I've got some good news for you, nado. Not only is what you're saying possible, but if you play your cards right, there is a very, very high chance that you will be taken seriously. I've been in business since i was 19, am now getting six-figure contracts on a regular basis and having corporations stake a lot of money on our ability to perform. Notice that i said "our," not "mine." This is because when i walk into their office, I'm not representing a highschool dropout in his early 20's, but a highly successful, rapidly growing corporation. Image is everything. My goal is to walk into their office and LOOK like i mean business. LOOK like i know what i'm doing. LOOK like i'm on top of my game. If you can get them to buy into that, everything else is cake. However, you can't get them to believe something if you don't believe it yourself. You have to FEEL like a professional when you walk in there, not like a "recent high-school grad with little or no experience." What this means is that you have to build. You have to make YOURSELF believe first. Open a corporation. Create a professional-looking company logo. Get a 1-800 line and link it to your cell. Print some quality business cards (if you're not getting complimented them, they suck). Buy some nice clothes (same compliment rule). Prepare, really prepare yourself for the meeting. Research the hell out of everything you could possibly need to know, and mentally rehearse answering any question they could possibly come up with. Sit down, close your eyes, and see yourself walking into their office, see yourself telling their secretary that you're there to see them, see yourself shaking their hand, see yourself telling them how you can solve their problems, see them getting interested, see them getting convinced, see them signing, see them pleased and smiling in the end, see yourself driving off in your car afterwards, feeling like the next Michael Dell. Once you've done all that, just let go and do your best. Don't worry, knowing you've done everything you possibly could to prepare. Don't worry, knowing that every single time you make a mistake, you'll learn a valuable lesson. Don't worry, knowing that every no invariably brings you closer to a yes. Don't worry, knowing that the market is huge, and you'll never run out of opportunities.
Look, in the end of the day, what it comes down to is this: no one cares about how old you are. They don't care whether or not you're a university grad any more than they care about what brand of dog food you prefer. They care about one thing: RESULTS. Can you deliver? Can you help them make money? Can you solve their problems? Can you alleviate their headaches? Can you make their life easier? The bottom line is that i've made hundreds of proposals over the years, totalling millions and millions of dollars, and have only been asked for my age about three times. Truth is, i used to be scared to death about people finding out how old i am. So much so that i admittedly lied about my age, and said that i was in my mid 20's. That is, until i realized that no one cares. I used to believe that youth was a disadvantage, but now believe the exact opposite. As Tony Robbins once said, "youth is power." I can learn faster than my older competitors. I can work longer and harder than my older competitors. I am far more flexible than my older competitors. I have more energy than my older competitors. I'm far more creative and intelligent than my older competitors. The fact that I'm this young doesn't mean that i'm inexperienced, but that i'm so damn good that i'm here DESPITE my age. Do you know what i do with my age now? I flaunt it. I signed a quarter-million dollar proposal last week, minutes after telling my client that i'm 22. His response? "You're gonna be a millionaire before 30. Check out the Ferrari in the back parking lot; you're gonna have one of those soon."
Good luck! Give me a shout at
mistercorporate@gmail.com and i'll add you to my contact list.
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