Copywriting

Last call for Million Dollar Hook Machine

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I’m at the charming and quaint Luton Airport in London as I write this, waiting for my flight back to Barcelona, surrounded by various forms of budget-airline-flying humanity.

I’ve been been in London the past few days, meeting an old friend and watching a tennis tournament.

I’m telling you this to explain my relative lack of emailing for Vasilis Apostolou’s miraculous Million Dollar Hook Machine offer, which I am promoting until tonight, when the launch window will end.

Even though I haven’t been promoting Million Dollar Hook Machine with my usual aggressiveness due to the fact that I’m on vacation, people have been buying, including copywriters, creative strategists, media buyers. Here are some of the messages they sent me after they bought:

“My goal is to use it for my current client that’s recently hired me to create meta ads and scripts. And hopefully use it to get even more clients requesting the same type of work in the future!”

“Well sunnuva gun… You got me again with yet another promo. I’ve just bought this.”

“Bought it yesterday straight from Vasilis himself … toyed around with it … and now used it as a source of inspiration which made me change 1 word in the headline of a clients’ sales letter – which I just submitted – into 7 words that make the headline it much, much stronger. I’m a fan.”

Vasilis, meanwhile, is even more time-pressed during this launch window than I am, because his wife gave birth on Saturday (says Vasilis, mother and baby are both fine).

Even so, or maybe because of it, Vasilis has decided to stack on two more bonuses to the already generous bonuses, which will disappear when the launch ends tonight. Right now the offer stands at:

#1. Million Dollar Hook Machine: A system for instantly producing a few dozen scientifically crafted, magically inspired hooks, based on Vasilis’s extensive expertise and (years at Agora and Advanced Bionutritionals… being mentored directly by Parris Lampropoulos… writing the copy of ads and sales letters that have sold $1M+, hence the name of the offer)…

#2. Million-Dollar Script Generator: A system to take those hooks and turn them into full-blown ad scripts…

#3. Million-Dollar Headlines: Turns your hooks into full headline complexes…

#4. Financial and biz op swipe file and template library: So you can tweak the Million Dollar Hook Machine for those quirky markets…

#5. Million Dollar Bullets: Another machine that churns out bullets from hook ideas, as well as a collection of Vasilis’s favorite bullets (teaser: Vasilis’s mentor, Parris Lampropoulos, is one of the greatest bullet-writers of all time)…

#6. How To Develop Your Big Idea: A presentation that Vasilis gave on Big Ideas inside Agora, to other Agora copywriters, based on the invitation of his then-copy chief.

All the bonuses above (all!) will vanish tonight. So sad.

To make things worse, I won’t send more emails before then to remind you. So nerve-racking.

The good news is, there is still time to act, and in fact, you can act now, while it’s on your mind. For the full info on Million Dollar Hook Machine, or to claim this offer, including all bonuses, before they are lost like teardrops in the rain, here’s where to go:

https://bejakovic.com/mdhm

The lazy man’s way to copywriting clients

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The past couple days, I’ve been promoting Vasilis Apostolou’s new offer, Million Dollar Hook Machine. People have been buying. What’s more surprising, people have been spontaneously writing to tell me they’ve been buying.

Here’s one such message from yesterday:

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I was hesitant for a total of like 5 seconds. Emailed Vasilis whether it would teach me the actual thinking and writing process behind these sizzling gold plated hooks. He replied back with a very detailed answer and I was sold instantly. Great guy!

I was hoping if you could write an email about 10 ways you would use this offer to make money. I dig those emails and in the context of this promo, I think they would do super well.

Again. Thanks for making this offer and for having a friend like Vasilis.

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10 ways? 10??? My readers… are insatiable. But ok.

I would use Million Dollar Hook Machine to make money by writing 1) Facebook ads 2) native ads 3) TikTok ads 4) solo ads in newsletters 5) …

… you don’t need 10 ways. You need one that works.

The core promise of Million Dollar Hook Machine is it helps you be faster and to get better results when coming up with ads and sales letters and emails that actually make sales.

