{"id":874,"date":"2011-03-22T06:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2011-03-22T06:36:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:36:09","slug":"training-is-too-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Training is &#8220;too expensive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, when an adjective is used &#8211; there MUST be a comparison; &#8220;too expensive > Compared to what&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;cost&#8221; of a few common sales training programs.<\/p>\n<p>Don Spini &#8211; 60 seconds to yes &#8211; $149.<br \/>\nRobert Kiyosaki &#8211; Learn to be Rich &#8211; $495.<br \/>\nT Harv Eker &#8211; Basic Business &#8211; $495.<br \/>\nTom Hopkins &#8211; Sales Mastery &#8211; $895.<br \/>\nJanek Performance &#8211; Critical Selling &#8211; $995.<br \/>\nDale Carnegie &#8211; How to Sell Like a Pro &#8211; $1,750.<br \/>\nSales Concepts Inc. &#8211; Persuasive Sales &#8211; $2,290.<br \/>\nTony Robbins &#8211; Business Mastery &#8211; $9,995.<br \/>\nJay Abraham &#8211; 1 hour phone consult &#8211; $15,000.<\/p>\n<p>These are great courses taught by great people, I&#8217;ve taken most of the ones on the list.  Anybody in any kind of sales&#8230;should take these courses or ones like them.  And remember there is a difference between courses that teach sales generically vs learning from people that are actively participating in your industry.  Find a coach or mentor in <em>your industry<\/em> that you can partner with.  Follow their lead because it will be the quickest and surest path to success.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately &#8211; What does it &#8220;cost&#8221; you financially, personally if;<\/p>\n<p>1.    Miss an opportunity to acquire even one piece of information that could make everything you know &#8220;gel&#8221; in to one practical strategy that sets you free?<br \/>\n2.    Do nothing &#8211; fail to take action based upon what you already know?<br \/>\n3.    Continue to do what you&#8217;re already doing that&#8217;s not working?<\/p>\n<p>So, remember &#8220;too expensive&#8221; is always &#8220;compared to what&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Live with Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, when an adjective is used &#8211; there MUST be a comparison; &#8220;too expensive > Compared to what&#8221;? Here&#8217;s the &#8220;cost&#8221; of a few common sales training programs. Don Spini &#8211; 60 seconds to yes &#8211; $149. Robert Kiyosaki &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}