See a lot of home run threads and getting started/new idea threads, but I’m wondering how many entrepreneurs have “sort of” made it here?

I’ve been building a small business marketing agency for around a decade. We’ll prob do around 600k this year but no real profit (long story, working on it). I get paid 6-7k as a salary kind of like a normal job I guess.

Started doing some additional consulting work last year to make more money while we restructure the agency business model and now make about 6-7k/mo there as well.

I’m healthy, good marriage, generally doing well. But work is a lot, battling burnout, have a few regrets, etc. Not perfect but not terrible either.

Anyone else feel like their business aspirations have led to a life that kind of plays out more like you have a normal job give or take, vs the big fail / multimillion dollar exit dichotomy that is usually presented?

  • Mobile_Prune_3207BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m like, hanging in there.

    Started the business in 2020, was given an existing client base. Many, many people left us, we’ve not gained more clients that have left, but we’re hanging in there. We have just under 200 monthly clients and our turnover is about 2m a year. But we still don’t make a lot of profit because people are wanting to pay less and less and less for more.