I've automated businesses from $20k/mo to billion-dollar manufacturing companies (Nestle, Mars Chocolate, pharma companies etc)
We've ALSO implemented this exact playbook in 20+ businesses in the past few months (and they've scaled 2-4x)
Follow these steps to automate your
I built an "Upwork Funnel Hacking" tool that finds all $1,000,000+ profiles, all US-based, all $50+ per hour, for ANY niche
1) Plug in your niche/keyword ("google ads", "webflow", "klaviyo", "copywriting", "wordpress" etc)
2) Copy the 7-figure Upwork profiles for your niche
3)
A client of mine is on track to do $600k a MONTH.
How?
I made him a tool that uses ChatGPT to scrape a list of leads, and email them a custom PDF proposal
...for thousands of leads a day
...with a couple $20 tools
Comment "send" to get the full tutorial (must be following)
A client of mine is on track to do $600k a MONTH.
How?
I made him a tool that uses ChatGPT to scrape a list of leads, and email them a custom PDF proposal
...for thousands of leads a day
...with a couple $20 tools
Comment "send" to get the tutorial (must be following)
A client of mine is on track to do $600k a MONTH.
How?
I made him a tool that uses ChatGPT to scrape a list of leads, and email them a custom PDF proposal
...for thousands of leads a day
...with a couple $20 tools
Comment "send" to get the full tutorial (must be following)
Struggling to scale your agency on Upwork?
I’ve cracked the SEO code on Upwork to rank for the most popular keywords in your niche.
This works if you’re in Web Development, Graphic Design or Copywriting.
Like + Comment “Upwork” and I’ll DM it to you
(Must follow)
My clients make $50k per month on UPWORK with my automated Upwork Lead Gen strategy
I made a tutorial showing you:
-Upwork search strategy for hyper-focused lead flow
-the "keyword matrix" (for 100x volume)
Comment "send" and I'll DM you the sauce (must be following)
My clients earn $10k - 100k per MONTH from Upwork
I found a secret "hack" to find million-dollar Upwork profiles in any niche
Use this to
✅ Find the top profiles for ANY niche
✅ Copy what they do
✅ Get more $$$
👉 Comment "send" to get it (must follow)
My clients make up to $50k per month on UPWORK with my automated Upwork Lead Gen strategy
I made a tutorial showing you:
-Upwork search strategy for hyper-focused lead flow
-the "keyword matrix" (for 100x volume)
Comment "send" and I'll DM you the sauce (must be following)
I built an "Upwork Funnel Hacking" tool
✅ Plug in your niche/keyword ("google ads", "webflow", "klaviyo", "wordpress" etc)
✅ See all 7-figure Upwork profiles for your niche
✅ Copy their bio, pricing etc (profit!)
Comment "send" to get it (must be following)
I built an Upwork SEO/Keyword Research tool
Use it to:
-scrape hundreds of jobs
-find the most common keywords
-"SEO optimize' your profile & get inbound leads
None of the gurus have even come close to figuring out this strategy
Comment "send" and I'll DM the full tutorial
How to make $100,000 on Upwork PER MONTH for your B2B agency
...with high-ticket clients each worth $5k-25k
I recorded a video showing you:
-search design so you're ONLY left with $5k+ clients waiting to buy
-the "keyword matrix" for 100x more high-ticket volume
-common search
I built an "Upwork Funnel Hacking" tool.
✅ Plug in your niche/keyword ("google ads", "webflow", "klaviyo", "wordpress" etc)
✅ See all 7-figure Upwork profiles for your niche
✅ Copy their bio, pricing etc (profit!)
