I just started my outreach today, spoke with friends, family and church members for more exposure, tomorrow I start cold calling. 3 big clients in 90 days is my set goal.
Such a good interview. Stephen is a legend, so helpful and genuine. Always happy to help others in the Affluent FB group and the more you listen to him, the more obvious it is why he has had such great success. Great philosophy and work ethic. We can all learn a thing or two from him. Thanks for sharing guys!
I have know Steve since the start of his business venture several years ago. Great, well spirited young man. It’s so good knowing that he made something of himself, and seeing how much he has matured over the years. Congratulations Steve!
absolutely loved this interview... SO inspiring.. the fact that human connection is seen as an upper hand is music to my ears too, freakin' love networking!
Amazing! I think local is the best when starting out, but depending on where you live local businesses won't pay too much. Moreover, they require more work.
Great content Jordan. IMHO, this the best SMMA RUclips channel based on content quality. The stuff is just exceptional. Thanks to Stephen as well for the insights that he shared. Keep going guys.
I am absolutely blessed by having access to this interview! Thank you!!! The info. is so helpful for me in starting my new digital marketing / SEO company. I will definitely put it into practice and keep on keeping on.
Great interview, lots of information too! However, for somebody who knows about SEO and somebody who worked within web services, he seems to be missing his SSL Certificate, Force HTTPS Redirect and more, can't be working wonders for his website ranking...
We have an ssl certificate and use a https redirect through our service provider. I’d talk to my partner, as he handles those things primarily. Thank you for mentioning these though! We like to see those who do their homework giving feedback 👍🏼
I'd love to hear from someone that works from home that has small kids doing this lol. I have 4 social clients currently but it is still very hard to do this all my own!
Nor do most 22 year olds in business though! It takes a special mentality to want to get into business at a young age. I know 19 year olds making multi 5 figures within their agency, it's all about maturity & desire for more life - that's all!
@@JordanPlatten, I am 15, and Im starting an SMMA business, I've been working on my business since October 2021. I've been developing my infrastructure for the business, focusing on my target audience building a script, memorizing the script. Understanding the pain points in my target industry and how I can bring those out, and then offer a solution. But give a little to entice them and not sell on the first call, so I can build relationships and build credibility through conversations.
@@D5f5f lets we all connect, im a 16 years old and started my smma a month ago,i am sure it would be in the benefit of us all to connect and share ideas @Sebastian Tilt
Great content! What does the networking conversation or structure with local printing or direct marketing companies look like? How would you tap into their client base?
Love both guys, but saying you can sleep 2 hours and be fine make me cringe inside. What we know in our days about sleep and how much one night of fewer than 6 hours shorten your life and increase brain damage can cause you are just shocking this smart guy is just fine with that approach to sleep and life. Big UP !
At the beginning of the video the guy said he only signs yearly deals. If I wanted to only sign clients like quarterly to start. How would I go about signing them for 3 months at a time if we cannot meet face to face?
HaveFaith if you can provide real value, the term shouldn’t make much of a difference. Proven results are key. Also, if you can use a tiered price system based off of term length to mitigate a higher cost, most businesses are for it.
Hey Jordan, I'm based in South Africa where people just don't pay $500 for social media management. You suggest to start with local businesses but my target market is in America. How would you handle this?
I'd recommend reaching out to the closest cities to you! Local is better for beginners but if that isn't an option for you, you'll want to go straight in with video meetings!
Hi Jordan, your content is amazing as always! thanks for the effort you are putting to make this valuable videos I was to ask, can SMMA run all the titles and business modules like (Drop Servicing, freelancing to outsource ofc, Consulting and any other services that is can be outsourced)? Can I say that SMMA is the ultimate form to make an online business in 2020 and beyond?
Am I the only one who feels theres info missing from that cold call structure? Me playing out the process in my head seems so unnatural when you go from telling the gatekeeper “theres a problem, its urgent, let me talk to [owner name]” and then once you’re talking with him trying to get them to talk about their personal goals. What!? They’re probably going to be asking who’s calling, what’s the problem, etc. I trust this dude but I’m just in need of some explanation from other brains here in the chat. 🤓
Lmfao.. great interview but I laughed when he stef had to correct himself regarding "not assuming the business owner always being a man" just goes to show how sensitive this culture has gotten that one has to be careful with saying stuff like that to not ignite the sjws. Nonetheless, thanks for the interview (:
Oscar Perez I hate it as much as the next guy but I’ve lost leads by not willingly correcting myself on closing calls so I unfortunately have had to learn to adapt 🙃
Oscar Perez you never know someone’s political leanings before you meet them... I myself am not traditionally or in any way a politically correct person, ask anyone that knows me personally, but in business it’s imperative to recognize that people you come across might be.
