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Stop Chasing Leads.Start Booking Calls.Give Your Closers a Reason to Beg For Your Sets.

Most setters fail not because they lack hustle- but because nobody taught them the psychology, frameworks, and systems behind elite appointment setting. This is the program that closes that gap. Built from thousands of real calls. Designed to get you booked, placed, and performing inside high-ticket sales teams at $147/mo.

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Elite Setter Academy

"The best setters don't pitch harder. They qualify better, ask sharper questions, and make prospects feel understood before they ever suggest a next step."Dakota Gum

What you'll learn

What you'll be able to do

  • Learn the psychology behind why prospects book, ghost, and stall — and exactly how to use advanced qualification frameworks to pre-qualify leads so the right people show up and the wrong ones never make it to the calendar.
  • Master word-for-word outreach scripts across Instagram DMs, LinkedIn, cold email, and phone — built on value-first messaging principles so your opener gives before it asks and actually earns a reply.
  • Study the full anatomy of a high-converting setter conversation — from cold opener to booked call — including how to handle the 10 most common objections using proven tonality and reframe techniques so you respond with calm confidence instead of freezing up.
  • Understand how to build and manage a professional setter pipeline using CRM systems, daily KPI tracking, and the outreach SOPs top remote sales teams actually run — so you operate like a professional from day one, not just a person sending DMs.
  • Go deep on four industry-specific playbooks — agencies, coaching businesses, SaaS companies, and real estate — learning the unique buyer psychology, language, and objection patterns for each so your outreach is never generic and always lands.
  • Learn how to self-audit your own conversations, track the metrics that actually predict income — show rate, book rate, pipeline velocity — and build the daily habits that keep top-performing setters consistently in the top 10% month after month.

How it works

A System Built to Get You Paid

This isn't inspiration content. Every module is a skill block — built in sequence so by the time you finish, you don't just know what to do, you've already done it under real conditions.

Learn the frameworks

You'll absorb the psychology behind why people book, buy, and ghost — using advanced questioning frameworks, proven tonality systems, and value-offer architecture. Not theory. Applicable skill you use day one.

Drill it under pressure

Every module ends with live roleplay drills and real-world script practice. You'll get objections thrown at you, your responses critiqued, and your confidence built before you ever face a real prospect.

Get certified. Get placed.

Pass the live certification exam, build your professional setter portfolio, and execute the exact outreach strategy we teach to land your first (or next) paid remote setter role with a team worth working for.

The curriculum

What's inside your school

6 modules · 21 lessons

1

Foundations of the High-Ticket Setter Economy

Establishes the complete mental model, vocabulary, and professional identity every elite setter needs before touching a single script. Students graduate this module knowing exactly how high-ticket ecosystems work, what makes a setter irreplaceable, and who their ideal clients are — prerequisites for every outreach and qualification skill that follows.

  • 1.1The High-Ticket Ecosystem: How It All WorksIncluded
  • 1.2The Elite Setter Mindset and Professional IdentityIncluded
  • 1.3Understanding High-Ticket Offers and Ideal Client AvatarsIncluded
2

Outreach Mastery: DM, Email, and Phone

The largest technical block of the program. Students build and drill battle-tested, channel-specific outreach skills across Instagram DMs, LinkedIn, cold and warm email, and phone. Every lesson delivers word-for-word scripts, sequencing logic, and live practice before students advance to qualification. Multi-channel coordination is introduced here so students can run cohesive campaigns rather than isolated messages.

  • 2.1DM Outreach: Instagram and LinkedIn Scripts That Book CallsIncluded
  • 2.2Cold and Warm Email Outreach: Sequences That Get RepliesIncluded
  • 2.3Phone Outreach: Cold Calling and Warm Call ScriptsIncluded
  • 2.4Multi-Channel Sequencing and Follow-Up SystemsIncluded
3

Qualification, Objection Handling, and Booking the Call

The conversion core of the program. Students learn to rapidly distinguish genuinely qualified prospects from time-wasters, navigate every major objection with calm and precise rebuttals, and lock in appointments with professional confirmation systems that maximize show rates. This module directly delivers the program's two most critical outcomes: consistent qualification and objection mastery.

  • 3.1Lead Qualification Frameworks: Who to Book and Who to DropIncluded
  • 3.2Objection Handling Masterclass: The 10 Most Common Setter ObjectionsIncluded
  • 3.3Closing for the Appointment: Calendar Fills and Confirmation SystemsIncluded
4

CRM, Pipeline Management, and Setter SOPs

The operational backbone of a professional setter's workflow. Students build fluency in the CRM tools used by top remote sales teams, learn to track their own performance with daily scorecards, and internalize the SOPs that keep pipelines clean, follow-ups airtight, and reporting accurate. This module ensures students can slot into any remote team on day one and operate with zero hand-holding.

