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?
It’s interesting to continue to hear stories from fellow agency owners who try to build and scale.
The one thing I hear consistently is most of them didn’t like building agencies with dozens of employees because they got burnt out from managing people and continually being on the hamster wheel.
I make nowhere what you make in revenue but my take-home is higher than yours. Not saying that to brag but just to draw attention that big isn’t always best. When Covid hit, I lost half of my clients and had to crawl my way back. Three years later, I believe I’ll have my best year yet and excited for the new year and want I want to accomplish.
I also consider myself “kinda successful”. Thanks for sharing.