 So in this video I'm going to answer the question of how much money do you need to start your own agency and What are the tools and softwares that you need in order to start and I actually did a live training last week last Thursday on Corrin stream absent episode number four Answering this question and breaking this all down, but I'm still getting questions every single day So I want to make this video for you and whenever someone asks me how much money Do I need to get started and what tools do I need? I'm going to send them right to this video here So what I've done is I call it the agency starter pack and what I've done is I have it I have one column for the bare essentials that you need at the cheapest possible price And then I also have some high-end options of these tools as well as well So if you want to use some of the same tools that we use I have some premium or high-end options that you can use Okay, so the first thing you need let's just jump right into what you need the tools and The starter pack version the high-end version and the monthly cost for each of these things So the first thing you need is a website or a landing page software now what you can use here is something called wix There's also something called Squarespace, so you can check these out and you can sign up for one of these Now I recommend this over something like WordPress because it comes it's kind of like a website in a box They already have themes ready. You don't have to set up any kind of complicated WordPress stuff So what you can do here is just click go to wix.com and you can look at their premium plans And you can sign up for one of these so it starts at around $13 and it goes up to $500 a month for like the enterprise solution, which you don't actually need But I would probably sign up for this business basic one here So it's $23 a month. You can connect your domain. You actually get a free domain for one year So that takes some of the cost off for you You also get $300 in ad vouchers So it says $100 in Google ads and Bing ads and in local listings So for $23 a month or I think they have a $13 a month one here as well Yeah, there's $13 is $13 a month as well It doesn't come with the free ad credit. So I'd probably go with this one here There's $23 business basic plan. Okay, so for $23 a month You have a website or a landing page up and ready to go So that is number one wix or Squarespace. You can check these out see which one you like better Just sign up for one of those Starting at $13 a month the higher-end option, which is what we use is click funnels So click funnels allows us to build multi-step sales funnels Which is a little more complex than you need as a beginner and it's 97 it starts at $97 a month They have a $300 a month plan as well So we use click funnels at growth response and we all have always used click funnels because I've used click funnels for a Few years now, but we've always used click funnels. I haven't used wix or Squarespace But that's the cheaper option versus the higher-end option Okay so if you're more experienced and you have some money to spare and you want to actually build like funnels or you're offering funnels as A service you can sign up for click funnels here now the second thing you need is a business domain This is just a website domain right so for whatever your website is now for the starter pack Like I just showed you it comes free with the wix package a free domain for one a whole year So you don't have to pay anything extra for that. You can also go to something like Google Domains This isn't even a high-end option, but you're gonna pay around $1 a month for this domain I think it's like 12 bucks a year for a domain. Okay, so that's the second thing you need a business domain and With the with wix or Squarespace. I believe it can get it free with the website plan The third thing you need is a business email. So what we use is G suite Yeah, I don't know any other alternative for this But it's $6 per month and this just allows you to create an email address That's not like a gmail or a yahoo or outlook So it's gonna say like your first name at your website comm or whatever your domain is So we are domain is growth response.io. So my G suite or business email is Sean at growth response.io Okay, so your first name at your your company or your first dot your last name at your domain your business domain Com or whatever it is. Okay, and that's gonna that's gonna run you about $6 a month for the basic email Which is always pretty much used The fourth thing you need is payment processing. So you can use Stripe or PayPal This is Stripe. I look at their country list. I don't know where it is here But they should have a list of all the countries they support It's most of the countries out there and it's free to create an account, right? So all you got to pay is when someone actually pays you when you get a client and they pay you They take a percentage of that payment. So I think it's like 2.5 percent or 2.9 percent or something Plus 30 cents and they don't take any upfront payment from you. Okay, so let me see. Oh pricing is right here So pricing 2.9 percent plus 30 cents, right? So that's all they take. It's pay as you go. So free The other thing is PayPal you guys know what PayPal is. So I'm not gonna show you what that is The higher end option and this isn't even really that high end is we use something called payfunnels oops So let me show you what payfunnels is payfunnels it connects to your Stripe account I think it might connect to your oh it is it connects to your Stripe account and What it allows you to do is you can send out a very simple link for people to pay for things, right? So it's like an invoice software So you can send out a simple link like a short link to your clients and they just click on that They've entered in their debit or their credit card and they pay and you can set up recurring payments as well And payment plans and all that good stuff. So this is what we use for payment. We connect this to our Stripe account We also have a private Payment processor with our bank. This is $29 a month and it allows you to make recurring billing and sending out payment links to your clients Very easy and very simple. So you don't