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.

A lot of you have been asking about Upwork specifically, and while this group is not about 'how to win clients on Upwork,' I think there IS a place in this world for Upwork discussion that isn't the hive of negativity formerly known as Reddit. So...here you go! Have at it. What's working for you right now? What isn't?

Good afternoon and Happy New Year to all of my solar-inclined solopreneurs (Lunar New Year aficionados, your time is coming). Tomorrow, 12-ish of you agreed, via blood pact, to embark on 30 days of breakneck social media posting to grow our collective audiences. You haven't forgotten, have you? To inspire and perhaps, AMAZE you, I actually got started two whole days early. Leading from the frontlines, behold the majesty of our social assault in all 7 theaters of operation: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Nick-Bandy TicTac Paddywhack: https://www.tiktok.com/@nick.bandy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickbandy8020/ THE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/8020marketing LinkedIn AKA "Facebook With A Tie": https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-bandy/ The Artist Formerly Known As Twitter: https://x.com/NickBandy8020 wtf is a Threads AKA "Grok-less Twitter": https://www.threads.com/@nickbandy8020 It's really that easy! Before I "at" you and publicly call you out, who among us still doesn't understand how? Or perhaps lacks the iron will? How can we help you?

I've just written perhaps my thousandth email about durian, and it got me thinking... What kind of weird or frowned-upon food do you like to eat? For example: I remember someone who used to drink dill pickle brine from the jar. What about you? Email reproduced below for historical accuracy... ### Subject: How to get kicked out of a taxi Nhu and I have just stepped out of our taxi into a muggy Singaporean afternoon. Trembling with anticipation. The menu plastered to the wall in front of me cheekily declares: “Hold your breath.” I refuse. What should we order? Stinky Bomb? Stinky Roll? Stinky Scoop? 😵 This is heaven. This is… 99 Old Trees—Singapore’s go-to stall for the freshest, most deluxe-est durians in town. “What do you want to eat?” my wife whispers into my ear. “Something that will get us kicked out of our next taxi,” I whisper back. I’ve written about durian so much in this newsletter that you might easily mistake these emails for blog posts from a globetrotting fruit connoisseur. I assure you—this is a very serious business publication. But if you’re new here… Durian is the king of fruit. The size of a football and covered in spikes, durians resemble medieval torture devices on the outside. Let’s just say Isaac Newton was lucky an apple fell on his head. On the inside? They resemble pungent, creamy custard with the faintest BREATH of onions that, once cracked open, releases their enticing and repulsive aroma like a mushroom cloud in a 3-mile radius. For perspective… Every subway car in the city warns: No Eating ($500 Fine) No Explosives ($5,000 Fine) No Durians (Life In Prison) (No fine for the durians, but you’d better not or you’re very naughty.) After stuffing ourselves with an absurd amount of fruit, Nhu and I pile into a black minivan headed back to our hotel. The driver points nervously at the plastic bag in my lap. “That’s…that’s not DURIAN, is it?” “No! It’s just bottled water from 7-11,” I grin. He squints at me in the rear-view mirror a moment before shifting into drive…and pulling a facemask out of his breast pocket.

January we take social media by storm. Post, post, post. Siphon doomscrollers into our loving embrace. Convert them into paying customers. Easy, right? OK...HOW do we do this? I left out that little detail, didn't I? I'm not sharing this strategy with casual observers and civilians. If you're in this to win it, show me you're ready to deploy by dropping "GO" below. One more thing--even though this challenge is free for the time being, I am CLOSING the doors to new combatants before the new year begins. I want everybody on the same page so we can focus.