Comment "send" to get it (must be following)
I built a tool that automates the job of a $3,000 a month Twitter agency...using $10/mo tools:
-scrapes your new followers daily
-"ranks" users based on bio & location
-DM the qualified users (custom scoring) and close deals
Comment “send” and I’ll DM you the full tutorial
I made an Automated Upwork Lead Gen system
Clients are closing $6k+ deals with this
Use it to:
-find jobs on Upwork automatically every 60s
-get phone/email notifications for new jobs (bid first)
-split test messages (win more)
RT + comment "Upwork Automation" to get the video
*Upwork SEO/ranking hack*
I figured out how to rank the most popular keywords for your niche on Upwork (based on hundreds of relevant jobs)
None of the Upwork gurus have even come close to figuring out this strategy
Comment "send" and I'll DM the video
*must be following*
How to use ChatGPT to automate Google Docs custom proposals for your prospects
I recorded a video breaking down:
-demo of the functionality
-link to the source code & templates
-instructions for how to modify it
Retweet & Comment "GPT Automation" and I'll auto-DM you the sauce
A real estate client of mine is on track to do $600k a MONTH (they started at 0 in January, grew to $80k, got stuck, then called me)
At the heart of it all is the ability to auto-generate and send 100s of customized PDF proposals to prospects per day.
I made a video showing you
I built a free, open-source CRM
🤖 connect any API, add any automation
📈 avg calls to close, close time, deal source by month, etc
📅 automatically adds calls from your calendar (calendly, gcal, etc)
Want the code AND installation instructions FREE?
comment "CRM" below
I hate CRMs.
I can't easily see which leads we have a follow-up call booked with (we use a combination of Calendly, booking follow-up calls in manually, and occasionally booking calls on prospect's calendars)
So our CRM was always out of date.
The automations are clunky.
I hate CRMs.
Always forget to update it
Too many graphs I don't need
Crappy automation options
Can't customize what I want
so I built an open-source, no-code CRM.
Modify what you want, delete whatever...I don't care.
Want it?
comment "CRM" and I'll DM you the download link
I built an Automated Twitter Funnel.
Used it to sign 5 clients last week.
Heres how it works:
-gets my new followers automatically, every day, and imports profile info into airtable
-calculates a "lead score" based on keywords in bio, link in profile, and country (finds
I built a tool that automates the job of a $3,000 a month Twitter agency...using free tools:
✅ custom "rank" your followers based on bio & location
✅ DM the qualified users and close deals
Comment “twitter machine” & I’ll DM you the tool & instructions
There are 131 Upwork Millionaires.
ie: Upwork freelancer profiles that have earned at least $1,000,000.
Here's a tool I built to find the Upwork Millionaires that...
-do exactly what you do ("webflow")
-are in your country (yes, even non-Americans make serious cash)
-so you
Here's the math of $43,200 a month from Upwork:
There are 3,000,000 Upwork jobs posted per day
For most B2B niches, there are around 20-50 high ticket ($5k+ opportunities a day)
Let's say you apply to only 4 of them
8-16 Connects per job (these are like credits on Upwork,
We built this government permit checker for a roofing client in Florida. Gets an address, then checks whether the permit was approved every hour.
We have a list (in Airtable) of the different counties/municipalities, and each has a corresponding webhook address, which triggers a
I created a free "Automate Your Business" course
One lesson a day for 5 days, straight to your inbox
Based on:
✅15 years of automation experience (manufacturing automation for Nestle/Mars/Kraft foods/pharma)
✅1500 automations built in the last year for our clients that
We use this Cashflow Tracker tool with multiple 7-figure agencies
Use it to track:
LTV
Profit Margins & rev shares
Annual Projections
Monthly Growth
Follow + comment "OpsKings" and I'll DM the link
How I find high-ticket ($5k-25k) projects for my agency clients on Upwork
(while eliminating the junk, low ticket jobs, and finding them the least competitive opportunities)
The key -- knowing how to get around several limitations in Upwork Search:
-It can't identify the
We built this automation for an SEO client -- it reads RSS feeds of news articles on competitors sites, then re-writes the articles and publishes them on his Wordpress website
Part 1: get articles from RSS feed & store original article HTML (in Airtable)
Part 2: the user
I took an agency client from $120k to $480k/yr in 2 years by implementing a few high school math equations that automated a $1500/mo project manager's job
AND was 30% more accurate than humans
Here’s how you can:
-take your “complex” decision making and judgement calls you ask
3,000,000 jobs posted on Upwork daily.
