10. You can pull all of the above of but if you don't already have the ability for people to like and trust you (aka charisma) within the first 5 minutes of meeting you then stick to what you are currently doing.
Allow 5 years to start making 200k+/year and a lot of knock downs along the way. That's assuming you have quality mentors and a driven personality combined with a passion to see others succeed. Average broker makes circa 70k FYI.
Great post, by mentours, I assume you mean an existing gun broker as your teacher or taking you under your wings,
hypothetically, if you are intelligent, qualified, starting out on your own, have great people skills, and can target a niche market of clientele (lets say from a different culture) and you get your leads quite easily,
wouldnt that be all you need (not insinuating brokerage is easy or mentours arent useful).
to me as long as you cross your ts and dot your Is, and have a certain skill set, and can get your clients through whatever means, it seems like a fairly straight fwd formulae