WOW! $2,250 in 1 DAY! by a "sales-newbie"

Sounds great! Keep that up

Sounds GREAT !

That's great to hear
Congrats to your friend

Awesome to hear that, do you have any pics of these magnets?

id like to ask... how you manage to put the magnets on people's fridges?
and how many you make

This is amazing!!! I so want to get in on that!!! lol

So great and wonderful, at-least you succeed helping your friend and even made him a marketer/sales man in bonus lol

Dan:

i can image how proud you feel about youself when you see you can do something to help someone in very good way. I salute to you that you come out of your way to help your friend.

please keep us updated and i will be happy for both of you

That's really awesome of you and I hope Matt succeeds. Maybe you have created a new sales marketer out of him. How are you planning on getting your magnets out there so that businesses know their money is being well spent?

Congrats would like to see one of your magnets
Keep up the posting and the good work

Cool! Thanks for looking out for the guy, Midasman. You just taught him HOW to fish!

Keep it up!

Having read this thread, makes me think of doing more of offline marketing for the moment. Hmmm. *strokes chin*

Offer looks good.. keep us updated and I think it is not OP also just worth it. depends on the quality he can give and results.

Always a great feeling to help someone out!

Dom I would love to hear more details myself if you get a chance.

Thank you for sharing and inspiring!

Peace,
Steven Delong

You guys are so gullible.

I love Don Alm stories, they are meant to inspire and motivate.
I think too many of you guys take them literally.

So... this was all fake?

Don's silence is confirming a couple of suspicions I'm having about this thread.

First, last week he listed his "50 ways to make money" thread and this week he followed up with an inspiring story. True one? Not sure.

Secondly as a student of "statement analysis" - some parts of Don's story are "sensitive" meaning they don't ring fully true. For example, when he talks about Matt showing up a 8:00 a.m., he uses present tense, "Matt is on my doorstep..." vs. "was in my doorstep."

When you tell a story, you natually use past tense. So, when an area of the story appears as present tense, it is suspicious. Same goes for the sentence "the guy gives me a big bearhug," vs. the guy gave me...

It is fascinating to look at posts with a critical eye using statement analysis - which can show deceptive areas.

Don may or may not be fully honest in his thread, but it seems (though initially inspiring) to be unbelievable. Which is myhumble opinion.

Mr Don,

I am going listen to your sales call right now BUT I have emailed you asking about buying just the business valuation program. Is it possible to buy just that one?

Thanks
Jeff

I believe in you Don.

Come on Don, I love your contributions and have thanked you many times.

I believe you have done a whole lot in sales in your lifetime and have followed your posts almost from the beginning, way before I became a member.

But you know dog gone well that ALL your "stories" do not happen exactly like you say.
You have a way of embellishing things and telling things that you accomplished years ago as if they just happened yesterday or are happening now.

Matt may or may not be real, maybe its your new way of telling about the sales you made from a third party point of view, that way people reading can feel like HEY IM not the great DON ALM but If "newbie" MAtt can get sales then so can "little ole me"....or maybe he is the Clark Kent of sales and you just unleashed his Superman or better yet his FLASH as he sells 7 people in the course of 1 hour...

And now that you finally have a sig to click to, maybe you are ramping up the posts so you can create your own Legion of Supersalesmen.

Or maybe you are just a hell of a guy that wants to share your knowledge with the world, in which case who cares what I or any other "skepticock' or "negatits" think, no need to spout off insults because we are nobody.

I look forward to more of your war stories!

Your humble apprentice,
Eddie

Congrats....I would have to hire some cute salesgirl to do that for me. Seems like a lot of work...or I am just Internet lazy.... :-)

We will have to think of some digital FRIDGE MAGNET TOWN DIRECTORIES instead of a print, this will be NEW and good. What do you IM's think of this idea....?

Lol, that is funny, hahaha.

Also, congratulations to you then ~

I've been reading this forum for a while now but only just now registered to reply to this thread.

I don't know which I find funnier--that some here find the story of a rookie collecting $6k in receipts his first week so unbelievable that it must be a scam or that you think Don won't tell you the exact mechanics of his marketing project because he's trying to cover up some sinister plot. The road to hell is paved (or so I hear) with refrigerator magnets.

