Is there a science to creating any business?
Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator first scrolled across my timeline in January 2019. Sam’s Consulting Accelerator promises to break down business to its basic building blocks. From there, the choice of what to make with them is entirely up to you.
After clicking on my first piece of Sam Ovens copywriting, his ads have followed me all over the web. Within the first month, I did something I never thought I’d do, I bought an online training course from a Facebook ad (Sam Ovens & Consulting.com’s “Consulting Accelerator”). To make the purchase even more remarkable, I had to increase my credit card limit just to pay for it.
In this post I’m going to review his 6-week program from the context of my personal background (a 29 year old goal oriented Clevelander, with a degree in Civil Engineering and an unconventional amount of sales experience). If you’re short on time check out the Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator video review shared here:
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Is Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator a scam? Is Consulting Accelerator 2.0 worth the cost? Sam’s course didn’t give me a magic pill to start a 6-figure business. But I did learn a number of lessons that I will take with me for the rest of my life.
If you’ve found your way to this article you may have seen Sam somewhere on the Internet. Even more likely, one of Sam’s former students has served up an ad on your timeline.
How long have you been waiting? How long have the years blurred together, unfolding predictably without even putting up a fight? How large is the gap between where you are now, and where you want to be?
Sam Ovens’ course is the magic pill that will change your destiny. Maybe.
One of the earliest business lessons you’ll learn from Sam is that people hire a consultant for one of three reasons:
1. They can’t do the work themselves
2. They want to get the work done faster
3. Or they want the work done by someone who’s done the work before
Number 2 and 3 both fit my choice to purchase Sam’s program.
For context, I’m not the typical character that might come to mind when you think “engineer”. On April Fool’s Day 2016 (2.5 years before I heard of Sam Ovens) I quit my Civil Engineering job to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. This website (notwaitingtolive.com) was created to blog about that six-month adventure. Born directly out of that adventure was my newly focused desire to make each day count towards a goal of my choosing from then on out.
There is one word I would use to describe hiking for 6 months through the mountains carrying only what you need to survive on your back, “prioritizing”.
Moving forward, I re-aligned my life in such a way that my monthly living expenses could be as low as possible so I could start a business. The purpose of the business was a means to an end goal of becoming a one-millionaire (assets – liabilities). I simply couldn’t achieve that goal working for someone else as an engineer any time soon.
Before even starting a business, I set out to combine my car, house, and potential office payment into one lower monthly payment by building a tiny house inside a Ford Transit van.
Then in January 2017, sleeping on my dad’s couch, with my van Proud Mary parked in the driveway, I set out to save money to start a business. I walked into my local Mercedes-Benz dealership and got a job selling cars and vans. After six months I quit to better leverage my engineering experience into sales in an attempt to make more money. Six months into my engineering sales job, it became painfully clear I was as good as anyone was going to be for this niche business line, and I wasn’t going to make any money.
So obviously what I did next was privately finance the purchase and renovation of a foreclosed house… Real-estate presents a rare opportunity to double leverage capital by borrowing against equity, so I saw this as an opportunity to give myself my own business loan.
The house turned out to be a profitable, time consuming endeavor, that accomplished exactly what I wanted. But, next thing you know it’s January 2019.
For two years I had spent all kinds of time, energy, and effort trying to save money just for an attempt to make money on my own. I didn’t have more than a few thousand saved to show for it.
Then I see Sam, and he says you don’t need money to start a business.
The main reason start-up businesses fail isn’t lack of money, it’s lack of market need.
And guess what? You don’t need money to ask the market what it needs. You can simply ask them.
I wasn’t unfamiliar with this premise. I had actually listened to “The Lean Startup” while working on Proud Mary in my dad’s driveway years earlier. The heart of the book is how to focus on creating only the minimum number of features necessary to test a hypothesis. I took that lesson to heart and even applied it in my engineering sales job in 2018 by commandeering a rogue software development project the company was pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into without even a hypothesis.
In my opinion, the shining example in “The Lean Startup” is a story about a group of guys who spent 6 months creating a software service that nobody wanted. When they sent out the link for people to sign-up, no one even clicked the link. The lesson learned is they could have sent the link before they even created the product to find out no one wanted it. This approach to business is known as a “smoke test”.
For whatever reason, hearing the hypothesis language again from Sam in his course, flipped a switch in my mind. With all those those years of college science classes and a job as an engineer under my belt I can attest his scientific reasoning is fundamentally sound.
