I have decided to do a diary blog style to record my journey of being a High ticket closer. I wanted to start from the beginning and document my full journey, whether this will be successful or a failure.
Getting a few things out of the way:
Why do I post on blogger unlike my peers on Youtube? I have been blogging for a loooong time but stopped for many years, so since I have decided to park my old life, and my documenetation self has resurfaced, I thought that this journey is something that is worth while to put down, and share with people that maybe thinking about changing their paths.
Background on myself:
I have worked in a company for 15 years, 4 jobs later and the company decided to hand me out a redundancy. My last position was 7 years in sales. I was on Maternity leave at the time, and many years ago I knew my career was stuck and I should move on. With the redundancy, the decision was made for me, and I didn't feel much when I was tapped on the shoulder. I was living the typical corporate life, the bureaucracy, the politics, the discrimination and the constant fighting and confrontation with people in other departments, the promises that "things will be different" whenever a restructure takes place. I survived around 10 or 15 of them, and I really was surprised that I lasted this long before it was my turn.
Like most people, I wasn't really that happy working in a job. I had the work life balance, but my job function was the following: Account manager, sales engineer, service delivery, vendor management, product development, marketing, technical specialist, provisioning, customer support, pre and post sales - I never thought I was doing everything and anything, which I didn't mind, makes things less boring and I learnt a fair bit over the years. Given the job functions I had, when you do everything, things can get a bit too diluted.
What then?
The redundancy led me to have a good hard look at my situation. Should I just go out and get another job? Slogging away doing things that you might hate and answering to a boss that I may or not like? How would this affect my family? From a career wise, should I stay in the same industry? The most important question of all - Is this how I want to live my life doing a job?
There must be another way. There are plenty of people who worked in a non traditional 9 to 5 job and made good money. I always wanted to call the shots and the more I think about it, the more the J.O.B become less and less appealing.
What led me to Dan Lok
On the day that I was let go, I was mindlessly browsing through Facebook since I thought that I have a fair bit of time, my friend decided to share a video on Facebook of Dan on the 7 things that rich and poor people do:
This caught my attention. he was spot on! I was already thinking like that and was already saying to people "this is why so and so is poor!" So I landed on his Youtube channel. Went through his Webminar, I really liked it, but also skeptical. I really need to talk to people that has done the course and see how they felt about it.
I tried reaching out to some people that had review videos on Youtube, not the raving fan types - but no response. My search led me to Reddit - not my usual place to hang out but I have been in some really interesting conversations here. Reached out to a couple of guys that did the course here, and one responded. The back and forth took around a week and he was the person who got me over the line, not the sales team working for Dan.
The Dan Lok team
I have to say, I didn't have the best onboarding experience from the team. Considering Dan indicated that he is very strict with picking who works for him, I expected better, and I would have done a much better job myself. One thing that I had issues with was not following through when I asked questions. The director of enrollment did not get back to me at all after providing the initial dates, then followed on and send me the information after I have enrolled. What about my questions? I was an easy sell - I was 90% ready to sign up since I already did my research, but if it was someone else, I would think that would have cost them a sale. In no where during the process that someone offered to talk to me to clarify things further. As I mentioned before, an ex student gave me the information rather than his team.
So, I went into the program, a bit skeptical. I thought everyone who works for him are high ticket closers and the experience so far isn't. I wasn't "closed". I am sure about obtaining a skill during this course, but the experience so far does make me ponder somewhat.