00:00so the reason you clicked on this video
00:02is because you want to know whether a
00:04tech sales boot camp is worth it or not
00:07and i have gotten a ton of requests to
00:09do videos on the different types of boot
00:11camps and tech sales is one of the ones
00:13that pops up over and over again and
00:15that's especially true because i'm such
00:16a big fan of the career itself now just
00:19because i'm a big fan of the career of
00:21tech sales does not mean that i'm a fan
00:23of tech sales boot camps and i'm just
00:26going to come out with it i'm not going
00:26to spoil the video or anything but some
00:28of the biggest name tech sales boot
00:30camps out there that have thousands and
00:32thousands of students are definitely not
00:34worth it but does that mean that all the
00:36tech sales boot camps are bad not
00:37necessarily and in this video i'm going
00:39to help you to decide if a boot camp is
00:41the right choice for you or not and i'm
00:43also going to make a lot of boot camps
00:44out there very very angry so please
00:46don't sue me bro so buckle your seat
00:48belts smack that like button and let's
00:50jump right into it all right so first
00:52things first for those who don't know
00:54what exactly is a tech sales boot camp
00:57now the name tech sales basically is
00:58just an umbrella term for a bunch of
01:00different careers that are very related
01:02these careers are software sales sas
01:05sales which stands for software as a
01:07service business development
01:08representative and sales development
01:11representative now the reason that these
01:12careers are so popular and the reason
01:14that i talk about them on my channel is
01:16not only is there a ridiculous amount of
01:18demand even at the entry level for
01:21careers like this but on top of that it
01:23also pays super well even in your very
01:25first year and if all of that wasn't
01:27enough you do not need a college degree
01:29or previous experience in order to get
01:31into tech sales now there are many
01:33examples of people getting into tech
01:34sales without a college degree without
01:36any experience and making over 70 000 a
01:38year in their first year i've even
01:40interviewed several of these people on
01:41my channel there's even extreme examples
01:43of people getting into tech sales
01:44without any experience and making a
01:46hundred and thirty thousand dollars in
01:48their first year and i interviewed my
01:49friend antoine from black heights and he
01:51makes over 500 000 a year and he's about
01:54five years into tech sales so this is a
01:56career where you can make a lot of money
01:58right off the bat and if you're a high
01:59performer you do really well you have a
02:01ton of opportunity to make even more
02:03money down the line now boot camps claim
02:05to be able to get you into tech sales in
02:07a very short amount of time so they're
02:09basically going to train you how to do
02:10it and they are going to help you to get
02:12a job and that is why you hear so much
02:14buzz about tech sales boot camps so the
02:17next question is why should you do a
02:19tech sales bootcamp well first of all
02:21technology sales in general makes about
02:23a hundred and six thousand dollars a
02:25year and like i said there's a ton of
02:26examples of people who get into tech
02:27sales and have a lot of success with it
02:29and a lot of the people that i've
02:30interviewed on this channel have no
02:31college degree and no experience or in
02:34some cases they do have a college degree
02:35but they got it in something that didn't
02:37help them at all and they sort of went
02:38down a career path that they weren't
02:40happy with now some companies still
02:42require a college degree it's this old
02:45traditional outdated sort of thing but
02:47if you attend a boot camp they actually
02:50drop that requirement in many cases and
02:52this is especially true for certain
02:53well-respected ones which i'm going to
02:55mention later now let's talk a little
02:57bit more about tech sales jobs and
02:59specifically we're going to talk about
03:00the demand now first of all the
03:02technology industry has a ton of demand
03:04in general bls estimates that the
03:06technology industry is going to grow 13
03:07percent over the next 10 years usually
03:09like four to five percent is average and
03:12sales is one of the most valuable skills
03:14you can learn so when you combine
03:16technology skills and sales skills
03:18together magical things happen now when
03:21you type in business development on
03:22linkedin at the entry level only you're
03:24going to see that 354
03:27000 results pop up so there are a ton of
03:29companies out there that need people
03:31even at the entry level in this business
03:33development role next let's talk about
03:35whether employers hire people who
03:37graduate from tech sales boot camps so
03:39this is the part where it gets
03:40interesting some employers like i said
03:42still require a college degree a lot of
03:44them drop that in general and then some
03:46of them drop it just for people who go
03:48to boot camps so the answer to this is
03:50yes employers absolutely do hire people
03:52who graduate from tech sales boot camps
03:55but wait until i talk about the other
03:57sections before you drop everything and
03:58sign up for a tech sales bootcamp
04:00because this segways perfectly into the
04:02next section which is tech sales boot
04:05camps versus tech sales degrees versus
04:07tech sales certificates versus tech
04:09sales online courses versus self-taught
04:11so there are many different ways of
04:13getting into text sales like i just
04:15mentioned all of those different ways
04:16certificates online courses boot camps
04:18self-taught etc now those of you who've
04:20watched this channel before i've said
04:21this over and over again the best way to
04:23get into a career path is going to be
04:25different depending on your situation
04:27and the career path that you're trying
04:28to get into so for instance with data
04:31analytics a lot of the time i typically
04:33recommend certificates however there's a
04:35lot of other career paths out there
04:36where i don't recommend certificates
04:38self-taught can be really good for the
04:40right type of personality but you have
04:41to be really creative really motivated
04:44and you have to be somebody who can do
04:45stuff without having any structure now
04:47boot camps can be good but they're also
04:49very expensive there's literally boot
04:51camps that cost thirty thousand dollars
04:54so that brings me to the next question
04:56which is are tech sales boot camps worth
04:58it so i basically did an analysis of the
05:00top five tech sales boot camps according
05:02to career karma and course report dot
