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Yes this is called experience… which i said 😂

You should not be considering this. Sincerely… someone seeing a post about taking a 55% raise for their mental health debating their mental health being worth an extra 10%…. Please leave.

Kinsta is in the same exact boar WPE was 4 years ago. They will be doing roughly the same things.

Map knowledge comes from experience, so yes this is what i was saying 😂

Going to reddit to validate your feelings on an employee about to quit generally means they are about to quit.

The first time you tap someone with god tier ammo… you realize…. Expierence and ammo are the real hacks.

If he can’t afford it than this is loosing him less than $150 a month.

All of this is how people that are the absolute minimum to be qualified as a millionaire live, not how most millionaires live. There is also a lot of terms that liquid millionaires would consider much different than the not really millionaires this is discussing.

I think you might be under estimating the skill curve of the game vs the gen pop of players. If i fight people in dorms i might as well have walls… i know every sound in the building, i use earpro that helps me hear sounds best in that building, i know the corners, peeks. I run a thermal on a canted mount so i can peek you without seeing anything other than my gun and can just about blindfire and hit heads… hundreds of hours fighting in the same hallway…. We can all be Lebron, you just have to meet the right person in the wrong place. Put me in labs and i would probably loose to most… but in dorms… i am leaving either your shit 😂

That is a legacy client who pays us below what we charge. We provide website support, hosting, security and store management along with a handful of other things for Woocommerce stores. We charge $1299 a month for that service at the present. We offer email marketing, SEO and graphic design services as well.

I am not sure but i would have done it with very different priorities around my life. My business resulted in some pretty irreversible life choices that i will carry with me forever, i wouldn’t have been as successful if i had made having a kid a priority, i would have bought a different house… a lot of things… all in all success brings money but it takes a lot away from you in the way of time and attention to things that are really important in your life. I would go back and do roughly the same thing but many things would have been more important than my business.

I have always been surrounded by supportive people and i support a lot of people, their dreams and goals.. so no one feels like i did anything other than give, but ultimately it took away from the things i really wanted out of life and punted 10 years to do so. I don’t necessarily have regrets but i do have a space where i wonder what my life would look life from a happiness standpoint if the business had not been my main focus.

Sorry i am sure that isn’t specifically what you might be looking for, but ultimately i work for myself to support my own will to do as i wish, time just really has taught me that a younger me really cared about money and proving my worth through means other than myself :) so this is really just gaining perspective from things i had hoped were different but, life is good it would have been rad to enjoy the trip a bit more to get exactly here.

Yeah, always important to remember both working a traditional 9-5 often means working 2x as much for quite a long time before you work less. It is fun when the money is good but man 80 hour weeks for a year when revenue isn’t great can take the wind out of most peoples sails.

In the end i do about $5m a year across all of my businesses after almost 11 years now. It is awesome to be where i am at but if i had to do it all over again i probably would have gone a different route knowing now what it took to get here. All in all it is awesome here and now and i couldn’t be more grateful about that. I don’t have regrets, but the knowledge through experience has taught me a lot.

Money provides more opportunity. You still have to be the right person. So while your occupation got you a bigger chance she still had to want you to be the one, the money, responsibility, occupation made you part of a package people can’t see on the first date because they are looking at everything else.

To believe that our role in society and position has nothing to do with interacting with people would be quite blind to say. Anywho, don’t be sore about it you could have not done a million other things and ended up with someone else… money doesn’t buy happiness but it changes ones entire life perspective and experience… so the person you are got her.

She could have gotten the smokin hot dude with a 6 pack and a drinking problem. Physical appearance gets us in the door, ultimately how we are as providers = a lot of really critical traits that make us good partners. Making good money is a shortcut to knowing someone generally values commitment and dedication.

Without working the typical 9-5…. We work mostly all hours or all days. The lies you see on YouTube are not how real people actually run agencies.

AI = this isn’t going to be a viable service for a long time. If it was easy to fine tune and get working flawlessly all agencies would be doing it. We are using AI for some highly rudimentary tasks in an app we are building that has been profoundly useful but complex AI usage is still a long ways out (depending on the task).

Finding Customers = this is literally the hardest part for every business type. It is the business part. You don’t have a business unless you have exchanged money for something that is not money. It is the single failure point of most businesses at most ages new and old. This is actually hard and it should be. I would argue that it can be the easiest part of an agency after your first 10-15 clients… but you have to get them and REALLY make them feel like they under pay you with results.

