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#91 Max: Don't Start An AI Agency (Do This Instead) – A Smarter Path to Success
07 Aug 2025
The traditional AI agency model is a trap—a high-stress, "hamster wheel made of gold." 🐹 We're revealing the smarter path to AI business success, based on the real-world story of a founder who scaled and sold a $2.6M agency.We’ll talk about:Why the standard AI agency model is a broken, high-churn business, and the 3 smarter, more profitable models to build instead: Productized Services, Automation Templates, and Info Products.The "Build in Public" Blueprint—the secret sauce to solving the expertise, lead flow, and authority problems all at once by making your building process your marketing.The case study epiphany that Simplicity Scales, Complexity Fails, and how simplifying a product allowed the price to be raised from $999 to $5,000, leading to more sales.The "Client as an Angel Investor" model for strategically using service work to fund your scalable product business.The 5 "anti-patterns" (like The Secret Laboratory & The Juggler's Act) that kill most new AI ventures.Keywords: AI Agency, Productized Services, AI Business Models, Make Money with AI, Build in Public, Recurring Revenue, Automation Templates, Information Products, Entrepreneurship, AI StartupLinks:Newsletter: Sign up for our FREE daily newsletter.Our Community: Get 3-level AI tutorials across industries.Join AI Fire Academy: 500+ advanced AI workflows ($14,500+ Value)Our Socials:Facebook Group: Join 247K+ AI buildersX (Twitter): Follow us for daily AI dropsYouTube: Watch AI walkthroughs & tutorials
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