I've Made $0 Selling AI Chatbots

In this video I open up and tell you how much money I have made with my AI Automation Agency. I go over the problems I am running into and the solution to those problems. This video is for you to take notes, so you don't have to run into the same issues as me, when starting your AAA.
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If you are new to this channel, my name is Brock Mesarich and I launched my AI Automation Agency and decided to document the process from $0-$10k/month as a complete beginner.

This channel is for anyone who wants to grow with someone in the same shoes as them, just starting their AAA. My goal for this channel is to get as raw and genuine as it gets, so you can learn from my failures and success...

Let's grow our AI Automation Agencies TOGETHER.

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[SaschaJanetschek]

Hey there Brock. I'm a frequent viewer of your channel, matter of fact, I deleted my old junk-channel on the start of August and created this one for one single purpose. An Automation Agency.
I really appreciate the work you do, your channel is completely unique within the AI Automation Niche and shines not only because of your transparency, but also because you started documenting your journey from zero. You're not someone who pushes out hundreds of YouTube Videos just to milk the topic out. And you're definitely not someone who acts like he has an agency and teaches us about the topic while he has no agency. (There is a pretty huge YTer within the niche -no, not Liam Ottley-, who I suspect of doing that after digging a little bit. He hasn't mentioned any of his websites until he blew up because of AI Automation. And suddenly he had multiple domains with his services, which had no real traffic yet and the domain-reg was also < 1 year.)

I'm drifting off already... But what I want to say: You're none of these, you're literally one of us and since we all can relate so well, we have that connection to you that we don't associate with the bigger players in the game. Same boat and same sh't we all have to go through. And because of that, I want to share my story, too. More as a memoir, but keep reading if you're interested.



I am a 20-year-old from Germany who started on the beginning of August 2023. AI Automation peaked my interest, because I've always been somewhat tech-oriented and because I just knew from the beginning: That's a business-model that can be successful and really grow over time. I don't look at chatbots as the thing I want to sell, the chatbots are just a source of the data-input. A pretty good source. I see my service purely as “automating processes”. Since starting the journey, I have posted regularly on LinkedIn and reached an audience of 3.300 people with 10 posts so far. If you don't do this: I can only recommend it. It boosts your credibility and since it is 50% automated anyway for me, I am able to generate posts for the whole week within a time span of 2-4 hours. I carefully select these posts to be about AI, many are taken from YT are being converted from mp3 to text and then into a post with the specified parameters how I want the posts to look like. Find out how to do it efficient and set up systems for that!

Furthermore, I am also doing LinkedIn-Outreach. It is currently 95% of my outreach-program. When starting, I was also E-Mail messaging American companies that I have found through Google Maps, but realized really fast that this is the most inefficient way to go about that (for me!). If you want the exact numbers: About 100 total Messages, 1 decline, 1 mental breakdown that he doesn't understand how I found his email and that I need to leave him alone. The stats didn't look too good, and that's when I took LinkedIn-Outreach serious. The most important rule:

Be f##king human. YES create scripts that you want to follow, but don't push the conversation that far, that it falls over! show emotions, bond over things, and gain trust that you are a real human and not some bot. way too many are writing within the first connect-message "hey I've got a bot, wanna test it out?". They're going to think you're spam and report you. Been there and done that. Most importantly: Changed that! My message now is: "Hey (name), I see you are within (niche). I'd like to connect with you!"

Half of my connections are going through within 30 minutes, and the other half are still pending because the people are just not active too much on LinkedIn by nature. If I had to guess, I'd say 70-80% of my connection requests are being accepted. Only after convincing them I am a normal human, I start with my follow-up message: "I have a project where I am doing xyz. Can I explain it to you here in this chat?" Asking people for permission is a GAME-CHANGER. Everybody loves to buy, but nobody wants to be sold to. Ask for permission before copy and pasting your 300 word long sales-message. Sometimes I find my scripts even that unfitting, that I am creating something off the top of the head to fit the nature of the conversation. For me, it works very well.

I have a total of 55 high quality contacts so far and out of them, 4 people are genuinely interested in implementing a chatbot into their processes. 1 person even asked me "Hey that's interesting, I have a problem you might know how to solve. I want to send 2000 messages to LinkedIn-contacts, is there a way to do it?" I took 2 days and responded with a detailed message how he could achieve that without risking his account over a period of 2 months and without doing it manually. Will he work with me further? Heck knows! Is he more likely to come back to me because I helped him and truly showed effort that I cared? Heck yeah! And even if I am wrong, he would make a great testimonial!

One more person said she cannot find any use for such an automation, but she knows a business that is struggling with another problem: a gym that cannot find an affordable software for their members. Is that a big project? Yeah! Does that open doors? Well.. yeah, of course! You just need to show up, be human and people will tell you what struggles they have, even if they might not need your help themselves.

The most eye-opening experience was probably today (24.08.2023), though. In my early days, I booked a call with a finance-advisor. The meeting was set for today and back then I already asked "Hey, can we maybe hold that meeting earlier?" She said "Nah (to make it short, she wrote more lol). Today I had the meeting at 12 and I literally nearly forgot about her. She showed no interest in me and I was like. "Okay, come on. You have this 15minute meeting, just get it over with." I haven't prepared anything. I was literally doing a workout at home and between sets I wanted to get the call/meeting behind me. Suddenly, I start telling her again what I am doing in case she forgot and she answers:

"Oh yeah, I can see myself using that for my website. As a matter of fact, we have a whole network of people in the finance-niche who are struggling with the same problems. many people are booking a call and only after the call is done, we can determine if these people are a good fit for us or not. such a chatbot which determines it automatically would save so much time. we have a networking-call every thursday, do you want to join, present yourself and your idea?" I felt like a 12-year-old kid that found $100 on the street. Especially this call made me realize: You're closer than you think you are. Now it's truly about being impatient about actions and being very patient about results.

