Hey, been quiet here, so I wanted to post this as a way to make up for it. These are some of the things I’ve learned along my journey (still haven’t reached my goal yet haha :’)). I’ve always wanted to work online. The idea of making money from clicking buttons always attracted me. I knew it wasn’t that easy, and I was aware of the noise, overpromises, and inflated outcomes, so I decided to learn from YouTube. I landed on automation (it was trending haha, and still is). I started with n8n. That’s when I found the Ryan & Matt Data Science channel, and at that time Ryan had just posted the 17-hour course. I watched all of it, and it gave me a really solid foundation. Then I said, okay, now it’s time to make money lol. At first, I thought “automation specialist” was enough. It isn’t. It’s too vague to be useful, especially when you’re unknown. That’s when I learned about niches. I chose to focus on lead handling systems and CRMs. That decision came from digging through discussions on Reddit and also talking with LLMs. Not perfect sources, but enough to start seeing patterns. Then I built. I put together a full system inside n8n. I was proud and thought now it’s time to make money. But reality hit. No one shows up just because you built something. I needed to learn how to sell my services. So I started learning sales, watching tutorials, and discovered people like Alex Hormozi. I tried cold outreach, then decided to focus on LinkedIn. That’s when I realized I skipped an important step, validating the niche. So I went back, asked people, did more research, and rebuilt the whole system again. This time with clearer assumptions, even if they are still assumptions. I also documented everything. Now I’m trying to build my presence on LinkedIn by connecting with ICPs, posting regularly, learning how to write better posts, and doing targeted outreach instead of mass messaging. Right now it’s simple, just a few connections a day, staying consistent. At the moment, I’m dealing with a few constraints. I still don’t have real proof since I don’t have clients yet, which makes validation weak. I’m also not sure if the volume of outreach I’m doing is enough, especially when I see people running large campaigns. And my communication skills still need work.

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Hey all, I want to gather some feedback from people who are either starting their freelancing journey on Upwork or are seasoned vets. When you provide answers to these questions please include your experience level on Upwork (number of jobs, time on platform) 1. What is the number one confusion point for you with how to write better proposals? 2. Do you ever think about how to optimize your profile? 3. Do you feel you have a strong grasp on going from initial message to closed deal? 4. Do you focus on more proposals or better proposals 5. Do you boost every time? Only sometimes? Would love to hear from yall @Ryan Nolan

Some of you know that I have a 2nd YouTube channel for collectibles. TBH I stopped posting bc the videos took too long to research and make. Well, I just automated the whole process today. 1. Scrape Data for specific card queries 2. Clean up duplicated data 3. Research the subject matter 4. Populate the results on a slide deck Now I can upload again on the channel. Small win, but was fun to build with Claude. Did you automate anything this week in your personal life?

Apologies for this week being a bit different. Thanks for joining for the first time @Laurent Sou @Miles Chu And welcome back @Ken Rodgers @James C Wilson We started talking about openclaw vs Claude cowork and code. Then jumped into some awesome updates from James on the app he has been developing (which will be out in the next 60 days!) He will be presenting it next week so make sure to be here at 5est. Talked slightly about OpenAi Codex use cases and compared it to Claude Code Ken also landed a new full time job!