26 of you voted on the PATH poll. That's some fantastic turnout for the size of this group! Then Filip walked in and diagnosed the entire group in one comment: 👉 "Instantly stop ALL outreach as soon as I have 'enough'... and get caught in a cycle of famine right afterwards." Eddie said the exact same thing from the opposite end. The second a current client wobbles, he's scanning Upwork listings "at an alarming pace." And Israel's last client came from a LinkedIn post that wasn't even a business post. It was a rant about how nothing was working. He hasn't been able to repeat it since. He called it luck. Here's what I need you to see about Perfectionism and Neediness. They are not two different paths. They're the same path in two different moods. Both of them only switch on when you NEED something. That's the whole disease right there. Your client pipeline is a smoke alarm. It only makes noise once your house is already on fire. 👉 Path 3 is the one that runs whether you need it or not. It isn't a platform and it isn't a trick. It's three dials. Once they're set, you win clients on a schedule that has nothing to do with how your month is going or how much cash is in your bank account. Quick story: The last stretch I spent on Upwork, I pulled over $200k from client contracts. On some jobs, clients picked me over 50+ other applicants without even CONTACTING other options. 5-figure retainers from people who had never met me, never seen my face, never got on a Zoom. Some of them APOLOGIZED to me. For wasting MY time. When they couldn't afford me. This is me, the same guy who used to charge $25 an hour. I didn't get better at "copywriting." I didn't get "lucky." I got better at three things. Here they are: 🎯 TARGETS: Who you're aiming at Most freelancers aim at whoever happens to be standing in front of them. Job post goes up, they fire. Jasmine said it out loud in the welcome thread. She loves small businesses, but the ones she talks to have micro budgets. So it takes six of them to equal what one "real" client pays.

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

SIXers...there are three paths I see people pick to find their next client. Only ONE of them works! I know, because I've taken BOTH of the bad options before! (MULTIPLE TIMES. I'm hardheaded!) That's OK--you can learn from my mistakes. Take a peep at the infomagic on this post and let me know... Which path do you need help LEAVING right now? The wind beneath your wings, Nick P.S. More on "Path 3" another day...let's see where everybody's at first.

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

If you could only solve one of these problems, and you could solve it TODAY, which would it be?