Chris M. Walker

I'm Chris M. Walker. Here's What You Need to Know. Let me tell you straight: I build successful businesses and help others do the same. I grew up in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Started with nothing. Worked at McDonald's. Learned what it took to get ahead. Now I run multiple 7-8 figure businesses: Superstar SEO - My agency that got it all started Legiit @legiitcom - B2B growth engine connecting businesses with the tools and talent they need Legiit isn't just another marketplace. It's a complete growth engine combining Ai, data, and expert freelancers to help any business scale. What makes us different? We focus on results, not hype. Our platform gives you control without the agency price tag. Our support team answers in under 90 seconds. Our freelancers are top-notch. Our systems work because they're built on real data. I also founded Think Big Learning - teaching kids and people in tough spots how to use business to take control of their lives. My mission is simple: Help every business on Earth grow on their own terms. If you want to know more, ask away. If you want to join Legiit, just click the link in the comments. If you want to stay updated, follow me now. No fancy promises. Just stuff that works. That's it.

$6M selling freelance SEO and consulting on marketplaces. Nearly $4M of that on Legiit. @legiitcom That doesn't include my agency, my software companies, or the training businesses. Legiit has processed over 1 million orders. That’s the whole resume.

@AIGrowthLab522 🙄

@cmwalker My pleasure, I'm curious! What's one challenge you're currently trying to solve in your business or career?

I got engaged. 😊

@AIGrowthLab522 Thank you. 🙏🏻

@cmwalker Congrats man

@ImbwaYagasozi Lol

@cmwalker The user shared a long tweet about getting first customers through warm networks, referrals, and direct asks. They're emphasizing trust-based acquisition over ads/cold outreach. I need to reply as a local founder type - warm, practical...