If you already have clients, that’s how you make money with Million Dollar Hook Machine — by completing more projects with less effort, and by getting results that get clients to hire you again, and better yet, to hire you again and additionally pay you a fraction of the good results you’ve gotten for them.

But what if you don’t have clients right now?

I’m suspecting that’s what’s really lurking in my reader’s request above.

If I wanted to get copywriting clients right now, and I also didn’t have my email list (start one, by the way, if you haven’t, it’s kind of valuable), I’d swallow my pride and go talk to clients who had hired me years ago and who I haven’t talked to since.

I’d try to warm up those conversations, see what they’re up to now and if there’s something there I can help with.

That, particularly the way I’ve presented it, is an unsexy process, but it’s also in my opinion the highest-probability option for getting client work NOW or at least PRETTY SOON.

How do you warm up a conversation that’s been cold for many years?

I’ll tell you one way I’ve found to be unbeatable in terms of its effectiveness, and that’s to come bearing a gift, one that’s relevant and valuable to the person I am giving it to.

One particularly valuable gift I could bring, one gift direct response business owners are always happy to accept, is ideas for new hooks/angles/leads, whether for their current ads, their current sales letters, or the positioning of their current offers.

Problem: ideas for new hooks take work, and I’m lazy.

Solution: Vasilis’s Million Dollar Hook Machine.

And by the way, if writing to a past client with new hook ideas doesn’t get you hired immediately, you can continue to bear gifts in the form of more hook ideas, week after week.

I’ve done this before. I’ve simply made it a point to stay in touch with particularly valuable clients. Like a stray cat that has been repeatedly fed, I kept gratefully dragging gifts to the clients’ doorstep. Inevitably, within a few such doorstep gifts, those clients suggested we work together again, even without me asking.

I imagine the same process, simply delivering value in the form of new hook ideas, would also work with clients you haven’t spoken to in a long while.

And though I’ve never ever had any success getting clients from completely cold outreach, I imagine this same process would work there too, even if you reach out to somebody who isn’t a previous client, but just somebody you actually want to work with.

(The reason completely cold outreach to prospective clients never ever worked for me is that I was never persistent or aggressive enough with it. The reason I was never persistent or aggressive enough with it is that it takes work, and like I said, I’m lazy. But Vasilis’s Million Dollar Hook Machine takes care of that, or at least helps greatly.)

Vasilis is currently running the launch for Million Dollar Hook Machine. The launch ends tomorrow.

Since this is first time he has ever released this, Vasilis is also offering a bunch of valuable bonuses, which can both help you use Million Dollar Hook Machine to get clients if you don’t have clients now, and which can help you deliver results to those clients once you get them.

For the full details on Million Dollar Hook Machine, before the deadline takes the choice out of your hands:

https://bejakovic.com/mdhm

Announcing: Million Dollar Hook Machine

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Today, I would like to announce the Million Dollar Hook Machine. It is a kind of push-button toaster:

You pop in a description of a product or an offer. Out pop a few dozen scientifically crafted, magically inspired hooks you can use to promote your product or offer, whether in emails, ads, sales letter leads, VSLs, advertorials, postcard campaigns, or book titles.

A hook, as you probably know, is the key idea behind an ad or an email or a sales letter lead.

Phrased well, a hook becomes your headline.

Overall, your hook is the thing that’s most responsible for the success or failure of a piece of copy, outside of your offer.

You might think you’re already good at coming up with hooks, or that Claude or ChatGPT can pump out some hooks for you.

Of course. You are good, and they can. But why not do better, and get bigger results than you might get just by yourself, or that your AI generic and untrained minions can generate for you now?

Million Dollar Hook Machine was created by my friend Vasilis Apostolou.

“My friend” is a term very loosely thrown about in affiliate promos (and this is an affiliate promo).

But Vasilis and I actually are friends. I’ve known him for 5+ years. Most of that time I’ve known him online — we used to get on Zoom calls regularly to share industry gossip and talk copywriting. But then we actually roomed together when we both went to an IRL copywriting conference in Poland a few years ago, where we also shared industry gossip and talked copywriting.

