u/Deep-Book-9664

I’m an influencer, most of my videos get around 200k views. I was asked to promote a website and got paid 1500 dollars. I wrote the script, they approved, shot, edited and posted it. So far it’s been 6 hours but it’s completely flopped like I’ve never seen. Only 7k views. I feel bad, and I know they’re the one that took the gamble and I did everything they asked but for how much they paid for an integration I want to give them something more.

Should I offer to integrate them in another post for free? Does that make me look too apologetic, cheap, or unprofessional?

Location: Los Angeles

I live in a 6 story building. The elevator has always had problems, it doesn’t seem to have a motion sensor so anytime you try to stop it with your arm it “bites” you. About 15 days ago it tapped out. There was a repairman who came the next day, nothing happened. Since then, I’ve only seen somebody check it out one other time. According to the tenants the building has a long history of being cheap.

Anyways, one of my neighbors who lives on the third floor is an elderly woman who can barely walk. She has a walker and is completely hunched over. I just got back from a run tonight when I saw her struggling to get back into the building. I had to carry her things and help her up the stairs. She was complaining that the elevator has been out and they’re not doing anything about it. I genuinely don’t understand how she can ever do this by herself, I feel like something’s going to happen. I don’t know if the building is violating any civil codes or breaking any laws, but it all feels horribly wrong.

I also just had a fridge issue where it was leaking black sludge, it took them 4 weeks to finally send somebody to fix it. By then I had reached out 6 times.

Can anybody give me some guidance?

4 years ago, I was a successful content creator. I had a video game coaching business and my account grew to 100k+ followers and 20 million views in 3-4 months. What I originally intended as a side gig ended up becoming a full time job. I would’ve made way more had I gone full influencer instead of going back to college, but here I am. I put the account aside because I didn’t want to be known as that “video game” guy, I was kind of embarrassed by it. So I went back to pursue my degree.

When I graduated, my gf had an idea for a coaching business of her own. I thought maybe I could recreate what I did for myself, for her. Sure enough, I did. 30 posts in, she went from non existent to $15k a month, 5 million views across platforms, and the account is growing rapidly.

I did both of these by posting educational content on the platform and building the brand online with the CTA to follow instead of buy (this will be relevant to my question). My gf, with no sales experience, converted her sales calls at a whopping 80% because people were already sold on her by the time they booked a call.

Here’s my position and my problem. I don’t have a “business”, I’m just a guy who’s very good at something. And in the last 2 weeks, I’ve had several people reach out to me who know who I am, heard about me through someone, or saw my success stories online. They want to work with me, but I don’t know what to offer them. All 4-5 of them want me to be a full time social media manager/strategist for their business. I’m talking content production, ideation, editing, posting, everything. Everything I’m doing for my GF.

I can’t do that for all of them. Personally, I can handle 2-3 clients MAX with the amount of work I do.

I do not know where to go from here, and I don’t know what business model I want to pursue.

Am I becoming a high end social media manager, hiring editors and just becoming a manager and strategist?

Do I double down on my video style and become a content production agency that makes educational content for anybody selling their expertise, founder-led brands, service businesses, etc?

Or do I pick and choose only a handful of clients I really believe in, maybe 3, and just take a stake in them, either profit or ownership, and just go all in that way?

I would really appreciate all your opinions and guidance, I’m mostly just nervous because I’ve done everything solo my whole life, and now I feel like I’m coming to the point I need to hire people.