results and case studies

The System Works. Here's The Proof

Name: A $50K month after raising his prices
Author: Mason Price

See how we help freelancers and agency owners close bigger projects through positioning, content and sales systems.

$9,489,879 in confirmed member deals.

24 members now running $100K+ months.

Rob genuinely cares about your business

Chris Halaska

Halaska Studio

Rob was a turning point in my career

Adrian Kuleszo

DesignMe

I felt lost. Now it finally makes sense

Alex Aperios

Aperios Design

Thank you a million for the push, Rob

Alex Socoloff

Produx Design

The support keeps me on the right track

Felice Della Gatta

felicedellagatta.com

Rob's guidance has been a huge help

Kaiwan Shaban

kaiwanshaban.com

Working with Rob, the business boomed

Amjad Arif

Jades Agency

Still catching up on our crazy growth

Stephen Wise

Demandflow

The sales module has been super helpful

Christopher Chen

Monolith Society

The community is the cherry on top

Rahul Luthra

Designment

Grateful for the mentorship and momentum

Sajon Islam

OrixCreative

Not possible without Rob's guidance

Miki Adamus

FOMO*

After one call I had a plan to follow

Ethan Suero

Suero Studio

Rob's program changed my life

Huy Nguyen

MONOLOG

Rob and the program were super helpful

Tom Koszyk

Hologram Design

The brand messaging shift really clicked

Walker John Moses

Partywave

The sales call training really helped

Mason Price

WenLaunch

So much tangible benefit, so quickly

Zebediah Miller

Brightsite

This sales process is a game changer

Caleb Wilson

Ubloom Digital

The new version of the program is fire

Robert Avram

Nuova

Our sales cycle got 80% shorter

Santiago Cortes

Naranja Media

The sales module landed me a retainer

Himanshu Tomar

Quick14 Studio

Appreciate everything Rob has built here

Enes Aktas

Deserve Studio

Charging for strategy made the value clear

Sumit Hegde

Beetle Beetle

The sales framework was night and day

Basil Alosious

Basenine

Our sales calls are now far better

Karan Ruparel

Dacoit Design

The program has helped massively

Tommy Callaghan

Manna Design

Now only the right clients come inbound

Prachi Sethi

This is it Studio

Thanks Rob, so much more clarity

Victor Martins

Nova Studios

Thanks for challenging me on my offer

Felix Dorner

felixdorner.de

Rob's content unlocked so much for me

Daksh Aswal

PixelUp Labs

10/10. Paid off within a couple of months

Vytas Bu

Outframe

You have no idea how grateful I am

Fernando Bisca Escanhoela

Hippo Design

This actually unlocked a lot for me

Ross Hatton

rosshatton.com

Your input helped us a lot getting here

Julia Chaigneau

This is it Studio

Our new positioning is finally working

Parth Gaurav

Digi Hotshot

I built my own ceiling. Rob shattered it

Jędrzej Frankowski

ByteSmith

Rob and Jenna gave me a lot

Vlad Ignat

Dixi Agency

I really love the sales call structure

Dan Gough

FirstFlight

My highest earning months, ever

Victoria Bakos

Miso Agency

Hats off to Rob, Jenna and the team

Jeremiah Bouchard

Kargul Studio

It helped us nail our positioning

Marcel Kargul

Kargul Studio

I vouch for what Rob teaches

Andrey Chernyshuk

landing.services

Thanks for the hard work and dedication

Daniel G Bright

BrightStudios

3 qualified inbound leads in 2 weeks

Dominik Mészáros

fackt.io

Everything I learned with Rob compounds

Leopoldo Pirela

L & S Creative Agency

Love the content and the structure

Victor Deaconu

Baseline Agency

Built a client funnel with Rob, and damn

Tim Gabe

Zipzap Design

Rob actually follows up and cares

Tim de Winters

Winsbits Creative Studio

Exactly the system I was hoping for

James Montgomery

Satellite Design

Rob is the best in the game for sure!

Ali Dalton

Makely Studio

Amazing support and encouragement

Avalon Portolan

Studio Portolan

Rob's program was a no-brainer

Philip Pitus

UX/UI designer

One of my best investments in myself

Josh Francis

joshuafrancis.ca

The goal setting module was crazy helpful

Will Hendrickson

WTTR Labs

Night and day. I nearly went in-house

Kevin Korpi

Holdfast Studio

Rob's advice and resources are so helpful

Linus Lehbrink

nullzwei

So much value from the live calls

Marko Ilic

see.design

The feedback is gold. Thanks Jenna

Jon Li

Lime Studio

First client since joining, so stoked

Ben Boulle

Vertical Pro

Repositioned the offer. Bigger projects and a best-ever £50K month.

Alex Aperios

Aperios Design

Before:

Great work and happy clients, but his quotes kept hitting the same ceiling. Clients didn't see the full value of what the studio could do for them.

What we built:

New positioning that leads with the client's problem and the result, not the design. Then a booking system, pre-call talking points and a structured sales call, plus content that shows buyers what he can do.

After:

A £30K project from a single post, a £40K client project, and a best-ever £50K month. Then closed a £20K project for a logo alone.

"Clients didn't completely see the full potential of what we did. Once we changed the positioning, demand went up and the projects got bigger, and I hit my best month yet at £50K."

£30K

From one post

£40K

Single client project

£50K

Best month

Went upmarket. Built premium retainers and $100K months.

Chris Halaska

Halaska Studio

Before:

Our current site doesn't clearly communicate our value. Time for a reset.

What we built:

A repositioning around premium product design and AI, with the content and sales process to match.

After:

Bigger, premium clients, retainers stacked on top (one running over a year), and best months of $60K-$100K+. The studio is now the name people point to when they want it done right.

"When I joined Profitable Skills, I was optimistically aiming for $200K a year for my new agency. With Rob's help, we reworked the positioning and implemented a pre-sale funnel, helping me land a $400K client. Within 12 months, we scaled to over $1M AUD in revenue — 5x the original goal."

$100K+

MRR

$400K

Largest deal value

$1M

Annual revenue

Built the content machine. Closed $40K from one post.

Huy Nguyen

Monolog

Before:

Stuck at the same revenue, with no real system for positioning, content or sales.

What we built:

Positioning, a content system aimed at buyers instead of other designers, and a sales process to close what came in.

After:

Real inbound from content, including a $40K project straight from a LinkedIn post, and a major agency reaching out to collaborate. Now landing premium projects consistently.

"Profitable Skills gave me the systems, positioning, and confidence I was missing. I learned how to run proper sales calls and leverage my social presence strategically. I dropped out of university to go full-time, launched my own studio, and now consistently hit $10K–$20K months while confidently closing $20K deals."

$40K

Project from content

$20K

Average deal size

$10-20K

Monthly revenue

Members are closing $20K, $50K and $100K+ projects, landing bigger clients and building businesses that don't start from zero every month.

Became an enterprise client's design department at $30K a month

"I was one of the early members of this program. Back then business was slow, but I got great help from Rob, which later resulted in the business booming. We signed an enterprise client at $30K a month to be their design department, and grew another client from $1.8K to $7K a month. This summer we locked a new $16K/month retainer, which takes us towards $72K a month."

Amjad Arif

Jades Agency · Design growth partner, Morocco

One post booked 12 intro calls with deep tech founders

"We'd been figuring out our content funnel for a few months, trying to reach our exact ICP: deep tech founders and technical teams, not the easiest crowd to reach organically on X and LinkedIn. A few days ago I posted something that got 70K+ views, but more importantly it booked us 12 new intro calls from our exact ICP. It feels like we finally understood what actually resonates with them. Rob and Jenna's input over the last few months helped us a lot getting here."

