I spent 10 years as an actor in Los Angeles. Auditions, rejection, hustle — the constant “will this be the one?” Then I transitioned to commercial pest control sales. I was 32. I had no idea what B2B sales was.
My first stretch was a disaster: missed by 22%, then 18%, then 31% — three months in a row, working 55–60 hours a week. I was doing everything my manager told me to do. I just couldn't see why it wasn't working.
One night I sat down and did something I'd never done: I logged everything. Every door. Every call. Every deal. In a spreadsheet. Two weeks later, the data showed me three problems I couldn't feel but could suddenly see — a 13% connection rate, proposals going out three days late, and no follow-up system at all.
I fixed what the numbers pointed at — nothing else. The next four months: 102%, 118%, 108%, 124%. President's Club.