That’s to say, Vasilis has my personal trust and endorsement. But do you really care about that? Maybe not. So here are some hard-hitting facts about the man:

1. Vasilis started out at Agora, the biggest direct response publisher out there (billion dollars+ a year, the last I checked). He was trained there using the bloody and brutal Agora copy bootcamps. He ended up training other copywriters, and on this specific topic, hooks.

2. Vasilis is now an in-house copywriter at Advanced Bionutritionals, an 8-figure truly direct response supplement company. When I say “truly direct response,” I mean Advanced Bionutritionals have a suite of doctors as gurus… send out paid print newsletters to customers… and actually produce 40-minute, big-idea VSLs they run on cold traffic. This is not your daddy’s CBD gummies.

3. For the past several years, Vasilis has been directly mentored by the great Parris Lampropoulos. Parris, as you might know, is one of the biggest A-list copywriting names out there. Parris has been in the biz for decades, and has made many tens (or hundreds?) of millions of dollars for others and himself. Over the years, he has mentored a small number of copywriters 1-1. Vasilis is in this small and exclusive group.

4. Vasilis uses the Million Dollar Hook Machine in his own work. This same push-button toaster has been responsible for ads and sales letters that brought in $1M+, hence the creative and accurate name, “Million Dollar Hook Machine.”

Vasilis has just released Million Dollar Hook Machine for the first time ever. He’s running a launch for it until next Monday, with several sexy bonuses that will disappear after the launch.

Possibly the most interesting among these is the Million-Dollar Script Generator, which takes hooks and produces fully-formed ad scripts that you can edit and then test. (Says Vasilis, I’ve seen it produce drafts that are stronger than many scripts written by working copywriters and creative strategists.”)

Just yesterday, I wrote an email with a job advertisement for exactly this kind of work. The fact is, big direct response businesses are hiring right now for copywriters who can come up with good hooks for existing products, and they are paying good money for it.

If this is the kind of work you do or want to do, and you want to be faster and more successful at it, while working less, then Vasilis’s current offer is worth a look, particularly now, with the sexy bonuses attached. Here’s where to go:

https://bejakovic.com/mdhm

[Copywriting job] YT and Meta video ad scripts

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A couple days ago, I got a message from Igor Kheifets, who runs an 8-figure email business in the business opportunity space.

(I’ve known Igor for 5+ years, and he’s been in business for much longer. I’ve spoken inside his mastermind. I’ve participated in his JV mixers. I’ve invited him inside my own invite-only community of list owners.)

I had just connected Igor with a potential business partner. Never satisfied, Igor wanted more. He wrote:

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I come with another ask :/

Where do I go to hire a GOOD copywriter these days?

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I have no idea where copywriters hang out these days, but I told Igor I have a list with a bunch of copywriters on it. I offered him to send out an email about it. I asked what kinds of copy he is looking for. The answer:

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I am looking for a copywriter who can write meta and YouTube video as scripts for a biz opp education company. The offers are books and webinars.

Thing about writing ads for biz opp (or any highly competitive sector) is that you gotta find new ways to talk about old ideas. That would be the primary focus.

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So there you go:

If you are a GOOD copywriter… if you’re looking to work with a big and long-running direct outfit like Igor’s… if you can come up with exciting new ways to talk about familiar old ideas… then do 10 minutes of research on Igor and his business, and figure out if you are qualified to write for him, and if you would love to do so.

If you find the answer to both questions is yes, then write Igor at igorsoloadsltd@gmail.com and make your pitch.

Budapest, Hopkins, cold outreach

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Three mildly connected things for you today, to pick and choose from as you like:

#1. Budapest

I’m just finishing my visit to my former home town, Budapest, where I spent 11 years of my life. I reconnected with friends I’ve known for decades. The weather was perfect. The city was more beautiful than ever. All in all it was a great trip.

One thing that stood out during this trip:

Hungary, of which Budapest is the capital and by far the biggest town, had a big change of government earlier this year. The political party that had ruled for 16 years, and that had become infamous for corruption and undemocratic consolidation of power, finally lost the elections.

Ever since, foreign investment that had been frozen and kept out of the country has started flowing back in… Hungarians who had moved abroad, because they found the local situation hopeless, have been moving back… and the locals here just look optimistic and happy (ok, as happy as Hungarians can ever look).

This brings me to…

#2. Claude Hopkins

Claude Hopkins, author of Scientific Advertising, which is a sort of Bible in the field of direct advertising, once wrote:

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“People are like sheep. They cannot judge values, nor can you and I. We judge things largely by others’ impressions, by popular favor. We go with the crowd. So the most effective thing I have ever found in advertising is the trend of the crowd. That is a factor not to be overlooked. People follow styles and preferences. We rarely decide for ourselves, because we don’t know the facts. But when we see the crowds taking any certain direction, we are much inclined to go with them.”

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Hopkins was talking about advertising, about picking and choosing products to sell and copy to run based on the trend of the crowd. Sure. But the idea applies more broadly.

The most effective thing in business, and maybe in life, is the trend of the crowd.

Yes, it’s possible to get rich and be happy during depressions and wars.

But a much more effective way to get rich and be happy is to work in industries and live in places that are going through periods of growth or rebirth of expansion. I thought of this during this trip to Budapest.

I hadn’t seriously considered moving back here ever since I had moved away almost 8 years ago. I’ve been thinking about it for the past few days, because of the trend of the crowd. I feel like this will be a place of excitement and growth over the coming years.

#3. Cold outreach

Yesterday I sent out an email to my list, asking folks if they’ve tried getting clients via cold outreach.

I got two classes of responses. Class 1:

1A. “Yes, I hate it. I hired an agency multiple times and every time I hated it.”

1B. “So far, 17 days in, 70 prospects approached, 0 clients, countless menty b’s.”

1C. “No, and wouldn’t ;)”

Then there’s class 2:

2A. “That is my primary method for getting clients.”

2B. “Yes, John. Works very well for me. No fancy cold email stack. Just a 3-liner email with a very relevant problem that they’d wanna get rid of. Brings me every month $12K to $18K!”

2C. “I’m using cold outreach to get clients, and I’m doing very well with it. Personally, one of the best methods, especially if we are talking about cold email outreach.”

Quite the difference between Class 1 and Class 2.

I started a discussion about this in my Daily Email House community.

If cold outreach is not something you hate or are fundamentally opposed to, you can join in the discussion below.

It’s an opportunity to share your experiences, and maybe learn from the experiences of some people who have been very successful with cold outreach. Here’s the link:

https://www.skool.com/daily-email-house/cold-outreach

How copywriters and agencies can go after enterprise clients and close them

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I just paid and signed up for a live series of workshops, happening later this month, which promises:

“We’ll Help Your Agency Charge $15K-$100K For Your Current Service In 5 Days By Selling To ‘Enterprise Clients'”

I’d never heard of the guy who’s putting this on, Alex Hartstuff, until a few days ago. I was introduced to him by copywriter and business owner Paul do Campo. As Paul put it, “Alex teaches copywriters and agencies how to go after enterprise level clients and close them.”

Sure enough.

If you go to the sales page below, where you can sign up for Alex’s workshop, you can see a wall of video testimonials from various copywriters and agency owners.

Inevitably, many of these are testimonials about how valuable and informative and inspiring the workshop is. But among those, there are also a bunch of hard, results-based case studies:

* An “email and SMS” agency owner (Adam Rehm) who went from $2.5k retainers to $10k retainers

* A LinkedIn content guy (Matthew Brown) who went from $5k deals to $18k deals

* An “AI agents” agency agent, I mean, owner (Tyler Savoy), who went from getting paid $4k per deal to getting paid $20k per deal

* A girl who runs a web development agency (Namya Hhan) who went from $5k deals to $22k deals

* A guy who runs a cold email agency (Nick Block), who went from $3k/month retainers to $30k/month retainers

Alex and his sales page have bigger success stories too. But do you really need to hear those? I think maybe not. Because if you’re doing good work but not charging $10k, $20k, $30k for it, there is probably some internal resistance there. I don’t want to pile on to that.

