Here's a real fractional CMO opportunity that landed on my desk. 🤔 What would YOU charge if you were pitching this client, based on the details I have here? - It's an online test-prep SaaS. Subscription model, people pay to pass a professional licensing exam. - Small but real niche. Not a million-a-month industry. The owner knows that. - Right now it's basically off the ground but barely moving. Tiny revenue, almost nothing spent on ads, no one steering marketing. It's run day-to-day by a single offshore dude. - The owner's goal: $30,000/month within about 6 months. - He's willing to spend real money on ads to get there. That's what you get for free. ❓ Ask any questions you have in the comments. Whoever sends me the best "pitch" for pricing and structure on this deal wins a copy of Raze Your Rates, my finished but yet-to-launch report on how I raised my marketing rates from $25 to $250+ per hour (and rising).

One of the things that drives me crazy is when someone emails me from a business domain, then I check their website, and it's not set up at all. It's a bad look. Even having a simple one-pager (which you can set up in an hour or two) is better than showing potential clients, partners or students an error page. Anyone here sending emails from a ghost domain? How come?

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.

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'm declaring WAR on social media. ⚔️ Starting in 2026, I'm going all out for 30 days...posting every day...on almost every platform I can think of. 🎯 Goal: PLUNDER Zuck, Elon and the boys by stealing potential customers from THEIR platforms and sending them to US. This is a long-term play. I don't expect to see tons of results in 30 days. But the first 30 days are the most important. ❗I'm growing my audience. Why can't YOU do the same to build your OWN audience? Wouldn't it be nice to have your own li'l pond to fish in? Your own community? Email list? Or just a rolodex of names and phone numbers of potential clients? 🤝 I'm looking for other people who are just a little bit crazy and can commit to 30 days with me. You don't have to tackle my full 'buffet' of platforms, but can you commit to at least 3? It will be difficult. I have ways to make it less difficult, that I'll share with anyone who takes part in this challenge. We're laying groundwork NOW that'll pay for itself for years, so we can coast (just a little) in the future. ⚠️ Full disclosure: I'm doing this whether a single person joins or not, but I'd rather have a handful of tenacious and slightly crazy folks next to me. Either way, that's my "pitch." Drop your comments below if you're in, or need more info. 👇