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EP 31: Billy Batt — From Teen Runaway to 5-Figures-A-Day Marketing Entrepreneur
Before becoming a serial entrepreneur, Billy Batt worked in the oil fields, and before that, he was a teen runaway. Having left home at 13, Billy learned his way around the streets at a young age, sleeping outside in the Canadian winter and eventually joining a gang. He was selling, and doing, his share of drugs and losing friends to crack jail and violence. But after one too many near-death experiences in the same two-week window, he decided to give it all up.
“I literally threw my phone in the water and left,” he recalls. “I didn’t tell anybody I was leaving except for one person… I picked my brother up and we drove west, and I never looked back.”
From there, Billy landed in the oil fields and found himself “back at the bottom.” He was working 97 days straight at a time for 12 to 16 hours a day, making $15 an hour.
“You do stuff in the streets and you think you're mentally tough and you think you're physically tough, and then you go to the oil field,” he says. “Those guys put what you think you know to work… I thought, there’s gotta to be more to life than this.”
After eight years of pipe fitting and welding, running crews of 100 to 150 men in northwestern Canada, he’d had enough. He left the oil fields — and became a marketer. Three years ago, he started his own business doing marketing for contractors and never looked back. He doesn’t need to. The day before this episode was recorded, Billy’s lead generation and marketing agency, Chrome Leads, pulled in five figures in a single business day — far from a rare occurrence.
In this episode of the Working For a Dream Podcast, Patrick and Billy talk about how Billy’s earlier lives prepared him for entrepreneurship and his best marketing advice today, including his approach to a strong multi-channel referrals system.
What You’ll Learn:
- How Billy helps clients make upwards of $50,000 a month from Instagram DMs alone
- Why it’s a “sh** business model” to buy leads and why you should be building out an organic referrals system instead
- The tech platform that’s helped him to delegate and knowledge share with his team
- And much more!
Favorite Quote:
“You’re not going to love every minute of entrepreneurship. I’ve taken losses. It’s almost cost me everything. And still, you have to stay focused.”
— Billy Batt
How to Get Involved:
Connect with Billy:
New World Marketing Order Podcast
Chrome Leads
Connect with Patrick:
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By Patrick Bolanos
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Before becoming a serial entrepreneur, Billy Batt worked in the oil fields, and before that, he was a teen runaway. Having left home at 13, Billy learned his way around the streets at a young age, sleeping outside in the Canadian winter and eventually joining a gang. He was selling, and doing, his share of drugs and losing friends to crack jail and violence. But after one too many near-death experiences in the same two-week window, he decided to give it all up.
“I literally threw my phone in the water and left,” he recalls. “I didn’t tell anybody I was leaving except for one person… I picked my brother up and we drove west, and I never looked back.”
From there, Billy landed in the oil fields and found himself “back at the bottom.” He was working 97 days straight at a time for 12 to 16 hours a day, making $15 an hour.
“You do stuff in the streets and you think you're mentally tough and you think you're physically tough, and then you go to the oil field,” he says. “Those guys put what you think you know to work… I thought, there’s gotta to be more to life than this.”
After eight years of pipe fitting and welding, running crews of 100 to 150 men in northwestern Canada, he’d had enough. He left the oil fields — and became a marketer. Three years ago, he started his own business doing marketing for contractors and never looked back. He doesn’t need to. The day before this episode was recorded, Billy’s lead generation and marketing agency, Chrome Leads, pulled in five figures in a single business day — far from a rare occurrence.
In this episode of the Working For a Dream Podcast, Patrick and Billy talk about how Billy’s earlier lives prepared him for entrepreneurship and his best marketing advice today, including his approach to a strong multi-channel referrals system.
What You’ll Learn:
- How Billy helps clients make upwards of $50,000 a month from Instagram DMs alone
- Why it’s a “sh** business model” to buy leads and why you should be building out an organic referrals system instead
- The tech platform that’s helped him to delegate and knowledge share with his team
- And much more!
Favorite Quote:
“You’re not going to love every minute of entrepreneurship. I’ve taken losses. It’s almost cost me everything. And still, you have to stay focused.”
— Billy Batt
How to Get Involved:
Connect with Billy:
New World Marketing Order Podcast
Chrome Leads
Connect with Patrick: