See a lot of home run threads and getting started/new idea threads, but I’m wondering how many entrepreneurs have “sort of” made it here?
I’ve been building a small business marketing agency for around a decade. We’ll prob do around 600k this year but no real profit (long story, working on it). I get paid 6-7k as a salary kind of like a normal job I guess.
Started doing some additional consulting work last year to make more money while we restructure the agency business model and now make about 6-7k/mo there as well.
I’m healthy, good marriage, generally doing well. But work is a lot, battling burnout, have a few regrets, etc. Not perfect but not terrible either.
Anyone else feel like their business aspirations have led to a life that kind of plays out more like you have a normal job give or take, vs the big fail / multimillion dollar exit dichotomy that is usually presented?
Wild. We might be the same person. I too own an agency. Our revenues are about the same. I take home about the same.
It’s a frustrating place to be.
You have a lot of freedom. Control of schedule and the ability to lead is great. But it’s also consuming.
That said, personally, I have been thinking about this a lot and working to figure out, how do I get from $600k~ revenue per year to that next figure? Maybe $1.5 M per year.
I mean the burnout is real. Don’t get me wrong. But I personally feel like I have to keep a plan in place to make that next landmark or else I really would be saying; “hey, I could probably make more money working for someone else in corporate”