Cole Gordon

Cole Gordon
File:Cole Gordon 2026.jpg File:Cole Gordon 2026.jpg Cole in 2026
Born	November 18, 1992 Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
🏳️ Nationality	American
🏳️ Citizenship	United States
🏫 Education	Ohio University
🎓 Alma mater	Ohio University
💼 Occupation	Entrepreneur, investor, sales trainer
📆 Years active	2010s–present
🏢 Organization	Closers.io
Known for	Founder and CEO of Closers.io
🌐 Website	closers.io

Cole Gordon (born November 18, 1992) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and sales trainer. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Closers.io, a sales training and recruiting company specializing in helping businesses recruit, train, and manage sales teams. Gordon is also associated with the Remote Closing Academy and 7-Figure Selling Academy and has invested in companies including Skool, Saleskick, and Dialer.io.

Early life and education

Gordon was born in Columbus, Ohio, and was raised in Granville, Ohio. He attended Ohio University, where he studied Applied Nutrition Science. He initially intended to pursue a career in medicine before becoming interested in personal development, entrepreneurship, and sales.

Before entering sales, Gordon worked as a bartender. According to accounts of his early career, he earned approximately $18,000 annually while working long hours, including weekends and holidays. He subsequently looked for alternative business opportunities and attempted to establish a paid advertising business.

Gordon has described sending approximately 350 cold emails during an early attempt to enter the digital business space. The venture was unsuccessful. He also lost approximately $8,000 in an early business investment, after which he turned to high-ticket telephone sales.

Sales career

Gordon began his corporate sales career as a low-performing representative. He has described being ranked last among 12 sales representatives. He improved his performance by repeatedly reviewing recordings of his unsuccessful sales calls and studying his sales process.

He later became a top-performing sales representative at Traffic & Funnels, where he subsequently worked as a lead advisor. His experience included selling high-ticket coaching, consulting, and agency services and advising sales teams and managers.

Gordon has stated that he spent approximately five years in sales before establishing Closers.io. He has attributed his later business development to experience in direct sales, sales management, consulting, team building, and sales training.

Closers.io

Gordon founded Closers.io in November 2019 and serves as its founder and chief executive officer.

Closers.io works with businesses that sell high-end services and provides services covering sales-system development, sales recruitment, representative training and ramp-up, and sales-team management.

The company's stated business model consists of four principal areas:

• Sales systems – Closers.io licenses sales systems and operating processes designed to provide businesses with a foundation for scaling sales operations.
• Done-for-you recruiting – The company states that it receives approximately 3,000 to 5,000 applications from sales representatives each month and filters them to approximately 400 to 800 interviews before presenting candidates to clients.
• Ramp-up – Closers.io provides sales-training processes intended to help representatives progress from the beginning of training to established key performance indicators.
• Management – The company helps clients establish internal sales-management systems intended to maintain sales-team performance without outsourcing management.

Gordon has publicly stated that Closers.io grew from $0 to more than $30 million in annual revenue within 26 months. This figure is presented as a claim in Gordon's professional profiles and other material about his business career.

The company has stated that it has placed more than 7,500 sales representatives across approximately 100 industries and in numerous countries. Gordon has also stated that the company has worked with more than 1,000 businesses and brands.

Closers.io has listed clients and brands in the coaching, consulting, and information-publishing sectors including Tony Robbins, Grant Cardone, Dean Graziosi, Frank Kern, Jay Abraham, Agora Financial, Pete Vargas, Todd Brown, Rich Schefren, Tanner Chidester, Russ Ruffino, and Brooke Castillo.

A Newsfile release reported Closers.io's continued growth and described the company as approaching 15,000 trained sales representatives.

Remote Closing Academy

Gordon founded the Remote Closing Academy, a training program focused on high-ticket sales and remote closing. The program is designed to teach participants sales skills for remote sales positions.

The program has included more than 40 hours of sales training, coaching sessions, and individual coaching support. Its training covers sales psychology, appointment setting, discovery calls, objection handling, tonality, voice inflection, rapport-building, and high-ticket closing.

The academy has also offered access to a private community, live coaching sessions, and opportunities to interview for sales positions with companies connected to Gordon's network.

The program's stated purpose is to prepare participants for positions as appointment setters and high-ticket sales closers.

7-Figure Selling Academy

Gordon also founded the 7-Figure Selling Academy, a sales-training program aimed at entrepreneurs and sales professionals. The program focuses on increasing closing rates, organizing sales processes, recruiting salespeople, and building sales teams.