@@stevekommer9222 got ya. It's funny though cause 10 years ago one wouldn't have thought to be this careful with what seems like common words. I loved Jordan's reaction when you corrected yourself.. he smile nodded his head and pointed/moving his finger as in saying "nice catch there buddy" hahah
Wait his 3-4 step process is hiding something. 1st call) call gate keeper ask for her name. 2 call) call gate keeper and ask for owner? 🤔 And he just knew the owner's name like that 😆 tf doesn't even make sense. Sounds like someone isn't being honest here. Click bait title. I wonder if any of these so called agency owners are actually doing what they say vs selling online courses. 🤦🏼♂️
You realise that on LinkedIn (or a company's website) you can find the business owners name about 80% of the time.... If you can't believe something so simple then you shouldn't even be starting this business at all
Are you telling me that he is offering web design services? Any of you checked his website? Not just that is looking like garbage from the UI and UX point of view(which greatly affects the conversions)...but is not even optimised properly for the mobile version. Which is over 60-70% of the traffic nowadays. For god sake even with Wix which is a horrible platform, but super cheap, you can get better results. Who on earth would buy such a thing? If he would earn 50k per month, he would afford a decent website.
Digging a little bit more and looking at his clients they don't even have money for a professional email on their website(they have the Gmail extension). But they have thousands of dollars to pay for a marketing agency? Not to mention their websites look like something you do in 30min. WAKE UP, GUYS! That's no way he is getting 50k/month
Dude, we work with over 70 clients at the moment, and not all of them have massive budgets. We don’t even have time to make little updates on our stuff. You can do all the digging that you’d like, I’ll even send you a list of our clients if you want to go through and check them all one by one, or I can send you my tax returns when they get processed next month. Choice is yours man, spend your time looking at stuff that isn’t getting you anywhere, or spend it being productive. Choice is yours. We know our website is still primarily optimized for desktop, that’s not a secret, and we are working on it, but we have to work on what and who is paying us to do work before we do the free stuff for ourselves. If you want a coaching call lmk, you might get the perspective shift you need.
@@stevekommer9222 Really? What's your VAT number? They don't need to have massive budgets, they only need a couple £ per month for an email address. They need just a couple hundred for better web design. So your excuse is that you work for other people websites(Well, I checked their websites as well and they still suck. So...) and you don't have time for little updates on your own? Are you telling me you offer web design have that web design and think in 2020 mobile compatibility is a trivial little stuff?
Daniel S we don’t get contracted to do IT, and businesses have emails before we do anything with them or even approach them. Our goal is to be a seamless integration to their existing enterprise, not do a hostile takeover. We are in the US so we don’t have a VAT number, and I’m certainly not going to post my EIN or social security number on the internet. Dm me via Instagram if you want to have a civil discussion, but I refuse to have a debate in the comments section of a RUclips video like children. If you want to hate then feel free, your opinion is your opinion, but think about this, why would Jordan spend his time interviewing someone and putting it out there for others if I didn’t have credibility or if he didn’t see the value that I bring to the industry?
@@stevekommer9222 you don't have to provide IT services for your clients to give them a professional email attached to the domain. You created the website, the domain...you create the email as well. I don't know the law in States but in UK if you sell services or products subject to taxes using your website, you have to post your VAT(it's the law). I don't want to take the discussion into DMs because the whole point of this discussion is for others to see. I don't want to. I see this trend to other channel as well in even different industries. And when you search to ask the so called successful guests a question like "hey you mentioned you had coach" what is his name? "ohhh…. actually he is working for my company...book a coach session with us"...like really, your coach is so good that he is working for you?? You tried to convince me to have a coach session with you in the prior comment as well. So I see a trend here...and one more thing I see in common is the digital presence(the website, social media, etc. of those people is very unprofessional
Jacob Williams what? write down the 20 closest businesses to where you live and tell me how many are running ads already 😂 he has 2 new businesses because he wants to diversify his portfolio. I have another business & will continue to build out - that is literally the definition of entrepreneurship
SMMA is only going to die if the industry continues to be filled with people that don’t know how to actually add value to businesses before they contract with them. None of my businesses are related to one another so Jordan is spot on. Being creative and knowing how to monetize is essentially business in a nutshell. Try anything before you commit, because there’s nothing worse than the regret you get from going all in and hating what you do.
👋 Hey Guys! For more tips and tricks on Cold Calling, feel free to check out this new video: ruclips.net/video/RZYUXbioQKY/видео.html
3:35 comprehensive cohesive services
4:50 why long term?
