Christian Polk ranks sales training methods by tier. Rewatching your own calls is S-tier for concrete feedback. Daily script writing and hiring a good coach both earn A-tier. Roleplaying with AI beats peer roleplaying because peer advice varies wildly in quality. Generic YouTube content and self-affirmations land in C-tier unless you lack confidence.
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Self-affirmations. This one's going to be C-tier. If you are completely unconfident and you can't do any type of action, maybe you need this. But other than that, not important. Writing down your script daily. This one's going to be A-tier. You at least need to know where you're going and that's going to help. Rewatching your calls. S-tier. You need to be looking at actual game tape. What's going right? What's going wrong to get better? Roleplaying. This one's going to be C-tier. What can happen a lot of times is you got to be really careful of the advice you get from people you're roleplaying with. Roleplaying with AI. This one is going to be B-tier if you have the right AI. Comment AI down below and I'll send it over to you. But it's going to be much better that you actually roleplay with old leads and you can actually try to sell them. Investing in coaching. This one's going to be A-tier just depending on like what type of coaching you actually invest with. If it's a good coach, if they've done it themselves, it's going to be A-tier, but it's not going to be S. YouTube. Again, depends on what type of YouTube you watch, but this is going to be closer to C-tier. Most of it has to be generic just because it has to reach a wider audience. So it's not specific. Talking to a mirror. I mean, it really depends what you're talking about. It could be S tier, could be F tier, right? But like, I'm going to stick in the middle and say C tier. I don't know what you're saying in the mirror. Speaking with a pen in your mouth. So apparently this helps you enunciate words. So if you are an Indian and have an Indian accent, this might be S tier for you. But for everyone else, this is going to be closer to C or B tier. You need to be able to be understood, but it's not going to be the biggest thing that's going to prevent you from making sales.
