How He Built a $1M/Year Business With a 920-Person Email List - Nathan May

together a good group of guys? Dude, a million percent.

I got...

I think community is one of the most important things that somebody can have.

I'm a huge proponent of that.

I think every period of my life where I've had a great period of growth, for instance, when I was 13 years old, I weighed 200 pounds.

I was massive.

And I had a friend who helped me lose 70 pounds in a year.

Every major life thing I think is important to some people.

So the media mafia, I was living in Columbus, Ohio, which is where I started my agency out of.

I went back home.

home and i just got an apartment there because i was like dude i didn't know if this thing was going to work and the business was doing well we were doing maybe 80 000 a month at the time and we went from zero to 80 in about 10 and a half months

and

but i was super lonely like extremely i did the whole do you know alex becker is yes very much so i did the alex becker monk mode thing i get this apartment dude there was like no furniture no tv it was me laptop i had a whiteboard with like uh 50 000 of mrr written on it and i moved there i started the business officially on february 20th And I wrote down I wanted to get to 50K in 100 days, which would be May 30th, which was my birthday.

And I hit it like June 2nd or June 3rd, a couple months after.

But I just locked the fuck in.

There's no dopamine anywhere but that laptop.

And so the business did well, but I was not feeling good.

I was feeling really lonely.

And so I moved back to New York for those guys.

And I think I would be stuck today at a million dollars of ARR if I hadn't met them.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's a lot of serendipity there.

If you think about it, so like us getting together, one, a lot of us have similar ideal customer profiles.

If you're trying to get a group, like move to the group, like, you know, what is it? Proximity's power.

Like I moved to New York City.