Happy Thursday everybody!
Quick question.
Ever thought about starting something on the side?
Freelancing. Client work. A small agency. A coaching thing. Whatever.
Here's what stops most people, not the idea, but the setup.
Before you've made a single dollar, you need:
→ a CRM to track leads
→ an email tool to follow up
→ a scheduling app so people can book calls
→ a landing page builder
→ a payment processor
Ten logins. Ten things to learn.
Most people give up before they even start.
Pick Of The Week - GoHighLevel
GoHighLevel is what happens when someone builds all of that into one app.
CRM, email, SMS, funnels, scheduling, payments, automations, one login, one dashboard.
It's designed for people running service businesses, freelancers, and small agencies. But the reason it matters is simpler than that.
It lowers the bar for starting something.
For example:
Before:
You want to start freelance client work. You sign up for HubSpot (free tier), Calendly, Mailchimp, Stripe, and a funnel builder. You spend a weekend trying to connect them. Half of them don't talk to each other. You're paying $150/month before you've booked a call.
With GoHighLevel:
You open one app. Your booking page, your email sequences, your payment links, your client pipeline, all in the same place. You spend the weekend actually getting clients.
Same business. You just didn't spend a month on the plumbing.
Why it matters
The thing that kills most side projects is friction.
Not the work itself. The setup.
You want to send a follow-up email, you have to open a different tool. You want to see if a lead booked a call, different tool. You want to send a text reminder, different tool. Different tool. Different tool.
By the time you've wired it all up, the energy is gone.
GoHighLevel solves that by making the whole thing one tool.
You're not managing software. You're just running the business.
For things like:
starting a freelance or consulting business
running client projects without juggling 10 apps
building a simple service business on the side
automating follow-ups and bookings without engineering
replacing $200+/month in separate software subscriptions
scaling a small operation without hiring yet
Big thanks to GoHighLevel for sponsoring this edition.
Catch you next week,
Max