05:04com and overall when you average it all
05:06out if you compare like getting a
05:08college degree to get into tech sales
05:10versus a tech sales bootcamp the
05:12bootcamp is probably a better deal it's
05:14gonna save you like three to four years
05:16of time and it's going to save you some
05:17money however there are some boot camps
05:19that are much much better than others
05:21and that brings me to the next section
05:23which is what is the best tech sales
05:25bootcamp so like i said i looked at
05:27these websites and the top five tech
05:29sales bootcamps were elevate highrise
05:32academy pre-hired springboard and sv
05:35academy now one thing about these boot
05:37camps is before the pandemic happened a
05:39lot of these boot camps were actually in
05:41person so you'd go in person you get
05:43that in person training and that can be
05:44very valuable especially if you're more
05:46of like a hands-on type of person but
05:48since the pandemic of course most of
05:50these boot camps went online but the
05:51problem is most of them still charge the
05:54same amount even though they didn't have
05:55that giant infrastructure cost that you
05:57have to have if you have an in-person
06:00boot camp and so these are all
06:01essentially just online courses so i
06:04compared these boot camps to an online
06:06course that i know gets people results
06:08and that is course careers so if you
06:09look here the average rating on career
06:11karma for course careers was five stars
06:14the average rating for elevate was 4.8
06:16high rise academy was 4.96 pre-hired was
06:184.9 springboard was 4.6 and sv academy
06:22was 4.9 so course careers was clearly
06:25number one here with elevate coming in
06:27and second place and then sv academy
06:29came in in third place then if you look
06:31at the cost course careers is 450
06:37high rise academy is four thousand
06:39dollars pre-hired is thirty thousand
06:41springboard is five thousand and sv
06:43academy is ten thousand now i got these
06:46numbers from their websites as well as
06:47course report and career karma so if
06:49they change the numbers please you know
06:50double check me on this but clearly
06:52course careers is number one it's the
06:54cheapest high-rise is number two at four
06:56thousand dollars that's reasonable and
06:58springboard is number three at five
07:00thousand dollars but again course
07:02careers does come in at number one and
07:04when you look at the length of the
07:05course itself course careers i know for
07:07a fact people are getting through it in
07:09one month sometimes even less than that
07:10if you do it part time it might take a
07:12little bit longer elevate they say about
07:142.5 months high rise is about 1.5 months
07:17pre-hired was four months springboard
07:19was four months and sv academy was four
07:21months so again course careers came in
07:23at number one people are getting through
07:25it in one month quite often and they are
07:27oftentimes securing jobs in just one
07:29month as well high-rise academy came in
07:31second at 1.5 months elevate came in
07:34third at 2.5 months so course careers
07:36was number one in all three categories
07:39however high-rise was number two so they
07:41did pretty well now a couple of notes
07:42here uh highrise academy for some reason
07:44i had a lot of trouble finding exactly
07:47but i saw two different sources one said
07:49four thousand the other one said nine
07:51thousand so you wanna double check me on
07:52that maybe email them or something and
07:54then another thing about highrise is i
07:55couldn't find all that many verifiable
07:58reviews or interviews so all of these
08:00different bootcamps have like reviews
08:02where they have a picture of a person
08:03it's like oh this bootcamp was awesome
08:05or whatever those reviews are i mean
08:07it's better than nothing but really what
08:09you want to look for when it comes to
08:11reviews is actual interviews where
08:13they're asking the person about their
08:14experience and the person is giving
08:16genuine answers because a person has to
08:18be much more excited about something to
08:20do an actual interview rather than you
08:23know doing some sort of exit survey or
08:25something like that after they get
08:26through the boot camp when they're most
08:28excited about things and then they say
08:29some nice things about the bootcamp on
08:31the exit survey and then you know the
08:33bootcamp uses that as their their
08:35marketing as a review so it's much much
08:37better when people actually do video
08:39interviews because you can tell whether
08:41the person is genuinely happy genuinely
08:43excited with their experience now course
08:45careers on the other hand has a ton of
08:48video interviews if you look at the
08:49course careers linkedin there's tons of
08:51people who talk about it and there's
08:52lots of video interviews of people who
08:54are super super passionate about it and
08:56on top of that course careers actually
08:57partners with companies to create
08:59internships and jobs so looking at these
09:01websites and looking at sort of what
09:03they offer you know you've got like a
09:04cohort you've got other people that you
09:06work with you've got you know different
09:08groups where you can talk to each other
09:10like a discord sometimes they use like
09:11facebook groups or other types of groups
09:13where you can basically talk with other
09:14people which is great because that makes
09:16it more social basically everything that
09:18all of these different boot camps offer
09:21course careers offers for about
09:23one-tenth or maybe even like
09:25one-thirtieth of the price and in the
09:27case of the 30 000 bootcamp it's like
09:29150th or 180th of the price if you're
09:32interested in course careers and you're
09:33wondering about whether you're a good
09:34fit to go into tech sales or you just
09:35want to learn more they do have a free
09:38training which i will put linked down in
09:39the description as well as the pin
09:40comment below and if you want 50 off you
09:43can use my coupon code which is shane
09:4550. so yeah i might have just saved you
09:47over 30 000 with this video if you're
09:49somebody who's trying to go into tech
09:50sales and you're thinking about paying
09:52for a 30 000 boot camp don't get me
09:54wrong i'm sure those boot camps do get
09:56people good outcomes but there's just
09:59way better alternatives to those and if
10:01you want to look at some interviews of
10:03people who have gone through course
10:04careers or recommend course careers
10:05which by the way every single person on
10:08all those thumbnails either went through
10:09course careers themselves and got a job
10:11or they recommend course careers check
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