How To Get Your First Customer Think Big Minute #78 Your first customer already knows you. Or they know someone who does. Almost nobody starting a business believes that. So they hide behind the logo, the website, and the LLC paperwork, waiting for a stranger to show up. The stranger is not coming. The numbers on this are lopsided. Nielsen found 88% of people trust recommendations from someone they know over every other form of marketing. Another study put it sharper: 93% will trust a brand a friend recommends. Only 38% will trust an ad for the same brand. McKinsey pegs word of mouth as the driver behind 20 to 50% of all purchasing decisions. And warm introductions convert 5 to 10 times better than any other channel. A Forbes guide on landing your first 100 customers found the first 20 to 30 almost always come from circles you were already in before you started. Strangers buy from proof. The people around you buy from trust. On day one, trust is the only inventory your business has. Where first customers actually come from, in order: The people who already know you. Not out of charity. They have the one thing a stranger doesn't: they already believe you'll do what you say. Every past coworker, old boss, gym friend, and cousin is carrying trust you spent years building and never cashed. The move is the announcement. Not "I'm thinking about starting something." This: "I started a window cleaning company. $150 for an average house. We're taking five customers this month." A real business, a real price, a real limit. Then say it again next week. And the week after. One post reaches almost nobody, and the algorithm buries the rest. You will feel like you're repeating yourself. Good. Around the time you're sick of saying it is about when most people hear it for the first time. The people they know. One degree out is where the volume lives. Most people ask their circle to buy. The better ask is "who do you know that needs this," because everyone knows somebody, and an introduction costs them nothing. Texas Tech found 83% of satisfied customers are willing to refer, and only 29% ever actually do. People want to help you. They are just never asked, and they forget the moment the conversation ends. Ask directly, then make it effortless: write the introduction message for them so all they do is hit send. This is the referral engine running before the business has a single customer to refer it. Referred leads also convert around 30% better than leads from any other source, so the introduction isn't just easier to get. It closes harder. And once you've done a good job for that first person, you go back and recruit them. You say something like this: "I want to do your windows again... for free. If you can send me three people that agree to let me do their windows, I'll give them 10% off AND give you your next cleaning for free. Sound good?" This gets them thinking about who they actually know instead of just saying sure. Three names is a task. "Anyone you'd recommend" is a pleasantry. Then you make the same offer to the three people they sent. And to the three each of them sends. Keep it running and the network effect takes hold. Every finished job recruits the next three, and your customers turn into your dedicated sales force. The rooms where your buyer already gathers. Groups, communities, forums, the local pages where people ask for recommendations every single day. Those recommendation threads are live buying intent, posted in public, free to answer. I built my first real customer base inside Facebook groups. Free to enter, full of buyers, and most businesses in them are too busy pitching to ever be useful. Spend two weeks answering questions with no pitch attached and you become the name people tag. Be the useful one and the pitch becomes unnecessary. The businesses that already serve your customer. Every customer you want is already buying from somebody who doesn't compete with you. A new cleaning company's customers already belong to realtors, property managers, and landlords. A new bookkeeping firm's customers already belong to a business attorney and a banker. A new detailing shop's customers are standing in a dealership right now. One relationship with the right adjacent business is a pipe, not a puddle. They meet your customer every week, forever. The pitch is that you make them look good to the people they already serve, because recommending someone reliable is a favor to their customer, not to you. Send business back the other way and the pipe flows in both directions. Cold outreach to strangers. It works, and one day it can run your whole pipeline. But know the math going in: cold calling closes about 1 in 50 attempts. That's a fine trade when you're doing five hundred calls a month with a sharpened offer. It's a brutal trade when you need one customer this week and warmer doors are standing open. Outbound is a volume game a business graduates into, not the door you start at. Notice what's not on the list. Ads. The logo. The website you keep polishing. Paid channels multiply trust you've already built. They can't create it from zero, which is why money spent there before customer one mostly buys clicks from strangers who bounce. The first customers fund the ads. Not the other way around. Two things that kill the first customer after you've done everything else right. Working free. Charge from day one. A free customer doesn't value the work, doesn't respect the schedule, and doesn't refer with the same conviction, because there's no receipt behind the recommendation. If your nerves demand a concession, name a launch price and attach a reason: a lower rate in exchange for a review and one introduction. That's a trade, not a discount, and it builds the exact assets customer two will ask about. Not following up. Most first customers are lost after the conversation, not during it. "Let me think about it" usually means "remind me." Research on early customer acquisition names failure to follow up as the most common killer, and it matches everything I've seen: the sale goes to whoever follows up three days later, and almost nobody does. My first online dollar was a $10 PayPal notification that hit my phone while I was on an elliptical at the gym. $10. The business I built after it has processed over a million orders, and that $10 still mattered more than any of them. The first customer isn't income. It's proof someone will pay you, and permission to ask the next person. They also hand you the whole toolkit for customer two. The review. The referral. The education, because the first customer shows you what you're actually selling, which objections are real, and which words made them say yes. You walk into the second conversation armed in a way no amount of planning could have armed you. Getting the first one is mechanical. Make one specific offer... the service, the price, the timeframe... and put it in front of every single person who knows your name. Ask each one who they know. Follow up with everyone who went quiet. Ten real asks this week beats a month of posting into the void. Most people never make the ten asks. They make two, feel awkward, and go back to adjusting the font on the website. Your first customer is one honest ask away, and their number is probably already in your phone. Send the message. Think Big

@AlOmariInc 💯

@cmwalker the recommendation-threads part is the sleeper here. those threads decay in hours — first useful answer gets the tag, everyone after is noise. and most businesses only show up after someone tags THEM, weeks too late. in those rooms speed is the whole edge.

@ItIsRaymo I suppose I could make it a video.

@cmwalker is this sauce available as a video too? i guess it should be

@ItIsRaymo Thank you. 🙏🏻

@cmwalker congrats man!

@LoganTGott Thank you. 🙏🏻

@cmwalker Congrats!!

