Ellwood: I was America's top rookie life insurance salesman at 23
Andy Ellwood · Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion · Jul 27, 2023 · at 2:52
Operator Andy Ellwood describes how focusing strictly on controllable activity metrics led to early sales success selling life insurance.
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“And I ended up being the number one life insurance salesman in America in the rookie class when I was 23 years old, because I learned how to own what I could control.”
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