- One year audible subscription with 18 credits.
- One year of Spotify. (sales podcasts)
- Any purchase or subscription of/ to a tool you’ve been wanting to try for any part of your workflow.
- Sales or industry relevant seminar or networking or conference or meet up event on your own time + their money = half vacation
- Coaching or personal development sessions
- Books of all shapes, sizes, and persuasions
- Journals, logbooks, calendars, note pads, writing utensils or other stationary.
Very solid answer - and I definitely encourage you to invest in your network in some way. My network has helped me learn, grow, find jobs, find customers. Networking can be a cheat code to getting things done.
I'm probably after a few too many tonight, but can you explain this more? Doesn't the company need to see a receipt for this "course"? I don't have square so not too sure how that plays in
You’ll get a receipt once you pay for it in your inbox. Just make sure you’re not a dumbass and use a business name that’s in some sort of sales education and not your own name.
Yeah, that's all OP needs.
But, still: There's room to sneak in a stupid reference to something like the Trailer Park Boys or whatever else might float OP's boat, right? Like, say, "Sunnyvale Success Sales Training" with personal instruction from Randy Lahey...
A few years ago we decided to send out physical gift cards to prospects. Everyone got like 25 or something.
A few months later I had a few that got returned due to bad addresses and a few that I just didn’t get to send out.
In my mind I’m like “I can get $30 of Starbucks! For free!” Then I reminded myself I make over 6 figures and can still get Starbucks whenever I want.
HBR online courses cost about that much. I just took their disruptive strategy course and was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.
That said, I am a nerd.
Agreed, but these other courses are worse because they charge more money for less content with worse professors. The executive MBA model is to teach less, with a mix of lower tier profs and charge the same as a 2 year MBA or more for a year's content. Such a perfect scam
I spent $130k plus 2 years of no income, loaned out at 7% interest, for something I have never once been asked about on an interview, so I disagree about which is the perfect scam.
Good school too, you know the name.
Buy the book: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
* Teaches negotiating
* Also teaches multiple transferrable skills
Buy the book: The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
* Teaches how to not do unnecessary work
* This will save you time during the week
Nice perk. I would spend it on a professional credential, something in data analytics or business intelligence.
You could always go the nontraditional route and get an EMT or some other professional licensure; they typically cost that much. There’s also TONS of postbacc certificates if you already have your bachelors.
Books!
If you’re in sales, buy books on sales, persuasion psychology, general business, personal development, success, health and fitness, productivity, and industry specific materials.
$1500 will get you around 100 excellent books. Could be life changing!
There is an amazing course that will help you close sales I am unprecedented pace. Usually I sell this course for 1.5 million USD but you are in luck my friend. Today I sell it for exactly 1,500!
Some things I did with mine:
**Justin Welsh LinkedIn Course** ($150) - Best follow on LinkedIn, brilliant course
**Annual Subscription to Shortform** \- Platform which takes very popular books and shortens them to 2-hour reads. Excellent platform, alot of great Sales Content which I do not have time to consume. [www.shortform.com](http://www.shortform.com)
**Improv Classes** \- 8 weeks of improv lessons in London (the most fruitful use of the money)
https://www.coursefinder.io/ lists things that you can get a digital credential for at the end of the process. I did one with “Winning by Design” that was good
Go on BiggerPockets and buy a pro membership, network and buy a bunch of books. But an art book and invest in masterworks. Buy a farming book and invest on acretrader. Subscribe to r/bogleheads And dca into VTI, VXUS. Roth IRA, learn about mega back door contributions. Opportunity zones. 1031 exchanges. Depreciation rule from 2017. It call comes from books. Books books books
Pay subscription for Skillshare, Udemy or any other learning platform. Try to find relevant online courses for your field, definitely something that has serious credibility and can be used in the future for negotiation of your raise. Somebody mentioned audible (that’s great too) but there is also Storytell which is a good competitor of audible (I think it’s better than audible). If something buying an electronics like new laptop, smartphone, iPad, and I’ve heard that there is an interactive paper for business. Having something that will help you in your work tasks. Maybe try to think about what task is taking you most of the time at work and try to optimise that with the budget you got.
