I just opened one of my 37 notebooks and out fell a pile of notebook cards welded together with mismatched post-it notes. That's a lot of notes. There were some recipes, some business to-dos that were never to-did, and sweet words I left my wife. That is to say, I don't have a solid notetaking system. Do you?

Welcome to the inaugural post of Funny Money. What lies before us is a barren plot of land, but with diligent cultivation and a complete disregard for social norms, we shall shape this wasteland into a land of plenty. Let's keep this first one simple... What's currently the LEAST FUN aspect of your biz? None of these hit the mark? Drop a comment below and tell me what's got you down.

How I Get Facebook to Add 56+ CUSTOMERS (No, Not LEADS) to My Email List Every Month Like Clockwork—at a Slight Profit Only takes a couple hours of effort per month and it’s way lower stress compared to hiring an ad agency or watching Zuckerberg siphon money out of your bank account while his cold lizard tongue laughs and laughs and laughs… Read the report in stunning Google Doc formatting here ### I’ve got a stable ad campaign running to a low-ticket product on Facebook and Instagram. Since March of 2025, this campaign has been working with little intervention, slightly profiting to the tune of 1.21x ROAS for over a year. That means for every dollar I put in, I’m getting $1.21 back. This is… ABYSMAL. I’m bragging about an ad funnel that barely profits when all these cool media buyer gurus are promising 1000x returns if you buy their $27 course? Lmao. I’ve bought a couple of those products before. They’re just lead magnets to whet your whistle, make you feel overwhelmed at running ads yourself, then you hire the agency who made the lead magnet to run YOUR ad campaign…which, by the way, somehow needs $500 a day to “test” ads. And they’re gonna need 2 months to test. And don’t expect to be profitable yet!!! Results are just around the corner. I even hired one of these agencies to improve my campaign last summer. They came in on my BEST month ever…and delivered my two WORST months ever, back to back, after implementing all of their amazing “INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES.” Then I fired them, switched all my campaigns back to what I used before, and guess what? It worked again. 🙄 If I had to spend $500 per day to “test” something I’m going to be taking blood pressure meds and clutching my desk every morning worrying about going bankrupt. With the funnel I’ve built, I only spend between $50 and $150 per day. That’s enough to avoid consecutive days with no sales—which feels discouraging—and also not TOO much that you feel stressed about your budget.

Have you ever considered paying a few grand to not have to do the chores your mom assigned to you? That's kind of the situation I'm in now. I have to do a bunch of pro bono work and I'm honestly kinda done. So I'm seriously considering hiring someone to do this for me so I don't have to. I've already partially done this but just for adding content to a website which is not that complicated of a job. But for something more complicated than that, I'll need to be more careful. So... any tips on making sure the hiree is competent on the skill other than a paid test? (already doing that) @Nick Bandy since you published Upwork Backwards, I'm waiting for the hiring course to drop 🙆

I am now a war profiteer. I've made a hobby of looting licensing rights from various course creators to sell their products, keep all of the profits, and keep the customers. The flagship products they spent dozens of hundreds of hours making are now mine to sell. But we can only fit one crown jewel into our pirate's treasure chest at a time. Which one would you like to see first? Winner goes into Funny Money's classroom, with a sweet bonus from me that you can only get here. Cast yer vote below.