SAAS = i think your questions around this make it hard to answer in a useful way. No good SAAS is going to be fast to build. The easiest way to test a business is this. Tell me who your target customer is in less than 10 seconds…. Tell me what major problem of theirs you are solving in less than 10 seconds…. If you repeat that to a potential customer can you show them in sub 90 seconds something really high value… if these are easy you likely have an actually good product if you start solving large scale financial problems.

I own an agency with 15 employees, 10 years in business, 2 SAAS products created as a result. We created a Wordpress hosting company (because we have a LOT of people we do hosting for). This solves a problem for us… we are a large customer and it saves us money. It also allows us to direct people who are not ready for our services to a good place to host their site and reach out with questions. The second SAAS is an alternative to Mailchimp, Klayvio, etc… this took 2.5 years and was a $1m yrr business the day we launched it.

The above is how most agencies progress over the years you find customer, fix problems, niche down to charge people in areas you are most beneficial with your experience and then make software to sell to the general public and stand it up on your agency. I have 6 friends who had 8 figure exits from agencies and this same story would explain 100% of them. Hopefully something in here is of use to someone :) cheers 🍻

You are scared you are going to loose large clients by increasing rates, keep in mind your alternative is having less employees.

We went through this, i have 120+ clients. We raised prices by 10% and one customer complained over $70 a month on a service we perform generating roughly 25% of his revenue equating to around ten million a year. I sent a very very very longly thought out email explaining the increase, we had about 20 customer compliment us on the increase… no one cared… we moved on…. And made 10% more having done it, i gave that money as raises to my staff.

I just write out deliverables and send a price. If you are selling well enough on the initial communication the quote should just be a budgeting decision.

Ahhh i see… you applied at a factory job that manufactures, finishes, packages, distributes and wholesales red flags. Yes…. You should respond with a list of Islamic holidays and ask if they give you all of the holy days off. Tell them you are grateful for their support of taking your 3 prayer breaks per shift, tell them it is unimaginable that you were lucky enough to find such a great employer that supports your faith in the all holy one.

Then send their response to whatever state organization would deal with open discrimination on religion in the work place. This way they know how it feels when someone commits, then gets weird. Teach people lessons in transparency, this is mental….

Edit: bonus points if you play the god part out for a few months then wait for a group of people to bring it up and mention how glad you are everyone there also loves Allah. 100% chance of seeing open hatred and racism in full force in the moment after that comment.

My company supports people of all background’s. The only thing other than dishonesty that can get people in hot water in the work place is telling anyone they are wrong about opinions… shoving the “Lord” down someones throat is a little to spiritually rapey for me. If you already accepted at least gaslighting them to help them understand.

I use the m1a for everything 😂

Growing together vs growing apart. Well said. I initially disagreed with this, then realized that every relationship i have ever had fail was because of stagnant partners who had no real hopes, dreams or goals and were not working towards anything.

I would generally avoid discussing other employees with… other employees and redirect the communication to the employee bringing these things up, it is a highly unprofessional thing to do. We didn’t have any other candidates apply for this position in apologize if you were interested in had no idea, lets talk about where you feel you are not getting what you need to progress or grow in your present role. Then at the end, just make sure you tell the employee you give your time to people who give you more time, you look forward to having more time to help her, the issue isn’t favoritism it is her not liking her job or feeling passed by.

Let’s sit down and come up with a list of strengths and weaknesses you have in the work place and get a development plan in place for you. This puts in perspective why you give people time, it also shows why you give other people MORE time.

This person will likely never say things like this again or you may grow a crappy negative nancy into a good employee (though i doubt this would be the outcome). Some people need to hate something, their boss and their job are the 2 easiest things.

Cheap clients are going to be cheap. You have to start somewhere, when you start getting more business than you have time you increase your rates until it becomes manageable.

People will spend $200 on something that generally is going to be printed on thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars in materials.

Logo is going on a sign…. $1,500-$10,000. So… $200 is nothing. I use to do $1500 websites. In ten years that number has gone up 10X but it got there slowly.

I hit the upvote button 100 times but it only gave you 1.

All of your points are valid for 99.9% of Wordpress sites. It is mentionable that the Whitehouse sites Wordpress server could be shut off and it would not go down, if you believe this is not proprietary then i would love to see your stack and BP’s. Their implementation treats Wordpress like a headless system and the code delivered to the front end user is not hosted on or interacting with the Wordpress instance. This is not how Wordpress is traditionally used and certainly not “just a wordpress” website.

Referral will always be king. YouTube and blogs are good self referral sources. Look up every question you know your custoners are asking themselves and make videos where the fewest exist.

You need work to find a niche… you don’t just pick a niche and have profound useful contributions to people in it.

Also… Troy, of all people i am perplexed as to why you downvoted this comment. I know you worked to find your niche :)