Broke Student --> $50k/mo SMMA In Bali
What's up everyone, My name's Ebrahim, been in the agency space for 8 years now, who remembers the infamous Tai Lopez Lambo ad? I saw that ad when I was a broke student, studying economics, I thought it was a scam, but I was tired of being broke so I bought his course. When I graduated from university, all of my friends were applying to work at investment banks, even though I'd just spent £50k on education, and invested 5 years of my life, I knew the real risk was going down the 9-5 path, and looking back at 80 years old with regret. So I said F it, didn't apply for a single job and started an agency. I did whatever it took to get clients, I'd be at my local barber barber pitching him social media content... I was at the dentist mid-way through getting a cavity fixed... "Hey, you guys running Facebook ads?" I faced a tonne of adversity at the beginning, but then the words of Tai Lopez echoed in my subconscious "Find a mentor" I found my first mentor Marcus who ran a 7 figure Google ads agency, he was a previous student at my university. In truth, it wasn't anything crazy that he told me that changed my life, but it was getting to see how he operated, how he handled a meeting, how he led his team, and the pitches he made to 8 figure companies, it gave me one thing... Belief. One day he told me that one of his clients needed to run some Facebook ads to promote an event, and they didn't have anyone in the team who had the skillset. What I didn't tell you was, that I also invested all of my money ($1997) into a course by a guy called Jason Hornung to learn how to run Facebook ads. Bear in mind this was 8 years ago before Facebook ads were a big thing. God presented me with my shot, Marcus gave me full autonomy to put together a Facebook ad campaign for his client, and he told me to bill me the number of hours I worked at the end of the project. I ran back home and googled "What is the average hourly rate of a marketing consultant?" It was £83. I was earning £6.50/hr working in retail at the time, my mind was blown.