Picking up $6K (only a portion of which, I'll assume, the sales person got to keep) is not unusual in sales. I hardly think the salesman in question ordered his Maserati the following Friday. $6K in receivables isn't some vast amount. But, then again, who the hell am I besides a salesperson who has, in one week, collected $20k not in sales, but in COMMISSIONS? Of course, you have all probably guessed by now that I made that money as a mafia tough working a numbers racket for that shadiest of all possible businesses: AKA the insurance industry.

Look. I listened to Don's sale in 90 seconds and let me just clue you in on a couple of things. #1 What Don accomplishes in that recording isn't a standout sales performance. It's a lay-down deal that anyone with the balls to walk in the front door could have picked up. Perhaps Don IS a great salesman, but that's not the point of the recording.

So is Don a great salesman? Maybe, maybe not. Is Don a crook? Maybe, maybe not. But let me tell you, folks, Don is a GREAT marketer with the balls to do a salesman's job. He walks (oh no! the present tense! I must be lying) into a retail business (we're talking some guy who can afford retail frontage, not some crappy closet in an office park, but retail frontage). Don has researched his guy. He knows the prospect can afford a full page ad in the yellow pages which isn't cheap. He's trying to sell the guy advertising for $189. That guy can't take a crap for less than $500. Not only that, but Don has a gizmo in his hands: a shiny pizza box with the add on top. If that guy were to send out mailers to 1,000 people it would cost a $1,000. Don can give him 5,000 people for $189. Just basic co-op marketing stuff.

So is Don pocketing the money? Who knows. I find it likelier that he just learned, like every salesman worth his salt, that the money is there for the taking. A compelling offer and a will to do the f'n deal is all it takes.

If you can't figure out why Don wouldn't detail the exact mechanics of his marketing project to you guys, then you should probably start trying to figure out how to fill out the application at Walmart. Don isn't in the business of multiplying his competitors. You've got to make your bones by finding someone like Don and working for him till you figure it out for yourself. In the process of doing that you just might figure out that $6k isn't all that much and how this sales racket actually works, and then you can go apply at Charles Schwab and pretend to not hear them chuckle when you wag your finger at them and declaim in stentorian voice how, through some preposterous statement analysis, you've determined that they are running a numbers game.

Last, but not least, for the guy who referred sarcastically to calling prospects at 7:30 AM as "brilliant." Let me just point out that it is a fairly banal and rudimentary fact in sales that your best chances at catching the decision maker are before 8:00AM and after 5:00PM, when his salaried gatekeeper is in bed or at the dinner table. Of course, anyone with an hour of sales or phone training knows and understands this, which is precisely why you don't.

And as for the whole "newbie" aspect of the thing. Let me clue you in. You fly or die your first week. If you can't make it work the first week, then here are the "B" leads, and you can keep having them until you find another job. That a rookie is calling @ 7:30Am his first week isn't at all surprising. What would be surprising is if he's still doing it his 100th. You will never be more enthusiastic and motivated than your first week. Moreover, the best salesman is a HUNGRY salesman. This is all basic stuff and should be familiar to anyone who has succeeded in sales--not the 80% who eventually "choose" the "security" of a salaried position and talk each night at the bar about how they once worked in that sales racket.

All I know about Don from reading his posts and listening to his 90 second sale is that he can do the deal. As for the people who think he is some confidence trickster, I wonder whether you even know what the "deal" is.

how do i order the midas report

As a cross sell, he can sell huge refrigerators big enough to hold that magnet.

Agreed. It's also a demo on almost talking past the sale. And then there was the part about not pre-judging, but then he goes ahead and prejudges anyway. Not the best sales behaviors.

To his credit what it really shows is that he came up with a product that's real, real, real simple to pitch.

It sounds a great idea. How many you will print for $150?

How do i get in? Im interested, pls pm me

I have a new respect for good 'ol Don Alm.
He always has these strategies he throws around

Then, the other day, I was listening to Gary Halbert's XXX recodings, and low and behold who do they bring up..... None other than Don Alm and his strategies. They weren't condesending towards him, just talked about his different approach to marketing. I think they brought up the one where he mailed the locked floppy...

Go ahead and bash... but when the big boys take notice, you might want to as well.