Instead, I’ll just tell you the following:

Alex’s workshop is happening live on Zoom, from September 21 to 25, for an hour a day.

I’m telling you about it today because I signed up just now myself, so it’s top of mind for me, and because of the early-bird pricing.

Currently, this series of 5 workshops is just $97. In five days, the price will go up from 97 dollars to 97 million dollars. Don’t quote me on that exact price increase, but the price does increase in 5 days to some higher amount. And why not just sign up now, instead of procrastinating on it and maybe letting it slip away?

If you are a copywriter… if you do email… if you create content for clients… if you build AI agents… if you do web development… if you run cold email campaigns for people… or if you are a freelancer or run an agency offering some other service…

… and if rather than working with clients for whom $3k per month is a big deal… you might rather work with clients for whom $13k per month is not a big deal and $30k per month is doable… then sign up here to have your mind expanded:

https://bejakovic.com/enterpriseclients

Here’s what I CAN do for you, and it’s great

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Here’s what I CAN do for you today:

I can give you a marketing tweak so simple, so brilliant, so money-making that when you hear it you will clap your hands and jump for joy.

When you unleash this tweak into your business, the result will be a large swimming pool, filled with gold doubloons, that you can toss yourself into and swim around in like Scrooge McDuck.

Best of all, this tweak is super easy. It’s really just a matter of changing a few words, and more than anything, of throwing out a bunch of dead weight that’s been slowing down the gleaming ship that is your business.

Ready?

Ok. Then lemme tell you that earlier today, Maliha Mannan of the Side Blogger shared a success case study in my Daily Email House community.

Maliha has been promoting her paid membership regularly to her email list. Recently, she had a success getting new members with a specific email hook. That hook, in Maliha’s words:

“Promise a big result with very little effort.”

“Shyeah,” you might say in your best Wayne’s World voice. “That’s kind of what direct marketing is all about?”

Yes but:

I’ve been consulting business owners on how to make more sales from their email lists. These are smart people, with good offers. And yet, I’ve seen the same pattern pop up in their copy, over and over, across various launches and various businesses. It goes like this:

1. “I have this new offer”

2. “I cannot promise you a result with this new offer”

3. “But I can promise to get on a bunch of calls with you, and to give you a bunch of homework, and to keep inflicting this on you for the next 90/180/365 days”

My diagnosis for this is that there’s a generation of business owners who have been raised on the new crop of “authentic” and “transparent” Internet marketing.

As a result, all they end up talking about is what their offer CANNOT do… and how the odds of success are UNKNOWN… and how it ultimately ALL DEPENDS ON THE BUYER, and the effort the buyer puts in, and his natural intelligence, and how many adverse childhood events he may have had…

… which is all fine and good, once you’ve got people foaming at the mouth for your offer.

But unless you’ve already got folks who are fighting to give you money for what you are selling, it’s best to first talk about the super cool outcome you can lead them to, and how your offer makes it super easy compared to all the other stuff out there. As direct marketing legend Gary Halbert said, “Maximum Money in Minimum Time.”

Speaking of Gary:

Gary used to have to pay each time he attempted to sell anything to his WARM audience (he had a paid print newsletter, and sending that out cost printing and postage).

Gary for sure had to pay each time he attempted to sell anything to a COLD audience (either by renting direct mail lists, or by paying for advertising spots in newspapers and magazines).

That kind of discipline — that kind of fear of LOSING money each time you say something stupid, self-defeating, and ineffective — made Gary figure out what copy sells, and what doesn’t.

I’d like to transplant Gary Halbert’s hard-won secrets directly into your brain so you can make money and run successful launches and sell a bunch of your good offers.

And I have a way to do it — the simplest, easiest, fastest way I know of. For more information:

https://bejakovic.com/cr

Transformative power of catastrophic thinking

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These days, I’m reading a 50-year-old book called How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, by a libertarian guy named Harry Browne.