Julia Chaigneau

This is it Studio · Brand & product design

$86K in one month, including a $57K product design project

"April was our strongest month so far. We secured a $57K product design project from Saudi Arabia, a big milestone for us. A $29.2K website project from Dubai stalled when the founder's manager pushed back. Rob's advice was to stay quiet until they reached out. A month later, the client came back to move forward."

Sajon Islam

OrixCreative · Product & UX design

A $59K project and a $65K month in motion design

"I landed a $59K project. It wouldn't have been possible without all the guidance from Rob. May was my best month ever for proposals signed off, $65K in total. It definitely bent my mind in terms of what's possible."

Miki Adamus

FOMO* · Motion design

A $47.5K brand + website sprint in month 2

"Month 2 of the program and I landed a $47.5K brand and website sprint for a tech startup. One of the quickest, easiest sales to date. A big part of it, I believe, was the brand messaging shift that really clicked with this startup."

Walker John Moses

Partywave · Brand & web design

A $50K month after raising his prices

"August was a $50K month, and September is on track to be even better. The biggest thing is raising prices. The sales call part of the course has definitely helped. This week I felt confident sending my biggest quote yet, at over $30K."

Mason Price

WenLaunch · Framer web design

X post from Mumo: @theroborourke is the goat of agency systems

Slack message from Fernando Bisca Escanhoela: Had a chat today with the founder of a network for eCommerce founders in Europe. Got added to his list of vetted agencies for the brands to work with : )

X post from Klejdi: It's full of gold nuggets Vansh, 10/10

Slack message from Sajon Islam: April has been our strongest month so far. We secured a $57K USD product design project from Saudi Arabia, which is a big milestone for us.

On top of that, we've already landed four additional smaller projects this month. Grateful for the mentorship and the momentum we're building. 🔥

Slack message from Zebediah Miller: Rob has definitely helped me sign $20K in new deals! The insights from the program actually helped me sign my biggest deal ever ($49.5K)!

X post from Vinay Juneja: @theroborourke, I've been a huge admirer of your work and videos specially, and I've got lots of mails in inbox, that are just fire

Slack message from Victoria Bakos: Oh!! @Jenna the follow up with proof works

hahahah

shock!

Closed it!

Hi Victoria,

Thanks for the email and your patience with us. We appreciate the examples you provided and it does give us more confidence.

We discussed internally and would love to get started with the amended offer

Slack message from George Collier: At $90k MRR now.

Recent progress:

✅ One upgrade from $6k/mo to $12k/mo for this client
✅ One upgrade from $3k/mo to $6k/mo for an existing client we've been working with for a while
✅ $23k new build kicked off
🆕 2x clients waitlisted @ $6k/mo

X post from Alex Aperios: ...It quickly hit 10k! Once I scaled to 20k a month I also hit a wall. That's where the awesome @theroborourke came In. Still working on this and my offering. But I hit a very comfortable $70k last month, 50k GBP. I now send simple proposals at minimum 25k, much larger projects will be 50k + won't be long until I'm charging 100k...

Slack message from Prachi Sethi: Since started working @Rob O'Rourke and @Jenna we've tightened our positioning to deep tech and consumer hardware.

The last few months it has really paid off for us. Yesterday we got signed on a $20K contract against a 7 year old agency (we are only 1.5 years old) for our domain expertise and reputation.

Slack message from Vlad Ignat: Hey guys, I have my first client since we started the $6k project, I'm really in shock 🤩 Just one week and first really strong lead

Slack message from Tommaso Marcantonio: Closed a 14 days audit deal for 2k euros with 0 sales experience after reading the sales guide pdf

Another 3k euros deal coming next week

X post from Luke Dalton: @theroborourke is legit the best in the game. He's given me tips and guidance for my studio that I just could not find anywhere else.

Slack message from Zebediah Miller: First lead in through the new booking flow — really nice to have more info to go off of going into the intro call!

Slack message from Daksh Aswal: wow that was fast.

Closed the very first lead that went through the 2 email sequence. Did the call with them yesterday and they finalised everything today!

This is with the price increase, thanks again @Rob O'Rourke

Slack message from Luke Dalton: Got a booked call
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Good budget too, also used the course to create a much better proposal slide deck

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): Just got off a call for a 5K$ one-off (60 sec) video project. Likely goes through. If video is a success there’s probably a retainer option available since they have more work done like website and ads.

Slack message from Dominik Mészáros: Been grinding on outreach hard - closed like 4 deals within a week roughly 12k$ worth. Sent out proposals for another 7k$. July looks promising!

Slack message from Basil Alosious: Closed a $25k website rebrand this month, plus just started a $3k trial that’s lined up to roll into a $20k+ redesign.

But the bigger win for me is how. Instead of running discovery calls my usual way, I went through the new modules and followed the call framework exactly as taught. Night and day difference.

X post from heyflo: Rob is a legend, his stuff helped me so much when I started on my own.

Slack message from Alex Socoloff: Not sure if it counts as a win or not, but at least for me, it's a win 😅
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Signed a $15,000 contract for a pitch deck design (total 25 pages)
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Literally a message from a CEO, "Alex, I'm seeing your work on my feed for the first time, great style, are you open for a very urgent project?"

Slack message from Stephen Wise: Currently trying to catch up on the crazy growth we’ve had this year (on track to hit back to back $100k+ months which is double what we were doing when we signed up 😅)
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A huge proportion of work is coming inbound, through LinkedIn content.

Slack message from Anthony Ameji: I started copying Rob's content strategy just about 2 weeks ago and when I joined Jenna & Rob helped me review our new website especially the copy before we published it, it went live & 3 days later we got our first lead from the website, it was in the $50k range(our largest inquiry so far).

X post from Mason Price: Talk to @theroborourke

Slack message from George Collier: Btw, both the company that was looking to hire internally, and the lead that validated our app holding back business logic chain, are probably going to close

So since starting early in the week, that's about $10k/mo additional revenue whereas I think if I was doing my sales calls as I was before and without the clarified positioning, we'd have got maybe $3k/mo

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: @Rob O'Rourke just got two more leads booked from Linkedin, 1 very solid lead and 1 looking decent. Not sure if it's coincidental given last week I only posted expert/results content, but it's great to see the pipeline trickling in again

Slack message from Himanshu Tomar: Just closed a $20K product design project
Starting from tomorrow ^_^

X post from Nils: Appreciate all your value bomb drops - I am actually following your advice and building my system slowly step by step

Slack message from Ethan Suero: Nice win to end the year, $21k Webflow dev for a VC company, there will be more work during the next year

Slack message from Tom Koszyk: took a sh*tload of time but finally closed and signed $75k+ deal today. Huge thanks @Rob O'Rourke both your insights and the course were super helpful

Slack message from Victor Deaconu: Adding my fair share of small wins for last month.

Had my highest revenue month with 38k in October.

X post from Aditya: ...last year agency revenue was good ($160k)... seeing a lot of great designers getting their worth because of you!

Slack message from Sajon Islam: January win 🥇

Successfully completed a $30k design project. Small in size, but big in impact.

The client was more than satisfied and is already opening the door to additional projects.

Slack message from Julia Chaigneau: Wanted to share a win from the studio.

A few days ago I posted something that got 70k+ views but more importantly it booked us 12 new intro calls from our exact ICP.

And thank you @Rob O'Rourke and @Jenna your input over the last few months helped us a lot getting here.

Slack message from Maria: July was great with leads and it feels like the work we’ve done in the program is landing well on the website. Sales calls have gotten easier because of that.

That said, we closed 20k and 40k within the same week. Other than that, we also signed an 8k project

X post from Ali Dalton: @theroborourke is the best in the game for sure! Invaluable advice for my studio.

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): First win of 2026 ✅

Just got an approval for developing a website in framer for €5K! Delivery on 1st of feb.

