If you are out there wondering what you are going to do with your business and how to grow your business, we’re wondering the same thing and that is why we are doing this podcast. This is the podcast to show what it takes to build a business from scratch without any funding, and bootstrapping our way through the whole process. We are doing it with Stampede Digital Systems that we created a year and a half ago. Today’s episode is about where we are and how we’re doing.

Bobby has been through this with a lot of businesses and entrepreneur groups, people get in this with an idea that they need money. A good opportunity can take months, even years to make good revenue out of it. If you’re expecting to earn a lot of money right out of the get-go, you might as well buy a lottery ticket. Even if you have experience and know-how, you still need investment power to make money quickly.

We’re in the trenches right now and playing with this. We all have other businesses and other things. This is just a pet project. We wanted to create something for small businesses that will be good for them.

Even after one and a half years, we continually ask ourselves, “What is this thing that we created?” We first thought that we were going to be a marketing company. Then we became a website company. Then we became a business development company. Now, the latest definition of our business is Marketing Strategy.

We now have the Marketing Audit where we sit down and figure out what’s the state of your business with respect to marketing. Do you have a budget? How much time are you spending on marketing? You should spend nearly 40% of your business time on marketing. Marketing is the key to growth.

Troy has been working the podcast, Know Like Trust, and meeting awesome entrepreneurs. He’s been finding opportunities to expand our business in various ways. Eventually, we had blow-up. You can’t win the Kentucky Derby without a little friction. You should have business partners that can speak freely about their concerns and still be able to make things work.

We get that we are creating something now that we can explain and gives us clear direction on how we are assisting clients. The two parts to our business are perfect opposites.

We have the Sales Site concept where we build the website for you following our blueprint/process. Just 2 weeks ago, we were arguing about whether or not we wanted to sell $500 sites. And out of that argument came a clearer, better offering. And with the Sales Sites, we have an opportunity to scale rapidly and earn a lot of money up front. The bigger your sales team, the more money you make.

We have a marketing strategy team that works with clients to establish monthly subscriptions and make ongoing revenue on the back end. It is a smaller income for the business, but it can add up over time to become an army of recurring income.

Blend the two together and you have a powerhouse income generator. We have the Cash Cow and the Bread and Butter that allows us to focus and expand at the same time.

We’ve been working on this for a year and a half. We are finally at the top of the sales mountain. We finally have a pipeline of leads that is capable of providing us steady sales and consistent revenue. We are finally reaching a point where we will be launching a marketing campaign and putting money into marketing. Once we start making revenue, we can begin to expand our sales team and start growing rapidly.

In the first year and a half, we’ve made only about $8,000 in revenue. We now have recurring revenue of $350 per month. It doesn’t sound like much, but once you get the boulder rolling, it’s a lot easier to keep it rolling. In six months we expect to make at least $10,000 revenue per month. If not, we will have to make a decision to see if we continue doing business.