible.
For one of his clients, he built an 8-figure pipeline in 2 months which will be the
perfect case study to create. (He's working on it right now)
After the first campaign, Wyatt has signed a few clients but is mainly focusing on
service delivery for his few high-paying clients and scaling them up.
This is what Wyatt said about working with Agencyvelocity.io:
"I didn’t know how to get to that next level and knew I needed guidance from
someone who had already done this before.
It wasn't sustainable to buy small courses, read guides on Twitter, and take any
client that would come my way.
I knew Leevi was launching a coaching program so I knew I needed to jump on
the train.
He’s someone who’s done this before, someone who has already given so much
free value on Twitter, someone I know would have so much value in something
like this program.
It was a no-brainer offer before I even hopped on the call with Leevi.
As soon as I got in, I could tell this was going to be a NEXT LEVEL of a program.
A few months later and here we are my first $10k month."
We’ve also done an interview with Wyatt about his progress and journey of
building his lead generation agency, you can check it out
here: https://youtu.be/wDNpxWKMTsQ
Oliver Skaanild, Copenhagen, Denmark
Before Oliver started working with us, he had tried to run a Social Media
Marketing Agency providing Facebook ads for his clients for 2 years.
He wasn’t getting it to work. He was booking 1-2 meetings every 3 months and
wasn’t closing any deals. His top month was 1000€ during those 2 years.
He had pivoted to running a lead generation agency 2-months prior but had only
booked one meeting which ended up being a no-show.
He started working with us on September 21st of 2022 and 35 days after
working with us, Oliver had made 13,000-17,000€ in closed deals.
Now he has a waiting list of +20 high-quality companies waiting to work with him
so he can focus on delivering results to his clients and build fantastic case
studies.
(Screenshot above showcases what Oliver sent to our Slack chat the morning he
launched his campaigns.)
(Screenshot above showcases his results after the first day of running cold
emails for his own agency.)
(Screenshot above shows him closing his first client on October 15th for a
1750€/mo 3-month contract, paid in full upfront for the amount of €5,250)
(Screenshot of him closing his 2nd client on October 17th for 1500€ one-time
implementation fee.)
(Screenshot above showcases him closing his 3rd client the same day, October
17th for 3250€ one time + 175€ per a call booked.)
(Screenshot above shows him signing his 4rth client on October 26th for 3250€
one time fee + 100€ per call booked.)
(Screenshot above showcases Oliver launching one of his client's new campaigns
and booking 2 calls on the first day.)
(Screenshot above showcases Brian signing his first client after a few weeks of
starting to work with us.)
(Screenshot above showcases Brian signing 3 clients each for $1500 starting fee
+ $400 per meeting booked on the same day a month after signing his first
client.)