Here's how to isolate JUST the Google Ads jobs for ecom brands
Step 1:
-isolate the ads looking for a google ads person, from those that say things like "we run google ads to a landing page...we need someone to call the people that opt in"
Want me to build a custom AirTable "operating system" for your business FREE?
With:
✅ client portals
⚙️ team dashboards
📈 automated KPIs & metrics for your process
ie: exactly the same setup our clients use to scale 3-5x in MONTHS because their team can self-manage?
When I joined Client Ascension, I didn't even have a domain registered.
I had a vague idea of an offer.
But, got 12 people on recurring billing for a SaaS I developed AFTER joining the program. On track to hit $50k mrr by eoy. Not bad.
We built a "Spintax Machine" for one of our b2b cold email clients
🌀select spintax templates for intro, body, footer etc
🌀"spintaxify" offers with GPT
🌀 generate the script google doc (works for 1-5 emails)
(so you can auto-send for QA to your clients in slack or email)
Before starting any automation work, we build a flowchart of the business processes (a "Company Brain") on a call with the client
Here are some of the questions we typically ask on these calls
(better if you get someone totally unfamiliar with your process to ask you these, as
My biggest problem before joining Client Ascension was lack of lead flow
My biggest problem after joining Client Ascension is too little time to follow up with all of the leads.
Funny how things work -- went from "I have so much time on my hands" to "I cofounded a 4-person
I want to easily 5x my MRR in the next 60 days.
Does anyone know of a company that can book me 30-50 qualified leads per month with Twitter or Instagram outreach... maybe with some sort of AI DM infrastructure?
Haven't heard of anyone who does this 🤔
Pls DM and follow up
Don't automate your business.
Cancel your Zapier subscription. Fire your automations guy.
Instead:
Use a piece of paper and pen (and nothing more) to keep track of your clients
Don't use a computer.
If you can manage your client load on a piece of paper, and it doesn't
**LIVE AirTable For Agency Owners Workshop**
Want to see how I'd build an Airtable for YOUR biz?
🤯 Back by popular demand
📅 Thursday
✅ See the real use cases I'd recommend for you
comment "airtable" and I'll DM you the signup link (yes, it'll be recorded)
To design an Upwork search for maximum volume (probably what you need if you're an agency, and not just a solo freelancer), you need to target every conceivable combination of terms customers use.
Ie: if a client is targeting ecommerce, I don't just search "ecommerce"
DTC
D2c
.
@andrehaykaljr
runs businesses making $5mm a year. He's an ops GOAT, and no stranger to automation.
But when
@clientascen
had a tricky problem with their student onboarding and 3 different coaches in the program recommended he talk to me, he did.
Here's Andre's take.
Remember in math class when the teacher asked
"what's the graph of y = x³ - 2x + 4?"
Then some smartass in the back (who now either works at McDonald's or has a lambo and sells courses on how to make more money online) yelled out "when are we going to use this in the REAL
Want to know who finds all the high-ticket jobs on Upwork?
my clients do.
17 searches, all maxed out at 500 characters each (the upwork limit)
checked automatically every few mins
this is how you maximize volume for highly-relevant "google/fb/insta ads for ecom" jobs.
seems
How to scrape Youtube, onlyf*ns, reddit, google ads, whatsapp, telegram etc - there's a marketplace of 1500+ scrapers
Lead gen sources on steroids
Run it from the browser, or integrate it with your automations. Super easy to use.
The tool? Apify
Bookmark this and share with
Automation Idea
#3
Use Airtable formulas to compose a weekly client update. With the right formula, everything can be copy/paste into slack or email
(just remember to add HTML tags if via email)
Faster to tweak formatting this way, and lower risk than auto-sending
Here are 5 Upwork search bugs that prevent your B2B agency from finding the most high-ticket ($5k-$25k) clients:
If you ignore these:
-you'll not only be drowned in crap opportunities (so you miss the best stuff)
-you'll be so slow to apply to the best stuff (and your proposal
We've automated the fastest growing cold email lead gen agencies on Twitter
(check our youtube for 8-10 lead gen agency testimonials, where we helped them go from $5k-25k, $10k-50k etc)
here's a 16min guide to automating your cold email agency:
-the 5 automations they "can't
You don't need any automation if you're at less than $10k per month.
