- Identify your ideal client.
- Pick a service with high-profit margins that you enjoy offering.
- Get your first client.
- Set the right expectations before you begin and document what you will do, at what price, and when.
- Serve them, give them the best experience and gather a testimonial.
- Find a way to get more similar clients by running ads, using content for marketing, building partnerships, or doing strategic podcast tours.
- Get more clients, give a good experience, gather more testimonials, and showcase them where all prospects can see them.
- While doing the above, build a team to deliver services and keep clients informed.
- Set processes and systems so the business can run without you for over 6-18 months.
- Create space in your schedule to start marketing yourself and your agency, and spend most of your time creating new partnerships and getting new team members onboard.
- Rinse and repeat.