How To Start a Digital Marketing Agency from scratch 🤦‍♂️

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Aaron, I couldn't agree more with you! I've been in the industry for 12 years, owning an agency for 6 years (before it got "cool"), and unfortunately, we're the ones that have to deal with these "agencies" because we pick up the pieces from these people taking money from businesses who have no idea what they're doing. Great video! I appreciate your content

I work as freelance account manager and strategist. I always wondered why on Upwork there were so many people looking for media buyers with the exact same descriptions and $500 a client offer. After a while I started to see the videos and put two and two together. No wonder so many of my clients had these horribly managed accounts and clueless agencies. It's truly a pandemic of fake businesses. Appreciate you addressing this.

Well thank you now I don’t know who to believe 😑

I 100% agree with you. I spent 6 years in my service company, 3 years practicing PPC, work with hundreds of shops and distribute film to my industry AND tint about 350-500 cars a year. I still felt very under skilled to offer PPC work to other shops. When they say it’s easy to make 10,000 a month I wish they would talk about the length of that client. It is not easy to scale and you need to know many skills to offer a digital marketing agency.

I’ve just began to show interest in digital marketing. My main worry is delivering the service that the client will have spent money on, I decided I’m going to work in my friends agency for a few months in different positions just to learn the in’s and out’s. The get rich quick mindset is a good motivator but can be the very reason an aspiring entrepreneur might never have longevity for their service and business overall. Thanks for your honesty, hard legitimate work pays off!

I clicked on your video for “ how to start” but you never explain “how”. This video is the same as all YouTube video

Okay I’m so glad to see someone opposing the other videos. Telling people that they need “zero experience in marketing” to start a digital marketing firm… HUGE red flag. It’s discrediting the people who are working their butts off to learn it and who are actually providing people with quality service. Great video, thank you for your honesty!

Will said! Nobody talks about the skills needed! Everybody is talking about the results while nobody is talking about the process.

Thank you so much for clearing this up, literally no one else talks about this. Offering a service that you know nothing about seemed pretty weird to me. It's like saying "I know absolutely nothing about construction, but I'm going to become a general contractor and hire 10 people to work on people's homes while also subcontracting to roofers plumbers and electricians." I guess they omit the part that you have to get experience because that costs money - which goes against their claim that you can start this with no money at all.

100% the 1-hour videos to setup an SMMA can be summarised as: know how to sell + be an expert at that specific niche that is all, the rest is business management and operations

I do agree, I spent a couple months learning through courses, then worked for free for my first 2 clients. My first paying client was $500/mo and so far I've made them a 190X ROAS. (Local lead generation).

All these ppl are the same bro. He said don’t trust them only to sell you a course at the end 🤣🤣

Wheres the course and the free webinar

This video is bs because nobody said that you wont be delivering and it wont be difficult. The only thing that makes this worthwhile and attractive is that its a low barrier to entry business for people. There is no shortcut to anything. We know this.

I don’t know why Iman is in the thumbnail. He’s talked about how you have to put in hard work a bunch of times. He has his whole journey on his channel from when he was 15 and it took him years to get where he is

You just saved my life, I honestly just finished watching a video training from those so called (gurus) Telling me I don’t need to have any knowledge of Digital marketing I found it weird because I have over 2 years worth of experience with (Facebook Ads) and I know how tricky it can be especially when you have to troubleshoot Thank you for speaking the truth ❤ You’ve earned a new subscriber and I will tell all my friends about you ❤

I've been trying to learn as much as possible about digital marketing for a good while. And yes, people or YouTubers are really making marketing look very "Sprezzatura". Thank you, Aaron for making this clear, for me and many others who are new in this industry.

I don't understand why would you say what you are saying, and have a thumbnail like the one you have. You say 2 most important things are 1) Knowing how to sell and 2) Being an expert And how do you think anyone starting is going to have those 2 things already? Of course, no one knows to sell because they are just starting, but they will understand that once they start working on their business, everyone starts not knowing anything... I find your video very ignorant and annoying.

They all copy paste each other and say not to watch the others 😂😂