It doesn’t matter what my business idea is (or yours), I can test the market need without money and go from there. Again, “no-market need” is the number one reason startups fail. Sam shows you precisely how to start, first with your mindset, then, step by step, right down to executing your 30 day attack on whatever niche you choose. You don’t need to quit your day to make an honest attempt at this approach.
Sam even gives you the sales script to follow from beginning to end.
I sold TVs at Best Buy in high school, I’ve been a telemarketer for health insurance, I sold Mercedes-Benz, and most recently I sold facility solutions for a mechanical engineering company. Over that time, the highest dollar single sale I take the credit for was $300,000 @ 30% gross profit for a new construction plan review solution. I took that sale from lead, to presentation, to close myself based on years of my own sales and engineering experience. I’ve read “The Challenger Sale”, “Never Split the Difference: Negotiate as if You Life Depended on It”, “SPIN Selling”, “Getting to Yes”, “Exactly What to Say”, “Zero to One”. In college I even took a Master’s class for Public Dispute Resolution. Sam’s sales script cuts right to the heart of all of this, separating the client from where they are now and where they want to be.
Advertising on the Internet changed a lot in 2015. Late that year Tai Lopez became a YouTube sensation with a garage full of books (and a Ferrari).
I never gave learning from Tai much thought (or any of the hundreds of Facebook advertisers since that reminded me of him). But I certainly respect his self-evident ability to put himself on my screen.
The old adage is “Those that can’t do, teach”.
The new adage is: Those that can do just enough to be dangerous, teach online courses.
Is Sam just another one of these online course jockeys?
No. Absolutely, unequivocally, no. Sam Ovens is unparalleled in today’s online course mania.
He started to move his own needle in his early 20s after a couple failed, no-market need, business ventures, which he talks about in his course. His product that took off was niche need focused on getting plumbers more hot water cylinder repair jobs, specifically. From there he was able to grow his income to a ceiling of several hundred thousand dollars a year (just enough to be dangerous).
What grew Sam Ovens net worth from less than $1mm to $65mm before age 30 are his online courses.
What he’ll explain are the practical limitations of starting “done for you” businesses (where you literally do the work for the client). He goes on to share that based on his own experience and the accumulated experience of thousands of his students, the ceiling for your own done for you empire income is around $300,000 a year (which I think intuitively makes sense to a lot of people. That’s why the online course jockeys exist.).
Somewhere between marketing for plumbers in Australia and today, Sam found the glitch in the Matrix. He teaches both mindset and business principle application so thoroughly that I don’t think most people can’t make it through the whole six weeks without playing sections of the videos at 2x speed. He’s simply brilliant in all the ways that matter and none of the ways that don’t.
His course is the perfect amount of enlightened and “on-time” for today’s economy.
But,
He still doesn’t have a magic pill.
His course does well to direct focused action, putting students in the best position possible to achieve what they choose to accomplish.
Would Sam Ovens be worth $65mm if he had to create Consulting Accelerator in 1919 instead of 2019?
Would John D. Rockefeller make a billion dollars selling kerosene for lamps in 1970 instead of 1870?
Because the course teaches only the building blocks of business, students are left to their own devices and are able to choose an infinite number of pursuits. He teaches you how to pursue literally any business, not just a social media marketing agency like the Tai Lopez’s of the world (although to Tai’s credit he has been expanding what he teaches into a handful of other niches like real-estate).
Each pursuit has it’s own challenges of which Sam Ovens does not make his students immune. When you sign up you’ll see people from all walks of life in the private Facebook group. You’ll see the whole spectrum of “coaches” and niche focused digital marketers because part of the Consulting Accelerator is a week’s worth of Facebook Advertising training that is simply the best in the world. Who better to learn Facebook advertising from than a man who achieved 90% of his $65mm net worth through ads on Facebook?
What people pursue with the course is more of a reflection of the skill sets and experience people bring to the course in the first place. Right now coaching what you know and digital marketing have the lowest barriers to market entry, so that is the form that many students’ businesses take. But you’ll also see an accountant who turned into an accountant with consulting businesses leveraging what they know. Or a mechanical engineer who starting scaling an invention product design business.
Unquestionably, no doubt in my mind, there is no stronger, more actionable, educational foundation for any business than Sam Oven’s Consulting Accelerator course. Anywhere. If you want to work for yourself you’re significantly better off with Sam Oven’s 6-week Consulting Accelerator than a Harvard MBA.
Is Sam Ovens a scam? Is Consulting Accelerator 2.0 worth the cost? There’s a really simple way to find out for yourself for free.
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