A 25-year-old pitches get-rich-quick schemes to senior citizens at seminars, targeting people who are technologically unsavvy and financially insecure. One speaker spent 13 years as a full-time salesman before achieving high-ticket success, not weeks like the scammers promise.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when I went into a room full of people. There's some 25-year-old charismatic kid on stage and a bunch of hopeless senior citizens who just life went wrong for them and they ended up with no money at the end of their lives. And that millennial dude promising you everything's about to change, the internet, you're all going to make millions, selling the dream. Meanwhile, these senior citizens can barely check their email. It's just like so icky.
That is one of the things that shits me the most about the sales industry in particular. I hate when people say, come learn a skill, make $10,000 a month from your living room, learn it in 4 weeks. It's like, man, do you know how hard it is to be good at sales? Like, it is a difficult skill set. It's a phenomenal Phenomenal skill set, but it takes years to become good at. People saw me coming into the coaching consulting space, coming to high-ticket closing, making $50,000, $100,000 a month in comms. People are saying, well, it came out of nowhere. It's like, man, I was a full-time salesperson for 13 years before I ever did a high-ticket sale.
Wow.
