Minor Workshop

How I Started A $1M/Year Productivity Consulting Business

December 9th, 2023
Paul Minors
Founder, Minor Workshop
$120K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
Minor Workshop
from Auckland, New Zealand
started June 2016
$120,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
market size
$250B
avg revenue (monthly)
$147K
starting costs
$11.7K
gross margin
90%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
subscription
best tools
Google Workspace, WordPress, Instagram
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
39 Pros & Cons
tips
16 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi, I’m Paul. I run a consulting business; we’re an Asana Solutions Partner and Pipedrive Elite Partner.

We make money by 1) Charging consulting fees to set up and train teams on how to use these two software products and 2) Reselling the software or earning a commission for referrals.

Our typical customer is a business owner who’s using Asana and (or) Pipedrive to manage their business and who’d like to improve the efficiency of their team. We work with solo operators all the way up to big enterprise clients (and everyone in between).

I started the business on my own. Worked as a solo operator for many years. And now have a team that does most of the grunt work for me. In a typical month, we’ll make about $90,000 in sales from consulting and subscription fees.

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My wife and I working from a co-working space in ‘the early delays’

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