7:50 be suggestive
Make first 10
11:50 goals of the call
I just started my outreach today, spoke with friends, family and church members for more exposure, tomorrow I start cold calling. 3 big clients in 90 days is my set goal.
Go smash them goals!
How'd it go ???
How is it going so far?
How's the work going?
how is it?
Such a good interview. Stephen is a legend, so helpful and genuine. Always happy to help others in the Affluent FB group and the more you listen to him, the more obvious it is why he has had such great success. Great philosophy and work ethic. We can all learn a thing or two from him. Thanks for sharing guys!
I have know Steve since the start of his business venture several years ago. Great, well spirited young man. It’s so good knowing that he made something of himself, and seeing how much he has matured over the years. Congratulations Steve!
Thanks for the love Alix! Hope all is well!
absolutely loved this interview... SO inspiring.. the fact that human connection is seen as an upper hand is music to my ears too, freakin' love networking!
Shout out to Stephen making big bags at 22! That’s where I’m trying to be🙌🏽 I turn 21 on Thursday... let’s see where I am in a year!
Go for it gal
where are u
@@DaTruePowa kitchen
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Where r u now?
Stephen is the man! Always helping others in the affluent group! Great video lads! Keep it coming!
Amazing, this is the most useful interview I’ve seen in a while
I can't stop taking not! Thank you so much, Stephen and Jordan.
Haha I'm really glad!
Really Impressed with your videos Jordan
Amazing! I think local is the best when starting out, but depending on where you live local businesses won't pay too much. Moreover, they require more work.
They certainly can be more demanding but the actual strategies for local business are simpler!
@@JordanPlatten Yes that is true, sometimes it is challenging to scale when you have businesses that pay no more than 500$
Great content Jordan. IMHO, this the best SMMA RUclips channel based on content quality. The stuff is just exceptional. Thanks to Stephen as well for the insights that he shared. Keep going guys.
I am absolutely blessed by having access to this interview! Thank you!!! The info. is so helpful for me in starting my new digital marketing / SEO company. I will definitely put it into practice and keep on keeping on.
Shotout to Stephen hes a brilliant member in the group 👍
Yes Stephen! Absolute champ 🙌
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🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿
@@ahmedakthar5193 ?
20:50 your welcome
Amazing interview . Thanks Stephen and Jordan!
Thanks for sharing this conversation! Really opened my eyes in some topics 👍🏼
Great interview, lots of information too!
However, for somebody who knows about SEO and somebody who worked within web services, he seems to be missing his SSL Certificate, Force HTTPS Redirect and more, can't be working wonders for his website ranking...
We have an ssl certificate and use a https redirect through our service provider. I’d talk to my partner, as he handles those things primarily. Thank you for mentioning these though! We like to see those who do their homework giving feedback 👍🏼
Good stuff! Big up boys!
Hey Jordan! I’ve been watching your videos and I was wondering if you could make a video on how to navigate Facebook business manager?
This really is a brilliant video. Thanks for sharing this information.
Hey Jordan! Your channel is really a value vault! ❤️ I am starting my own ad agency in India. And your videos have helped me alot! Thank you!
Have you taken his course??
@@aditisoni6790 no not yet.
@@rohanroychowdhury9571 are you making any money?
@@edgarhernandez6707 yes now I am getting clients and making enough money to scale the business ❤️
@@rohanroychowdhury9571 nice, many blessings to you sir😎
I hope this is still relevant in 2022.
whats the difference between affluent academy and the social media marketing school? are they the same thing
The Affluent Academy is our latest program, it's the SMMS improved and expanded on in every possible way 👍🏼
Jordan Platten okay makes sense, I bought the SMMS last year, and wanted to know what’s different about the affluent academy
Hey Jordan, Would you recommend white labeling Agency Services or just Outsourcing?
I'd love to hear from someone that works from home that has small kids doing this lol. I have 4 social clients currently but it is still very hard to do this all my own!
Any update? How did you get on
This guy doesn't sound like a 22 year old. That's probably why he achieved more than others of his age...
It’s all about keeping a straight face (poker face) brother literally
Nor do most 22 year olds in business though! It takes a special mentality to want to get into business at a young age. I know 19 year olds making multi 5 figures within their agency, it's all about maturity & desire for more life - that's all!
@@JordanPlatten, I am 15, and Im starting an SMMA business, I've been working on my business since October 2021. I've been developing my infrastructure for the business, focusing on my target audience building a script, memorizing the script. Understanding the pain points in my target industry and how I can bring those out, and then offer a solution. But give a little to entice them and not sell on the first call, so I can build relationships and build credibility through conversations.
