SCARED TO
Spend
A small-business anthem
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Invested in
growth this year
$0
Same as last year. And the one before.
POV: you’ll stay broke before you spend a dollar
Where I want this to go
▲ 312%
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“I want to grow my business through the roof”
Confirm investment
$500/mo
in ads to grow the business
Confirm & Spend
👈
…BUT DOES IT EVEN WORK?
“But put my money in it where's the proof”
9:41🔌 18%
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$500
to grow the business
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“Too scared to spend too scared to bet”
REGRET
last opened: never
“So I'm sittin on my wallet full of regret”
Gotta spend to grow
but I’m
scared to spend
Available balance
$0
⚠ INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
“So I run out of cash in the very same end”
Scared to spend
No growth
Run out of cash
Stay broke
The
loop
“Round and round it's a self made hole”
The one thing
Invest in growth
🙊
“Too scared of the one thing that'd save my soul”
My numbers
What $1 of marketing returns—
Cost to get a customer—
What a customer is worth—
Profit per customer—
🧮
UNTOUCHED
“Never ran the numbers never even tried”
I spend
$1
→
I get back
?
🙈
RETURN: HIDDEN ON PURPOSE
“What a dollar brings me back kept that blind”
THE BUSINESS
💰
🎲
❓
SPIN & HOPE 🎰
“It's a business but I treat it like a game”
My pipeline
Total value: $0
New
0
Contacted
0
Quoted
0
Won
0
😭
“Then I cry about my pipeline who's to blame”
Marketing spend · every day this month
↻ same as last month
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“Doin the same nothin expectin a change”
Waiting for a miracle…
0% · est. time remaining: ∞
“Waitin on a miracle ain't that strange”
🛣Driver: FEAR
rerouting…
Start — A business with real potential
Destination — BROKE
“The fear's in the driver's seat I let it steer”
2026 · NET PROFIT (YTD)
$0
Same story as 2025. And 2024. And…
“That's why I'm broke again this year”
Gotta spend to grow
but I’m
scared to spend
Available balance
-$340
⚠ OVERDRAWN — AGAIN
“So I run out of cash in the very same end”
Scared to spend
No growth
Run out of cash
Stay broke
Still
spinning
“Round and round it's a self made hole”
Still the one thing
Invest in growth
🙊🙊
“Too scared of the one thing that'd save my soul”
Scared to
spend
still broke
Scared to
grow
still broke
Round
and round
“Round and round I go”
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