Running A $5,000 MRR Agency While Working A 9-5
How this 23 years old founder manages his time with a full-time job and a side hustle
Hello! Can you introduce yourself and tell us about your business?
My name is Sabyr and I am the founder of RedditAgency.com.
I also built: RedditScheduler.com and MVPAgency.org, on top of working a 9-5 job.
I am 23 years old this year. I started my journey one year ago. Since that period, I have built more than 15 small bets. Yeah, I know, most of them, didn't make any money, so I left them.
RedditAgency is a service that i provide to help businesses find their ideal customers fast on the Reddit platform.
We provide services like audience analysis, Reddit research, content creation and also data and analytics.
My business now focuses on helping busy founders with marketing and development.
How did you start this business? Take us through the process.
I started my journey when I found Marc Lou on Youtube.
I saw how he was building his small bets on the Internet. I told myself if he can do it, I can do it.
After I found about X and community of "Building in Public". I joined and started building and sharing everything what I do daily on X.
I started with a challenge created by Pieter Levels called the "12 startups in 12 months" One by one, I executed. Started with simple landing pages then continued to complex SaaS.
Of course, during the whole journey I had a lot of doubts and could left a lot of times. But I did it anyway.
I am building everyday, shipping and doing everything by myself. On the first version of my current tool, I spent around $10-50 on hosting (Vercel + Domain name).
What is your marketing approach?
I mainly started posting content online on X and Reddit.
I also reached out to people who were interested in my niche, asking them questions and invited them to calls. I listened carefully and executed all their requests during these calls.
To sign my first client, I went through around 30 calls. I wrote a lot of emails to potential clients. Here’s my approach: first I suggested them a free call, where I listen to their problems and then try to solve their issues. Next. I followed up with emails in one hour advance email reminder.
I also started getting inbound requests from posting content on X and Reddit. Most of them were 0 deals though. But after I started listening more and started writing more content and suggesting a book link, I started getting more sales eventually.
Don't try to create content for everyone. Instead focus on specific group of people, or your preferred niche.
If you are digital nomads, focus on digital nomads.
If you are pet owner, focus on pet owners.
If you are housekeeper, focus on housekeeper.
I understood simple things. It is better to have 2 or 3 channels that bring in customers than 10 different channels that bring nothing.
How does your business make money?
I operate on a B2B level. I work directly with business owners around one time payments to help them with growth on Reddit.
I charge from $1,000 depends on amount of work/time/complexity and value to clients. Expand amount of clients, bring more value and charge more.
The business is currently doing around $5,000 MRR. I work around 4-12 hours on a daily basis, at least 28-84 hours per week on this business.
Where can we go to lean more about you and your business?
You can find me at the following links:
Thank you for reading this!