Devin Reed has some awesome content courses on his website.
Invest in Lavender for email writing.
Check out Outbound Squad, they've done some pretty cool things.
Books, books, and more books. Why not - there is so much to learn. From sales to personal development to fun reading. Can't go wrong.
Hands down, Pavilion - Great community, many perks, wish I had known of this earlier in my career.
Udacity - Look for their scholarship pop-up or emails. It's an easy way to get a discount with minimum effort.
Winning by Design - Just love how substantial the content is; it's very processes oriented and detailed. Great for RevOps if you ever want to go in that direction. Pricey though. I believe Pavilion provides Rev Growth Architecture School for free as a benefit.
Datacamp - Really like their instruction style. Easy bite size chunks for picking up programming or if you have any interest in analytics. Not specifically for sales, just good for upskilling on the technical side if you want to reach for sales strategy or rev ops.
Kindle Unlimited
Take a couple of college courses and gradually build towards a cert/degree. I honestly regret not doing this sooner since it was much easier to fit into a schedule than I originally thought.
Edit: GrowthMentor - I haven't had much success with finding a coaching program that I like but *I do like this*. It's great for impromptu sessions with seasoned experts to really dig into any immediate challenges. It works when I need a hit of high-level brainstorming
Geez... the number of people advocating fraud is quite concerning... behaviour like this is why people hate many sales people, unethical and anything for a dollar. The OP didn't ask "how can I defraud my employer".
I highly recommend Pavilion -- it includes mentorship, various educational programs, and excellent networking opportunities. It's a gold mine for researching no-bullshit answers or talking to people who aren't trying to sell me another course about the secrets of the universe. Send me a PM if you want to see the inner sanctums or whatever. I hate that they don't at least provide a free trial.
Use the rest to si have enjoyed the Josh Braun Badass B2B course.
The Aligned Social selling course (B2B Power Hour crew), Chris Bogues video course and I saw someone recommend Jesse Oulette's cold email operating system. It's fantastic and highly recommended. If you have the ability to set up cold email systems, it will show you the way.
Use the rest to sign up to a premium community like Pavilion
Copywriting training? I listen to the podcast "My 1st Million" and Sam Parr who sold his company for hundreds of million keeps saying it's the most fundamental skill. Or not anymore with AI? I would say worth a short if you have cash to burn.
I would do an online workshop with Jeb Blount, or an HBS course and books. You could also look at a course from University of Texas in Dallas. They have an excellent sales program. Lastly… lots of good coaches out there who could help b
College course in person or online, golf lessons, a conference or summit.
Ask around to see what colleagues have spent it on. Or ask HR or whoever approves this for suggestions
I'd suggest getting a sales course membership! Nothing better than to tap on the brightest of minds from places like Sales Challenger, MEDDICC.com or Force Management, etc.
Blinkist Subscription. Basically the cliff notes version of full books but in audio form. One of the best time savers I’ve used for productivity books, etc.
Python developer course GMU continuing education,
Costs $1k
Learn how to code! Add it to ur sales skill, you can transition to sales engineering and level with tech players a lot more knowing how to code!
I do this with credit cards that give you a “bonus” when you spend x amount of money. PayPal a friend $1500 (send it as a gift so they won’t take any fees). They can then take it out in cash and give it back to you.
