A short YouTube clip of Jeremy Miner arguing that salespeople often take advice from the wrong people; he recounts an anecdote where an attendee hired a sales trainer whose personal best month was about $30,000 and uses an investing-uncle analogy to argue people should learn sales from those who have already mastered it.
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What's the number one mistake most salespeople make is they take advice from the wrong people. I had a kid that came up to me after an event, and he's like, jeremy, I'm so excited. I just hired so and so sales trainer, and I want to learn how to make 50,000amonth. I actually know the sales trainer, and I'm like, oh, how are you going to make $50,000 a month and learn those skills from somebody who never made that themselves? He's like, well, what do you mean? And I said, well, I actually know that guy. He used to work for us, and his best month was about 30,000. How can you learn the skills necessary it takes to make XYZ commissions from someone who's never made that themselves? That'd be pretty damn hard, right? So always take advice from people who've already mastered the thing. You want to master yourself. Like if you want to take financial advice about where to invest your money, are you going to take that from your Uncle Joe, who's broke, or your uncle Bob, who's a multimillionaire, want to master selling? You probably want to learn that from somebody who's actually mastered it themselves.
