Single Grain generates $30,000 monthly recurring revenue from agency referral fees
Eric Siu · How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain · Jan 31, 2016 · at 1:54
Single Grain CEO Eric Siu discusses pivoting part of the digital marketing agency's business model to refer excess client leads to other agencies.
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“We've kind of started going in a direction of becoming a referral agency where we're giving business to other agencies and we're collecting a recurring income. So that's been continuing to grow in the last eight months. And then the monthly recurring revenue on that so far is 30,000 dollars a month from zero eight months ago.”
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