Couple quick things. We’re gonna be throwing around alotta acronyms in here: SFF = Six-Figure Freelancers. This group! SIXers = What SFF community members call ourselves (no, not the basketball team!) 6️⃣ GFC = Green-Flag Client 🟩 RFC = Red-Flag Client 🟥 RP: Retirement Proposal (Upwork proposal designed to “carpet bomb” potential GFCs) UB: Upwork Backwards, how to assault Upwork from a CLIENT’S perspective AV: Upwork Audit Vault PP: No...not that. Profile Professor. RR: Raze Your Rates. GB: Ghostbuster Sequence for reviving ghosted deals NUKE: Nuclear Option, final message in the GB CC: Upwork Client Copilot, group and 1-on-1 help landing your next $10k in clients from Upwork. Self-paced version coming soon! PREMIUM SUPPORT: If you invested the 20 bucks for the PREMIUM UPGRADE. Thank you!!! I will answer any questions you have on any of the advanced trainings in the classroom. Here's how you get front-of-the-line help... Just put the abbreviation or name of the training, then your question in the title of the post. Examples: 👉 For Upwork Backwards: UB: Help with my opener 👉 For The Ghostbuster Sequence: GB: NUKE this GFC or move on? 👉For CC: CC: Help me choose between these two GFCs (no bandwidth!!) 💚 That's it for now! We’ll add more as we go. Any questions? Drop ‘em. The wind beneath your wings, Nick "6" Bandy

👉 Do you work with clients or WANT to work with clients? Next week I'm helping a small group of freelancers win their next $10k in clients. These guys all share a few traits that make them a good fit for the program, and I'm looking forward to helping them kick ass. With that said, Funny Money has, for most of its young life, been my personal message board. It's incoherent. I'm going to change that. Starting next week, I'll be transitioning this community away from the vague "run a low-effort, low-stress, one-person business" to "make $100k a year from low-stress freelance clients." We're all about getting you clients. That's it. Focus, focus, focus. All of the courses and topics about email marketing, running an online business, copywriting, etc. will find a new home in a new group, at a future date. If you DON'T work with clients, you may not like these changes. That's fine. You're free to voice your opinion below, after which I will ban you. ... Funny Money will remain free, but there will be a paid tier that will give you access to my courses and trainings on "how to win your first / more / better / easier / more physically attractive clients." How does this make you feel? Angry? Sad? Thrilled? Let me know by voting in the poll below.

Who's your pick to win the World Cup?

Anybody here tried Claude's newest model yet? The one that was supposedly a "national security risk?" If so, what did you think?

TLDR; Win one of my favorite books. Deadline Thursday, June 3, 2026 at 11:59 Eastern Time. Read anything good recently? Something that’s not very mainstream, but nonetheless entertained you, made you feel something, or taught you something. I don’t want recommendations for bestsellers or Kindle pirate werewolf romance smut. Whichever THREE people send me the best recommendations win a fantastic prize. 👉 I will mail you a copy of the most surprising and entertaining book on influence I’ve read in the past 10 years. (No, it’s not Influence by Cialdini. That would be lame.) You don’t need to be a marketer to get value out of this book—in fact, I believe it should be required reading for every business owner and digital entrepreneur. Let me have your recommendations—top three contestants by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on June 3 WIN. Drop a comment in this thread to participate (email replies don’t count):