Since I want to focus on Framer websites in 2026, which I really enjoy lately, closing this one feels good 💪🏻

Slack message from Robert Avram: Huge win this month, $46K deal signed.
MedTech startup client from Romania.

Initial offer was $70k but eventually we reduced the scope for a leaner first part.

Fastest, most natural close we’ve ever had.

Seems like we're heading towards our first $50k+ month.

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): Boom! Another monthly plan (for now just 1 month) closed of 8K$!
I feel like my website does the trick + clients can book in a sales call easier = better chances of success
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$52K revenue in 4 months 💪🏻

X post from Vinay Juneja: @theroborourke GOAT fr

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: Finally closed a $15k design only project for a big company here in Vietnam, took 2-3 months to sort everything out. I’d say showing the results that I provided for previous clients really helped build confidence for them to move forward with me.

X post from Marina Budarina: Arrived to Krakow & Finally met in person with @theroborourke sales guru!

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: just closed a $20k deal this monday and been focusing on delivering on 3 projects as well.

Slack message from Dylan Vandamme: Today had sales call, went really good. The video you've sent over also helped

Closed the lead for middle package €5.5k

+ monthly €50 retainer

X post from Enes Aktaş: October at Deserve: 2 new hires joining the team. Started working with @theroborourke on Deserve V4 shaping our 2026 roadmap... We're scaling a boutique-yet-enterprise studio model that's already shipped 100+ projects for 70+ brands

Slack message from Felix Dorner: Thanks for all the help during onboarding, especially for challenging me on my offer!

Btw. the startup wants to move forward with me and opted for the higher tier (8k/mo). Waiting for contracts now. I guess that's a win! 🎉

Slack message from Alex Aperios: did an outreach of an enquiry from a while back. £25k GBP secured. 💪🏼

X post from Jazim: @theroborourke was the person who's Cold Pitch Reel helped me to get my first ever design client. Huge Respect for him.

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): Just got off a 2nd call with a lead
We agreed on 7K$ /mo + 5% rev ✅
Guaranteed 2 months of work so that’s 14K$ locked in.

TY for the support @Rob O'Rourke

Slack message from Ross Hatton: Just landed a 25k project from a founder I’d been chipping away at since September last year!

Was honestly just casually pinging him every now and then to stay top of mind... I even did the classic “happy new year hope business is going well” email tactic which received NO reply. I thought the deal was dead 😆

But yeah, glad to have this one finally locked up!

X post from Gabriel Lindh: I took a web design course by @theroborourke which was amazing. Helped me gain some amazing skills.

X post from Rahul Luthra: Steady $60k/m for August... Started to work on email campaigns with @theroborourke - highly suggest his program! September already starting off strong: Kicking off a couple of product design + a website project (almost $40k locked in over 2 months)...

Slack message from Prachi Sethi: Finally hit $20K this month! Have been consistently posting 2-3 times a week on X and LinkedIn. Generated quite a bit of leads, converted about 90% of them but ended up filtering them as per our ICP.

Will experiment with new pricing in December-January with the new positioning and website! Excited to see real scale in 2026 with @Rob O'Rourke 🫶🏻

Slack message from Daniel de Mello: Very happy with what I’ve gotten from yall so far, appreciate it

Slack message from Victor Martins: @Rob O'Rourke update
Client agreed. from $17K ----> $35K and a monthly retainer afterwards

X post from Matt Vidal: Ever since I started following your advice, my mindset has shifted. I'm trying to put all the knowledge I've gained.

Slack message from Arushi Gupta: GOT FIRST CALL BOOKED FROM X! @Rob O'Rourke @Jenna

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY FOR 2 MONTHS NOW!

Best notification 🙂

Slack message from Rahul Luthra: just wanted to update on the content strategy we talk about here, I cannot recommend it more! last 5 weeks i've been super consistent with posting at least 3 times a day and mostly authority based content and I've never seen such consistent flow of leads come through from X

X post from Negru Andrei: Scaled Windify to ~$150k ARR (avg $12k MRR) solo. But going from here to $100k MRR? Whole different game. So I teamed up with @theroborourke to master client acquisition: sales funnels, lead magnets, systems. Following the path of Adrian, Chris, Andrey & others. Time to level up. Let's build.

Slack message from Rob Faulkner: Just signed another client that I have been nurturing for the past 2 -3 weeks. It's a €21k project spread out over seven months.
That's €35k secured this week, for two projects, over the next 7-8 months.
Very pleased with myself.
Finally getting paid what my value is worth, which will allow me to do a better job and get better results for my clients.
It feels good gentlemen.

Slack message from Himanshu Tomar: Jan was a bit slow but Feb is off to a great start

Closed a $9K project yesterday, with a $3K retainer lined up for ongoing maintenance.
Closed an $11K landing page design project today.
Landed the first inbound lead from Threads.
2 meetings scheduled for tomorrow.

X is still working out fine, even with lower impressions

Slack message from Kevin Korpi: Just signed a retainer with a big deal hollywood director working on an AI editing and filmmaking platform for his studio. Partnering with Google Deepmind. Kind of a dream project for me.

X post from Josh: Three months into the Profitable Skills program with @theroborourke has taught me more about positioning than years of freelancing on my own... Even at this early stage in the program, I've seen almost immediate results in how I run my sales calls now. People used to get off still deciding. Now they get off excited, already sure they want to work with me... I was genuinely on the fence about joining. A few months in, this is one of the best investments I've made...

Slack message from Basil Alosious: It’s been really busy

march has been the biggest month so far!
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just closed another one yesterday night for 17K

almost at 42K

😎

X post from Alex: I have been following your journey from afar, I'm proud to be your student!

Slack message from Daksh Aswal: october was a good month. Closed a really big client for $35k

Slack message from Rishav Kumar: I missed the major part of social media section but now going over them and it's really really helpful

X post from Mark: @theroborourke made a really insightful post a few weeks ago on how to get past this. You can check it out.

Slack message from Ethan Suero: I sent a quote for $17.5k and he went for it, so that’s another little project for April, which is a good thing, he’s happy to wait.

X post from Muhammad Salman: @theroborourke I watched your free Sales Training Video, which was around 80 minutes long, and it helped me a lot

Slack message from Sajon Islam: Hey Rob! They've decided to handle development in-house, so we'll be focusing on the design side only. Excited to share we secured the project for $29,200 USD ✌️

Another good news is we got $57k USD product design project.

Slack message from Ethan Suero: @here just had a call with the client, they're sold on the $4k month plan!

Slack message from Basil Alosious: Loving the course material so far @Rob O'Rourke.

I’m learning a LOT of new things ^.^

Slack message from Mateusz Niedziela: @Jenna @Rob O'Rourke do you remember when I asked you about approaching my long term client about their website redesign? I heard back from them and they said it's great idea, so we're kicking it off next week. So happy and again thank you so much for the help, it changed the way I approached it.

Slack message from Victor Martins: feeling good
this is my first time posting consistently, Can't wait to see results. Slow and steady 🙌

X post from Rahul Luthra: The value is insane tbh. The course material itself should be enough but the slack community is the cherry on top. One of the most active communities out there. You can ask any / every question with @theroborourke and so many other experts in the game happy to help at any point. Highly recommend man.

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): The other guy gave me the feeling you were just a number. Slow responses, low quality answers. You actually follow up and make an effort! GG

Slack message from Christopher Chen: The sales module has been super helpful @Rob O'Rourke @Jenna. Even the past 2 days during client calls I feel like I've been speaking more about the problem & the vision / result, instead of a feature list.

The guy I closed the 90k project with even asked if my background was in sales not engineering haha

X post from Vinay Juneja: Your tweets are helping me more than any online coaching to how to upgrade mindset as a designer tbh

Slack message from Santiago Cortes: Guys! Applying the tactics from the conversion funnel, specifically “Attach your service to the most urgent challenge your prospect has,” we just closed a $60K deal!

Slack message from Amjad: Just locked a new retainer of 16k/m mainly product design and in final talks with a financial firm on a retainer focused on marketing/launch for 20k/m+10k(one-time for website)

with these 2 we'll be at 72k/m 🚀

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: I’ve gone through Rob’s sales module like it’s a bible and it’s been such a great resource

X post from Eric Angelo: Bought this gem by @theroborourke a few months ago, one of the best purchase that I have made

Slack message from George Collier: Closed 3 deals worth $6k/mo each in the last 2 weeks since joining the program to increase revenue from $51K to $69K MRR (so by 35%)

Slack message from Ethan Quagliotto: Had a call last night with a closed deal of 17k.

Slack message from Andrei Butenko: Module 1 was amazing btw!!!

It was honestly really satisfying to hear so many of the problems I've struggled with for years explained so clearly and finally understand where they actually come from :)

X post from Gadir: love it written by @theroborourke

Slack message from Alex Napier Holland: I posted 2-3+ times a day on LinkedIn for six weeks.

Nothing happened.

This is week 7.

Slack message from Amjad: I was one of the early members of this program and back then business was slow but got great help from Rob which later resulted in the business booming. since Jan25 we've landed an enterprise client who months later we signed them for 30k/m to be their design department and did the same thing with another client from EU who we started at 1.8k/m and now at 7k/m

Slack message from Miki Adamus: Day #2 of @Rob O'Rourke 30 day challenge.
First day of me doing cold outreach EVER.
First call booked.

Slack message from Vytas Bu: Seems like this month will be €50k!

Slack message from Robert Avram: We're now getting through the content creation part. Can say already it's very impressive. Never had such a great overview on how to create content.

The system really pushes us to think about projects, clients and results in a way we never did. Like you I really feel bad bragging so this helps a lot 😂

Can't wait to get the final content plan.

X post from Alex Napier Holland: I am very happy that my business coach can afford to buy a lambo. I hired the right guy.

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: Just closed a $10k landing page deal last Friday haha and we just launched their phase 1 today

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): Love your eye for detail. Ty Rob.

X post from Wiam Abou Naim: @theroborourke is the guy you need, join us! Highly recommend

Slack message from Michael Danso: A client just signed a contract for a $7,500 landing page redesign. My first win since joining the programme 💪🏿

Slack message from Jędrzej Frankowski: I just got a confirmation about approve on a $5.9k upsell for one of my clients.

Slack message from Rahul Luthra: An update from @Rob O'Rourke advice about asking questions before prompting a call. Checked back with a few of them and was able to close 2 deals just over text and 1 over call. That's almost 40k over 2 months 🙂.

Slack message from Zebediah Miller: Sales call this morning went really well!
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Should be a nice little 5 page website around $15K.
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I just got my first inquiry on LinkedIn today too! Founder of a company reached out, but don’t have any details yet.

Slack message from Stephan Tunn: As you may know, I've followed Rob for a long time and bought some of his other courses before.
I hesitated to join Profitable Skills at first because of the price of this program.
But at this point, I already know it was absolutely the right decision.

The program (content, supporting workbooks, community, your outstanding support) is excellent and absolutely worth it

X post from Adam Unroot.design: 100k copies is a wild milestone to just casually remember, Rob. congrats, that book clearly earned its shelf life!

X post from kuba: see @theroborourke bio and tweak it to your needs

Slack message from Enes Aktas: $35K deal ✅

This is a very exciting project. It’s a two-phase engagement and we are taking over the second phase.

A very proud win for us and a strong signal of trust.

X post from Alex Napier Holland: By the time you DM'd me I was already semi-sold. You only had to gently knock the ball in. You described my situation perfectly. But the biggest factor was the social proof — a rack of guys that I already followed worked with you. It was interesting to be on the other side of the sale for once and observe how the social proof melted any resistance away.

Slack message from Alexander Avdeev: Feeling excited, curious where it takes me.

I want to learn how to consistently land higher-budget projects. I'm a solo designer and I don't mind that, but I can only take so many projects at once and I want to maximize the value of my time.

Basically, I just want to do better work for more money 🙂

Slack message from Kevin Korpi: 82k invoiced in advance for April. Looks like sleep will have to wait.

X post from Nils: @theroborourke - he's the guy to systemize the growth

X post from Nikkhiel Seath: This is where @theroborourke comes in. I have seen his work in the community.

X post from Prachi Sethi: thank you rob! Appreciate all the hard work and effort so far :) excited to continue along this year! Big things coming!

Slack message from Basil Alosious: I’ve been posting consistently for the past 3 months.
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Somehow, most of the leads started coming in once I started with the authority posts and had the basic funnels setup. (Nov 22nd onwards)

X post from George Collier: as one of your organic leads i can confirm this

X post from Daksh Aswall: You played a huge role, Rob! Next 6 months are going to be even crazier!

X post from Nikkhiel Seath: I recommend that you consult with @theroborourke for this.

Slack message from Miki Adamus: April was the best month of the year so far.

• $17.5K collected
• $40K+ in active pipeline for May 🔥
• Raised pricing floor: now anchoring at $12K+ on new launches
• First viral case study: My video got almost 800k views and opened the door to two new clients in 24 hours

+ interviewing my first part-time producer this week

Slack message from Yishay Shalev: I started viewing the new content it's awesome

X post from Ethan Suero: I think @theroborourke might be able to help. Even his free content is great and recently shared a free ebook for sales.

Slack message from Basil Alosious: Just closed my first deal that came 100% through the funnel setup in the past 4-5 weeks.
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vv close to 20K this month 😄

Slack message from Himanshu Tomar: Hey Rob!

I have been following the modules and everything is just sooooo good.
I have finished both the content and Sales module. Working on content and website revamp atm

So, things are coming along really well.

X post from Tracy: i love your content and the things you teach

Slack message from Prachi Sethi: Fun awesome news! We just signed our biggest client till date. $25K and our exact ICP! THIS IS AWESOME!

Slack message from Matt Stobo: just working my way through the course, grabbing testimonials/calling old clients/ putting things together. So far it's really good and it's done a lot to reframe how I talk about what I do

X post from Robert: Appreciate the repost Rob. So happy we're working together

Slack message from Michael Danso: Just came off a call with a warm lead! They're in need of a website redesign, they said their budget is €8,000 max

I think I can push for more if packaged correctly

Slack message from Steve Lauda: I got 2 10k projects and 2 15k projects in the pipeline to be closed and 1 hot lead

Hopefully can secure all of them 🙏🏻

X post from Justin Welsh: Oh, amazing! So glad to hear it, Rob.

Slack message from Dan Gough: In the final selection now for a major Australian football club’s digital transformation 🙏 I have found the Authority Building part of the social section super helpful. Keep forgetting I’ve worked with Apple, Ferrari, Vodafone, Unilever and that these larger contracts aren't actually out of reach.

X post from Alex Socoloff: Ok, enough positive feedback for the @theroborourke I believe it's time for me to get some of his professional help!

Slack message from Walker John Moses: Just got my first sales call booked for Monday @Jenna / @Rob O'Rourke with the new systems setup

Slack message from Jeremiah Bouchard: Hey all,
Since beginning we've engaged three new clients at 10k, 10k, and 20k respectively.
The group is already paying dividends and our core processes are only getting better.
Hats off to Rob, Jenna and team for their leadership.
Let's run it!🔥
@Marcel @Rob O'Rourke @Jenna

Slack message from Benoît Chabert: Also I'm extremely excited about this @Rob O'Rourke. Tons of value. I've already gotten a ton of value from this and we're hyped up to implement it.

