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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

I'm at My "Client Limit" - How Do I Go Solo to Agency?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The issue with a service-based business is that you can only scale so big before you either burn out or stop delivering quality work, and that's what's happening with today's guest, Julienne DesJardins. She's reaching her client limit but knows she can help a lot more people, so she's expanded her business to include a team. The problem that she's running into is that people don't want the team—they want her. How can she keep her brand running under her name but with a team behind it? And how should she package her business services? By the way, if you're on Twitter or Instagram, let me know what you thought of this episode. I know a lot of you probably have had this issue of growing outside of yourself and your business, so give me a shout out using the hashtag #askpat1027. I'd love to know your thoughts! If you want to be considered for a coaching session, apply via the form at AskPat.com. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love the format of this show, and helping other entrepreneurs, can you help me convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating on iTunes (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to me, so thank you so much! Today’s sponsor is FreshBooks, who make the best financial management software out there. It’s ridiculously easy to use and their interface is highly-visual and super-intuitive. You can actually get an unrestricted, thirty-day trial for free; just go to FreshBooks.com/askpat and enter “Ask Pat” in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Ask Pat.

0:02.0

Ask Pat.com.

0:08.2

Hey, what's up, everybody?

0:09.3

Pathland here.

0:09.9

And welcome to Ask Pat.

0:11.5

Episode 1027.

0:14.0

This is Aspat 2.0 where we do some cool stuff.

0:16.5

I coach an entrepreneur like you through a problem or a pain or a process that you might be going

0:22.2

through. And then those of you listening are kind of just like a fly on a wall during this

0:24.9

conversation. And it's one of my favorite things to do because I can really get deep into what

0:29.0

really we can do to solve that problem. And I'm glad you're here. And by the way, if you want to get

0:32.6

coached by me, you can apply. I don't, I can't possibly pick everybody, but if you have a good thing that I think can be

0:39.1

valuable for everybody to listen to, share it, apply. Go to askpat.com. You can apply right there on that

0:44.9

page. You can get access to all the other episodes there as well, and make sure you subscribe if you

0:49.2

haven't already. This is going to be a really great episode because I've actually had a lot of

0:53.0

people who are

0:54.4

doing service-based businesses right and they have X number of clients and the issue with that

1:00.1

is you can only scale so big before you either burnout or you just aren't delivering as good quality

1:05.3

as you want to and that's what's happening with Julian she's reaching her client limit but

1:10.7

knows she can help a lot more people.

1:12.6

So what do you do in that situation?

1:15.0

A good solution is to start building an agency and start building a team to help service those clients.

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