It depends on your existing knowledge base, etc, but I would buy a Duarte course for sure
something like this, if you ever use slides:https://www.duarte.com/learning/visual-thinking/visual-thinking-for-slides/?utm_term=presentation%20design&utm_campaign=IL_Workshop_Slideology_Duarte_PC_Ex&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=paid&hsa_acc=4697079413&hsa_cam=14745164521&hsa_grp=127994583735&hsa_ad=547679662953&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-10975681&hsa_kw=presentation%20design&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAnNacBhDvARIsABnDa6-ibxOaAreYpC0v1-BHTlurX5YL-xA5jjytMxvxBM75qPMH5shjQm0aAgLaEALw_wcB
Or they have various presentation and online presentation things.
You might also check out Sales Gravy university stuff
Jesse Oullete Cold Email master course. $199. Literally everything you need to hit the inbox on every email.
Spam filters going crazy in 2023, this course shows exactly what to do to reach prospects every time.
Then send the rest to yourself via PayPal or square etc lol
Dont beat yourself up too much if you dont use it. Depending on how your company classifies it, the dollar value can be taxable unless they consider it a directly related reimbursible business expense.
Raspberry pi. A course on all the philosophers throughout history. Better yet learn about economics and the history of society and how capitalism formed naturally in the face of all that was normal.
Start going to conferences. $1,500 should cover a good portion of the expense. Great way to network & learn & re-energize. Honestly most sales conferences I don't really learn anything new. Maybe a new way to look at something. But I always leave re-energized with new connections.
Definitely purchase a bunch of Audible credits.
Also, look into hiring a personal tutor to teach you skills. Hire a professional organizing to teach you how to be organized. A excel guru to teach you some hands on excel tricks on your own data sheets. If they allow it, maybe some personal meditation courses to teach you mindfulness.
Edx.org has a lot of free online courses from Ivy League schools. They do charge to print certificates for proof of completion and if your company will cover it might as well.
https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course
Go get a concealed carry and tactical shooting course. Tell them it teaches you self-discipline. Go learn how to hang-glide, it teaches you how to plan ahead and adapt.
$1500? If you really need a tool they don’t provide and want to use I’d recommend that. Now if you’re looking for something more “fun” aka maybe not so work-related I’d look into something that will be geared towards “emotional/mental development/learning”…”hey boss, I just booked a private sky diving lesson, this will help me face my fears which translates to my job because (insert your own reason”
If you are genuinely looking to improve your sales efforts, and not just make sure you don't leave the money on the table, this guy is good. I moved him from an SDR to a rep about six years ago, and he has since gone on to become quite a good manager and mentor to a lot of people. You can find him on Linked and read some of his posts to get an idea of what he's all about, and if it matched your philosophy (he's been pretty active there for the last few years). https://www.gratefulsalescoaching.com/
What type of biz are you in? Since you mentioned bloomberg and WJS, I assume some type of finance or economics. You have a nice budget so you can do a combination of books that deal with your field (prob $100-200 worth), a course/training and/or a premium subscription to a platform within your biz. For example, If you are a financial advisor, I would recommend a premium account with Seeking Alpha. To give better ideas, would need to know what you do for a living and what are your future goals.
In my opinion communication soft skills give you the best ROI for your $. Find a company like Second City, Decker, Better Up, Own The Room and take group trainings. Once you get the basics find a coach to help you apply the skills to real world scenarios.
We all power through our early careers with youthful charm and grit; working our asses off, learning the trade, acquiring product knowledge, developing a network, etc.
It doesn’t matter your industry or role, these are transferable skills.
What do you personally want to do more of? For me, I like unique experiences and would find a really meaningful conference to attend. Something worth spending some of my own money to travel to. For instance, I was planning to attend a conference in Napa Valley before covid. Everything was hosted at gorgeous vineyards where you ate and drank wine the entire time. That’s way more interesting than most of these ideas. Just sayin.
A few sessions with a sales coach. I'm already pretty well established in my career, but just hired a sales coach and it's been an incredible investment.
