The Escape Journal
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Frameworks, beliefs, and stories from the road.
The Model Doesn't Care What Country You're In.
It's the most common objection we get from outside the States. So here are five students in Sweden, the UK and Ireland, and what they actually did.
Read moreWhat the First 30 Days Actually Look Like.
Not the highlight reel. The domain purchases, the bounced emails, the trial that went nowhere, and the client who signed two months later than planned.
Read moreOne Proposal. Then 15 Surgeons Reached Out in 48 Hours.
Marianna was two weeks into the program when she put one offer in front of one client. Two days later, 15 robotic surgeons in private practice were asking her for calls.
Read moreFrom Life Insurance Sales to $2,150 in Seven Days
Justin spent years buying leads as a life insurance sales rep. Seven days into running his first campaign, he turned $206 of ad spend into $2,150 for a client who didn't even have a sales system.
Read moreSales Is a Great Launchpad. Not a Great Career.
Sales gives you founder-level skills at employee-level pay. Here's how to stop climbing the wrong ladder and start pointing those skills at something that's yours.
Read moreA Random Tuesday That's Actually Yours.
The real payoff of escaping sales isn't the money. It's that your calendar stops belonging to somebody else. Plus a new student win from Anil, 30 days in.
Read moreMarketing Is the New Engineering.
Brian Norgard and Kevin O'Leary are saying the same thing: the ability to bring customers to a business is now worth more than the ability to build one. Sales reps are sitting on a goldmine.
Read moreYou're Not Too Busy. You've Just Already Decided.
'I'm too busy' isn't a scheduling problem. It's a priority confession. Here's what it's actually costing you.
Read moreYou Get One Career. Stop Spending It on Someone Else's Dream.
Bill Gurley surveyed 1,000 successful professionals. Most said they'd choose a different career. If you're in sales, the odds are even worse. Here's how to fix that.
Read moreWhy Business Owners Will Pay You $5,000 a Month and Thank You For It
Sales reps hear '$5,000 a month' and think no one would pay that. Business owners hear it and think 'that's it?' Here's why the math works for both sides.
Read moreOne Client Covers Your Rent. Here's the Math.
We didn't start this business to build an empire. We started it to pay off our student loans faster and take an extra trip each year. One client changed everything.
Read moreStop Overthinking Your Niche. You're Already In One.
The biggest thing holding most sales reps back from starting isn't skill. It's niche paralysis. The answer is simpler than you think: sell what you already know.
Read more7 Years of Selling for Everyone Else. Then He Did It for Himself.
McCall Delaney spent 7 years and $5.5M in revenue building other people's businesses. He joined Growth School, quit his job, and signed his first client in 48 hours.
Read moreFrom Car Sales to a $30k/Month Agency in 60 Days
William went from grinding on a Kia lot to running a $30,000/month lead generation agency in 60 days — with 5 paying clients, a sales team of 3, and full ownership of his future.
Read moreHow Eric Turned a $40 Google Ad Into a $96k Contract
Eric Sadowski was done building someone else's dream. So he spent $40 on a Google ad to test a theory. Months later, he was signing a $96,000 annual contract.
Read moreThe Reset-to-Zero Trap: How Commission-Only Structures Keep You Broke and Busy
You crushed it last quarter. President's Club. Top of the leaderboard. Then January 1st hit and your number went back to zero.
Read moreThe Sales Rep's Guide to Designing a Location-Independent Income
I'm writing this from my camper somewhere between San Diego and Phoenix — this is what location-independent income actually looks like.
Read moreYou're a CEO With Zero Equity
Let's play a game. I'll describe a job, and you tell me the title. The only difference? The CEO owns the machine.
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