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How Warren Went from $15k/month to $100k+/month in 9 Months

Warren Thompson wanted to build an agency he could eventually remove himself from — but with everything trapped in his and his co-founder's heads, no training program, and proposals getting crickets, he was nowhere close. Within nine months of working with Jesse, he grew revenue from $15k/month to over $100k/month, scaled his team from 3 to 14, built a modular onboarding system that cut ramp-up time in half, and repackaged his services in a way clients had never seen from any agency before.

 
Interview with:

Warren Thompson
Co-Founder
Ollo Metrics
Company Size: 
Niche: Digital Analytics and Performance Marketing

Services:
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Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, SEO, Data-Driven Marketing

400

Percent revenue growth — from $15k to $100k+/month in nine months

9

Months from $15k to $100k+ per month

14

Team members — scaled from three, including hiring, firing, and rebuilding along the way
We wanted to create an agency that we could remove ourselves from — where we can train and coach and grow people. Things can't all just live in our head anymore.

BEFORE using the Leverage for Growth Method:

Warren was running his first business with no entrepreneurial experience — though he'd led teams client-side as a marketing director, being the boss and building the business itself was a completely different challenge.
Everything — processes, client knowledge, training — lived in his and his co-founder's heads, making it impossible to delegate consistently or scale the team.
He had no onboarding or training program — new hires would shadow someone for three weeks with no structured plan, and he'd just hope it worked out.
Proposals were getting crickets — every other agency was doing the same SEO audit and he had no differentiated way to move prospects from interest to signed client.
He was hitting bottlenecks everywhere — including one client consuming disproportionate hours compared to every other client — with too much personal time consumed by tasks that should have been delegated.

AFTER using the Leverage for Growth Method:

Warren grew revenue from $15k/month to over $100k/month — more than 400% growth in nine months, while maintaining similar profitability throughout.
He scaled his team from 3 to approximately 14 — navigating the real mess of growth along the way, including hiring the wrong person, firing them, and rebuilding.
He built a modular onboarding course and training system that cut new employee ramp-up time from six to nine months down to about three — and employees were thankful for it.
He repackaged his services with a digital opportunities analysis and 90-day accelerator — replacing proposals that got crickets with a system where prospects could say yes easily and convert to long-term clients.
He built career development maps for every employee — creating a retention system that didn't exist before and ensuring he doesn't lose key people for lack of a growth path.

Warren on Growing From $15k to $100k+ Per Month — While Building an Agency He Could Remove Himself From

Warren shares how he and his co-founder went from a first-time business with everything in their heads to leading a team of 14 with documented systems, modular training, and a completely repackaged service offering — all while building toward the goal of an agency they could eventually remove themselves from. He highlights Jesse's willingness to go off-script and custom-solve problems as what made this different from every other agency program he evaluated, and is candid about the messy parts — including a bad hire, a firing, and the ongoing work of building systems in real time.

Results

When Warren and his co-founder Charles started Ollo Metrics, they had deep marketing expertise but no experience building a business. Everything — processes, client knowledge, training — lived in their heads. Their goal was clear: build an agency they could eventually remove themselves from, where they could train, coach, and grow people instead of doing all the work themselves. But with just one employee and a second hire on the way, they were nowhere close. New hires shadowed someone for three weeks and hoped it worked out. Proposals went unanswered. One client was consuming disproportionate hours compared to every other account. And the demand was growing faster than their ability to serve it. Warren had tried other routes first. A local networking group that wasn't agency-specific. A business coach hosting groups with problems that didn't match his. When he found Jesse online, the difference was immediate — agency-focused, systems-oriented, and thinking about everything through the lens of "how do we build this so someone else can do it?" Jesse's approach started with pulling knowledge out of Warren and Charles's heads and making it consistent and repeatable. They built SOPs, created a modular onboarding course, and developed career development maps for every employee — going from no training program at all to a system where new hires reach independence in roughly three months instead of six to nine. The employees were thankful for it, and they started helping build the systems alongside Warren — contributing to the infrastructure rather than just following it. The service repackaging was a turning point. Warren ditched the traditional proposal-and-wait approach — which looked like every other agency's SEO audit — and replaced it with a one-week digital opportunities analysis followed by a 90-day accelerator. It was something clients had never seen before, and the feedback confirmed it. Prospects who used to go silent after receiving a proposal were now saying yes easily and converting to long-term relationships. The growth that followed was dramatic but messy — and Warren doesn't sugarcoat it. He hired the wrong person and had to fire them. He lost a key contractor. He hired four more people. Through it all, revenue went from $15k/month to over $100k/month. The team scaled from 3 to approximately 14. And profitability held steady throughout. Warren credits Jesse's willingness to go off-script as the reason it worked. Every other agency program he evaluated delivered a templated framework — and when enough people copy the same framework, everyone starts looking the same. Jesse's approach was different: solve the specific problem in front of you, preserve what makes your agency meaningfully different, and build systems around your vision rather than someone else's template.
That repackaging of the way that we offer and position our services has been an absolute game changer. We went from crickets after sending proposals to getting a chance to start working with them.
Working with Jesse allowed me to make it through a challenging but rewarding first six months — including repackaging our services, firing a new employee, hiring four others, losing a key contractor, putting together a formal training program, and growing our business by over 400%. I highly recommend working with him.
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