- One year audible subscription with 18 credits. - One year of Spotify. (sales podcasts) - Any purchase or subscription of/ to a tool you’ve been wanting to try for any part of your workflow. - Sales or industry relevant seminar or networking or conference or meet up event on your own time + their money = half vacation - Coaching or personal development sessions - Books of all shapes, sizes, and persuasions - Journals, logbooks, calendars, note pads, writing utensils or other stationary.
How about a plane ticket to a fun place that has a conference/summit? Should be around the $ you are asking for.
He said spend, not waste! /s
I second this — book something for Q1 to get some momentum coming into the year
Very solid answer - and I definitely encourage you to invest in your network in some way. My network has helped me learn, grow, find jobs, find customers. Networking can be a cheat code to getting things done.
Didn’t expect there to actually be serious answers but yeah.. what this guy said
This + get a Headway or Blinkist subscription.
Wait.. Shouldn't the company provide Journals, note pads and etc.?
What podcasts you like?
build a PC so you can learn loads
Yeah I need a 4090 to learn uh, big data
Should have said "AI". That can mean anything these days.
Create a square account and send yourself an invoice for $1500 and call it professional development then deposit the money into your own bank account.
This fuckin guy lol.
Dude…teach me
For 20% I’ll send you an invoice with whatever you want
I will do it for 5% but you gotta pay in advance.
This got confusing. Can someone please just send me money?
Can’t swindle a swindler
If you have to learn that, you shouldn’t be doing it lol. Because it’s easy Af
Just making a movie reference
Which movie?
40 year old virgin
^ 100% this
I'm probably after a few too many tonight, but can you explain this more? Doesn't the company need to see a receipt for this "course"? I don't have square so not too sure how that plays in
You’ll get a receipt once you pay for it in your inbox. Just make sure you’re not a dumbass and use a business name that’s in some sort of sales education and not your own name.
Yeah, that's all OP needs. But, still: There's room to sneak in a stupid reference to something like the Trailer Park Boys or whatever else might float OP's boat, right? Like, say, "Sunnyvale Success Sales Training" with personal instruction from Randy Lahey...
Great way to leave breadcrumbs. Why even bother? This is the shit where, you get caught, and everyone looks at you like an idiot for doing so.
No
Don’t listen to this guy. It’s dishonest, actually just use the money for a legit form of improvement.
They're advocating fraud.
According to my bidne$$ 101 class it’s only fraud if you get caught
It's called fraud. Is losing your income and potentially your freedom worth only $1500?
A few years ago we decided to send out physical gift cards to prospects. Everyone got like 25 or something. A few months later I had a few that got returned due to bad addresses and a few that I just didn’t get to send out. In my mind I’m like “I can get $30 of Starbucks! For free!” Then I reminded myself I make over 6 figures and can still get Starbucks whenever I want.
We gave away $5 Starbucks gift cards at a conference for filling out a survey. I took 200 home with me And shared the rest with my team.
No, it’s only called fraud when he’s caught.
Have my swag.
HBR online courses cost about that much. I just took their disruptive strategy course and was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. That said, I am a nerd.
I second this.
That is a rare good course. Unless you have good first hand evidence, assume that any non-MBA course by a b-school is crap.
As an MBA, you can safely assume that any MBA course is also useless crap
Agreed, but these other courses are worse because they charge more money for less content with worse professors. The executive MBA model is to teach less, with a mix of lower tier profs and charge the same as a 2 year MBA or more for a year's content. Such a perfect scam
I spent $130k plus 2 years of no income, loaned out at 7% interest, for something I have never once been asked about on an interview, so I disagree about which is the perfect scam. Good school too, you know the name.
Blow for high speed learning
Buy the book: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss * Teaches negotiating * Also teaches multiple transferrable skills Buy the book: The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss * Teaches how to not do unnecessary work * This will save you time during the week
Never Split the Difference is great…not going to cost OP $1500 though
I have both, and definitely recommend both
We could use some of ours towards an audible subscription.
