This is not for folks trying to get their first client, or even second client. This is for folks who've already hit $5k per month in client revenue, are at capacity, and want to scale to $10k, $20k, or more per month. This is also not for people who want to "retire" from clients, like me. However, if this thing existed a couple years ago, there's a good chance I would have used it. The creator of this system went from $5k per month to $40k per month on Upwork. (I would have said this at the start, but I don't think you would have believed me). The guy who made this wants my help turning his system into a real, living, breathing offer for other people to use. But making offers is hard. I don't want to invest the energy unless there's huge demand. Keep reading and tell me if this sounds hot to you. It works by removing the biggest bottlenecks for finding clients: Finding jobs and bidding on jobs. Meaning... You never have to search for jobs again. You never have to read job posts again. You never have to write proposals again. And perhaps most interesting of all, in this guy's "in house" version of the offer, he doesn't even have to REPLY to clients. The AI does it too. Yes, it involves AI. I rolled my eyes when he told me his AI writes proposals that "sound human." Then he showed me. This guy literally gets messages from clients COMPLIMENTING HIS AI PROPOSALS FOR NOT BEING AI PROPOSALS. lol But seriously, they're good. I use AI a lot and notice some of the "tells" but honestly they're better than 95% of the proposals I get, so why does it matter? If you're drooling over the possibility of just...WORKING with clients and not FINDING clients, let me know by voting here or dropping a comment below. If and ONLY IF there's enough demand, I will personally "test drive" this offer and UN-RETIRE from Upwork (temporarily) to make sure this works. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

The auction has ended! Congratulations to @Gasper Crepinsek for taking home my very own "Upwork Retirement Proposal" and a big stack of bonuses for the very nice sum of 35,000 pennies! JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, HERE'S WHAT WENT DOWN... Get the exact Upwork proposal template I used to land $159,000 in low-stress retainers while I work 15-hour weeks and travel the world. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ I don't freelance on Upwork anymore. Not because it stopped working. Because ONE proposal template worked so well it retired me. 👉 $159,000 in contracts. 👉 Clients who hired me over 50+ other applicants. 👉 Clients who APOLOGIZED for wasting my time when they couldn't afford me. 👉 $12k retainers from people who'd never met me. Now, I hire people to push the buttons while I look at graphs and tell jokes on Zoom calls. In May, when we go to Japan for 2.5 weeks, other people will keep my machine running while I eat raw fish next to Mt. Fuji. All from Upwork clients. The place everyone says has zero high-paying clients. 🙄 Here’s what we’re gonna do. Grab a walker. Amble on over to the cafeteria and snag a cup of prune juice. Then meet me in the day room and let’s reminisce about the good ol’ days when Upwork was still Elance… 🎉🎉 Welcome to the Upwork Retirement Auction! 🎉🎉 Winner gets the Upwork proposal template that retired me from Upwork—plus, I’ll show you how to “reverse engineer” it for any job your heart desires. Bids start at one cent. Bids can only go UP by one cent. AND... EVERYONE who bids at least one penny in the auction gets a free bonus: The Profile Rescue Kit, which'll fix everything wrong with your profile (that clients actually care about) so you can stop obsessing over which angle to take your next headshot pic. 🤯 But wait, there's more...lol. 🤯 IF... If we get a ton of action on the auction, we'll unlock truckloads of additional hot bonuses for you to stuff in your pockets. One more thing: You're getting the exact proposal structure that pulled six figures out of a platform I no longer compete on.

Not for clients or your day job (if you have one of those). What assets did you build for yourself this week?

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 🙆

Yes...what can you teach? I'm stealing this idea from @John Bejakovic and his Skool community, Daily Email House. For one, because I'm lazy. Two, because it's a fantastic idea. The idea I posted inside John's original thread got the most traction out of dozens, even though I ALWAYS downplay how awesome of an idea it is: Building a list of customers with a lazy ad funnel. In the spirit of laziness, and to give credit where credit is due, here's John's post...not copy-pasted, but rewritten juuuuuust enough that I can claim it as my own: ### What can you teach? What's something you can put a presentation about for people inside Funny Money? WHY would you want to put on a presentation for us? Here are a few reasons: 1. You can float an idea here to see if there's any interest (and no one will make fun of you, or I'll ban them) 2. If there IS interest, you can get my feedback, input, and help into organizing your presentation, or even organizing it into a PRODUCT! 3. If you do give your presentation, you can use feedback from the group to polish and improve what you're teaching, so you can then turn it into a paid offer or lead magnet to grow your own audience. 4. You can get ready testimonials or even case studies from people here, without jumping headfirst into running an ad funnel from scratch. 5. If you do end up making a presentation...and it's awesome...and I think my email list would benefit from using your offer...I may promote it to them and share the profits with you. Again, a source of "free" customers to seed your fledgling business. 6. Maybe by teaching something valuable yourself, you encourage others inside Funny Money to teach something valuable as well, which ends up benefiting you and everyone else down the line. (and especially benefiting ME. Who wouldn't want that?) So...can you teach? Comment below with your ideas. Brain dump 5 things you could teach below, or just post a couple of your favorites. Even if they seem wild, bizarre, completely nuts...there are no wrong answers.