X post from Robert: One of the best things I already learned from you man! Document everything that happens

Slack message from Alex Aperios: Good! waiting to see if I have won a couple of projects but up against a few studios/ agencies so who knows. still a 40k month this month though. I'm slowing down a little for summer as I have been working way too much!
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I got 2 ongoing clients need more work, finalising projects etc.. and I'm helping an agency this month as well that alone is 25k

Slack message from Basil Alosious: I posted one of the captions with the changes that were suggested.

It did really well. So many robotics & drone company founders followed and connected w me!

I’ve reached out to them. Let’s see how that goes.

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: Other than everything else is going good! We approached 50k in rev before q2 so that’s basically 50% rev of last year haha

X post from heyflo: Maybe one of these goat @adriankuleszo @chalaska @theroborourke...

Slack message from Sumit Hegde: Closed a $42k website project yesterday.

What we did differently this time was to divide the project into two phases.

Previously, we were doing the strategy and sitemap work for free. I think separating them out makes the value more obvious.

Slack message from Dan Gough: @Rob O'Rourke Today is the first day of full schedule. I've had 2 calls booked from people from my past from my launch post (LinkedIn) 🙂

Slack message from Alex Aperios: had more meetings than I've ever had this week, so some changes I have implemented are helping already!
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Implementing the calendly has helped me book more calls and talking about what I do as more client focussed than design focussed seems to be work more

X post from Viswa: Few years back, I used to watch your videos on YouTube and now connected on X. Thanks for your knowledge.

Slack message from Daksh Aswal: i think one big win was that one of my prospects was retrospecting shelling out 10k on a landing page, they follow me on X.
I have been following up with them since July.
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closed them today at 10k

Slack message from David Pokorný: these past few days just made me realize that buying the course is 100% worth

Slack message from Andrey Chernyshuk: Hey guys,
I'm receiving some positive feedback about the landing. The bounce rate got lower, and there are some booked calls

X post from Wiam Abou Naim: Just joined @theroborourke's program, Wish me luck, I am about to lock in

Slack message from Dominik Mészáros: February started off right

2 new qualified leads from inbound
Aiming for ATH revenue this month

Gotta 10X all platforms now

X post from Kyle Prinsloo: Don't have much experience with cold calls. @theroborourke is the master at this

X post from Tyrone C: Rob is the ultimate goat. Can't wait to see what you guys are working on!

Slack message from Felice Della Gatta: Rewrote five of my case studies, again, invaluable going through the module, they're not great case studies but now they're 10x better than the previous version and I'm going to add one more as soon as I wrap up the initial engagement with a new client. btw, I already used one of the medium case studies in an outreach message.

Slack message from Alex Aperios: I've sent out 80k worth of quotes this month. but doesn't look like I can get invoices paid in the time we have left this month
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need to do some chasing tomorrow and have 40k kick off 🤞🏼

Just got another 10k for a simple landing page today though
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This was all from one social post of sharing work

Slack message from Andrey Chernyshuk: New website copy and structure worked!

— A guy from YC reached out for a website redesign.

X post from Chris Halaska: @theroborourke is the man

Slack message from Julián Cortés: Posted a case study yesterday to linkedin and it's blowing up!!

100 email subs, 19.000 impressions , 120 connection requests and a bunch of dms asking about our business
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it's crushing

our best performing so far have been 2-3k impressions

Slack message from Kevin Korpi: Just got an intro to one of the main VCs in silicon valley working in consumer AI and hardware. Have an intro call next week. This could be enormous. Came out of nowhere after I published a substack article on software/hardware design.

Slack message from Fernando Bisca Escanhoela: coming here with some great news, just got a contract locked-in with a UK-based studio for the next 2 weeks!

contract is £2,800/week (around $3,600/wk)
I'm super stoked! : )

@Jenna and @Rob O'Rourke thank you both SO MUCH for all the guidance throughout this whole process!

X post from XLR: been following u for a while and love your content! good work

Slack message from Jose Moreno: Yes, @Jenna, it helped! 👍

Meanwhile, I got this lead on LinkedIn who later went to my website and booked a call. He engaged with my pre-call sequence and replied to the second email 👍👍

Slack message from Ethan Suero: Super excited to share we closed this big client for the Webflow design and dev at £23k ($31k) combined with the other 2 we recently closed that is a total of £64k for 3 websites!

I'm especially excited about this last project as they are a really cool company as well that will lead to more work!

Slack message from Dominik Mészáros: I've been battling to do some numbers and get some movement on LinkedIn. For past few weeks of consistent posting + correct content I can see some growth there. It's a W for me 😂

X post from Kieran Drew: rob is the man!

Slack message from Marko Ilic: Just closed my first project through X DM's. 🎉

It's a smaller one, but still the founder is our ICP and is type of person who we enjoy working with.

Slack message from Ben Boulle: Just signed a small redesign project for $5k. It's my first client since starting my agency and joining the program, so super stoked!

Slack message from Caleb Wilson: $30K project just landed today, deposit paid this morning!! Doubled our biggest ever project. This sales process is changing the game for us

Slack message from Ethan Suero: Just got a big win!
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An agency hired us to audit some web designs and develop in Webflow, plus another website that we'll design and develop entirely.
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Both projects combined are $53k USD in total, so pretty happy with this.
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Combined with our recent win for the VC company website at 21k USD, that's 100k in Q1 only, I think this is the strongest start to a year ever for us.

Slack message from Vlad Ignat: I have a first book call today, since I started posting the structure you guys recommend, super exciting 😍

Slack message from Caleb Wilson: Had about 20-30 quality leads come through this week, will definitely be some great sales in there. On the verge of closing a $15K deal from one of them, just waiting on payment

X post from Alex Napier Holland: Me and @theroborourke just discussed this! The other factor is posting practical, on-the-ground examples...

Slack message from Andrey Chernyshuk: 30k in design sales made this month

No social media, no paid traffic

1 sale came from my personal website that @Rob O'Rourke helped me out with. Didn't even have to do anything on a call really

Slack message from Danijela Drmić: One interesting thing I've noticed... it's not 3 people anymore per day, yesterday website visits performed insane 😭
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I think in two weeks, if I follow your formula, we shall see some real evidence (website visits, closed work)...

Slack message from Enes Aktas: $45K Deal ✅

X post from Domenico Di Donna: Have you tried getting help from @theroborourke? My sense is that you are technically there, but the market is not responding, so something has to change. Many top talents/studios are working with him (I am not, but I see who he's working with, and you're probably on par with many of them).

Slack message from Jonathan Li: wanted to add, that the setup with Kit and Zapier is amazing @Jenna @Rob O'Rourke, and I think the effort with the funnel work might already be doing something for us. We just got a booking from X after joining the program and doing the funnel work. We've not changed the messaging in the last 4 months on X, and immediately got a call booked.

X post from Ross Hatton: Should check out @theroborourke

Slack message from Ali Dalton: @Rob O'Rourke @Jenna looks like the hook works!

Looks like an early stage B2B startup founder...

Slack message from Sahil Dabas: Things are going good, business is booming. Getting a lot of traction that we're overbooked for now. Rob and your advice has helped a lot honestly. Grateful 💚

X post from Andrew: the most valuable ad i've ever come across on this platform. followed.

Slack message from Alex Aperios: Appreciate all your help to date. it's really made a huge difference. I am now booking meetings with client and conversations at 20 to 50k

more than I was prior so it's all starting to work

I can see me hitting my 100k month targets very soon!

Slack message from Divij Rakhra: Hey - we just closed a client.
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Some very hot prospects are in the pipeline
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Thanks for the support - I've changed my sales strategy to being very value-oriented and it is working well.

Slack message from Wiam: My confidence level with this new proposal/strategy 🚀

Thank you both @Rob O'Rourke @Jenna for unlocking this potential

I also made sure it's a template structure that can be easily edited to other inquiries.

