How Do I Go From Freelancer To Agency?

If you're a freelancer right now, I already know something about you. You're busy. You're probably making decent money, but you're also extremely exhausted. Because no matter how good you are, if you don't do the work, you don't get paid. And that's the ceiling you're dealing with. So today, we're gonna answer a great question from a listener who asked today's q and a Wednesday's question, how do I go from freelancer to building an agency without blowing up everything in my business? We're We're gonna break it down step by step so it's not intimidating, but at the same time, you're making progress in a short amount of time. Let's get into it. Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zennholm, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business. I got a quick favor to ask. If this show has helped you in any way, leave me a quick review. You could do so wherever you listen to podcasts. This helps me and my team reach even more people who need the same no fluff practical business advice that you're getting from the show. It only takes a few seconds, but it makes a huge difference. Thanks for being a part of our journey to help others on their journey. The biggest mistake freelancers make when they're trying to become an agency, get out of freelance work, is they try to do more work, not different work. There's a difference here, and I'm gonna explain. An agency is not you working harder. It's not you talking to more clients. It's not you answering more emails at night. It's you building an asset. An agency is a delivery system, not a person. It's something that you create to do the work for you. Your job is gonna change tremendously. You're gonna go from how do I do the work well to how do I make sure the work gets done well without me. This is a mental shift and the best way I can teach you this is how I learned this. I learned this actually from, Eamon Abdallah who is a business coach and one of the things you need to do is you need to start becoming allergic to work. Yes. Allergic to work, which sounds very strange because hard work got you to where you are today. But in order for you to scale and build a business, you have to start saying, no. I can't do this because I'm allergic. I can't. And I need to get somebody else to do this. I need another system. I need a tool to do this for me. Whatever it might be, you need to start delegating and start expanding. Now don't worry, you might think in your head all these questions like, oh, I can't afford it. How am I gonna do this? Don't worry about that right …