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The Wabbit Experiment
A Leap of Faith
Welcome to our tribe, where we believe in harnessing the art and science of marketing to supercharge the potential of your online business.
Our mission is straightforward: to equip entrepreneurs like you with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complex journey of entrepreneurship.
The $200 Challenge
In 2018, we embarked on a challenge to build a profitable company — one that could sustain a family — on a shoestring budget of just $200.
Our aim?
To debunk the myth that a hefty bankroll is the prerequisite for a successful, sustainable business.
From our modest roots, we’ve blossomed into a thriving enterprise, a living testament to our philosophy, generating millions in revenue for our clients. All without investing another dollar of our own, or anyone else’s.
Discovering the Undiscovered, Validating the Potential
The secret to our success lies within two integral concepts: Discovery and Validation.
But what does this mean?
Discovery is the art of unveiling unique market opportunities or unmet customer needs.
It’s about understanding the ins and outs of the market landscape, along with recognizing the pain points of our potential clients.
Validation is about substantiating the potential of our discovered opportunities. We test, evaluate, and verify every idea to ensure that it holds enough promise to deliver substantial value to the customer, and our clients.
Discovery and Validation form the twin pillars that uphold our business model.
By deeply understanding these concepts, we’ve been able to cultivate success from a seemingly brutal challenge.
Why We Embrace Limitation
At Wabbit, we believe that limitations are catalysts that spark creativity and innovation.
By deliberately limiting our initial investment, we were challenging conventional business wisdom and encouraging ourselves to think outside the box.
We did this to illustrate a crucial lesson:
Starting a successful business isn’t about how much capital you have, but about how effectively you can use the resources at your disposal.
We chose to limit our financial input intentionally, to demonstrate that often, those seemingly essential initial loans and heavy investments aren’t the key drivers of business success.
Rather, it’s the tenacity, creativity, and strategic acumen of an entrepreneur that can truly turn ideas into profitable, sustainable realities.
The Wabbit Way
Many of us at Wabbit come from traditional agency backgrounds, where staff work tirelessly and clients are overcharged like it’s going out of style.
We’ve seen the dark side of the industry, and we’re determined to do things differently.
Instead of exploiting entrepreneurs, we’re here to collaborate, teach, and help you succeed without breaking the bank, or taking out loans.
Through implementing the philosophies we teach here, we transformed our financial limitation into strength.
Without the option to throw money at problems, we’ve had to dig deep into our entrepreneurial spirit, get creative, and truly understand the art of lean business.
The result?
A thriving business that doubles its profits annually without running ads, posting on social media, or seeking external investments.
Our journey is proof that embracing limitations can unlock the doors to success. It’s a lesson we pass on to every client and student we work with, showing them the power of turning constraints into opportunities.
Stronger Together
We passionately love what we do.
We wake up every day, excited with the possibilities of helping others build, level up, and optimize their businesses and lives.
We are working to help you level-up your life and your business, no matter what that happens to mean to you.
This is how we choose to make an impact in the world; it is the deep purpose behind how we’ve designed this grand experiment of ours.
We thank you for your curiosity.
If you’re wondering where to go next, we suggest the Living Library, our ever-growing archive of essential marketing education.
If you’re looking for more personalized instruction, the Wabbit EDU program may be perfect for you.
Need a team to help execute your project? Browse our Services page for an overview of everything we offer.
In any case, get in touch with us directly, and let’s talk about helping you solve what you need solving.
PS: The Experiment and a Rant.
Curious about our experiment? Here are the details!
It started with a simple challenge: create a viable, sustainable company with less than $200 investment.
Not easy, by a long shot.
This is a significant restriction, even to a team of skilled entrepreneurs. It is also the average limitation so familiar to any who have been poor in America.
It matters to us that we feel that sense of inescapable impossibility, because we want our curriculum to help, no matter what your circumstances are.
As any marketer will tell you, it is damned near impossible to make something that speaks to everyone equally well.
We specialize in “impossible.”
And so we began our Discovery process — by finding our Most Important Question:
If professional web design became available to the average start up at at a price most anyone could reach (no joke, we even offered it for less than the price of a cup of coffee a day), would people be able to more easily build their dream businesses?
Our test went like this...
Armed with our Discovery data, we built an MVP (in this case an offer + landing page), then leveraged networking and low-cost social ads to attract early adopters.
Each received a $50/mo, fully custom website. (no kidding)
We randomly divided early adopters into three groups, each with varying levels of Wabbit-provided education:
Group A: no additional education from us.
Group B: our basic, introductory content.
Group C: weekly, personal mentorship from our team.
What we found was remarkable!
Nearly every single company in Group A failed during the two year period of our experiment.
82% of those in Group B are still in business today, earning at the very least, a lovely side-hustle for their founders.
Group C absolutely skyrocketed.
With our direction and their stellar execution, these individual companies each saw revenues blast-off into the millions, many in the first year of business.
Together, we changed their lives forever.
What that means for you...
The mass-market message tells you that all you need is a website and your business will inevitably grow until you can retire, on the beach, forever.
They incessantly chant the tired old cliché of “if you build it they will come” as if it summons customers from the ether.
No surprise, most people go and try that — but building a site takes effort (or $$$), and many still see no traffic or sales.
No customers come to the store.
Zero sales in the bank.
The entrepreneur scratches their head.
“It should have worked, right!? That’s what the gurus said!”
They go back to searching Google.
Now, the mass-market tells them they need a better social media presence, better SEO, analytics, and to “go viral.”
(oh, that’s all I need to do!? just make something that gets shared millions of times? brilliant — thanks for that.)
You’ve seen this too, right?
There’s no cohesive education out there!
People search Google and YouTube until they’re drowning in click-bait, pop-up, and repetitive “expert” advice that all seems to say the same thing: “Click here for free guide!”
All so they can get your email address and market to you until the end of time, hoping that you can eventually buy whatever their product is, or unsubscribe.
And when you get that “free” guide, it turns out to be little more than a long ad for their VIP offer.
And don’t even get me started on the free webinars…
Can we just call it an infomercial again? That’s what it was called before the internet came along, right!?
None of what you’ll find on YouTube teaches you how to tie all the tactics together under a successful business strategy.
There’s no clear, easy path toward turning all these piecemeal “tips” into something you can live off of, let alone thrive with.
Which leads us to the grand reveal of what we Wabbits never expected to learn…
Ready?
We learned you needed more from us than a beautiful (conversion-focused) website or some slick CRM software.
Those things are great for our clients who have been around for a while but, not the would-be entrepreneur getting their first real website up, running, and profitable.
We learned that we have a lot more value we can give you.
Like teaching you about starting, running, and scaling your online business (or your business, online).
Yes, this company started as an experiment but, the heart of this whole endeavor beats for you.
We love entrepreneurs. You’re our tribe.
There aren’t many agencies out there that are willing to teach you how you can play in their game.
For them, it’s better to keep you ignorant.
That’s how they can justify the massive fees they charge.
It is better for their bottom line if you don’t fully understand how the system works.
But we aren’t a normal agency 🙂
We break the business game down and teach you, from the ground up, about how to make and steadily grow your own company; using the internet as a great tribal horn, sounding on the mountain tops, calling your people to you.
Yes, we still make websites, and we still develop software solutions for entrepreneurs.
Those elements of our business model aren’t going anywhere, they are powerful flywheels for us.
Those services will still be there when and if you need them.
For now though, we bet your pain is bigger than software.
A solid education and a supportive community can do wonders to help people create the business (and attain the life) they dream of having.
We are stronger together.
Founder of Wabbit