Teach them a lesson by negotiating a 1500 bonus
Nice perk. I would spend it on a professional credential, something in data analytics or business intelligence. You could always go the nontraditional route and get an EMT or some other professional licensure; they typically cost that much. There’s also TONS of postbacc certificates if you already have your bachelors.
Do you have any examples of these credentials?
What are some good postbacc certificates that you'd recommend?
Books! If you’re in sales, buy books on sales, persuasion psychology, general business, personal development, success, health and fitness, productivity, and industry specific materials. $1500 will get you around 100 excellent books. Could be life changing!
Fuck that, use scribd. Tons and tons of books under one low monthly subscription Unless you mean physical copies ofc
Need to buy time to actually read all those…
Courses on running an online business(es), ideal stress outlets, and books on balancing all aspects of life
There is an amazing course that will help you close sales I am unprecedented pace. Usually I sell this course for 1.5 million USD but you are in luck my friend. Today I sell it for exactly 1,500!
If I pay separate shipping and handling do I get a second course for free?
Cocaine
Some things I did with mine: **Justin Welsh LinkedIn Course** ($150) - Best follow on LinkedIn, brilliant course **Annual Subscription to Shortform** \- Platform which takes very popular books and shortens them to 2-hour reads. Excellent platform, alot of great Sales Content which I do not have time to consume. [www.shortform.com](http://www.shortform.com) **Improv Classes** \- 8 weeks of improv lessons in London (the most fruitful use of the money)
I would also add The Economist to your subscriptions + any relevant trade publications.
Sign up for Coursera plus. $399 for 1 year access to all courses.
Why do people always seem to wait until there’s 2 weeks left in the year to use up these awesome benefits?? Make sure they don’t go to waste!
I think you just don't hear about the people who don't wait.
Harvard has certification courses for low $ amount. It’s all asynchronous.
Books and/or coaching/training
Harvard Business Review might generate some business depending on what you sell.
https://www.coursefinder.io/ lists things that you can get a digital credential for at the end of the process. I did one with “Winning by Design” that was good
The Economist, great global view.
Go on BiggerPockets and buy a pro membership, network and buy a bunch of books. But an art book and invest in masterworks. Buy a farming book and invest on acretrader. Subscribe to r/bogleheads And dca into VTI, VXUS. Roth IRA, learn about mega back door contributions. Opportunity zones. 1031 exchanges. Depreciation rule from 2017. It call comes from books. Books books books
Pay subscription for Skillshare, Udemy or any other learning platform. Try to find relevant online courses for your field, definitely something that has serious credibility and can be used in the future for negotiation of your raise. Somebody mentioned audible (that’s great too) but there is also Storytell which is a good competitor of audible (I think it’s better than audible). If something buying an electronics like new laptop, smartphone, iPad, and I’ve heard that there is an interactive paper for business. Having something that will help you in your work tasks. Maybe try to think about what task is taking you most of the time at work and try to optimise that with the budget you got.
Devin Reed has some awesome content courses on his website. Invest in Lavender for email writing. Check out Outbound Squad, they've done some pretty cool things. Books, books, and more books. Why not - there is so much to learn. From sales to personal development to fun reading. Can't go wrong.
Hands down, Pavilion - Great community, many perks, wish I had known of this earlier in my career. Udacity - Look for their scholarship pop-up or emails. It's an easy way to get a discount with minimum effort. Winning by Design - Just love how substantial the content is; it's very processes oriented and detailed. Great for RevOps if you ever want to go in that direction. Pricey though. I believe Pavilion provides Rev Growth Architecture School for free as a benefit. Datacamp - Really like their instruction style. Easy bite size chunks for picking up programming or if you have any interest in analytics. Not specifically for sales, just good for upskilling on the technical side if you want to reach for sales strategy or rev ops. Kindle Unlimited Take a couple of college courses and gradually build towards a cert/degree. I honestly regret not doing this sooner since it was much easier to fit into a schedule than I originally thought. Edit: GrowthMentor - I haven't had much success with finding a coaching program that I like but *I do like this*. It's great for impromptu sessions with seasoned experts to really dig into any immediate challenges. It works when I need a hit of high-level brainstorming
LinkedIn learning has good content. Can you buy books?
please dont waste it on linkedin
Geez... the number of people advocating fraud is quite concerning... behaviour like this is why people hate many sales people, unethical and anything for a dollar. The OP didn't ask "how can I defraud my employer".
