Quit His Job 9 Months Ago, Earned $34K Last Month

Nick C was previously a designer earning $350k/year at Meta, but left his job to make a living online.

In the span of ~9 months, he went from being an employee to starting a cleaning business to starting an offshore talent agency to earning $34K in one month from a portfolio of small businesses 🤯

It unfolded like this…

Started a local house services business and gained a lot of experience in customer support, managing people, revenue generation, lead management, taxes and anything/everything about running a small business.

Took those learnings and saw that a well-trained offshore growth assistant could help me scale my home services business while I focus on other projects.

Within 1-2 months, I saw the assistant was beating my revenue targets and taking away all the stress related to running a business. This resulted in starting [my offshore talent agency], it took some time but my tenacity helped me close leads within the first month.

Nick emphasizes that this entrepreneurship thing is still fairly new to him…

Few months back I was a Lead Designer at Meta😅

With zero experience in:

– Running a Business
– Managing people outside of design/corporate environment
– Making $$$ outside 9-5
– Sales talk/pitch
– Customer management/retention
– Knew Stripe, but never used it!
– No idea what #buildinpublic was
– Struggled to assign work to others, I can do everything attitude (burn out on the horizon)

I still struggle with some of the things mentioned above, but I’m glad I started something out of my comfort zone!

Despite the growing pains, Nick reported earning about $34K total from his portfolio of small businesses in June, including 👇

• Home Services: local home cleaning service.
• Movevirtual: offshore growth assistant agency.
• Get Baked: landing page design service.
• Value: paid community for designers and marketers.
• Indie Design Kit – landing page design product.

I know, that’s a lot.

I believe Nick has teamed up with other makers for some of those businesses.

But he still admits to burning out a few times…

I left Meta and dived right into indie hacking. I overworked to prove that I can replicate the same paycheck every month. Went through multiple burnouts within 2 months. Made $50,000 in revenue in 3 months from one project!

Entrepreneurship… such a rollercoaster 🎢

My main takeaway from Nick’s story: you can learn a lot in a few months.

Nick was a complete newbie to running his own business, but he worked his ass off to learn new skills and gain experience.

And now he has 3 different businesses earning him more than $6K per month 🥳

Put in the work consistently, and you too could be in a very different situation several months from now.