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Ben Lee Lead Gen Expert. Founded 2 agencies and exited

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Co-founded award-winning 8-figure design and development agency with 150+ employees and 4 offices around the world.

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Ben Lee

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Co-founded award-winning 8-figure design and development agency with 150+ employees and 4 offices around the world.

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Creating Clear Separation Between Work Life & Personal Life

One of the biggest challenges with running an agency is how much it consumes your life. Constant fire drills, angry clients, and demanding employees. The thing is too much involvement means your personal needs are showing up in the business, pushing away your team and culture. I can help you create clear separation by adopting productivity techniques, better workflow management like GTD, mindfulness lifestyle, visionary mindset adoption, biohacking, and other tools that I've used to grow an 8-figure agency and exit it.

Growing & Scaling a Rockstar Sales Team

I've been selling since I was 8 years old. As Chief Revenue Officer of my last agency, I was responsible for building a sales and marketing team on a tight budget carrying 80% of the book with top brands I brought in like MasterClass, Google, TikTok, and Salesforce.

I know how hard it is to move away from a founder led organization and can help you build a sales team that can bring in a predictable pipeline and carry a quota.

Mastering Lead Generation & Scaling Your Pipeline

I've consistently been able to keep my agency's pipeline full regardless of the economic climate since 2011. This is mainly due to my expertise in email list building, marketing automation, social selling, and writing viral content. Since 2017, I've generated 100 million views on my LinkedIn with a single post converting a $75k sale without spending a dollar on paid media.

Mastering Efficient Operations

Let me guess, you've invested in EOS, hired a specialized consultant to roll out KPIs, and yet you still are not measuring departments or knowing what you should be spending where. Been there done that. I can help you take control over your operations so you're not going to be the most important person and greatest bottleneck for the business anymore. People and ideas don’t attract investment. Predictable pipeline and strong revenue gets attention when it’s time to give your deck to an investor or M&A firm to sell.

Creating a Venture Studio/Internal R&D Department

It's a lot harder than you think, but it's not impossible. Like anything, it requires a lot of discipline and a tight strategy and structure if you want to use you clients as angel investors to fund your own product. I can show you how I did it. I acquired a gaming studio in 2017 and ran a venture studio that churned out 25 games and apps while also running a 100-person agency.

A venture studio can allow you to scale your products and ideas far beyond what an agency can scale. As we know, agencies don't usually scale linearly.

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How many ratings will you give to Issuewire as a free press release distribution service?

Press release sites have always been so-so for me. I've used PR Newswire in the past and have had success with getting the release picked up. If it's a well-written press release with an interesting hook, you can definitely get traction. The question is what is the traction for and does it actually convert into sales.

So I'd say it depends on your goal – if all you care about is eyeballs and your press release is good, go for it. But make sure you've thought about how best you can spend your time/money to make sure there's not a better outbound approach you could be taking.

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Looking forward to start a blog what will your recommendation as hot Niche ? which help me to become popular quick.

I think a better way to think about it would be to choose based on your own skillset. Blogs can succeed or fail in any subject matter, but what sets you apart is the value you provide. Choose a topic that you're most knowledgeable about and that you can provide a unique perspective on.

And, even more important, don't limit yourself to blogging. It's a lot easier to go viral on TikTok right now than it is to go viral with a blog post – so by all means start the blog, but amplify it by repurposing your content for other platforms.

If you write a great blog article on a DIY subject, you can repurpose that into a TikTok instructional video and link back to the blog. That way you're amplifying the reach of both your platforms and doubling your chances of getting traffic.

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Ben Lee answered

What are good hacks for adoption strategies in a double side marketplace?

There are so many answers to this question, but really it depends on what the market is. The first question to ask yourself is, where do your users (both kinds of profile) already hang out? Where do they live online?

Maybe there are certain social networks, certain forums, certain publications. Go there first.

Even more critically, the best way to growth hack for something like this is to take an experimental mindset. Choose 3 or 4 different user acquisition techniques and run a small, time-bound test to see which one performs best. Then, ask yourself why this method outperformed the others. Take that knowledge and choose a few more methods and test them. Rinse and repeat.

It will be high effort at first, but you'll learn fast. It's always better to just start and get your hands dirty than spend much time trying to find the 'best' strategies.

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How to build a web design team and grow my business?

I cofounded a development agency that's grown to over 150 employees, so I know this topic intimately.

First off, you're on the right track. Even recognizing that you want to get yourself out of the minutiae puts you way above most founders. What you need to do is learn to delegate. The trouble is, that's a lot harder than it sounds.

