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Every one of you has a client you should have run from. You saw it. You felt it in your gut. And you took the job anyway, because rent is a real thing that exists. Here's the one time I actually listened. Guy reaches out on Upwork. Real name, real photo, real-looking company behind him. Good gig, too. Then, pretty early on: "Let's move this off Upwork — no sense in both of us paying their fees." Which, fine. Normal people float that. But something was off and I could not have told you what. So I looked him up on LinkedIn. Profile was right there. Same name. Same face. Still felt wrong. So I messaged that guy on LinkedIn and asked if he was hiring writers on Upwork. 👉 He said that isn't me. Somebody had taken a real person's name and photo and was out there hiring freelancers with it. The flag was never the off-platform ask. The flag was the feeling I almost talked myself out of. So let's play a game. Here's the board. 👇 🚩 "This should be a quick one." 🚩 "We're looking for a long-term partner." (On a $150 one-off.) 🚩 "Send over a few ideas and then we'll talk budget." 🚩 "Our last writer kind of just... disappeared." (So did the two before her.) 🚩 "What's your best price?" — asked before anyone has mentioned scope 🚩 "It's basically done. We just need someone to polish it." 🚩 "We're like a family here." 🚩 "This probably won't pay much, but the exposure is great." 🚩 "Just a few small tweaks." — round nine 🚩 "I'm not very technical." — proceeds to rewrite all of your copy 🚩 "Can you hop on a quick call?" — ninety minutes, no agenda, three people who said nothing 🚩 "My budget is flexible for the right person." — the budget is $200 🚩 "We need this Monday." — sends you the brand guidelines Friday at 6:47pm 🚩 "Our CEO wants to weigh in." — CEO has not read it, will not read it, will have notes Alright. 👉 How many did you get? Drop your number. Now... ❓ WHAT DID I MISS? Every one of you has one I didn't put on there. The specific line. The exact words that made the hair on your arms stand up — and that you ignored anyway.

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Welcome to Six-Figure Freelancers! We help you fill your pipeline with Green-Flag Clients who pay well and leave you the heck ALONE! We also help you run a low-stress freelance biz that doesn’t keep you up at night or interrupt dinner with DM notifications! 6️⃣ We are SIXers. And we are still BUILDING this place, brick by brick. Keep your eyes out for more of the good stuff. — Nick 👋 PS Please say "Hi" + tell me… ❓ What do you do, and where did your last client come from? And when you're all finished, here are some more SFF resources to help you find your next Green Flag Client... 👇👇👇 👉 Glossary & Housekeeping | How to talk and walk like a Six-Figure Freelancer

👉 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.