  • 4.1CRM Mastery: GoHighLevel, HubSpot, and Spreadsheet PipelinesIncluded
  • 4.2Daily Scorecards, KPIs, and Performance TrackingIncluded
  • 4.3Setter SOPs: Standard Operating Procedures for Remote TeamsIncluded
5

Industry-Specific Playbooks: Agencies, Coaches, SaaS, and Real Estate

Translates the universal setter skills built in earlier modules into four distinct industry contexts, each with unique buyer psychology, objection profiles, offer structures, and outreach norms. Students select their primary industry focus while gaining working literacy across all four — a critical differentiator when applying for roles. A prerequisite compliance check ensures students have completed all prior modules before entering this module.

  • 5.1Agency and Consulting Setter PlaybookIncluded
  • 5.2Coaching and Course Creator Setter PlaybookIncluded
  • 5.3SaaS Setter PlaybookIncluded
  • 5.4Real Estate Setter PlaybookIncluded
6

Certification, Career Launch, and Continuous Elite Performance

The program's final module gates certification behind demonstrated competency, then equips graduates to land paid roles immediately and sustain top-10% performance throughout their career. Sequenced deliberately: earn the certificate first, then use it as the anchor of a job-search strategy, then build the long-term habits that protect elite status. The self-audit and optimization lesson closes the loop back to Module 1, creating a continuous improvement cycle.

  • 6.1The Elite Setter Certification ExamIncluded
  • 6.2Building Your Setter Résumé, Portfolio, and Professional BrandIncluded
  • 6.3Landing Your First Paid Setter Role: Job Search and Outreach StrategyIncluded
  • 6.4Elite Performance Habits: Self-Auditing, Optimization, and Staying Top 10%Included

Who it's for

Is this you?

The Career Switcher

You're done with the 9-5 and you want in on remote sales — but you need a real system, not a YouTube rabbit hole. This gives you the certification, the scripts, and the placement strategy to make the switch stick.

The Struggling Setter

You're booking calls but your show rates are low, your closers are frustrated, and your income is inconsistent. The frameworks in here will tighten your qualification process and fix the leaks you don't even know you have.

The Ambitious Beginner

Zero sales experience. Zero connections. That's fine. Module 1 starts with the full picture of how this industry works, what makes a great setter, and exactly what you need to do before you send your first outreach message.

The Side Income Builder

You want to stack income on top of your current job without a huge time commitment. Appointment setting is the highest-ROI side skill in remote sales — this gives you the exact system to do it nights and weekends.

The Agency Freelancer

You're already in or around agencies and coaching businesses. Adding Elite Setter certification to your offer turns you into a premium service provider who commands real retainers, not race-to-the-bottom freelance rates.

The Remote-Life Seeker

Done with the commute, the office politics, and trading time for a fixed salary. Appointment setting gives you location freedom, performance-based income, and a career path that grows as fast as your skills do.

Questions

Frequently asked

Your teacher

A note from your teacher

Dakota Gum

Dakota Gum

If you're reading this, you already know appointment setting is real. You've seen the screenshots, heard the income claims, watched the YouTube breakdowns. Something in you believes this could be a legitimate career — you're just not sure if you have what it takes, or who to trust.

Here's what I'll tell you straight: most of what gets sold to aspiring setters is noise. Scripts without context. "Frameworks" with no reps behind them. Communities with no accountability and no pathway to an actual job. I built this program because I was sick of watching people grind for months and never land a role — not because they weren't talented, but because nobody gave them a real foundation.

What you're getting inside is not inspiration. It's a complete operating system for becoming an elite appointment setter. The psychology behind why qualified prospects ghost you — and how to fix it before the call is even booked. Advanced qualification frameworks applied specifically to the setter role, so your questions feel like genuine curiosity instead of an interrogation. Proven tonality and reframe principles, so when a prospect says "is this a sales call?" you don't freeze up — you redirect with confidence. Value-first outreach methodology, so your openers actually generate replies instead of getting left on read.

You'll also get the systems: the CRM workflows, the daily KPI dashboards, the multi-channel follow-up sequences, the industry-specific playbooks for agencies, coaches, SaaS, and real estate. Because knowing how to set is only half the job — the other half is running a professional pipeline that doesn't leak.

The certification exam is the part I'm most proud of. It's live. It's a roleplay. You either perform or you don't pass. That standard exists because I want the credential to mean something — to you and to the people hiring you. When a coach or agency sees your Elite Setter Certificate, I want them to know you've been pressure-tested, you've handled real objections, and you can book qualified calls without hand-holding.

Here's my promise: if you show up, do the drills, run the scripts, and submit the work — you will come out the other side with a verifiable credential, a professional setter brand, and a concrete strategy to land your first or next paid remote role. At $147/mo, this is the training I wish existed when I was starting out. Let's get to work.

Dakota Gum

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