A former freelance consultant bootstraps a global digital growth agency serving the top 1% of brands, growing from a solo operation to a 40+ member team with offices in four countries and achieving a monthly revenue of $55,000, all while emphasizing the importance of exceptional customer service, strategic execution, consistent effort, and maintaining a "delusionally optimistic" mindset.

This case study is about SARAL, a bootstrapped influencer relationship management platform for E-commerce businesses that has over 200 paying brands and works with over 13,000 influencers, offering users everything they need to succeed with influencer marketing.

This case study tells the story of Dr. Travis Zigler, who transitioned from being an optometrist to building a successful e-commerce business, Eye Love, which grew to $500,000 per month in sales and was recognized as one of the Inc 500's fastest-growing companies, before eventually selling it. Dr. Zigler then founded the Profitable Pineapple Ads Agency, specializing in Amazon PPC, with a mission to drive exponential growth for purpose-driven e-commerce brands and collectively donate $100 Million to causes that can change the world.

Goodo Studios, a content creation studio that creates photos and videos for direct-to-consumer brands, started small with a cheap camera, a laptop, and Adobe Creative Cloud, sending hundreds of emails to businesses before landing their first client, Briggo, and is now doing approximately $25k per month and is scaling up by building a team and tightening their systems.