X post from Som: @theroborourke speaks specifically about this

Slack message from Amjad: Been a while since I didn't share a win, but this year has been very great so far we generated about 200k with working with very few clients (2 only) and after the relaunch of Jades on April, we signed recently 3 more small projects
• 5.5k (15s motion video for a 2B company)
• 1.5k (quick event materials)
• 2k (Framer landing page)

Slack message from Caleb Wilson: Landed a $50K project this week, our biggest project yet. This was helped significantly with the pre sales and sales process. They’re a big real estate chain in my city so will open some massive doors to other clients. Game changer deal for us

Slack message from Miki Adamus: Just signed a $4k/mo retainer.
On the smaller side, but excited for the ongoing work.

X post from Chris Halaska: I'm taking my studio to the next level with expert sales funnel training from @theroborourke. I'm getting the systems in place to scale at a rate I'm comfortable with.

Slack message from Caleb Wilson: Big Friday that has just gone by. Closed a $20k deal and another $40k deal very likely to go over

Slack message from Alex Aperios: my biggest struggle is just getting the work done 😂
Very booked up right now

Good problem to have. but anything that else comes in now I need to get help to work on now .

Slack message from Patryk Baranowski: Small win: I signed up a few hours a month ongoing Webflow maintenance - just $800/mo for the next 2 months

It was the easiest sale ever

X post from Alex Napier Holland: I receive tens of DMs and cold emails every day. Only one of those people has ever received a payment from me — @theroborourke. If you want to understand how to approach business owners and get taken seriously then follow him.

Slack message from Fernando Bisca Escanhoela: @Jenna had 5 weeks booked with an agency, just got extended to 7.
$10.7k revenue last month, will be the same this month, locked in until mid September.
going well!

Slack message from Philip Pitus: Hey. I just sent the client a proposal for 20k.
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I can't believe I'm saying that. I've been stuck charging 2k for website for almost 2 years now...

Slack message from Prachi Sethi: have been posting slightly more consistently over the last 2 weeks. Booked in 10 calls this week. Each call converted. Folks from all industries showed up.

X post from Andrey: I vouch for what Rob teaches. His strategy is the best to get to at least 50k/mo

Slack message from Marty Janas: the main win was that they joined the call expecting I was just another part-time freelancer, but thanks to everything I've learned so far, I managed to change their perception. Within 30 mins, I’ve shown them that they’re talking to a design vendor with structured processes and solid results.

X post from Prachi Sethi: 2 months ago, I started working with @theroborourke and Jenna to figure out how to bring more value beyond just logging my daily runs. Got incredible clarity for the studio. Found some consistency posting about work, projects we're shipping. That semi-informal intro video brought so much valuable network, not just for the studio...

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: Had a recent small win which I thought was so good, recently just closed a $15k deal for identity + site:

• Before the call, the founder absolutely loved the pre-sales email --> he was considering other designers but the presale email really gave him confidence that we go beyond just design
• Closed the deal on the call and deposit paid less than 12 hours...

Slack message from George Collier: Thanks for your help this year! The growth % is month on month, not year on year 😄

X post from Julia Chaigneau: It's with @theroborourke so personalised to my studio

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: Got 2 biggest proposals (One 39k one 37k) of the career this month so fingers crossed both of them goes through

Slack message from Kuba Domanus: Oh man what a crazy month that was, but worth it. I've done the highest revenue ever, tons of work around operations etc.

X post from Antony Duchars: Meaning in your work is everything. Definitely making an impact Rob

Slack message from Mateusz: I've got another three months lined up with one client at 4/4/3K.

The bigger client just signed 12K, with an agreement to keep going at around 8-10k next month and again in October. So that's another three months locked in and looking solid.

That comes to roughly 39-41k over the next three months.

X post from Kyle Prinsloo: These are the 'real' expert guests (and they didn't pay me): @imjesseshow @theroborourke @morejanda

Slack message from Himanshu Tomar: Hey guys!
Thanks to the sales modules I just sold a 6K retainer to a client.
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Overall process of how I approached sales call. I didn’t have much of a process till now and used to focus on what’s not working on their current site

But this time I used what Rob had in modules - understanding their problems, and goals.
It felt great!!!

Slack message from Karan Ruparel: 41k deal closed.

Gave them 2 options, a project fee that would cover just branding and website or a higher monthly retainer that would get their app redesigned as well.

They chose the latter. Previously we’d just offer the monthly retainer but having an option that looks inferior worked well.

X post from Rahul Singh Bhadoriya: It's Q4, and this winter my focus is on growing the design agency. Not just as a designer, but as a businessman. Took the first step by starting to work with @theroborourke.

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: What’s been your biggest win so far?
• Dropped out of uni to become a freelancer full-time and I’m able to run the business very predictably hitting $10k - $20k/months and confidently close $20k deals. The most important thing is and without exaggeration, Rob’s program helped me live my dream life that I’ve always imagined myself living.

X post from TheRite: Posting more of this is just teasing me to work with you

Slack message from Michael Danso: Nice one guys...the email definitely helped I think. I’ve already also sent a proposal and quoted £5,000 for branding and design.

Slack message from Linus Lehbrink: we'll celebrate when we have the down payment but he agreed to a $12.5k deal!

Slack message from Basil Alosious: I hit 25K this month.

Slack message from Vytas Bu: February will be the best month yet for Outframe.

Closed a $6k discovery sprint and then a $30k product design package. Most likely will include another package down the line for the same client. 🚀

X post from Wiam Abou Naim: @theroborourke is the best guy for this. You can learn tons from him, highly recommend!

X post from Drapz: Great advice and read by @theroborourke Appreciate your time and effort for sharing your insights

Slack message from Zsolt Kacso: Gang, sharing the smallest win.
Since repositioning my X content a couple days ago, I'm now starting to see engagement from my ICP.

Huge for me. 🚀

Slack message from Victor Martins: I used Rob's logic chain method to closing the $17k deal which works pretty well in guiding the client

X post from Luca Da Corte: Big fan of your work btw, bought your foxwebschool course back when I started freelancing it 2023!

Slack message from Himanshu Tomar: August was the best month so far
• We did $46K
• Started offering product development

Goals for September:
• Try cold outreach
• Start a template store
• Launch the new website
• Hit our first $50K month

X post from Victor Martins: Locked in $31k in new project revenue for @novastudiohq last month. November is looking like our biggest month yet with over $60K in deals currently in motion. Been working with @theroborourke over the last month refining positioning and tightening our sales systems. It's paying off already.

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): So had a 7K$/ mo close and collected 3.5K$ already.

Got a 3rd call booked with a famous person in the crypto.
Did a lot of sales nurturing through mail and then they scheduled a call so seems they want to move forward.

Stuff is moving in the right direction.

X post from Ali: your posts are helping me a lot, can't imagine how much benefit would your programme will give me

Slack message from Robert Avram: In Q1 we realised our new positioning and communication starts to kick in and it's really amazing.
We started attracting some serious clients and I was able to give some prices I wasn't sure I ever will.

• $100k fixed price for product design (biggest fixed price quoted)
• $50k fixed price for product design and build
• $15k/month for 3 months (biggest monthly price quoted)

X post from vansh patel: looks like they are all busy because of your lead system haha

X post from Alex Aperios: Highly recommended! Within 2 months of implementing changes I saw increased enquiries. I am now to busy too keep working through the course at the moment. there is so much amazing knowledge use. Rob is awesome

X post from Tomilola: ...I promise when my agency kicks off, I'd be happy to work and pay under your coaching

Slack message from George Collier: Started posting regularly but with more focus on content that shows authority and ability, small increase in engagements but lots more qualified leads

Slack message from Miki Adamus: Hey all 👋 Been quiet here lately
Heads down working IN the business instead of ON it. Sure I missed a ton. On the plus side, sent the 2 biggest proposals I've ever sent. Fingers crossed.
Getting back to posting on X too.
Good to be back.