@@D5f5f lets we all connect, im a 16 years old and started my smma a month ago,i am sure it would be in the benefit of us all to connect and share ideas @Sebastian Tilt
@@nikola.milanovic What is your Name on Instagram
Great content! What does the networking conversation or structure with local printing or direct marketing companies look like? How would you tap into their client base?
Thank you guys for this video! GREAT CONTENT!!!
Very nice advise but.... how do you set meetings now with this social distancing rule?
Love both guys, but saying you can sleep 2 hours and be fine make me cringe inside. What we know in our days about sleep and how much one night of fewer than 6 hours shorten your life and increase brain damage can cause you are just shocking this smart guy is just fine with that approach to sleep and life. Big UP !
Lots of value in here guys!! 👌🏻👌🏻✅🚀
Script/strategy from 9:38
this was a good interview! keep going! that's it
Glad you enjoyed!
Wait. Is it not a thing where you guys are from where the gatekeeper says their name when they answer the phone?
Eva Havili this is usually correct, however sometimes they don’t. Usually we just play it off as us being a new customer for call #1
At the beginning of the video the guy said he only signs yearly deals. If I wanted to only sign clients like quarterly to start. How would I go about signing them for 3 months at a time if we cannot meet face to face?
HaveFaith if you can provide real value, the term shouldn’t make much of a difference. Proven results are key. Also, if you can use a tiered price system based off of term length to mitigate a higher cost, most businesses are for it.
Wonderful interview although cold calls aren’t really my thing😅 gained a lot of value from this🔥
Where are you finding the best success currently? IG DM's would be your next best option imo
@@JordanPlatten Depends on the niche, I have been using cold emails and I have been seeing some wonderful results for local businesses.
@@confidoplaysfx can you share your e-mail template? I cold emailed a few businesses and they didn't reply
@@prabingautam421 I made a video on this
Hey Jordan, I'm based in South Africa where people just don't pay $500 for social media management. You suggest to start with local businesses but my target market is in America. How would you handle this?
I'm having the same problem
Hi, I am also in South Africa and I'd like to ask if you found a solution to this and how you're doing now?
What do you mean by personal goals?
how did you get "Greg's" names ????
How do you get started if you are in a remote area?
I'd recommend reaching out to the closest cities to you! Local is better for beginners but if that isn't an option for you, you'll want to go straight in with video meetings!
Jordan Platten awesome! Thank you!
why not follow up with him. It's been 6 months.
Would you recomend starting for free to get your foot in the door
you can :)
Hi Jordan, your content is amazing as always! thanks for the effort you are putting to make this valuable videos
I was to ask, can SMMA run all the titles and business modules like (Drop Servicing, freelancing to outsource ofc, Consulting and any other services that is can be outsourced)? Can I say that SMMA is the ultimate form to make an online business in 2020 and beyond?
Yes depending on advertising
Whats his niche
He makes $52,000 per month while still at university. I will let that settle in for a while.
Any proof that he actually makes that much?
His agency makes that, not him. he probably makes like 15k profit per month.
@@TheVMbros The Profit Margins For SMMA Range From 80%-90% What Do You Mean 15k Profit
Am I the only one who feels theres info missing from that cold call structure?
Me playing out the process in my head seems so unnatural when you go from telling the gatekeeper “theres a problem, its urgent, let me talk to [owner name]” and then once you’re talking with him trying to get them to talk about their personal goals. What!?
They’re probably going to be asking who’s calling, what’s the problem, etc.
I trust this dude but I’m just in need of some explanation from other brains here in the chat. 🤓
Someone taked the course? For talk
minimum of a year is mental
Script?
Lmfao.. great interview but I laughed when he stef had to correct himself regarding "not assuming the business owner always being a man" just goes to show how sensitive this culture has gotten that one has to be careful with saying stuff like that to not ignite the sjws.
Nonetheless, thanks for the interview (:
Welcome to 2020 🤦♂️🤣
Oscar Perez I hate it as much as the next guy but I’ve lost leads by not willingly correcting myself on closing calls so I unfortunately have had to learn to adapt 🙃
@@stevekommer9222 damn really? Wow
Oscar Perez you never know someone’s political leanings before you meet them... I myself am not traditionally or in any way a politically correct person, ask anyone that knows me personally, but in business it’s imperative to recognize that people you come across might be.
@@stevekommer9222 got ya. It's funny though cause 10 years ago one wouldn't have thought to be this careful with what seems like common words.