In spite of Browne’s absolute trust in markets and the infallible human ability to rationally choose what we most want, the book gives a bunch of good and practical advice on how to live life more happily. Here’s one bit:

“If your lover is going to spend an evening with someone else, imagine the situation you’re afraid will happen. Imagine the worst. Picture them talking, laughing, kissing, making love – whatever it is you fear will happen. Keep doing it over and over again until it no longer affects you emotionally.”

I haven’t tried this with a wayward lover, but I have tried it when I was thinking to quit my office job, back in 2014, to start writing online.

On the one hand, I never wanted an office job. I didn’t particularly enjoy the one I had, even though it was as good as I could ever hope for. I wanted to control my own time and be productive rather than simply filling a seat.

But what if I quit my job to write online, and it didn’t work out? I would be leaving behind this sure thing for something unknown and unlikely to succeed… but I also didn’t want to stay at my job… but I also couldn’t commit to quitting… but the current job was unsupportable…. but the alternative could be even unsupportable!

I had read Tim Ferriss’s 440-Hour Workweek some time earlier, and Tim advocated pretty much the same thing that Browne suggests above — imagining the worst case scenario in detail, when faced with an uncertain and out-of-control life situation.

So I did what Tim Ferriss advocates for business, and what Harry Browne advocates for cheating, and I imagined the worst.

In my case, the worst meant I’d quit my job… try to make it online… fail… eventually burn through all my savings… have no money to even support myself while I looked for a job… have to move back to Croatia to live in my dad’s spare apartment… and look for a job there, without pressure.

When I faced up to the “worse than unsupportable” worst outcome, my anxiety and indecision vanished. Honestly, the worst really wasn’t that bad. And I could see now there was a fair chance it wouldn’t happen. I quit my job soon after, and I’ve been jobless ever since.

So that’s my bit of advice for you.

Here’s another bit of advice:

If you would like to take advantage of the above psychology to influence people — not by scaring them, but by getting them excited and encouraging them — then go ye and get my Copy Riddles program.

Because the same psychology that makes the unexamined “worst outcome” so scary also makes the unexamined “secret” or “blind opportunity” so exciting and tempting.

In both cases, we are standing outside the temple, with only a childish sense of all the wonders and terrors that must be hidden inside.

Copy Riddles guides you and imprints on you all the fine and delicate ways that A-list copywriters have discovered to play with this bit of human psychology. Owning these skills will be the most valuable skill, or thereabouts, you possess if you too write online.

For more info on Copy Riddles:

https://bejakovic.com/cr

How to dissolve a fight before it breaks out

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Once, in between doing my squats at the gym, I listened to an interview with a prison guard who also moonlights as a standup comic. (Wait, it’s relevant.)

The prison guard, who is a male of the species, also guards female prisoners.

One time, in close quarters, the male prison guard had to confront a female prisoner, who was pregnant, and who was in a section of the prison where she was not allowed to be.

As he moved past the female prisoner, she spun around, and quarters being close, and she being pregnant, her belly hit his belly. Or vice versa. One thing is clear:

The female prisoner flared up.

“You just hit my belly!” she said.

Prison guards I guess have a good sense for when fights are about to break out. “In my head,” says the prison guard, “I went, uh-oh. I think I might be fighting this lady.”

But, like I told you, the prison guard also moonlights as a standup comic.

“My mind’s always going,” he says. ” Like, I really have some funny things that go through my head.”

Most of the time, he filters himself from saying those things. This time, he chose not to filter anything.

So instead of trying to appease the woman… instead of trying to prove it was her belly that hit his belly, and not the other way around… instead of invoking his authority and telling her to shut up and get in line, the prison guard said:

“If you come at me, I’m fighting both of you.”

The female prisoner was stunned. “What do you mean?”

“You and your baby.”

The female prisoner couldn’t believe it. “That’s fucked up,” she said.

“I’m just telling you straight. And when I write the report, I’m writing it as a two on one. And so I’m putting in that report. I felt the baby try to kick me through your belly.”

