How She Turned $300 into a $2 Million Business

Ellen Yin is the founder of Cubicle to Ceo, “a top 1% business podcast and a media platform empowering women entrepreneurs” 👩‍💻

Her story…

I quit my corporate marketing job five years ago…without a backup plan.

After landing my first freelance marketing client a month into my job search, I swore off sending out resumes for good. By re-investing my profits back into the business over and over again, I bootstrapped that first $300 client project into over $2 MILLION dollars in revenue by age 28.

She shares more about how she got started in a recent interview…

those first two years really in my business, I was really focused on acquiring more one-on-one clients and growing that boutique social media marketing agency.

Ellen’s second client hired her to manage social media comments and respond to customer queries. 

Doesn’t sound like much, but she made the most of the opportunity…

very quickly I was able to offer content ideas, strategy, ideas and that basically within a few weeks evolved into me taking over their entire social media strategy and account.

Before long she had that client on board for a $4000 monthly retainer 😎

Ellen leveraged her success with the same client to find more like them, and within a year was earning six figures with just a handful of clients.

Since then, Ellen has evolved her business greatly, and she no longer does client work.

But she remembers those early days fondly…

That first $300 freelance project is what kicked everything off… I said, all right, let’s see where this path can take me. Let’s see how many clients I can get and take it to the moon.

A lot of people would turn their nose up at a simple $300 freelance project, but opportunities like that can lead to big things. 

Best not pass them up.