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The very beginning of his sales career, Michael was hired on the spot after walking into the store with a nice suit and asking to speak to the manager. He was hired at the top position at the store, Armani Specialist, and went on to be the #1 producer for credit accounts opened for the entire department of 20+ reps, and set a store record for most high-ticket shirts sold in a single transaction (10). This was all before the 3-month probationary period was even over.

In the wake of the pandemic, Michael took the opportunity to self-study web design and digital marketing, opening up his own agency, Hypermax. Michael was able to get hands-on experience with every single sales role all at once, from generating his own leads, to cold-calling, to closing the accounts and managing them for long-term success and upsell opportunities.

He had remarkable success with happy customers and great client outcomes, ending his business with a perfect 5-star review streak on Trustpilot, but also learned a very important lesson: the only thing he enjoyed about running his company was the sales side of things. That's when he decided to fully commit to the sales career and go all in.

Michael joined NexRep in a fully remote position selling a wide variety e-commerce products to a vast range of clientele. Among a team of about 100 agents, he emerged right out of the gate after two weeks of training as company #1 week after week, shattering records and claiming bonuses. He figured out a novel way to upsell one of the main offers with additional framing at the beginning of the pitch that led to a company-wide revision to the script, boosting the entire organization's conversion rate and bottom line.

Michael joined Fusion Growth Partners as a Sales Development Representative. He was able to make swift work right out of the 3-day training regimen of the required KPIs - exceeding the entire month's quota in the first two weeks, and was on track to a remarkable performance. However, shortly after joining, the company experienced a department-wide unpaid leave that affected 100% of the SDRs due to the National Association of Realtors ruling in August 2024.

Michael was recruited by Clearlink as an insurance agent in an account executive role with all licensing and education expenses paid pre-hire. He passed the state licensure exam with one of the highest scores the company had seen, a 94, with an incredible 2 weeks of studying. After a 2-month training program, Michael entered the sales floor at the single busiest time of the year. He not only emerged #1 among all the newly licensed agents for 2024 - earning the distinction #1 Aspiring Agent - but ended the year ranked #6 at the entire company among 386 total agents, the vast majority of who had been insurance agents working at Clearlink for several years.

Michael was informed that he would be recommended as a top pick for a promotion to sales supervisor before the next busy season at the end of 2025. Unfortunately, Clearlink experienced mass layoffs that eliminated the corporation's entire insurance department.

Michael joined Indiana Business Advisors as a part-time SDR on a flexible contract basis, making a massive impact in a short time. In just 3 weeks after starting the role, he topped the charts as company-wide #1 performer, driving an incredible $6M+ in potential pipeline revenue for the sale of multi-million dollar mid-market businesses, earning the President's Club distinction in the first month. The wake he made in a short time led him to being approached by upper management about his unique sales process with an outsized success rate. He was ultimately granted exclusive access to leads during his time with IBA to continue driving high-revenue pipeline.

Michael was hired at ADHD Tools (theadhdtools.com), his first ever closer role in the coaching space, and needed virtually no ramp-up time after a literal 2-day training/script-reading period. He came out of the gates swinging finishing his first week with a 33% enrollment rate (all scheduled calls, including no-shows) before he even had full Slack access. He very quickly set an all-time company record within the first 3 months on the job: most enrollments in a single day (4), all PIFs, collecting $31k in cash by end-of-day. By EOY, Michael became #1 Closer for 2025 with a Close Rate of 33% (live calls) and 20.41% Enrollment Rate (scheduled calls), leading the entire team of roughly 9+ seasoned closers, including those that had pitched at substantially lower price points earlier on in the year before Michael joined ADHD Tools.

Unfortunately, after singificant changes were made to the marketing funnel and pricing structure in January, company-wide revenue fell off a cliff. Michael was one of the last Closers to leave from the original group. An entire group of new hires since have not been able to restore the offer to its former health, opening up Michael to his next permanent Closer role.

Michael is currently working part-time on a flexible contract basis as an SDR for Clearest Health, a healthcare SaaS firm specializing in IDR (Independent Dispute Resolution) for surgical practices, while he finds his next permanent Closer role. Since joining, Michael has quickly proved himself as an exceptionally talented and innovative SDR, and a true team player. Outside his regular job duties, he created an entirely new cold outreach script from scratch which has been adopted company-wide by both new SDRs and veterans alike. His novel cold-calling intro directly improved the Connect-to-Pitch rate dramatically for all SDRs. In recent weeks, Michael achieved company-wide #1 conversation-to-meeting ratio at 31%, beating out the top SDR veteran and the SDR manager at the company after less than two months on the job.