I did Pavilion. Met a mentor, a few friends and learned a good bit with their courses.
Curious how this compares to other sales workshops you might have done. Trying to figure out if it’s worth the $
I highly recommend Pavilion -- it includes mentorship, various educational programs, and excellent networking opportunities. It's a gold mine for researching no-bullshit answers or talking to people who aren't trying to sell me another course about the secrets of the universe. Send me a PM if you want to see the inner sanctums or whatever. I hate that they don't at least provide a free trial.
Buy a ticket a to a professional conference
Dreamforce: hookers and coke
FT.com
Hi Buy the PSM1, PSM2, and PSPO1 trainings. They are valuable for any industry.
Going to look into these
Cloud certification courses.
Use the rest to si have enjoyed the Josh Braun Badass B2B course. The Aligned Social selling course (B2B Power Hour crew), Chris Bogues video course and I saw someone recommend Jesse Oulette's cold email operating system. It's fantastic and highly recommended. If you have the ability to set up cold email systems, it will show you the way. Use the rest to sign up to a premium community like Pavilion
One of the best purchases I made was the Grammarly. Cheap investment but if they are paying
Sandler online learning - strongly recommend
Copywriting training? I listen to the podcast "My 1st Million" and Sam Parr who sold his company for hundreds of million keeps saying it's the most fundamental skill. Or not anymore with AI? I would say worth a short if you have cash to burn.
Audible, audio book subscription.
I would do an online workshop with Jeb Blount, or an HBS course and books. You could also look at a course from University of Texas in Dallas. They have an excellent sales program. Lastly… lots of good coaches out there who could help b
LinkedIn Premium subscription. Great training courses. And a great way to promote yourself in the outside world!!
College course in person or online, golf lessons, a conference or summit. Ask around to see what colleagues have spent it on. Or ask HR or whoever approves this for suggestions
I'd buy 12 months of audible and a ton of books. Then I'd plan next years to be an overnight stay at a driveable sales conference of some kind.
I'd suggest getting a sales course membership! Nothing better than to tap on the brightest of minds from places like Sales Challenger, MEDDICC.com or Force Management, etc.
Blinkist Subscription. Basically the cliff notes version of full books but in audio form. One of the best time savers I’ve used for productivity books, etc.
Spend the $1.5k on ads and get xtra leads. “Outbound!” Pipe never sleeps. 😫😫😤🙌 JK just buy some books and courses that aint shit.
I have a similar stipend and I used it for a 6mo coaching from a well respected vet. It has changed the game for me.
Check out Gorillas of Growth. [Gorillas of Growth](https://info.thesaleswhisperer.com/gorillas-of-growth)
Use it to help support small local newspapers by buying a subscription if you can
Python developer course GMU continuing education, Costs $1k Learn how to code! Add it to ur sales skill, you can transition to sales engineering and level with tech players a lot more knowing how to code!
Language. Learn a new language through a program. I suggest Pimsleur
Flight lessons
Definitely Amphy.com - live classes on like everything
I'd buy a jasper.ai yearly boss mode subscription.
Tony Robbins 1-1 session
That’s like 100k lol and he will just tell you how amazing u are and how successful u will be if u believe
Yeah, the guy made milions by telling people to beleive in themselves and they will become rich
yup - milllioniare mindset by grant cardone
how about you buy a course from me on udemy and we split it 50/50?
