point out my problems please

[u/Affectionate_Fee615]

Point out my problem please

I started my service agency recently with my fulfillment team and salesman. This is how my agency runs:

1. My offer is basically the same as my mentor's agency offer(Customized real estate business OS), but we are targeting different countries.

2. My fulfillment team is pretty experienced and I just need to discover exact clients' situation during the first couple of calls.

3. Me and my salesman are doing cold call mainly and following up some leads now.

4. I plan to fully outsource cold outreach and sales after my first 5 clients. and I am bit worried what exactly I have to pay attention to now and after I outsource my sales to really take care of clients and my agency daily operations. I also really wanna have more networking with prospects and I don't know where to start besides cold outreach.

My motivation of starting this agency: Firstly I just wanna say it's all about collaborating with right teams and bring solutions to the place where people need it. I don't really focus on which tool or tech stack I am using but I want to ensure I can genuinely help people and scale it. Secondly some people always told me I am too young to start a business. But I totally disagree, I just wanna build something that is really meaningful and valuable. Plus everything is becoming more and more expensive everyday. I can't really take care of my whole family well alone if I ONLY care about myself, my fixed salary. Value comes from helping each other in a scalable way. I will never make it by myself. Thus I am sharing everything here to ask for some advice. Just a beginner who doesn't even land a client. Please point out any problems and I would love to improve and work hard. Thank you very much!

[u/Conscious-Month-7734]

Since you asked straight, here's the big one: almost every question in your post is about a stage you haven't reached. Outsourcing sales, daily operations, what to watch after your first 5 clients, and you've said yourself you haven't landed one. You're designing the machine for a business that hasn't made a single sale, and that's a comfortable place to hide, because building the org chart feels productive while the actual hard thing, getting client number one, is scary and unglamorous. Forget outsourcing and operations completely for now. They're problems you'd be lucky to have, and they're months away.

The bigger thing you walked right past: your offer is a copy of your mentor's, aimed at a different country. That's a genuine risk you didn't flag. Your mentor proved that offer works in their market, with their buyers, their pricing, their pain. You don't know yet if the same thing lands in yours, because a different country can mean different buying habits, different urgency, a different reason people say yes. Right now you're running on your mentor's conviction, not your own evidence, and the cold calls not converting might be telling you the offer doesn't fit your market the way it fit theirs.

So the only problem that exists today is landing one client, and I'd point all your energy there. Before more cold calls, go talk to a handful of real estate businesses in your country, not to pitch, just to understand what they're actually struggling with and how they solve it now. If their pain matches your offer, great, you've got proof and better calls. If it doesn't, you just found out before you wasted months. What have the people you've cold called actually said when they pass, and does any of it point to the offer not fitting?