X post from seb-astian: updated my bio thanks to @theroborourke's advice! I as a designer we focus too much on the aesthetic rather than being a business...

X post from Jake Nomada: The homie @theroborourke is criminally under followed on here...

Slack message from Leopoldo Pirela: good! Just closed a 9k digital marketing engagement, have another digital marketing engagement in negotiations for 6k, and been doing a bit of outreach as well to other accounts

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: Just a little update + win from last time Rob mentioned on doubling my rates:

I doubled my rates for a client and we closed a $20k deal for just development only.
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Biggest deal yet so far given the amount of scope included!

Slack message from Dan Gough: Seems to be going well. Signed a $6kpm retainer (3 month minimum); $3.5k landing page and small bit of work for $1k. $10k month which is good

Proposal out for $25k; hope to hear back this week!

X post from Nick Hibbler: Early morning sauce from Rob

Slack message from Mateusz: Happy to share some progress. Just signed the client from that audited a couple of weeks ago, 9k locked in with another 18k in the pipeline. On top of that, I'm working to extend my current client relationship with a 3k/month design retainer. Together those get me to where I wanted to be monthly. If both come through consistently, that gets me to the monthly revenue goal I set when I started.

Slack message from Zsolt Kacso: I signed a new client in November through cold outreach, so happy about that.
Posting consistently for the past 2-3 weeks, starting to see some results.

Slack message from Mason Price: $50k month august, on track to have a hopefully even better month in September!
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Probably the biggest thing is raising prices though haha. The sales call portion of the course has definitely helped, still have a long way to go. Just felt confident sending my biggest quote at over 30k this week

X post from Miracle Ab: I think my problem is always trying to showcase my portfolio without stating how I'll be of a help to them. I'll implement this when next I'm applying. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS

Slack message from Victor Martins: small win: closed a $33,500 project today 🔥

Slack message from Aleksandra Szczurek: nice little win – finally closed a lead who actually wanted strategy-focused work from the start 🙂

X post from Chris Halaska: Highly recommend. As someone who started the studio without any experience, his systems helped me put a lot of things on auto-pilot which has had a direct impact on my confidence. An example is the sales call follow up schedule which has had lots of engagement from clients who have converted. Heaps of training videos included and honestly one of the biggest benefits is being part of the slack community with access to others going through similar problems and some that are a step ahead. Plus Rob genuinely cares about you and your business. I'd grab a beer with him.

Slack message from Dan Gough: Had my first call using your technique today. It felt like a really strong approach. Failed to get my personality + friendliness across as much as usual but I got a verbal agreement by end of the call so fingers crossed 🤞

Slack message from Kevin Korpi: $66k contract just got signed. Let's GO! Q1 is officially packed.
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$24k short fixed bid design system project just signed. What a day.

I guess today kind of proves the pricing.

Slack message from Caleb Wilson: Big win this week for me. Over $35k in sales, 3 projects in total
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In the process of hiring some more designers to be able to take on the workload

X post from Elias: I can't believe I just read this for free. thanks a ton, Rob!

Slack message from George Collier: Ok so those 3 clients totalling $18k/mo have all now confirmed they’d like to move forward after waitlist

That’ll take us to $85k MRR, more popularly known as $1 mil ARR 😁

Slack message from Philip Pitus: I recently noticed you released profitable skills 3.0, so I decided to try it. And let me tell you, the difference is M A S S I V E. This is the EXACT thing I was looking for in the first place.

I'd say it's completely worth the price now. All gaps have been filled, and everything feels just so much better.

Congrats, amazing job.

Slack message from Ali Dalton: Some good news!

I've just had a discovery call with a B2B venture capital startup. They’re looking for a design partnership. We discussed a 1 month engagement with retainer if all goes well.

We didn't discuss pricing directly but he checked $10-$20k on the booking form.

Lead came from cold outreach on LinkedIn btw 🙌

X post from Alex Socoloff: 90 days until 2026 and I'm 101% locked in. Start building the SOP with the help of GOAT @theroborourke. Redesigning my studios website... Setting up the goal of $100k/mo

X post from Sofiane: Great advice Rob, just applied this...

X post from Cherif Tabouche: what @theroborourke said, his quote was the cherry on top.

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): Closed a €10K one time web design project. Received €5K upfront. Next to this we made a retainer deal for 5K€ a month for each (crypto) token launch. Thanks Rob for helping with providing the details while closing 💪🏻

X post from Ross Hatton: I bet @theroborourke has some good advice on this mate

Slack message from Fernando Bisca Escanhoela: Going well! First studio contract got extended from 2 to 4 weeks, secured another one with an eCom agency for 5 weeks when that one ends..
Currently booked until end of August at a bit over $10k/mo

Slack message from Daksh Aswal: honestly your content has unlocked so much for me. just the content creation has given me a new viewpoint on how to think about this altogether.
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Also learnt a lot from how you've structured your program and processes 😄

X post from Daniel Priestley: Well done!

X post from Tim Gabe: Building a client acquisition funnel w/ @theroborourke, and damn... This will take the amount of incoming leads to the next level. One problem though: Can't take on more clients atm.

Slack message from Caleb Wilson: They ended up wanting more stuff anyway including branding for their core business and then 7 locations, so it made pricing higher a lot easier. Plus their business has grown 3x in the past year. Took your advice into the meeting and it made it easy.
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I’ve got the final follow up meeting in 15 minutes. I’ll let you know how it goes
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Won the sale - $50K 🍾

Slack message from Tim Gabe: just got the first 50% start payment for a new client project—the first one acquired through cold outreach. 😀

Slack message from Tim (WinsBits): $8K Deal - Just got off a second call and then sent 50% upfront invoice straight away - will be paid today ✅

X post from Amjad: ...Joined the sales program by @theroborourke and met with awesome friends there, so much learnings

Slack message from George Collier: $55K MRR 1.5 months ago

$84K MRR now + $18K MRR waitlisted

We're a software development agency focused on a specific low-code platform.
• raised prices for new clients
• focused our positioning on one offer
• set up pre-sales call drip emails and a more structured sales call

Slack message from Vlad Ignat: Just wanted to say a huge thank you to both of you, @Rob O'Rourke and @Jenna.
There's a potential $20k website project. If everything goes well, next month could be the best one in my career so far.

X post from Daksh Aswall: The program has been really helpful. Cant thank you enough

Slack message from Kevin Korpi: Client signed a contract this morning for product design work. $70k. With a couple retainers and fixed scope projects running, pretty much fully booked through May. Running just over~$170k in Q1.

Slack message from Alex Socoloff: I'm gonna close March with $200K income. Sick 🔥

Slack message from Victor Martins: Everything is going great
I have 2 discovery calls later this week!

and 2 more projects in the proposal stage

X post from Chris: That's what I needed to read. I am currently rethinking my offers and pricing, and your insight hit me like a truck. Thanks for the top-notch advice, Rob.

Slack message from Michael Danso: Day #7 - 60 mins
• Added new prospects on LinkedIn
• Replied to DMs
• Jumped on a quick call with a lead
• Proposal to be sent by end of day tomorrow

Slack message from Patryk Baranowski: Just signed a $4k simple landing page design

Slack message from Himanshu Tomar: Hi guys,
We hit $46k in August (~70% profit)

Sales module had a big part to play in it.

X post from Dan: Rob is a legend! he offers so much high quality content and even has a FREE book he will send you! Rob's logical methods for freelancing and sales helped me land so many clients! I have been a part of Rob's Fox Web School for a few years now and love it

X post from Riz: been following @theroborourke's teachings about solo design agencies and it's true, we designers write bios for designers so I fixed mine, and finally got my face out of hiding behind the red dot

X post from Clément Lionne: Maybe @theroborourke

Slack message from Robert Avram: $10k deal secured ✅ AI SaaS early stage startup, monthly partnership for product MVP and website design with 2 months for the first phase.