The female prisoner shook her head, chuckled a bit, and walked off. “You’re fucked up,” she said.

“We’re all fucked up in here,” the prison guard replied.

And so the fight was off.

If you wanna find out the subtle and invisible psychology of what happened to make this forming fight dissolve, and how you can do the same, even if your mind is not “always going” and you don’t find yourself very quick-witted or funny on your feet, then go read Commandment VI of my 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. book.

I name and explain both the technique this standup prison guard was using, and explain the underlying reason it works, so you can make it work for you as well, whenever somebody accuses, mocks or criticizes you. If you’re curious:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

They thought he was crazy to SEARCH ON UPWORK for $12k/month retainers…

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… but he’s found them twice and he’s about to do it again.

When Nick Bandy and I began talking about the cohort Nick is starting up tomorrow, offering folks to help them find them their next $10k of freelancing work, with higher-paying, more chill, more retainable clients, Nick told me:

“Just browsing Upwork the other day, I actually think there are MORE good jobs available now than there were in 2024—last time I checked. But I am going to cull all the references to Upwork. I think no matter how much I talk about Upwork people still don’t believe me.”

Nick’s email list is made up of veteran freelancers looking for bigger clients.

Whenever Nick brings up the idea in his emails of getting cool, stable, big-ticket clients on Upwork, those veterans call him crazy.

Whoever heard of getting great clients on Upwork? How could it work with the glut of low-skill and low-price competition? What slave-wage conditions would you have have to subject yourself to? Objection after objection.

For generations now, Upwork has had the reputation of a bargain bin of both clients and of freelancers foolish enough to serve them.

Except Nick got a gig on Upwork, back in 2024, the last time he went looking for new clients there. That client paid him $4k for a one-off job writing some emails and opt-in form copy, a job that Nick says took him 5 hours. The $4k gig soon turned into a $12k/month retainer for 10 hours of work per week, a gig that has paid Nick ~$300,000 over the past couple years.

(Nick did this before also. The most impressive story was when he went on Upwork and got a one-off blog-writing gig. That turned into a profit-sharing partner position with an established marketing agency, a relationship that lasted for 8 years.)

In his spare time, Nick created several courses showing folks how he has been able to find good clients on Upwork and repeatedly turn them into long-term, stable sources of income.

He started to advertise, using modest little Facebook ads. 1,000+ people have bought Nick’s Upwork trainings so far. Enthusiastic letters began to pour in about the insightfulness of Nick’s ideas, the quality of his courses, and his unique approach to client-getting…

… and STILL people call him crazy whenever he brings up the simple fact that you can get great clients on Upwork.

Here’s how Nick’s crazy idea is working right now:

Nick is himself looking for clients on Upwork again, because he is starting up an email marketing agency.

Like he says, there are more good clients now than the last time he looked, back in 2024, when he found a $12k/month retainer on Upwork.

But it’s not like Nick is gonna take all these clients.

So he is offering to take you along, and help you profit in the same way he has been able to profit. Not only to tell you the insights he has distilled into his courses, but to apply his experience to your unique situation, and to give you support and encouragement for you when you might need it.

Nick is guaranteeing your results up to $10k in new client work.

If you are hungering for your fill of client work, with cool, stable, decent clients who pay you what you’re worth, and who keep giving you work and money month after month, then you will want to join Nick’s cohort.

He’s breaking up his fee to make sure he has skin in the game, so you get the results he’s guaranteeing. His deal is $2k to get started, and $3k after you get to $10k in new client work from Upwork, with his guidance, support, and Upwork magic.

NOTE: Nick’s cohort kicks off tomorrow. If you want more information before it closes, write Nick directly at ​nick@nickbandy.com​, and ask for his descriptive free folder. Here’s a message you can send him to start:

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SUBJECT: I think you’re crazy

… but I’m curious about your cohort about getting $10k worth of good client work on Upwork. I am [a copywriter/media buyer/freelance dog groomer.] Would your cohort be a good fit for me?

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