@NickAbraham12 Yeah, work with leadbird if you want a 10% reply rate with cheesy emails that attract low quality buyers… work with TANDA Digital if you want this (campaign produced £70K in sales from 1,400 leads) 🤣
Depending on referrals or founder hustle kills your growth since you lose control.
That’s why outbound is heavenly mana for most B2B companies.
You get to go after your best buyers directly.
You’ll make more sales and you’ll learn how to perfect your offer in the fastest time
Craziest thing you notice when you transition your business/service from free/cheap to "high ticket"
Is that its the free/cheap clients with the most demands + expectatuons
The guy paying 5 figs is more "whatever"
Its harder to give stuff away than it is to charge high for it
I don’t mean to suggest you lie, quite the contrary, so my apologies if it came across like that.
But you’re obviously angry and unhappy with how things played out, right?
If that’s so, then that suggests to me you don’t just value being right, correct?
If you just valued being right, you wouldn’t care you got kicked out and didn’t get the job, and instead a less deserving person got it.
So clearly you also value making money, passing the course, being valued by others etc.
Now you didn’t achieve those things which you value. You achieved being right, but not the others. Hence you are angry. At the moment you are projecting this anger outwards at others.
But you could have acted differently. You could have accepted that you value getting the job, and those instructors value feeling superior to the students.
So you could have allowed them to feel superior, played their game, and got the job yourself instead of letting someone who was inferior get it.
Why wouldn’t that be a better outcome for yourself and the world? What I’m trying to get at here is that you don’t have to choose between being good and being successful. You can have both if you want.
Anyway, I’m just trying to help out here if I can, if what I’m saying isn’t helpful feel free to disregard it 🙏🏻
I can see you’re angry and I get it. I am very similar to you, also very high intelligence and gifted. I know where you’re coming from.
First of all, lying CAN win — I never said it can’t. Very often lying is advantageous in the short term, and can get better results.
And luck is always a factor. So both good guys and bad guys win in this world. At the highest levels perhaps there tend to be more bad guys, because unethical behavior is a high risk / high reward strategy. So most bad guys lose, but a few win big. Such is the law of big numbers.
In the end the question isn’t whether your can be unethical and succeed. Because obviously you can.
The question is how do YOU want to live your life? It’s true you can sometimes get away with unethical behavior. Sometimes it can be more advantageous in the short term.
But… don’t think there are no costs to unethical behavior. There are… psychologically you know you’re a fraud, so whatever confidence you have is external and flimsy. Socially you’re always worried that you’re one step away from being found out. And practically, if you are found out, there are serious consequences.
So this isn’t to say that the world is rosy and only good guys win. Far from it.
However, what matters to YOU is that despite your intelligence in certain social situations you lost. You can either blame it on the fact that others were unethical, or you can take ownership of it and find out how you could have behaved differently, while still being true to your principles and done better.
As a gifted person you have tremendous advantages. But your very own intelligence can cloud your judgement and get you to undermine the value of people skills.
Sometimes as a human being in this society you have to play by the rules your society enacts, even if you disagree with them or quite frankly they’re unfair and stupid, for the greater good. Do not mistake your intelligence for a license to ignore what others think or enforce your thoughts because they are right. Very often achieving your goals will require that you get the cooperation of others. If you fail to do that, it doesn’t matter how intelligent you are.