First client that went through the entire sales flow (form, email sequence, sales call with the right approach from @Rob O'Rourke).

Slack message from Miki Adamus: Landed a $59K project this week
Wouldn't be possible without all the guidance from @Rob O'Rourke. Appreciate you!

X post from Marcin: Built a new offer and strategy for my agency with the GOAT @theroborourke. And then I thought - why not redesign the whole site too? New website in progress. New offer. New copy. New direction.

Slack message from Himanshu Tomar: It’s going pretty well
I have an ongoing retainer and they need help with 2 landing pages apart from retainer. An additional $10k on top of $6.5k retainer

This month is looking really solid

Slack message from Daksh Aswal: have 2 client calls this week, each of them have selected their budget as $10k+

they're opening the mails and even clicking on the links i attached on the testimonial. let's see how the call goes 😄

X post from Sebastian: kinda like @theroborourke says, you gotta post proof youre solving problems

Slack message from Miki Adamus: Win 1: $50k in active proposals sent out this month. 3x my previous max.

Win 2: Got an initial "no" from one of the largest financial institutions in the world. Turned it into a yes. Smaller trial to start, but my foot is in the door.

X post from Alex Napier Holland: You nailed it. Closed a £9k client today who said, 'We are super-keen to work with you, but I was worried about the price. Actually, I was pleasantly surprised you are so affordable'. Great feedback.

Slack message from James Montgomery: I had a good chunk of time yesterday and today to make my way through the social media content.
It's really robust and clear, and exactly the kind of system that I was hoping to get access to in this program

Slack message from João Saraiva: I did $50k month since joining the program.

Being in the program definitely helped with the confidence, communication and lead communication. I think I might be closing 2 leads soon with things I improved or got help here in the program.

Slack message from Sajon Islam: We've secured a $10,820 USD project, with 50% already paid upfront.

Additionally, the $29.2K design project that was on hold last month has now been revived. Thanks to @Rob O'Rourke he suggested me to be quiet until they reached. Today after a month the client reached out to move forward with the next steps.

Overall, May is shaping up to be a strong and promising month. 🚀

X post from Marcin: A small recap of August, which was probably my best month this year so far: Reached $7,200 in income... Started coaching with the GOAT @theroborourke...

Slack message from Julia Chaigneau: I just wanted to write here some positive updates from the website changes.

From the analytics, our average time is increasing from 25s a couple of weeks ago to 1m25s over the last 7 days, and the bounce rate is also starting to decrease slowly. So I think those numbers are showing a good shift slowly.

X post from bram naus: Many X designers should read this. Valuable read, Rob.

X post from Aditya: Just got the Legends Program Rob! I already know you have ton of value to give so this was a no brainer lol. Super excited to try it out and will report back with results

Slack message from James Montgomery: I met with one of my clients yesterday (ON Running in Zurich), and without prompting about my content a senior director mentioned how much he had been following my writing on LinkedIn and had actually clipped one post and used the quote in a slide at their investor summit this week to SVPs and board members. So that was a real boost

X post from Iji John: Congratulations. I've been following you since the beginning of your web development journey. Seeing you win is motivational

X post from Vinay Juneja: The OG followed me, feeling honored @theroborourke - I've learnt a lot from you

Slack message from Zebediah Miller: Working with you and your team has given me so much clarity on problems I’ve felt for years in my business but haven’t even been able to articulate. It’s crazy seeing so much tangible benefit so quickly. The booking form has been huge for researching leads before intro calls, being able to have solid copy and messaging makes all my conversations more productive.

Slack message from James Barnard: My god you are good. That all makes perfect sense, and I was nodding along all the way through that video. THANK YOU man!

Slack message from Tommy Callaghan: Hi @Jenna and @Rob O'Rourke, just wanted to let you know that even before I have any of the real framework live and in action. The work on the positioning and my offer over the past week has really started to influence my conversations with potential clients for the better. A new client engagement this week where I was really able to lean into it when discussing the project, has landed me a 30K deal. Happy Friday 😀

X post from Klejdi: 6 years in this industry and I find this book now... @theroborourke - masterpiece

Slack message from Alex Aperios: Got approval on another 35k project yesterday and contract goes out tomorrow. So looking like another 50k potentially 60k month.
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I'm gonna struggle to keep up with the work at this rate. 😂

Slack message from Alex Socoloff: Proposal sent, waiting for the response 🤞
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$126,000 but I had another call on Friday with one of the larger tire manufacturers in US so made those 2 proposals same price 126K.

Slack message from Alex Napier Holland: FINTECH/DESIGN
• I just closed a $14.6k Fintech project with a client that’s super design-focused.

X post from Prachi Sethi: ...we were heads down focussed on delivering high quality deliverables for our clients but there wasn't an underlying system to how folks would find us. once we streamlined our content/offerings with @theroborourke's team, the whole piece fell into place very quickly for us... definitely recommend it :) lottssss to learn here from them.

Slack message from Ragnsan Finn Valla: Going through the creating content portion of the social media module, and first off, I just want to say that the content is fantastic.

It's so thorough, and the way you set up the content system clicks with how my brain as an engineer works, where you create a feedback loop and then feed the system, so I'm extremely excited to go about doing all that.

Slack message from João Saraiva: I ended up going with Rob's approach focused on the benefits of aggregating everything.

And got two meetings booked from cold mailing for next week.

Slack message from Marko Ilic: alright, got 2 DM's asking about the pricings...

didn't get those messages in 4-5 months ...

X post from Sebastian: every tweet this man puts out is bookmark

Slack message from Victor Martins: Signed a $17k and $7k project this week

working hard to get visibility with content and get leads into the sales funnel
Got some responses from the email outreach efforts so should get some calls booked next week

X post from Avalon Portolan: Can confirm, as a former student from this programme, Rob helped me take my skill and passion for design and turn it into a business. It allowed me to quit my job and go fully into web design. I've advanced a lot since then, but all credit to Rob and The Legends!

Slack message from Chris Halaska: Had a call with a YC founder building an AI motion tool. He came in looking for a motion designer, not product design.

We shifted the ask from a referral to a potential $25k/month product design engagement.

Slack message from Huy Nguyen: Super huge wins for me this month. Signed a $7k & $18k USD web design projects.

Slack message from Tommy Callaghan: Just to say, the work here so far has helped massively. Tonnes more clarity on things going into the conversations and starting to see already where some of the processes and workflows can and should be systemised. All good stuff.

X post from Alex: A lot of successful people back up this program: MJ DeMarco, James Jani. This is how I know I can trust my guy Rob.

X post from Chris Halaska: Studio positioning is hard when you're too close to your own work so we brought in @theroborourke to help clarify our message. Initial reaction: 'This isn't us.' Second thought: 'Wait, maybe that's exactly the problem.' Current site doesn't clearly communicate our value. Time for a reset.

Slack message from Dan Gough: July has been an interesting month, definitely picking up 😄

I’m closing with the month with $14,050 closed + delivered. Another $6,000 retainer verbally agreed.

My biggest lesson this month was the power of outreach, even if I feel very uncomfortable doing it.

Slack message from Leopoldo Pirela: I have a meeting tomorrow with a resort I reached out to last week - looking at around $43k. I found an area where they were leaving revenue on the table and now I can build from there. So hopefully close them this week! 🙏

Slack message from Azat Galiev: Also we increased to $2,500-3,000 per vid and demand is perfect
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Funny enough I closed my first 15k$ retainer 2 hours after messaging you

X post from Mohadin: Reading '$1,000,000 Web Designer Guide' by @theroborourke and already I feel like Dave

Slack message from Dominik Mészáros: Deal closed at 4.5k$, client DM’ed me yesterday and today we start.

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