Short post:

10 things I did to get Digital Press off the ground (eventually growing to 20 full-time employees, 60+ clients, and 7-figures in revenue):

1. I paid my co-founder a salary for 5 months so he could quit his job and take the leap with me (he’s since paid me back).
2. I ghostwrote 5–8 articles per day for various freelance clients, 7 days a week, for those 5 months — to make sure we both could eat.
3. I flew from Chicago to Atlanta once or twice a month for a year straight, so my co-founder and I could work together in the same room (and he flew to Chicago just as often).
4. I slept on couches in Los Angeles so I could be exposed to what “entrepreneur life” was like out there (I have since moved to LA).
5. I offered my services as a writer for free to as many big-name business leaders as I could get in contact with, even when I was already charging a premium for my writing services. Many of these free deals ended up leading to clients or massive opportunities for the business.

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