I loved Jordan's reaction when you corrected yourself.. he smile nodded his head and pointed/moving his finger as in saying "nice catch there buddy" hahah
DY-NO-MITE!!!!!!
I'm changing my name to Jordan. I don't care anymore.
Lol! 😁
Wait his 3-4 step process is hiding something. 1st call) call gate keeper ask for her name. 2 call) call gate keeper and ask for owner? 🤔 And he just knew the owner's name like that 😆 tf doesn't even make sense. Sounds like someone isn't being honest here. Click bait title. I wonder if any of these so called agency owners are actually doing what they say vs selling online courses. 🤦🏼♂️
Prospecting
the owners name is usually on their website
You realise that on LinkedIn (or a company's website) you can find the business owners name about 80% of the time....
If you can't believe something so simple then you shouldn't even be starting this business at all
Big lie ECOMMERCE clients stay longer with agency's!
scripting every word this says
Are you telling me that he is offering web design services? Any of you checked his website? Not just that is looking like garbage from the UI and UX point of view(which greatly affects the conversions)...but is not even optimised properly for the mobile version. Which is over 60-70% of the traffic nowadays. For god sake even with Wix which is a horrible platform, but super cheap, you can get better results. Who on earth would buy such a thing? If he would earn 50k per month, he would afford a decent website.
Digging a little bit more and looking at his clients they don't even have money for a professional email on their website(they have the Gmail extension). But they have thousands of dollars to pay for a marketing agency? Not to mention their websites look like something you do in 30min. WAKE UP, GUYS! That's no way he is getting 50k/month
Dude, we work with over 70 clients at the moment, and not all of them have massive budgets. We don’t even have time to make little updates on our stuff. You can do all the digging that you’d like, I’ll even send you a list of our clients if you want to go through and check them all one by one, or I can send you my tax returns when they get processed next month. Choice is yours man, spend your time looking at stuff that isn’t getting you anywhere, or spend it being productive. Choice is yours. We know our website is still primarily optimized for desktop, that’s not a secret, and we are working on it, but we have to work on what and who is paying us to do work before we do the free stuff for ourselves. If you want a coaching call lmk, you might get the perspective shift you need.
@@stevekommer9222 Really? What's your VAT number? They don't need to have massive budgets, they only need a couple £ per month for an email address. They need just a couple hundred for better web design. So your excuse is that you work for other people websites(Well, I checked their websites as well and they still suck. So...) and you don't have time for little updates on your own? Are you telling me you offer web design have that web design and think in 2020 mobile compatibility is a trivial little stuff?
Daniel S we don’t get contracted to do IT, and businesses have emails before we do anything with them or even approach them. Our goal is to be a seamless integration to their existing enterprise, not do a hostile takeover. We are in the US so we don’t have a VAT number, and I’m certainly not going to post my EIN or social security number on the internet. Dm me via Instagram if you want to have a civil discussion, but I refuse to have a debate in the comments section of a RUclips video like children. If you want to hate then feel free, your opinion is your opinion, but think about this, why would Jordan spend his time interviewing someone and putting it out there for others if I didn’t have credibility or if he didn’t see the value that I bring to the industry?
@@stevekommer9222 you don't have to provide IT services for your clients to give them a professional email attached to the domain. You created the website, the domain...you create the email as well. I don't know the law in States but in UK if you sell services or products subject to taxes using your website, you have to post your VAT(it's the law). I don't want to take the discussion into DMs because the whole point of this discussion is for others to see. I don't want to. I see this trend to other channel as well in even different industries. And when you search to ask the so called successful guests a question like "hey you mentioned you had coach" what is his name? "ohhh…. actually he is working for my company...book a coach session with us"...like really, your coach is so good that he is working for you?? You tried to convince me to have a coach session with you in the prior comment as well. So I see a trend here...and one more thing I see in common is the digital presence(the website, social media, etc. of those people is very unprofessional
There you have it, he has 2 other new businesses which means he knows SMMA is dying.
Jacob Williams what? write down the 20 closest businesses to where you live and tell me how many are running ads already 😂
he has 2 new businesses because he wants to diversify his portfolio. I have another business & will continue to build out - that is literally the definition of entrepreneurship
Jordan Platten Couldn’t agree more
SMMA is only going to die if the industry continues to be filled with people that don’t know how to actually add value to businesses before they contract with them. None of my businesses are related to one another so Jordan is spot on. Being creative and knowing how to monetize is essentially business in a nutshell. Try anything before you commit, because there’s nothing worse than the regret you get from going all in and hating what you do.
Jacob Williams multiple streams of income mate