Leaving a 6-figure salary to work on Embarque
by Julian Ignacio CanlasUntil today, I was earning $13-14K per month since Feb 2020 from my full-time job and freelancing as a marketing strategist.
Yesterday, I submitted my final freelancing project.
Today, I'll be working full-time on Embarque, an agency for productized SEO content marketing services that earns $6k in monthly revenue (http://embarque.io/).
Salary cut: temporary
Building something that I love and own: priceless
I've never felt so sure of my decision.
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Congrats!
Suggestion for your service (coming from a founder who would be interested in your services) - offer a free consultation call. I personally can't put my card down for a service like this without speaking with you personally and get a feeling for your past experience and strategy.
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Yep! Cheers for the feedback. You're right :).
We'll be adding that a consultation button next to the subscribe one. If you want, always down for an email: julian@embarque.io.
Thanks again!
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Congrats wish you all the best and good luck! Exciting times ahead, I also left my job without a salary working on my own products and so far my work-happiness levels are way higher :D Keep it up!
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Congrats Julian! Temp pay cut is definitely worth building a product you own and enjoy.
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Yeah, gradually quitting all freelancing obligations has made me generally a lot less anxious. I never realised how unhappy I was haha.
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Massive congrats, the best decision!!
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Hihi yasss
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Best of luck! Don't know your background but esp. if you are still young-ish, go for it as this decision won't get easier with age.
I am considering leaving my corporate career with a 6-figure salary and perks after 20 years, mortgage just paid off and with some investments. I do have a side business making ~$10k/month for some years but it still feels risky as there won't be a way back in a few years. -
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Congratz Julian !
I'm wondering... how do you aquire your customers ? SEO ? Other sources as well ?
Because I don't see tons of backlinks or good ranking for this website, so I'm really curious.-
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Haha great question! To be honest, I haven't had the time to do proper SEO work on my own website because I have so many client projects to finish. But to answer your question:
- We get most of our clients through community engagement (e.g. being here) and word-of-mouth referrals.
- Past work. I'm going to be working on samples page this weekend!
That said, I do want to use SEO as a growth channel and looking to hire great SEO writers for our blog. I just need to find the time in-between client work.
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Where did you get the customers from ? What have you used as marketing channels ?
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Julian, this is a great milesone and looking forward to following your journey.
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can't wait to share my learnings <3
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Great news Ignacio! Keep it pumping!
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Yesss 💪
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Congrats! All the best :-)
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Thank youuuu
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Good luck! I haven't yet left my six figure salary, but that day isn't far.
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Hahahaha, I don't think I took a risk, because I live fairly frugally. Good luck!!!
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Good luck!!!!!
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Thank you so much!!!!! Fingers crossed!
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Exciting times! All the best!
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thank youuuuuu
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Cool website, who did it?
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some monkeys?
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Congratulations and Good luck!!
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Thank you so much! I'll need all the luck i can get.
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Yay go you Julian!
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yusssss go us <3333
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Super nice! Thanks, again for your comment, Dinesh!
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