You don't have enough volume for your zaps to be valuable.
And the time you spend building and maintaining them should have been spent on content, outreach, working for free, generating case studies etc.
Here's our cold email automation playbook
Steal these ideas to automate your SmartLead/Instantly-based lead gen agency
-Screenshots of the graphs, slack bots, campaign health scores you can build
📈 "Production velocity" for campaign productivity (ie: finding bottlenecks in
Before you automate anything, write out:
-the trigger event
-the event(s) that happen after
Try to describe this in a logically-complete way. Capture all the boundary cases as well (ie: what happens if the record isn't found in AirTable? What happens if the slack channel isn't
How to build business systems that ACTUALLY make you more $$
**We've built 1300+ automation features for clients over the past year, and most of them scaled 2-5x in that same timeframe ($100k/mo ->$300k/mo, $5k->$93k/mo, $5k->50k, and so on**
But, I've ALSO made the mistake in
This took me 3 years to learn. I will teach it to you in 3 minutes.
The reason you do not get enough views on YouTube is bad thumbnails.
Here’s how to fix it and get your first million views:
Alex Hormozi made an hour-long video explaining everything you need for a business to be sellable.
#7
is “Automated Metric Tracking”
Here are my 7 favorite metrics you can track automatically, and how to set it up for your business
Benefits of doing this:
-decrease churn (ie:
We onboarded a client in 14 minutes this week.
They joined Slack at 11:14pm.
By 11:28pm they'd filled in the onboarding form.
The mechanism was a Slack API custom bot (that invites the client to slack, tracks when they join, and sends the onboarding steps immediately)
But I
@gunsnrosesgirl3
all of them could be...or maybe not.
the water in the first is accelerating backwards (the truck itself could be driving in reverse or going forward but slowing down)
the water in the second is moving at a steady state (which could be zero) - it could be moving steadily
**Live AirTable Workshop**
🤯 Back by popular demand
📅 Thursday
✅ Watch me build an Airtable for one business, live on the call
comment "airtable" and I'll DM you the signup link
Yo guys this is crazy.
Thank you to all of you who seem to also be fans of dorky automation, algorithms, code, math and terribly produced loom videos
🙏🙏🙏
We're hiring a video editor + thumbnail designer
-you need a lightning fast internet connection (ie: good enough for zoom video calls at least)
-full time person, not an agency
-very basic edits (ie: no weird effects... literally just cutting out mistakes and incorporating
11 Bugs & Best Practices with Upwork search
** follow this guide if you're an agency owner looking for VOLUME of $5k+ long term clients, regardless of industry**
(If you mess this up, Upwork search returns VERY unexpected results):
1. Don't use hourly rate filtering.
The
Here's a 90-day roadamp to make your business ops smooth like butter so you can take on infinite clients
We've used this exact playbook to 5x-10x several agencies in the past year
steal it to:
✅Chill out, knowing your team is running things
✅Build automations that are STABLE
Want to automate/streamline your business, but not sure where to start?
We work with businesses from $15k to $2 million a month, and this is the process we follow with all of them to:
-streamline even really small businesses (step 1-2 work even if you're at 5-10k)
-make sense of
How to auto-generate (and send) hundreds of custom PDFs via email
Use it for things like:
-custom marketing proposals for your leads
-custom (and automated) ebook info products
-automated real estate offers
Source data could come from:
-checkout page
-email subscriber (domain)
Here's an automation we built for our lead gen clients this week -- auto- (draft) invoices based on the tech fee + number of booked (and showed) calls
If you have a business that invoices based on your project management/CRM system, a similar system will probably work for you
3 months ago I asked
@LogFitz6
how long I'd have to share content before something popped
I genuinely thought I'd have to sit and reply to influencers all day or hope that my friends retweeted me.
