1 kick, 10,000 times

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    Corey Quinn

    Founder, Deep Specialization™

    Are you becoming a jack-of-all-trades or master of one?

    "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

    - Bruce Lee

    Generalist agency = practices 10,000 kicks once

    Vertical market specialist agency = practices one kick 10,000 times

    Questions to ponder:

    👉 Are competitors stealing your clients because they see you as a commodity?

    👉 Or does the value you create for your clients so rare and hard to find it becomes your moat?

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    About Corey Quinn

    Founder, Deep Specialization™

    Corey helps founder-led agencies scale through Deep Specialization™ and programmatic M&A. Former CMO of Scorpion ($20M to $200M). Author of "Anyone, Not Everyone."

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