How to Get Sales in Your First Year of a Digital Business With Just $10k

Perpetual Traffic

Tier 11

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

You’ve got your first $10K to invest in your new in-person or online business. Should you dive into ads, hire an agency, or focus on content creation? It’s overwhelming, especially when everyone has their own “secret” formula for success. You don’t need to invest in every trendy digital marketing strategy to see results.

In this episode, we break down what moves the needle for new business owners. From influencer partnerships that cost you nothing to leveraging simple content creation, we share our go-to marketing strategies based on real-world success stories.

Forget the noise. Focus on what works, and do it consistently. Join the conversation now and learn how to make smart, calculated decisions that build a solid foundation for your business.

In This Episode:

- Comparing notes on personal relaxation techniques–yes, really!

- Challenges of starting a business

- Why you need to prioritize effective marketing strategies

- How to spend $10k to drive in-person and online sales

- Why build a brand personality or share the founder’s story

- Leveraging user-generated content

- The need for in-person events when selling to Gen X

- Handcrafting vs. automating customer engagement

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Transcript

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0:00.0	People want to know what they're buying into.
0:02.7	What's the story behind it?
0:04.6	Forget about Alex Hermosy videos and what Lauren Petrullo says on professional traffic
0:09.6	for all the greatest latest things on like chat bots and everything else.
0:13.0	At the end of the day, you want sales.
0:15.6	When you're first starting a business, you have too many things to think about and you don't know what to do first.
0:20.8	My only argument is like, word alignment at the first $10,000. a business, you have too many things to think about and you don't know what to do first.
0:25.8	My only argument is like, like, we're to mind about the first $10,000 should be spent on.
0:29.6	So I would agree and disagree with that because I... You're listening to Perpetual Traffic.
0:35.1	Hello and welcome to the Proventual Traffic podcast. This is your host, Ralph Burns, founder and CEO of Tier 11 alongside my incredible co-host.
0:44.0	Oh, incredible today. Oh, thank you. Lauren E. Petrillo, founder of Mungoos Media. So glad you joined us for today's show. You seem very relaxed.
0:56.2	Why is that?
0:58.1	You seem very zen.
1:01.4	What's your secret?
1:02.5	Because I'm the opposite.
1:03.7	I'm like amped up and pissed off.
1:08.4	Well, yesterday I did a flotation tank for the first time ever.
1:14.0	And it was absolutely amazing.
1:17.7	I spent an hour surrounded by more salt.
1:23.6	Oh, it's fun.
1:24.7	That's right.
1:25.2	It's like 1,200 pounds of salt.
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