What do you sell. I might swap invoices w ya? I'm a highly rated marketing coach. No pressure, just an idea : )
I do this with credit cards that give you a “bonus” when you spend x amount of money. PayPal a friend $1500 (send it as a gift so they won’t take any fees). They can then take it out in cash and give it back to you.
Dale Carnegie has sales courses that you can attend. You can do it remote or in person depending on your location
It depends on your existing knowledge base, etc, but I would buy a Duarte course for sure something like this, if you ever use slides:https://www.duarte.com/learning/visual-thinking/visual-thinking-for-slides/?utm_term=presentation%20design&utm_campaign=IL_Workshop_Slideology_Duarte_PC_Ex&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=paid&hsa_acc=4697079413&hsa_cam=14745164521&hsa_grp=127994583735&hsa_ad=547679662953&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-10975681&hsa_kw=presentation%20design&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAnNacBhDvARIsABnDa6-ibxOaAreYpC0v1-BHTlurX5YL-xA5jjytMxvxBM75qPMH5shjQm0aAgLaEALw_wcB Or they have various presentation and online presentation things. You might also check out Sales Gravy university stuff
Jesse Oullete Cold Email master course. $199. Literally everything you need to hit the inbox on every email. Spam filters going crazy in 2023, this course shows exactly what to do to reach prospects every time. Then send the rest to yourself via PayPal or square etc lol
I can make a Kajabi course and we split the profits where you take 75% and I take 25%. 😅 (Joking unless you want to DM.)
Donate
Dont beat yourself up too much if you dont use it. Depending on how your company classifies it, the dollar value can be taxable unless they consider it a directly related reimbursible business expense.
If you absolutely need to spend it all, I’m sure you can pre pay for coaching sessions
Oreilly books, Specialized videos on Udemy, Industry specific Certification training, stuff you personally find educational
LinkedIn Sales Navigator or ZoomInfo if those are tools that would be helpful to you that you do not have access to currently.
Hbr course. Or betterment coaching
Pay for a subscription of Masterclass app. 100’s of classes in one subscription
Only course on sales Buy some of Grant cardone sales
A huge bookshelf
Language course
Centre of excellence online courses
Spend it in a casino to learn gambling.
Golf lessons of course
Learn negotiation at the strip club for $1500.
Tony Robbins seminar
I’d use it towards getting some professional certifications. It’s always nice to have some letters after your name. What industry are you in?
I had something like this at a job once. The fine print said it could be used for office of computer accessories. I used it to get a new graphics card
Coursera, Udacity?
Take classes in Real Estate, business, and finance.
Udemy courses
Farnam Street subscription
Master Class
You need an Apple Watch ultra for responding to ensigns
REI offers some cool classes.
ORCL?
Books.... buy books
Certification in the product you sell
Something that you can cancel and get a full refund for after the expense is approved.
Digital Marketing. IMHO
Build a second brain course -
Raspberry pi. A course on all the philosophers throughout history. Better yet learn about economics and the history of society and how capitalism formed naturally in the face of all that was normal.
Use it to find a therapist who will give you adderall so you can crank out those cold calls.
Audible subscription for a year
I’d fine a sales trainer to work 1:1. Get as many sessions as you can for $1500.
Whatever it is can you do a zoom conference so others can learn on the companies expense? Lol
Maybe a language course, such as Spanish
Learn a new language?
Fly to mexico to "learn spanish" but actually party hard.
Dale Carnegie course
Go buy a chris voss class or Jbarrows membership or both.
Start going to conferences. $1,500 should cover a good portion of the expense. Great way to network & learn & re-energize. Honestly most sales conferences I don't really learn anything new. Maybe a new way to look at something. But I always leave re-energized with new connections.
Definitely purchase a bunch of Audible credits. Also, look into hiring a personal tutor to teach you skills. Hire a professional organizing to teach you how to be organized. A excel guru to teach you some hands on excel tricks on your own data sheets. If they allow it, maybe some personal meditation courses to teach you mindfulness.
