Vishal Jain reveals how he started 6 companies with nothing
Realstagram started generating more revenue than my first agency within 2 months of its existence
We recently had the opportunity to speak with Vishal Jain, the Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, and Internet personality (among other things). Here's what he had to say when we asked him how he made his millions.
The entrepreneurial bug bit Jain early. As a young child, he used to sell WWE & Pokemon cards in school, at the age of 15 he started organizing events and by the time he was 19, he decided to dropout of college and start his first company SunShy Digital Media Agency. He now owns four digital media agencies, a manufacturing plant, a jewellery business and has also written an e-Book to help people start their own digital media agencies.
You told us that you started with nothing, can you tell us how?
I always had an urge to start a business but I didn't want to take financial help from anyone to start it. I googled one day how to make money online and landed on a few freelancing websites. I started selling Virtual Assistant services on a website called Fiverr. After few months, I discovered few more freelancing websites like People Per Hour & UP Work and started doing any kind of hourly jobs I could, be it data entry, data research, transcribing or being a virtual assistant. I saw the demand for designing and social media marketing on these platforms and started learning about it. I watched thousands of youtube videos and read hundreds of articles on Quora to develop my skills and started providing digital marketing services on those freelance platforms. Once I saw good response and reviews from my clients, I decided to start selling them on my own website to save 20% of my income which those platforms charged, so I could provide more competitive rates and acquire more clients. I didn’t want to waste my money on a professional website designer so I learned how to make websites by watching various youtube videos and started my first company SunShy Digital Media Agency. I started my agency with only $25 (Domain & Hosting Cost) and put rest of the money I had to promote my services to acquire new clients.
That’s really commendable! How did you grow from one agency to four?
When I started my first agency, SunShy Digital Media Agency, I had all SMM services in it. Website & App Designing, Logo Designing, SEO, Copywriting, PR, Social Media Marketing & much more. After few months I noticed a lot of my clients wanted to increase their influence on Instagram. Instagram at that time was the next big thing in social media and people wanted to grab onto the opportunity. So, I decided to start another agency named Realstagram just for Instagram growth related services and Realstagram started generating more revenue than my first agency within 2 months of its existence. After that I started one more agency, Social Media Specialist which focused on growth of major 5 social media platforms, namely Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube & LinkedIn. I started getting a lot of demands for services like App & Podcast Promotions, Marketing for Websites like Tik-Tok, Quora, Snapchat, Spotify, Soundcloud, Reverberation, Shazam etc so I made one more agency, Grow Social Influence dedicated to all these services which covers almost all social media websites in the world.