Best Service Businesses To Start With No Money Think Big Minute #77 The most expensive belief in the world is that starting a business takes money. It keeps millions of people waiting on savings they are never going to save. Service businesses skip that problem. The customer pays first. You deliver second. The startup capital is your hands and your word. A product business spends for months before its first sale. Inventory, development, packaging, ads. A service business can be paid by Friday, and the customer funds everything that comes after. That's not theory to me. I sold SEO services to an audience I built for free, long before I ever built a platform. The services came first. Everything else grew out of them. Six that work right now, with the real 2026 rates. House cleaning. Standard cleans run $120 to $280 a visit. Deep cleans and move out cleans run $250 to $600. Supplies cost less than $50, and plenty of clients prefer you use theirs anyway. Demand never stops. Busy families, landlords between tenants, and hosts between guests buy this every week of the year. The niche move: Airbnb turnovers. $80 to $200 per clean, every checkout puts another job on your calendar automatically, and one host with five properties is a client roster by themselves. Window cleaning. $150 to $350 for an average house, roughly $10 to $15 per window. The gear is a squeegee, a scrubber, and a bucket. Start with single story homes and you don't even need a ladder yet. It's also the easiest service on this list to sell face to face. Clean one dirty storefront window free while the owner watches. The rest of the windows close the deal for you. The niche move: storefront routes. A restaurant at $150 a visit, four visits a month, is $600 a month from one client and a 45 minute stop. Stack a street of them and the route pays like a salary. Lawn mowing. $30 to $80 per cut for most residential lawns, around $50 for an average quarter acre yard. The mower is already sitting in your garage or a relative's garage. Gas money is the startup cost. And the product re-buys itself. Grass grows back every week, so one yes in spring is a season of cuts without another sales conversation. The niche move: density. Ten lawns on three streets beats twenty lawns across town. Less driving, more cutting, and the neighbors watch you work, which is advertising you can't buy. Moving help. Moving labor runs $40 to $100 an hour per mover depending on the market, and most jobs carry a two or three hour minimum, so every booking is real money. The customer rents the truck. You bring the muscle and the care. Zero equipment, paid the same day, and marketplaces like the one U-Haul runs will hand you customers while you build your own name. The niche move: load and unload only. People renting their own trucks and containers need two careful hours on each end, and they book ahead. Pet sitting and dog walking. $20 to $35 per walk. $45 to $150 a night for overnight sitting. Zero equipment. The product is trust, which costs nothing and compounds forever. One apartment building or one neighborhood group can fill your calendar by itself, because pet people talk to each other constantly and they all know exactly who can be trusted. The niche move: overnights and travel season. The walk money is fine. The vacation sitting money is the business. Virtual assistant. $15 to $30 an hour to start in the US market, more once you own a specific skill like inbox management, scheduling, or research. The laptop you already have is the whole operation, and it's the pick for anyone who can't or won't do physical work. Every business owner you have ever met is behind on their inbox right now. That is the demand. The niche move: one industry. Real estate agents alone keep thousands of VAs busy, and a VA who knows one industry's tools and rhythms bills more than a VA who knows a little of everything. Notice what all six have in common. None of them are ideas. Everyone already knows these businesses exist, and that is exactly why they work. You don't have to explain the service, create the demand, or convince anyone they need it. The demand is already there, being served badly. Because the real gap in these categories is not skill. It is showing up. Read the reviews for any of these services in your town. People who never show up. Calls that never get returned. Quotes that never arrive. The bar is on the floor, and you win by clearing it every single day. Answer your phone, arrive when you said, do what you promised, and you are ahead of half the market by Tuesday. And none of these cap at wages unless you let them. Solo, you earn good money. Then you raise prices, because you're the one who actually shows up. Then you push everything recurring... weekly lawns, monthly windows, standing turnovers... so the month starts full instead of empty. Then you add a second set of hands and keep the spread. That is the moment a service stops being a job you gave yourself and becomes a business you own. Businesses that run without you are assets. Assets are the point. Every one of these starts the same way. You tell everyone you know what you do now. You ask for the job directly. You show up and do it right. Then you do it again tomorrow, and the day after, until the referrals start doing the asking for you. Most people quit asking right before it works. Volume is the trick at the start, and almost nobody does enough of it. If you have a strong back and free weekends, take moving help. If you love animals, take pets. If you want recurring money from day one, take lawns and turnovers. If you never want to leave the house, take virtual assistant work. Then get one paying customer this week. Not a logo. Not an LLC. A customer. The fancy version of the business gets funded by the customers of the simple version. Think Big.

