Eli Wilde

Wilde started out selling digital products over the phone, work he recalled he was not good at.⁠[1]

He had a brief acting career and trained for the role of Superman in Superman Returns but did not get the part; he then returned to his sales job, where his results improved.⁠[1][2]

After attending one of Tony Robbins’s events he set out to meet Robbins, calling his company about 200 times over two weeks, and was hired. For several years he promoted Robbins’s events on the road, spending a few months each in Los Angeles and New York and traveling about 50 weeks a year.⁠[1]

He went on to become Robbins’s top-performing corporate trainer.⁠[1]

Wilde created Wilde Influence, a company whose stated mission is to empower salespeople and entrepreneurs through advanced communication skills and “authentic influence.”⁠[1]

The Wilde Influence website offers speaker-training courses, a sales-training membership, a neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) manual, an AI sales-coach tool and live speaking events. His biography on the site says he was the top salesperson for Tony Robbins and his companies for years, having coached more than 100,000 people and keynoted more than 3,400 seminars.⁠[3]

He appeared on Jeremy MinerJeremy MinerJeremy Miner is a sales trainer, entrepreneur and author, and the founder and chairman of 7th Level. He promotes NEPQ, a sales training approach centered on questioning and communication. He co-authored The New Model of Selling with Jerry Acuff, hosts Next Level Podcast and has appeared on School of Hard Knocks.Open the full entry’s Next Level Podcast, which introduced him as the “no. 1 salesperson of Tony Robbins” who had run coaching and sales-training events with Robbins, sold more than 20,000 high-ticket products for him and won an award as top salesperson.⁠[4]

He appeared on episode 25 of The Kim Barrett Show Podcast, discussing his move from acting and modeling to Tony Robbins’s team, emotion and energy transfer in selling, language patterns, and building his own training business.⁠[2]

He appeared on Tom Ferry’s podcast as a sales expert. The episode description said he had personally done more than $100 million in sales and had learned neuro-linguistic programming and identity shifting through Robbins; the conversation covered common sales mistakes, “closer composure” and presentation missteps.⁠[5]

He was interviewed on the street in Austin, Texas, by Hard Knocks Business in a video titled “He SOLD $100 MILLION for Tony Robbins.” In the video he said he got rich by learning how to sell, that he had sold more than $100 million worth of coaching services, mostly for Tony Robbins, and that he was now building his own business.⁠[6]

He said he grew up very poor and that his mother worked at McDonald’sMcDonald’sMcDonald’s is a publicly traded restaurant company headquartered in Chicago, known for hamburgers, fries, drive-thrus and its franchise network. Its origins lie in the restaurant opened by Richard and Maurice McDonald in 1940; Ray Kroc expanded franchising from 1955. It operates across more than 100 countries, with the great majority of restaurants run by independent operators.Open the full entry; when he was in junior high the family was down to its last dollar, and that night his mother won $7 million in the lottery.⁠[6]

He compared lacking money to the locked “gray world” in the video game Grand Theft Auto, saying that without money people lack access to things such as health care and the ability to provide for aging parents. The host noted that he had worked closely with Robbins for more than a decade.⁠[6]

Hard Knocks Business included the same interview as the first of four segments, filmed in Austin and Scottsdale, Arizona, in the compilation video “Asking Millionaires for Their Best Business Advice!” In this version he added that he had been building his own business for the “last five, six years.”⁠[7]

A seller has to be certain about what they are selling; otherwise that certainty cannot be transferred to the buyer (video at 00:20).⁠[6]

If you want money to stay, you have to treat it as important; he described money as a byproduct of value (video at 01:23).⁠[6]

He passed on Robbins’s lesson that knowledge can be gained from others, but wisdom comes only from one’s own experience and from putting oneself out there (video at 01:40).⁠[6]

His one piece of advice for the next generation was to learn to sell (video at 01:52).⁠[6]

Wilde Influence: Official website: https://wildeinfluence.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[3]

YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry: Public channel: https://www.youtube.com/@eliwilde858 (opens in a new window).⁠[3]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-wilde-459a182 (opens in a new window).⁠[3]