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    Anti-Agency: A Realistic Path to A $1,000,000 Business
    Anti-Agency: A Realistic Path to A $1,000,000 Business
    Anti-Agency: A Realistic Path to A $1,000,000 Business
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    Anti-Agency: A Realistic Path to A $1,000,000 Business

    By Jason Yormark

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    Anti-Agency was written with one goal in mind: to motivate budding entrepreneurs, young or old, to start and build a successful digital agency, or business, using the same unconventional strategies and tactics Jason used in starting his built-from-scratch million-dollar social media marketing agency, Socialistics.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSocialistics
    Release dateMay 4, 2022
    ISBN9781949550634
    Anti-Agency: A Realistic Path to A $1,000,000 Business

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      Anti-Agency - Jason Yormark

      Prologue

      I love baseball.

      When we’re young, something typically happens that pushes us down certain paths of passion. For me, that passion was baseball. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and immediately connected with the magic of Chicago Cubs baseball. At the time, I didn’t realize the futility of the organization or the years of disappointment I would suffer through (until 2016!), but it didn’t matter. It was magical to me, and I was hooked.

      The only thing I loved more than baseball was my mom. She had the difficult task of raising my brother and me as a single parent without our father being part of the picture logistically or financially for most of our youth.

      We were poor, but I didn’t know it. Although we didn’t have much, at the time, I felt I had just about everything I needed. We lived in an apartment complex, and most of my youth was spent simply being outside and playing with the neighborhood kids. Back then, that typically involved playing baseball. If you’ve seen the movie The Sandlot, it’s very much the same, albeit 80s style. Just about every day, we would convene in the middle of the complex in a field, pick our teams, and play ball. It was heaven, and it was enough.

      That was, until I wanted to play little league baseball. Mom couldn’t afford it. She worked relentless hours just to put food on the table. So, the money to pay for the fees, equipment, and uniform wasn’t there. Nor was the time to shuttle me to and from practices and games. I was heartbroken. For a few years, I didn’t understand why I couldn’t have this one thing I wanted so badly. I’m sure that, as a young kid, I didn’t make it easy on my mom or truly understand the reality of our world at the time. I do now, and I think about it often.

      On my twelfth birthday, my mom handed me an envelope—my gift. Really?! An envelope? What kid would get excited about an envelope as a birthday gift? I was about to find out pretty quickly. As I read through the letter contained in the envelope, tears flowed down my face and excitement coursed through me. Little did I know that my mom had been working her tail off to give me baseball, to find a way to pay for it and get me to and from it. I’ll never forget that day. I was young and so caught up in the moment that I didn’t realize the sacrifices my mom was making to allow this to happen. I’m not even sure whether she knew the full impact this decision would have on my life.

      In the summer of 1986, I stepped into the batter’s box for my first Little League at-bat. Mom was in the stands, grinning from ear to ear. I was overwhelmed, inexperienced, and in over my head. But it didn’t matter because I was playing baseball! For real. The days of backyard baseball would pale in comparison to the real thing, and it was time to see if any of it could pay off. While I can’t remember exactly how many pitches I saw in that first at-bat, the only pitch that mattered was the one I hit for a home run—in my first Little League at-bat! The only one I would ever hit.

      I never stop thinking about the sacrifices my mom made to give me baseball. I would end up playing every year, and I’m pretty sure she was at every game. Sadly, she’s no longer with us, but baseball is. I still play, certainly for my love of the game, but also, I think, because it remains a connection to my mom. Every time I hit a double in the gap, round first base, and trot into second, I reflect on my mom and the gift of baseball she gave me so many years ago. And I’m still looking for that next home run.

      I share this story because I believe it is a foundational element of who I am and part of my DNA in helping me build and run my agency. I never truly believed I had what it took to build a million-dollar agency, but little did I know, I always did. My journey to get there, however, was much different than most, filled with failures, learnings, and strategies that these days are often an afterthought.

      I couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve built, and this book is a love letter to everything we’ve accomplished. More importantly, it is a story that I hope will help others in their journey to build an agency or digital business fueled by compassion, generosity, and authenticity. The Anti-Agency.

      Thanks, Mom.

      Introduction

      I never fit into Corporate America. I was always a square peg in a round hole. But running my own business? No way. That never seemed real to me. Never seemed like a viable option. Especially early on, as I had racked up plenty of college loan debt, had bills to pay, etc. No, I needed a nine-to-fiver, a steady paycheck, benefits, the whole nine yards. I felt it was the only practical course. So, like most people, I followed the path of least resistance right out of the gate.

      Job after job ensued. Being a marketer didn’t help. Marketers are a dime a dozen, right? Well, not really, but that’s typically the consensus, and I suffered through my fair share of layoffs, leadership changes, firings, and the occasional market crash. Marketing is usually the first thing to go when that happens. But I continued to trudge along, taking on roles that never really scratched that deep down entrepreneurial itch. I felt frustrated in most of my roles. Ineffective leadership, downright awful managers, unnecessary meeting after meeting. Sound familiar? Have you ever sat in a meeting designed to discuss another meeting? Yeah, plenty of those. Sitting in your car for multiple hours a day just to get back and forth to those jobs? When is somebody going to finally invent those damn flying cars?

      I played the game for more than twenty years. It took me that long to finally figure out my true calling. That may sound pretty depressing. Trust me, it isn’t. Everyone’s journey is different. For every guy or gal that figured it out in their early twenties, there’s someone who didn’t until their forties … or even later. Entrepreneurship isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. There are many ways to get there. So, if you’re stuck in the rut, trust me, there’s still time and a path for you.

      Does this resonate with you? Are you going through the motions in your job? Do you know intrinsically that you are wired to do your own thing? Then this book is for you. It is a love letter to all the closet entrepreneurs who have yet to pull the trigger, and trust me, I know how hard that can be for most of us.

      September 1, 2019. That was my entrepreneurial birthday. That was the day I turned my back on traditional Corporate America and never gave it a second thought. Despite big aspirations with my prior job, like so many others, it fell flat for too many reasons to list in this book. But, luckily for me, I had something in the works that would finally allow me to break from my corporate chains freely and confidently. (More on that later.)

      That leap of faith, and everything that has happened with my business since, is detailed in this book. We’ve done it differently, and I wanted to document and showcase everything that has allowed us to build a million-dollar business from zero. We’ve gotten as many things wrong as we have right, but have learned so much along the way that I felt compelled to share our story with the world. If even one chapter helps push someone else out of the rat race and into the realm of freedom, then the efforts of putting these words on paper will have been worth

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