It sounds like right now you're wrapped up in doing a lot of daily tasks. That's a natural impulse for a founder – after all, you want things to be done right.

But here's an exercise I'd recommend: make a list of every single task you have to get done within the course of a day. Everything on your to-do list. Then, circle every item on the list that only you are capable of doing – so only circle the items that no other person could do.

Chances are, you'll circle very few, if any tasks. Now for all the items that aren't circled, write the names of anyone else who could do the task next to it. Then, pick a person and delegate each task. It's that simple!

Delegation is hard at first, but it's vital if you want to grow. Once you free yourself from minute detail work, you're free to think and act like an agency head and see the bigger picture.

It's amazing how much clearer things get when you can give yourself more room to breathe. Trust me, you'll thank yourself for it.

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Update: How do I make money with a Directory App when the service is 100% Free to every user.

I haven't spent much time in the philanthropy world, but I've worked with a lot of digital product startups to help them refine their pitches and raise millions of dollars in funding, ranging from seed stage late-stage startups.

It sounds like you have two separate, but related, questions here:

1. How to make money from a free directory site
2. What you need in order to raise money to build the site

For the first question, there are many ways to monetize a free-to-use digital product. You can charge for advertising slots on the platform, collect and sell user data, set up affiliate links for revenue sharing, use a freemium model... really the options are endless. It ultimately depends on your target user.

For the second question, the answer is really that it depends. It could be, but looking at what you're written, I'm unclear on what your differentiator is. Why will people use your site as opposed to another one? Is it simply that you would be the biggest after having built the site? Why should investors go with you as opposed to another entrepreneur? What's your plan to attract traffic and users?

From just what you've written here, I don't think this is enough to raise money – but if you've got a more thorough plan or you have some other differentiator or key advantage things could look different.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to set up a call to discuss this further. Either way, wishing you luck!

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Ben Lee answered

What's the differences in stock trading using Charles Schwab and Robinwood?

Hey – I'm an entrepreneur with extensive experience trading stocks and crypto. Both of them are online broker platforms that will let you do the same basic things. Robinhood is branded and packaged as a disruptor and designed more for the digital native set, whereas Charles Schwab is a little more of a traditional online broker in the vein of E-Trade.

Yes, you own all shares of stocks you buy through either platform, and you're able to buy stocks, futures, and options on either one. Robinhood is a little more geared towards brand new investors, whereas Schwab has a fuller feature set. Robinhood also allows you to trade cryptocurrencies.

I'd personally recommend Schwab, but both platforms will allow you to trade, learn, and grow. If you have any more questions I'd be happy to set up a call. Good luck trading!

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Ben is excellent value and clearly knows his stuff when it comes to agencies. We'll be speaking with him again.

Michael Pirone Source: Clarity

Ben's a great guy and a wealth of knowledge around the studio agency model. I look forward to continuing to work with him!

Jordan Rothstein Source: Clarity

Great call, we got some solid advice and we're looking forward to continuing on with another soon!

Jacob Grozotis Source: Clarity

Ben really knows B2B sales and had some excellent feedback and suggestions. We'll be talking more for sure!

Konstantinos Papakonstantinou Source: Clarity

Always attentive and extremely helpful

Gerardo Perez Source: Clarity

Some real actionable tips and food for thoughts.

Oliver Kenyon Source: Clarity

I’ve been struggling for years to know what to do with my “big idea”. That is no exaggeration. I have sought the advice of at least a dozen well-qualified people but never ever jelled. After my call with Ben, for the first time, I have an actionable plan with clarity and definitive direction. Most surprising to me, it feels VERY achievable because it is not at all complicated. Absolutely worth the hour. Highly recommended.

Dan Stowell Source: Clarity

Amazing insight and helped me develop a clear course of action moving forward.

Philip Pages Source: Clarity

Extremely thorough and insightful. He was able to help me identify the short term and long term goals and the steps necessary along the way. This service is excellent for when I am unsure of the next move to make and want advice from someone more experienced, who has had success developing businesses in the past.

Nicole Pedra Source: Clarity

Ben was great! Very insightful and attentive to my questions. He was able to creatively help me overcome some roadblocks I'm experiencing in my business.

Gerardo Perez Source: Clarity

Ben is truly an expertise at what he does! Real, genuine, honest, talented and serial entrepreneur! I cannot recommend him enough - there is a reason he is so successful at such a young age!

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