@jordan_ross_8F blue

Adam is about to get sued for 100s of thousands for deception. In his own words hes unsure if hes being a 'scumbag'. But, what he actually is is brilliant. Texting leads with a blue bubble (right now) shows one clear signal: I am a real human. It is a money printing machine when used properly (and ethically). As for Adam, will he actually get sued? Idk, i hope not. But he did have an agent portray itself as him and one text to the wrong person in the wrong state = lawsuit & settlement for 10s of thousands. Using him as inspo, I started having my team build this into our stack. Agents will be: Texting me (chief of staff, PM, EA) Texting my team Texting my clients Texting my prospects & to help you out, I made an 18 page guide set this up for yourself. Inside: How to build this claude code The tech stack How to do this legally Comment 'blue' and ill send it Must be following to get auto dm

You can have a million followers and not own a single one of them. The platform does. Think Big Minute #76 Niche Newsletters Every follower you have is rented. The platform owns them, decides who sees your posts, and can shut you off tomorrow. An email list is the only audience you actually own. This business is about building one and getting paid for it. A niche newsletter is one email, sent on a schedule, to people in one specific world. Not news for everyone. The news for HVAC contractors. The deals for card collectors. The funding rounds in one industry. Ai changed the labor math on this. The gathering, the summarizing, the drafting, the formatting... work that used to take a small newsroom now takes one person a couple hours. You pick what matters and add the take. Ai does the grunt work. Most people who try this start a newsletter about everything for everyone, send it when they feel like it, and quit at 300 subscribers. The ones making money pick a niche where the reader is worth something to an advertiser, and they send every week no matter what. Because niche is what gets paid. Sponsors pay by the thousand subscribers, and the rate depends on who those subscribers are. General consumer lists get $15 to $35 per thousand. Specialized business lists get $50 to $100 and up. The beehiiv team has seen an 8,000 subscriber B2B newsletter charge $2,000 for one placement while a 50,000 subscriber lifestyle list struggled to get $800. Six times smaller, more than double the money. The list pays you two ways. Sponsors, who buy placements in your sends. And paid subscriptions, where readers pay about $10 a month for the premium version. The winners run both. A 20,000 subscriber list in a business niche selling two placements a week at $1,000 each is $8,000 a month before a single paid subscriber. Stack a few hundred paid readers on top and you are past $10,000. And the ceiling is absurd. Morning Brew started as an email newsletter and sold for a reported $75 million. Where you find them: Start in the niche's watering holes. The groups, the forums, the communities where your reader already spends time. Be useful there and point to the newsletter. Then post daily content on social in the niche, and aim every post at the signup page. The list is the asset. Social is the funnel that fills it. Then trade recommendations with other newsletters near your niche. Cross promotion is how most of the fast growing lists actually grow, and every platform has it built in now. How you sell them: You don't sell ad space. You sell access to buyers nobody else can reach in one email. Lead with who the list is, not how big it is. "Five thousand HVAC contractors who open at 50%" beats "twenty thousand subscribers." The company selling software to contractors will pay more for your small list than for a big random one. Then build a simple rate card priced per thousand subscribers for your niche, and pitch the companies already spending money to reach your reader somewhere else. They have the budget. You have the shortcut. The numbers: The model: You own a newsletter in one niche. Ai handles most of the production. Sponsors and paid subscribers pay you for the audience. Realistic income: $1k to $20k+ a month depending on list size and niche. Placements run $500 to $3,000 on mid sized lists. Paid tiers average $10 a month per reader. A 20,000 subscriber list in a business niche can clear $10,000 on sponsorships alone. Hours per week: 10 to 25. Ai compresses production into a couple hours per issue. Most of your time goes to growing the list, which is the actual job. Time to first sale: 3 to 6 months. Sponsors start paying attention at a few thousand engaged subscribers in a good niche. A paid tier can turn on in weeks, but it trickles until the list grows. Time to $10k a month: 12 to 24 months if you promote like it's your job. Lists compound, and compounding is slow at the start. Startup cost: Basically nothing. The big platforms are free to start and under $100 a month as you grow. Difficulty: 2 out of 10 to start, because you can open an account and send your first issue this week. 8 out of 10 to stick, because the send never stops and the growth only comes from volume most people won't sustain. What you need to know: A niche you can pick winners in, because your judgment is the product. How to run Ai as your production staff without letting it publish slop. And how to grow an email list, which decides everything else. Best for: People who already read everything in some niche for free. People who can hit a publishing schedule forever. If you're the one friends ask "what should I be paying attention to," this is your door. The same tool that makes this easy is what will bury most people who try it. Ai can produce a newsletter now, so inboxes are filling with newsletters nobody asked for that read like they came from nowhere. If Ai writes all of it, your reader can skip you and ask ChatGPT. Ai gathers, drafts, and formats. The picks, the take, and the taste have to be yours. That is what they subscribe for, and it's the one part a machine can't fake. And the send never stops. Every week, on time, forever, including the months when the list barely moves. Most people are way too conservative here. They slow down when growth slows, and that kills it. I run it the other way. If my audience isn't complaining, I'm not sending enough. Volume grows the list, volume sells the placements, and volume is why the compounding works. The money is real. It goes to the people who pick one niche, send every week, and treat the list like the asset it is, not the ones who blast Ai slop until the unsubscribes win. You already read about some niche every single day for free. Go build the list that pays you for it. Think Big.

