IMPERIUM Client Result
Executive Messaging · EasyGrow

SCATTERED INCOME TO $18K IN 30 DAYS.

A message strategist with 20 years in PR, copywriting, and personal branding. The expertise was never the problem. Six weeks after joining, the proof arrived.

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$18K
Closed in 30 Days
6 WKS
Time in Program
2
Clients Closed
01 · The Bottleneck

The expertise was never the issue. The system was missing.

Right Now
Running multiple income streams — PR, copywriting, strategy, consulting, a sneaker agency — with no single clear offer, no consistent pipeline, and no way to predict next month's number.
What Happens
Good months happen by accident. The model depends on whoever happens to appear, not on a repeatable process. In a good month, all the streams add up. In a slow month, nothing does.
The Squeeze
Investing in coaching programs trying to build the system — going into the red to fix the randomness — which only added financial pressure on top of the income inconsistency.
The Fix
Joined EasyGrow, niched into message therapy for CEOs and Founders, built the DM Sorcery LinkedIn system, and closed two clients in 30 days from a standing start.
02 · The Imperium Transformation

Before & After

Before Imperium
Monthly Revenue
Unpredictable
$5K–$10K/mo depending on the month
No way to know what was coming. Good months felt like accidents. Covid stopped everything and forced a reckoning with the model.
Lead Source
Word of Mouth
Referrals, connections, random work
No control over pipeline. Income arrived when someone happened to need something. Nothing was built. Nothing was predictable.
Offer Clarity
Multiple Services
PR, copywriting, strategy, consulting
Hard to sell, hard to price, hard to scale. No single identity in the market. Even he didn't have a clean answer to "what do you do?"
Sales Capability
Not Great on Calls
No reliable framework, inconsistent results
Decades in business and still no close process he could depend on. The expertise was there. The system to convert it wasn't.
Earnings Belief
Belief Cap
Thought there was a limit to what he could make
Two decades as a service provider. Scalability felt like someone else's story — for product people, not for experts who traded time for outcomes.
After 6 Weeks
Monthly Revenue
$18K
Closed in a single 30-day window
Two clients confirmed the model works and wasn't a fluke. The first close happened April 3rd — he'd started March 22nd.
Lead Source
LinkedIn System
Sales Navigator + DM Sorcery + Trojan Horse video
A daily process that generates new connections and moves them toward a sales call. Seven to ten new connections overnight. Metrics to track every step.
Offer Clarity
Message Therapist
A named, differentiated category
One clear identity. CEOs and Founders immediately know what they're buying. The naming solved the positioning problem two decades of experience hadn't.
Sales Capability
High Close Rate
Framework-guided, authentic delivery
When the right people get to a call, they close. The filtering system does the heavy lifting. The script is a guideline — the conviction is real.
Earnings Belief
Cap Removed
Proof rewrote the belief
Two closes in 30 days. The constraint was never the market. 36K/month is the next target — four closes at current offer. 50K after that.
03 · The Turning Point

He went in knowing the program would work — the depth was unmistakable from day one. But it was the trial by fire video, watched more than once during a flat patch, that brought it back. The outreach was producing no-shows, cold responses, the occasional negative reply. He'd get discouraged, go back to the content, re-anchor, and push forward. The first close happened April 3rd. The second followed. Two meant it wasn't an accident.


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I felt from the very first video, from the very first time I heard Charlie talk, that I was going to be okay.


04 · How We Helped

The four levers.

Niche Clarity

The program's framework for offer and positioning helped crystallize 20 years of scattered expertise into one sellable identity: message therapist for CEOs and Founders. The naming was in him — the program drew it out.

DM Sorcery System

LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Trojan Horse videos, Evergreen VSL — a daily, repeatable outreach sequence that replaced random referrals with a measurable pipeline. He'd used Sales Navigator for a year with no results. The system made the tool work.

Acquisition Genesis

Taught him to think through his own situation, not copy someone else's playbook. His market is highly specific — the framework gave him the tools to adapt, test, and solve for his own business without asking for permission.

Self Transcendence

The mindset work removed the ceiling he'd placed on his own earning potential. A service provider his whole career, he now has a system that can scale — and the belief that it's real.

05 · Key Actions Taken

What Hersh did.

  1. Went all-in the first week — wife away on a business trip — watched every video, took notes, rewatched key modules, and had the system ready when she returned.
  2. Refined the offer to message therapy for CEOs and Founders, naming the category instead of listing services.
  3. Set up LinkedIn Sales Navigator and built the full DM Sorcery outreach sequence from scratch.
  4. Created and deployed personalized Trojan Horse videos for every new connection, studying each profile before recording.
  5. Attended a Founders call with Charlie, asked a direct question about an upcoming sales call, and applied the advice in the field.
  6. Returned to the trial by fire module during a difficult stretch, re-anchored, and pushed through to the second close.
06 · Objections Overcome

What they believed. What was true.

"There's a limit to how much I can make as a service provider."
Two closes in 30 days. The constraint was never the market — it was the absence of a system.
"I've tried other programs and they didn't work."
This one had been tested on thousands of businesses. The depth was the difference — not more tactics, but complete frameworks.
"The outreach tools already exist — why do I need a program?"
He'd used Sales Navigator for a year with zero results. The system made the tool work. The tool was never the problem.
"Three-hour videos are too long to sit through."
He cut Netflix and podcasts for a week and absorbed everything. The depth earned every minute — and the depth was why the system worked.

Twenty years of scattered expertise. Six weeks to a system. Thirty days to proof.

For someone on the fence

"If you've gotten to the point where you're ready to do the work, do this. It will work. The people are real, honest, and committed — and you'll know that from the very first video."

— Hersh