He basically said that sometimes, you just hit product/market fit, something
Question-
We're thinking of running an Ops Workshop (1-2h on Zoom), for agency owners at $5-15k who want to scale to $25-50k (basically, how you set up systems & tech to go from feeling like a glorified freelancer, to being able to have your team & tools run the entire process
My clients pay me to design Upwork Lead Gen systems that generate $5k - $25k leads on demand (and filter out the low-ticket junk of Upwork)
Made a super detailed tutorial on how I do this (maximizing volume, extreme filtering), but some of y'all haven't seen it yet
Here ya go:
After designing Airtable builds & dashboards for probably 50+ different business models (roofing to UGC and everything in between)...
I've realized the business models just fit into 1 of 6 archetypes
(find your biz model + KPIs + archetype below)
Never hire an automation guy who got less than 90% in high school math.
You need someone who sees your complex business problems as intellectual child's play
I'll give you $500 and a job if you can complete this Airtable challenge.
Challenge: build an Airtable base that replicates this graph (from one of my YouTube videos)
This graph tracks the amount of time spent in each step of a kanban
(it updates in real-time, without our
For a limited time, get my latest video for just $998 ;)
(nah, for real though, it's free...just comment "pineapple is delicious on pizza" below and I'll DM you the video)
Having trouble building an automation for your biz that's actually...USEFUL?
I had this problem for years -- clients would come to me, ask for something to be automated, I'd build it out, but when I checked in with them months later, they weren't using my amazing system.
There
I worked for an engineering firm from 2009 to 2013, designing manufacturing automation software for clients that did coal processing, baby food, snack food, chocolate bars, pharma etc.
Projects ranged from a few hundred thousand (small) to millions
I got to build automations to
Wanted: Geniuses.
We're growing & hiring (another) developer at OpsKings.
Business owners scaling past 50k, 100k, and sometimes millions a month have problems
Our business analysts meet with the client to identify what these are
Our UX/UI/solutions experts figure out a proof
I've been to 61 countries...here's where to get the best:
Coffee: Kota Kinabalu, Borneo (Malaysia)
Beaches: Thailand
Women: Russia & Ukraine
Fire show: Koh Tao, Thailand
Scuba diving: Sipadan Island, Borneo (Malaysia)
Speakeasy: New York
Snorkeling: Red sea (I went in
My Automated Upwork Lead Gen service now ranks the skill your clients are asking for...by average value
So now you can optimize your profile not just by the most common skills, but also the most profitable.
(ie: in this case, for a demo IT client, they're better off positioning
"AI Automation" is a myth.
If you pitch "AI Automation":
-you WILL get calls booked
-you WILL get curiosity about what you do
-but you WON'T be able to collect any cash or get testimonials.
Why? Because people will only pay you when they see the results you've generated for
Imagine trying to be a lead gen agency...
Then competing with our clients that can auto-scrape leads from Apollo, verify them (MillionVerifier), then set up campaigns, then run them on autopilot.
I'd almost NEVER automate an email to a client (esp for high-ticket)
but you can still automatically generate a DRAFT email (which a person can customize and send)
Partial automation can still get you 90%+ of the results
(automating alerts, draft email creation, defaults etc)
Here's how automation ACTUALLY makes you more money:
(no, it's not from "saving time")
instead, the two much larger benefits:
1) You can be hyper-aggressive on sales & marketing (since you aren't wasting time on tedious tasks)
2) Your clients get a better result, faster, more
Here's why you should NEVER do automation as a "project"
(copy this strategy to save $20k, and avoid Jordan's mistake)
Silicon Valley (and most professional software companies) moved away from project-based work a couple decades ago.
Here's why:
The vendor either under-quote
I paid a no code developer in December to build a custom platform
The founder is a friend
I paid 10k upfront and 10k on completion
Scope was 3 months
Project never finished
We parted ways
I really got Fd here
The developer/AM sucked so hard
Now I need to pay another
Upwork search has limitations...cannot distinguish between
-"we are looking for a webflow agency" and "we are a webflow agency" (ideal customer...or your competition)
-cannot filter by description length ("I need a good website" or overly lengthy corporate that wants you on
Who wants Upwork job alerts as browser notifications?
customized to your ideal client
With targeted projects PLUS browser alerts my clients will be able to apply first
...for every conceivable job in their niche
...and win more projects than anyone else on the planet.