PARTLY

Partly true: the 'Patrick paused his ads because he was too booked' story is a real client of a real coaching program, but the dollar figures shift from ad to ad and the post is a funnel into an application-only program with no public price

Facebook · Oct 2026

The claim'Patrick spent $1,275 on ads, then turned them off because he got too busy to take new clients.' A web design studio for club sports teams went from a $20,000 then $4,000 referral roller coaster to '$58,000 in business generated (including a $2,500/mo retainer client)' and is 'on track to double from $100K to $200K.' The real shift was pricing: hourly rate plus a 20% buffer plus a monthly retainer. 'Read Patrick's full case study: LP.6FIGURECREATIVE.COM.'

The company and the client are real. 6 Figure Creative is Brian Hood's coaching business for freelancers, built around a program called Clients By Design: a custom client-acquisition strategy, a one-on-one consultant, a community of about 180 freelancers, and a guarantee that if you do not land $10,000 in new business they keep coaching you for free. Patrick McAdams is listed on the program page as a success story. The problem is the number. This post says $58,000 from $1,275 in ad spend. The same page's other ads say Patrick added 'almost $35,000 within one week,' '$100,000 within 3 months,' and the program page itself says 'From stressed out to $50K in 9 weeks.' Those may be different snapshots of the same client over time, but the post presents one clean figure as if it were the whole story, and the linked landing page (lp.6figurecreative.com) redirected to the company homepage when read on Oct 2, 2026, with no Patrick case study on it. Commenters asked the same thing: who is Patrick, where is his site, what does this cost. The pricing advice in the post is sound and free: a real hourly rate, a buffer for your own time, and a retainer on every project is how freelancers smooth out feast-and-famine income. What is being sold: an application-based coaching program with no published price, where you fill out a questionnaire and the sales team calls within 24 hours.

What holds up

Post read in full: text story plus a link card to LP.6FIGURECREATIVE.COM titled 'This Brand Designer had to stop marketing'; top comments ask for Patrick's info and for a URL showing prices, neither answered in the visible thread.
lp.6figurecreative.com fetched Oct 2, 2026: 307 redirect to 6figurecreative.com, then to the.6figurecreative.com, a homepage for Brian Hood's company (podcast, '500+ clients', Clients By Design 'Apply Now'); no Patrick case study on the page.
the.6figurecreative.com/clientsbydesign (read Oct 2, 2026) lists 'Patrick McAdams: From stressed out to $50K in 9 weeks,' a '$10,000 or we coach you for free' guarantee, $500 in ad credits, a questionnaire-then-call sales process, and no price.
Google results for the company plus Patrick McAdams (Oct 2, 2026) show the page's own ads citing 'almost $35,000 within one week' and '$100,000 within 3 months'; this post says $58,000. The figures are never reconciled.
The club-sports web design studio, the $1,275 spend and the $2,500/mo retainer could not be independently verified; they rest on the company's own account.

What doesn’t

Four different revenue figures for the same client across the company's ads ($35K in a week, $50K in 9 weeks, $58K here, $100K in 3 months) with no dates to reconcile them.
The 'full case study' link resolves to the company homepage; the case study was not readable at the time of audit.
No price anywhere; the program is sold on an application and a sales call, and the guarantee is more coaching, not money back.
'Paused ads because he was too booked' is a testimonial frame the company reuses across multiple ad posts.

The catch

The pricing lesson is the useful part and it costs nothing: set a real hourly rate, pad it for your own time, and attach a retainer to every project. If you want the program, ask for the price and for Patrick's dated numbers before the call, and treat the $10K guarantee as what it is: a promise of more coaching, not a refund.

How to actually do it

Rebuild your pricing first: compute an hourly rate from your target income divided by billable hours, add a 20% buffer, and put a monthly maintenance or content retainer on every project quote.
Run a small paid test yourself before buying coaching: $500 to $1,000 of Meta ads to one niche (the post's example is club sports programs) with a single offer and a booking link, and track cost per booked call.
If you apply to Clients By Design, get the price, the term, and a dated version of the Patrick numbers in writing before the sales call, and read the guarantee terms.

6 Figure Creative, Clients By Design and client Patrick McAdams are real, and the pricing advice holds up. The $58,000 figure is one of four different numbers the company's own ads attach to the same client, the case study link went to the homepage, and the post exists to feed an application-only coaching program with no public price.

Confidence: Medium
Posted by: 6 Figure Creative (Brian Hood's freelancer coaching company), the company's own page; post sent to Buddy Sun Sep 27, 2026, ~10:17 AM

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