Escaping the Golden Handcuffs with Sam Chang

<p>Sam Chang is a serial entrepreneur who started his journey as a door-to-door meat salesman in college. After making nearly $2000 on his fourth day on the job, Sam decided to drop out of school and work with a door-to-door sales company. While he was there, he helped grow that team from 25 agents to 300 agents selling for one of Canada’s largest telecom companies. Since then, Sam has helped scale companies of all industry types and sizes, including the most recent company he started, VTMEMBER, which he scaled from 0-65k a month in monthly recurring revenue in 6 months.</p><p><strong>Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li>Why the dog-eat-dog mindset will be the downfall of the corporate world</li><li>How VTMEMBER combats taking advantage of lesser income countries</li><li>Why cold calling is a superpower</li><li>How leading from the front produces the best results</li><li>When was the last time someone told you no</li><li>How failure and success correlate</li><li>How Sam’s business plan builds loyalty and accountability</li></ul><p><strong>Sponsors for this episode</strong></p><p>This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://stscapital.com/" target="_blank">STS Capital Partners</a> and <a href="https://altruvest.org/" target="_blank">Altruvest Charitable Services</a>.</p><p><strong>In this episode….</strong></p><p>How does being a door-to-door salesman inspire someone to start their own business and earn over $65,000 a month in their first six months? Sam Chang, a Taiwanese Canadian out of Vancouver, did just that. After dropping out of university at 19, he used his sales experience to climb the corporate ladder. He now uses his expertise in sales and cold-calling to guide his company VTMEMBER, a virtual assistant company, to new heights.</p><p>Sam recalls two instances where the dog-eat-dog way of the corporate world caused him to snap and leave. The corporate world's structure employs what Sam termed the “Golden Handcuffs”. However, through this adversity, he rose and built VTMEMBER. By cre