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Cutco

people join for sales training they keep forever

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Tactic

Send kids to Cutco camp to learn door-to-door selling

Sam's parenting heuristic: pick the skill a kid won't have time to learn later and has the biggest lifetime payoff—door-to-door selling. He'd send them to a cutthroat program like Cutco for two summers because the selling skill is nearly impossible to acquire that way again as an adult.

“I would think of what skill should they learn now that they won't have time to learn in the future. So, uh, for, for them that will have big impact for them. I think it would be door-to-door selling. And I would sell, I would send them to it like a, uh, an Amco or I think it's, or sorry, Cutco.”

Steal thisHave your teen spend two summers doing cutthroat door-to-door sales to build a skill they can't learn later.

EP 200 · 56:27 · SAM
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Fact

Brutal training is a recruiting magnet, not just a cost

Pomp's insight on Cutco and Gartner: people join knowing they won't stay, because the training gives them a skill for life. If you're churning 25% anyway, word spreads that the experience is worth it, making intense training a powerful recruiting tool.

“So I tend to think that like the organizations that spend a lot of time on the training, like word spreads like, hey, working there is good, but the training you get will like serve you for the rest of your career and it helps on the recruiting front.”

Steal thisMake your training so good people join for the skills even knowing they'll leave; let word-of-mouth do recruiting.

EP 100 · 51:33 · ANTHONY POMPLIANO
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mfmindex.com№ 0100-3093