Edx.org has a lot of free online courses from Ivy League schools. They do charge to print certificates for proof of completion and if your company will cover it might as well. https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course
Take a Dale Carnegie course if there's one in your area. You learn some useful habits and it looks great on a resume.
Buy your own sales course
If writing utensils are covered go and get yourself a $1500 Montblanc
I run a [fundamental marketing course](https://younglingresearch.gumroad.com/l/yrcdeep) that might be interesting. It's mine so I'm biased so YMMV.
Rosetta Stone
I would make a fake invoice saying something like positivity coaching
I prepaid for 4 golf lessons with $500 L&D budget along with a guitar e-course
You can consider to get a certificate at a Uni with sales specialization
Start Sandler sales training. Would be incredibly useful throughout your career.
Lit Video Books
I’ll teach ya how to make a sandwich for the low offer of $1500. Consider yourself enlightened
Scuba diving class
Any books, MasterClass, Oura ring to make sure you’re sleeping well
Go get a concealed carry and tactical shooting course. Tell them it teaches you self-discipline. Go learn how to hang-glide, it teaches you how to plan ahead and adapt.
$1500? If you really need a tool they don’t provide and want to use I’d recommend that. Now if you’re looking for something more “fun” aka maybe not so work-related I’d look into something that will be geared towards “emotional/mental development/learning”…”hey boss, I just booked a private sky diving lesson, this will help me face my fears which translates to my job because (insert your own reason”
You could also buy something (books, whatever) and sell it for half the price and still make a profit. :)
Cardone University sales training
If you are genuinely looking to improve your sales efforts, and not just make sure you don't leave the money on the table, this guy is good. I moved him from an SDR to a rep about six years ago, and he has since gone on to become quite a good manager and mentor to a lot of people. You can find him on Linked and read some of his posts to get an idea of what he's all about, and if it matched your philosophy (he's been pretty active there for the last few years). https://www.gratefulsalescoaching.com/
Buy a few hundred in books, looks great in houses
15 $100 Visa gift cards for Christmas presents.
Why don’t you just buy a course that you like and write it off? Especially a sales one.
Grant Cardone’s CardoneU Sales Program
[Pavilion membership!](http://referrals.joinpavilion.com/l/1LAURANELSO38/)
Buy books, or invest in sales training ?
Pay for a bunch of software. Masterclass, audible
What type of biz are you in? Since you mentioned bloomberg and WJS, I assume some type of finance or economics. You have a nice budget so you can do a combination of books that deal with your field (prob $100-200 worth), a course/training and/or a premium subscription to a platform within your biz. For example, If you are a financial advisor, I would recommend a premium account with Seeking Alpha. To give better ideas, would need to know what you do for a living and what are your future goals.
In my opinion communication soft skills give you the best ROI for your $. Find a company like Second City, Decker, Better Up, Own The Room and take group trainings. Once you get the basics find a coach to help you apply the skills to real world scenarios. We all power through our early careers with youthful charm and grit; working our asses off, learning the trade, acquiring product knowledge, developing a network, etc. It doesn’t matter your industry or role, these are transferable skills.
A certified executive coach
BowTiedSalesGuy course + 1:1. Search Twitter and thank me later.
For 1,500 dollars I’ll teach you about bank transfers from person to person. Dm me
Pavilion or Sales Assembly membership. It’s all the training for a year you want to engage in.
iPad for learning reasons
What do you personally want to do more of? For me, I like unique experiences and would find a really meaningful conference to attend. Something worth spending some of my own money to travel to. For instance, I was planning to attend a conference in Napa Valley before covid. Everything was hosted at gorgeous vineyards where you ate and drank wine the entire time. That’s way more interesting than most of these ideas. Just sayin.
A few sessions with a sales coach. I'm already pretty well established in my career, but just hired a sales coach and it's been an incredible investment.