Ignite Social Media

Starting A $500K/Month Social Media Agency Before Most Social Media Platforms Existed

March 7th, 2021
Jim Tobin
$500K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
37
Employees
Ignite Social Media
from Cary, NC, USA
started July 2007
$500,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
37
Employees
market size
$111B
avg revenue (monthly)
$348K
starting costs
$11.7K
gross margin
90%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
content-library
best tools
Hubspot, Instagram, Zapier
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
39 Pros & Cons
tips
5 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

I’m Jim Tobin, the founder of Ignite Social Media (2007) and Carusele (2015), but I’ll talk here mostly about the original business. Ignite is known as “the original social media agency” because we were the first social agency created out of whole cloth in the United States. To this day, we’re considered among the very best social media agencies in the world.

While other companies have pivoted over the years to add web development, digital marketing, or some related field, we’ve stayed true to our roots. This has helped us build a reputation as the folks who really understand this specific space.

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What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

The concept of a social media agency came to me (literally) in an...

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