Descriptions of the program have stated that it provides access to sales opportunities and training for people seeking to work in high-ticket sales.

Sales methodologies

Belief Ladder

One of the sales frameworks associated with Gordon is the Belief Ladder. The framework is designed to address buyer concerns through a structured sales conversation.

The seven areas identified in descriptions of the framework are:

1. Pain
2. Doubt
3. Cost
4. Desire
5. Money
6. Support
7. Trust

The framework uses questioning and dialogue to identify and address concerns during the sales process.

Risk-reversal offers

Gordon's business material has also described risk-reversal offers, done-for-you short-form lead-generation funnels, and appointment-setter placements supported by performance-based guarantees.

Other business activities

Gordon has described himself as an investor in several businesses and technology companies. His publicly listed investments include Skool, Saleskick, and Dialer.io, among other companies held through his investment activities.

Gordon has also been associated with Springs Rejuvenation, where he was identified as a co-owner.

In 2023, Gordon stated that he acquired a half stake in a stem-cell company. He subsequently claimed that the company's monthly revenue increased from approximately $50,000 to $3 million over a 14-month period.

Enterprise expansion

Closers.io has described an enterprise division aimed at larger businesses requiring high-volume sales recruitment and infrastructure. The model has been described as operating on a pay-as-you-hire basis.

Gordon's business material has also described diversification of Closers.io's recruiting infrastructure into industries outside online coaching and consulting, including healthcare and home services.

His marketing operation has been described as using extensive digital advertising and frequent testing of advertising creatives. Business material associated with Gordon has stated that his marketing team has operated approximately 148 active Meta advertisements at a time and produced approximately 60 new creative assets per week.

Media and podcasting

Gordon has appeared in interviews and articles concerning sales, entrepreneurship, management, leadership, and business growth.

His media appearances and coverage include Forbes, Inc., International Business Times, EOFire, Agency Mavericks, Newsfile, and Motion.

Podcast

Gordon hosts the Cole Gordon Podcast, an educational and interview program covering sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, business operations, and company growth. The program features interviews with founders, entrepreneurs, and business executives.

Earlier descriptions of his podcast referred to it as Confessions of a Salesman w/ Cole. The program featured conversations with entrepreneurs and sales executives and discussed sales and marketing strategies.

Media appearances

Gordon's supplied media list includes:

• Newsfile
• International Business Times
• EOFire
• Agency Mavericks
• Motion
• Forbes
• Inc.
• Knox News
• News-Press
• Stevens Point Journal

Public profile

Gordon maintains accounts on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, and TikTok. His profiles focus on sales, entrepreneurship, sales-team development, business growth, and leadership.

His listed social-media accounts include:

• Cole Gordon on LinkedIn
• Cole Gordon on Instagram
• Cole Gordon on YouTube
• @RealColeGordon on X
• Cole Gordon on Facebook
• Cole Gordon on Facebook
• @RealColeGordon on TikTok

Reception and criticism

Gordon's Remote Closing Academy has received both favorable and critical commentary online.

Reviews have noted that the program provides training in sales techniques and can provide access to remote sales opportunities. Critics have questioned the cost of the training, the performance-based nature of sales employment, lead quality, commission structures, and the extent to which participants can expect consistent income.

One published review reported that a prospective participant had been quoted $8,400 for the program and noted that employment after completing the training was not guaranteed.

Online reviews have also criticized the program for covering sales concepts that reviewers believed could be learned through free resources. Other reviews have questioned the value of the program relative to its price.

A Trustpilot review reproduced by a third-party review site alleged that a customer had received earnings and return-on-investment expectations that were not achieved. Another customer review praised the training and group component but criticized the level of individual coaching received.

These reviews represent the experiences or opinions of individual reviewers and do not establish that the reported experiences apply universally to Gordon's programs.

Personal life

Gordon's client-provided biographical information lists his residence as Scottsdale, Arizona. He speaks English and has been listed as 5 feet 9 inches tall.

See also

• Sales management
• Sales training
• Entrepreneurship
• Remote work
• High-ticket sales

External links

• Closers.io
• Remote Closing Academy
• Cole Gordon on LinkedIn
• Cole Gordon on Instagram
• Cole Gordon on YouTube
• @RealColeGordon on X
• Cole Gordon on Facebook
• @RealColeGordon on TikTok

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