need this in the beginning. There is free invoicing software I think Stripe has it built in as well But this just makes it easy to set up recurring billing and manage all that stuff. So payfunnels This is what we use for payments on the high end presentation So you need to be able to present to clients in order to secure them as clients So you need to present them your service and how it works and how it's going to help them So what we use is you can use keynote if you have Mac or you can use Google Slides So I don't even know what I linked to here. This is Google Slides. I think it's free It might be free with a personal account as well But I know it for sure is free if you have a G Suite account So all you got to do is click go to Google Slides And you can you can create a demo deck or presentation deck to sell your service to prospects who are interested Okay, this is what we use we use Google Slides or use keynote because I have a Mac But this is zero dollars right so we only paid for three things so far We paid for the website the business domain and then also or this might even be free if you're using it with Wix And then we have a business email, which is six dollars a month Okay payment processing zero dollars presentation software zero dollars The next thing you need is a calendar app Now Google Calendar or your iCal if you have like a Mac or Apple computer that is going to be free It costs nothing right so you can send out you can manually type in the person's email your prospects email And you can send them an invite to jump on a call with you or to jump on a demo with you A more premium solution is Calendly So Calendly is a calendar app that connects to your Google Calendar or whatever calendar software you're using and You can send people a link and they can find a time that's open on your calendar So it helps to automate the scheduling and appointment booking process So we use the pro solution you can use whatever you want here. They have a basic or free solution as well So you can see it's it can be completely free We use the pro solution because we do some other more advanced stuff with this with like SMS notifications But as you can see Not not very expensive at all even if you did go for the pay plan So what do we have? We have a website. We have a business domain. We have a business email We have payment processing. We have a presentation software. We have a calendar app Social media profiles. These are free to set up as well, right? You're linked in your instagram your facebook These do not cost you any money to set up Now the premium or high end solution for this is sales navigator. So if you have a linked in account There's a platform an upgraded add-on platform called sales navigator That makes it easier for you to find clients and that runs you 80 dollars per month Now we use we use sales navigator obviously because we're a linkedin lead gen agency But you don't need to use sales navigator You can stick with free solutions like just the free linkedin the free facebook the free instagram Cold emailing you can send it out manually. So that won't cost anything either But sales navigator if you want to get really targeted and you want it And you're taking your business seriously and you want to get really targeted with who you're going after the prospects that you're going after That's going to allow you to get super targeted with that. So sales navigator Social media the starter pack is going to be free But if you want a higher end solution you can sign up for something like sales navigator to help you with Prospecting, right? Now the last thing you need is some kind of phone or video calling app or device So the starter pack is just use your cell phone, right? You can use your cell phone to call the prospects and potential clients Now the higher end solution Is you can use something like zoom we use both of these actually we have a skype phone number A business phone number and a zoom account a paid zoom account. So just go to zoom.us It's like a video chat software But if you want to just use your phone you can buy what's called a skype number and I don't know the pricing I think we pay about eight bucks a month right now for A personal business skype number and this allows you to just Have a have a business skype number and you can take and receive calls from that number Okay, so sign up for one of these if you want a premium solution Otherwise you can just use your cell phone to get started. That's all you really need, all right Now the subtotal for all of this $20 on the low end All the way up to around 200 $204 per month That is very reasonable if you can start a business that can make you can get a four figure a month client Within a few weeks if you do it right and you're only paying $20 a month for that That's a pretty low risk business And you're learning all these skills at the same time, right? If you're watching my other videos and sales and marketing and lead gen and drop servicing You're learning all these other skills and these are skills that you can offer as a service as well So you can start your business for as little as $20 per month your agency And most of these things have free trials as well So you don't have to start paying for it right away And you can start paying once that first month that first 30 days of free trial is up Then you're going to start to pay $20 a month or up to $200 a month depending on if you're using using something like click funnels And sales navigator and these advanced higher end tools, right? So as you can see doesn't cost much to get started. This is the agency starter pack You can get started with as little as zero dollars. I just showed you everything you need You can sign up on the free trials for all of these things and get started with close to zero dollars or $20 a month If you can't afford $20 a month, you probably shouldn't be in business So you should probably get a job first so you can support yourself and the essentials And then start a business when you're all covered and you can pay your rent, okay So that's it for this video guys. I hope this was helpful If you have any questions comment below if you like this video Give it a like and a thumbs up and I will see you in the next one