IT WILL PAY OFF AND I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK; FELLAS

[JoeD]

I’d recommend generating awareness that gets people to your website and then have your own chatbot greet people in a way that makes them want one for themselves. If it can push people to schedule a free consultation, they’re already coming in because of what you’re selling, and then it sells itself to that audience.

[alexandrakirksey]

Appreciate you being up front with us and giving us the full story. Best of luck man, only up from here!

[MichaellNichols]

The joys of entrepreneurship is the process! As entrepreneurs we are paid for being problem solvers. PERIOD. your problems and client problems. It’s tough at times but rewarding! Great vid man! Keep up content🔥

[chrisvaliant]

Cold calls made this week: 280, calls that lasted more than 10 seconds: 0, leads qualified: 0. Facebook posts boosted since last Friday: 4, responses: 0. Twitter and Instagram same as FB. YouTube: 4 ai videos since last Friday, 427 views, 17 comments, 6 leads. Conferences signed up for since last Friday: 2 ; received 26 leads and 12 meeting requests. Some of the tactics being pumped through these con artist videos are just the same bad recommendations from network marketers in the 1980s, so I’m surprised they aren’t also recommending door-to-door sales. Cold emails get the business flagged for spam too. Leads should be exercised after they express an interest in learning more about the product. That said, the offer needs to meet the niche audience in their home turf or playground.

[LaMontPrice]

One of the realist videos I've seen on Youtube. Immediate subscribe. Thank you for your honesty and humility.

[sampadatrivedi]

Same here, couple of discovery calls with no luck. I'm trying to leverage my personal connections to get testimonials but I'm noticing people aren't usually too invested without having any skin in the game. Appreciate your transparency, good luck on your journey!

[productivepitch]

thank you for being one of the most transparent youtubers in this space now, you're inspiring lives Brock, please keep up the great content.

[madimetjashogole]

Hi Brock,

Thank you so much for this video. Man, you are spot-on 100%. The problems you identified are exactly what I've been facing. I started six weeks ago, running solo at the moment. I'm yet to make a sale, despite having a few prospects on my spreadsheet.

Over these weeks, I've learned to focus on one niche and dive deep into it. Currently, I'm concentrating on hotels. I'm also solely relying on cold-calling, and I must say, reaching decision-makers is quite the challenge, just as you indicated. Your suggestion regarding highly targeted Facebook Ads makes a lot of sense. I'll continue pushing forward, and once the funds come in, I'll definitely invest in FB Ads.

Thanks a lot for the heads-up about LinkedIn.

Greetings from South Africa.

[zubairkhankharooti]

wow ... seeing you doing the same thing as me... makes me motivated.... I had a call with a real estate agent, ,, and at first he was not ready to even see my demo... then i understood his problems and gave him the solution which was not expecting... i found out a pain.. or i should say i created this problem which he was not thinking about and all of a suden it was a problem... and because my chatbot is solving that problem... now he is kind of interested.... He said he 'll let me know about his decision.

[clickworks-AaaS]

This kind of transparency is rare online. Keep it up, your energy is contagious and you have built a good following while sharing your ups and downs.

Your solutions are on the right track.

I run an automation service but it is not marketed as an AIAA, that helps.

Focus on a niche instead. In my case, I have a strong professional background in real estate and because of it it's natural most of my customers are in that sector.

Also buzzwords such as AI make you spend more time explaining what it is than helping you sell. Remove them from your USP.

[samuelcombey]

Love this, we're in this for a long time not a short time. Keep going!

[ChrismAIAutomation]

Good stuff man. I think we need to offer more than AI chatbots to make AAA sustainable. I am honestly thinking of making the Chatbot a lead magnet in itself (at least a very basic “chat with docs” bot). Then upsell to automating internal processes like processing invoices etc.

[Mahdi_Badjelmane]

I wish you all the best of luck and success my friend.

[jaumeboix]

Hey Brock, I've said it before and like many people say in their comments, your honesty is your most powerful weapon! Im also coming across many of the challenges you mention, lack of understanding of the value it can being being the main one. Let's just keep grinding and I'm sure it will all work out in the end, we're here for the long haul and not just for a quick buck. Thanks for being genuine and keep up the amazing work!

[PetOops]

Brock you are my inspiration.I believe in mind that your ai agency will be one of the largest agency in the world.
Failure is the pillar of success....keep it up.
You know i dont have any laptop or computer, but have a dream to work with peoples like you.
Best wishes bro...🎉

[andrelee]

Hey Brock, one solution to your "prospects not understanding your service" is recording a short loom video of you demoing something you built.

1. You record once and can resend this link to multiple prospects.
2. It can be hard to get your point across through text, so a video can be helpful

Thanks for the vid, only up from here.

[verasalem]

Subscribed because you are 100% honest af compared to the other ones that just push how easy AAA agencies are to make and just advertise their services

[joongi]

Super interesting and informing content my guy! Would love to continue seeing this journey!

[alexkaufmann]

Hey Brock, respect the grind. I'm currently in the process of finding product market fit for my business as well. I just want to point something out. Don't give too much away online. I've seen Youtubers like Thomas Gonnet completely oversaturate niches simply because they gave away their whole offering. When you find that product market fit, scale it to the moon but keep it to yourself. Best of luck man.