@GummoAndrew I used to live right near there.

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I went from 24k subs to over 104k subs when a stupid motivational short went mega viral and got me a bunch of Kenyan subscribers leaving weird emoji comments. 10 years to get to 24k. 2 weeks to get from 24k to 100k. I also think it ruined my channel because YouTube thinks that’s my audience now.

@cmwalker Haha 100%! Netting too little margin in a world full of opportunities. Always fun times with G! My YT is a bit too far off 100k 😅

Spent most of the last year building OTHER brands and somewhat let my own personal one slip... 🤔 All those tall blue spikes with nothing underneath? That's me dropping an article, going viral for a day, then disappearing for two weeks to go work on other projects my time was heavily allocated to. Big numbers, thin consistency, marginal growth as a result. Now look at the last couple of weeks (red arrow) The density is back! Daily posting, daily replies, daily engagement.. Not just article spikes into silence. The difference isn't strategy, it's that I've got the time AND the passion back after my break. Turns out you can't fake consistency, and you can't outsource your personal brand to anyone but yourself. Still, it was hands off and big hits from the research I released, and I still pulled in nearly 6m impressions - I should be able to at least double that now. + Google just releases search profiles, and you can only claim them yours once you hit 100K, so I've got a real reason to go for it now! 🙌 I still never monetized this account either, same with my YT or any of my SEO "influencer" socials, looking at some of the earnings on here recently though, maybe that was a mistake 😅

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I've made $3,764,799.76 on Legiit. In my career I've made close to $6,000,000 doing freelance SEO and consulting services. I spend almost no time on that business and it is just one of 5 or so depending upon how you look at it. I owe everything I have personally and professionally to my businesses. I've been given so much and... "Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required..." Luke 12:48 That's why I launched the Think Big Founder Challenge. You can think it is cheesy or cringe or whatever... but I feel that I have a moral obligation to help people, and this is the way I have been given to be of the most service to the world. I waited for 10 years to launch this because I wanted to be sure I had a system that was duplicatable and can apply to any type of business before I did. I am now so confident that I can take anyone that is willing to do the work from nothing, to having a business with a paying customer in 90 days that I am giving it a guarantee... ...do the work for 90 days and if you don't have a functioning business with at least 1 paying customer I'll refund you, no questions asked. This can be almost any type of business by the way. > Freelancer That Wants To Get Results Like These > Agency > Look service businesses > Brick & Mortar ...or anything else you can think of. This is exactly what I did to start my business... but I didn't have a roadmap, a community, and someone dedicated to making sure I finish. If I had I could have gotten there in 90 days or even sooner... and I want to help as many people as possible do the same. So check out the link in the comments, we've already got our first 20+ members. You're 90 days away... you just have to decide that today is the day you finally make the change. Link In Comments

@suganthan Cloudflare positioning themselves as the anti ai big tech company is so precious.

Is your site sitting behind Cloudflare? If yes, Go to Security -> Settings -> Configure AI bot policies Under "Training" section make sure "Allow (do not block)" is selected. Do this before 15th of September. Why? From this date onwards, If you have selected the block training option, Cloudflare will block multi-purpose crawlers (specifically those that combine Search with Training) such as Googlebot, Applebot, and BingBot. This will destroy your SEO work. Take action and pass this on to your devops/developers.

@Ramon4lan He couldn’t afford a big one. Bro should lock in and get his money up.

O que leva uma pessoa a comprar uma tela de computador desse tamanho??