Thank You

Profound wrote: Thank you guys for the advice and opinions.  I really appreciate just different point of views on everything and it has helped me see the bigger picture.

Are you a CPA?

RIArules wrote: Are you a CPA?

ClarenceBeeks wrote: The regional leader is in a totally different level than you are right now.  This business is all about your progressing evolution.  In the beginning, you take whatever crumbs and fumes you can get.  I remember one day I went home happy because a prospect walked in and opened an account for each of his 8 children.  He never funded the accounts.  You evolve over several years and one day you become like that regional leader who has way too many clients with over 500k and can afford to talk about being selective.   You're going to hear different shit from different people, and you're confused by that?  You should probably just keep your safe job.

Except no job is safe. A school can close, a new principal can come in and clean house, test scores go down....etc.

There is no such thing as a safe job for the most part.

The confusing part was everything I heard from everyone who prospered in this company aligned until I spoke with a higher-up who told me what felt like the complete opposite. Thanks to some advice from people who aren't worried about quickly telling me "just give up" I pieced the puzzle together.

Edited by Profound - May/13/2015 at 9:34pm

luvindy wrote: Profound wrote:  <span style="line-height: 1.4;">  I know it will be hard work....6 and sometimes 7 days a week..........10-12 hours a day.</span> I have no issues with hard work and long hours.  I said all of the same stuff and spent 3/4 of my first year watching Cosby Show re-runs from 12-3 every day because I couldn't get off my ass to go be rejected.

Rejection eats at your soul little by little. That is the hardest part.

Profound - the Regional Leader is not drinking enough koolaid apparently. 

The reason the 'Jones formula' works is because it revolves around activity.  Doorknocking is activity.  You knock on enough doors and you find enough people to do business.  You cant meet 20 people on a monday and expect to have 20 accounts by the following Friday.  You meet 20 people on a Monday, you will probably have 1 account a month from now.  But eventually you have 1000 prospects and you can turn 50 of those into accounts. 

You take whatever account you can get.  $100 a month PAC plan?  Done, sign them up.  Does it make you money?  No, but you mix those in with the bigger clients you will find and it keeps your household goals up and above the line. 

Long hours are not a badge of honor. It's better to work effectively for a shorter duration. Very few people can work long and effectively.

Effectively = only seeing people or fighting to see people

I think I will don my triple crown polo today, in homage. Actually, because I haven't done laundry in a while...

RipRock wrote: Whats the #1 Jones guys do $ AUM?

SometimesNowhere wrote: Dude, that guy has to have like 4500 HH. That's fucking stupid.

Or is it? Just put them all in A shares and tell them we will talk again in 7 years.