How hard is it to start a new agency and do people do it much? Then, how do people find out about them to work there? I suppose they need strong client connections. But could perhaps charge less and make more.

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🙋🏻‍♂️ Did it.

Finding the first client is hard. But the really hard part is getting that clients work done while find the second one, then getting the third client while you get work for the first two done, then…

You can def make more and you can do more things your own way —- and change things when they don’t work. But it’s an endless hamster wheel.

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In many ways, I'm a Swiss Army knife, so I think of this often. I have been client-facing (and very well liked by said clients), doing PM, edit, regulatory, submissions, and even CW work, but I'd need some strong high-level creatives and an Account person with strong budgeting/pitch-mapping skills to team up with...

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The only hard part is getting a client. Once you've done that it's pretty easy.

I always wondered how you charge for client work

Any jackass can start an agency. Finding a client to pay you is the hard part.

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