I met Matthew at a Startup Weekend event in Austin. Immediately after sharing a vision of mine with him, he saw the opportunity and started brainstorming various routes in which to take it. He clearly has extensive sales knowledge, an appetite for profit, and I can tell he knows how to do great work to make it a reality.

Matthew served as a mentor and coach for Startup Weekend Edu in Austin, TX. He helped new and experienced entrepreneurs focus and develop their ideas into real solutions to education’s greatest challenges. He facilitated teams to work through their decisions using his experience and expertise. He was an integral part of a successful weekend!

I had the very fortunate opportunity to work with Matthew earlier this year. I was startled by how fast and how well he was able to pinpoint exactly what changes I needed to make. His intuitive nature bordered on magic. I was more than impressed with his work and his abilities. Beyond fluff, beyond promises, Matthew was able to deliver solid and lasting results. I look forward to working with Matthew again in the very near future with other projects that need a critical but intuitive eye. For my money, his results are worth it and much much more.

Matthew Pollard was an invaluable mentor to startup teams at our first Startup Weekend Education in Austin. He patiently guided several of the teams towards success as they worked to create their very own startup. Matthew’s guidance and business expertise helped prepare teams for their pitches to our distinguished panel of judges. The weekend would not have been nearly as successful without Matthew’s mentorship.

Matthew Pollard has been a godsend. His advice is counterintuitive, brilliant, and effective. When we started, I hadn’t had a major sale in so long I was getting ready to quit my business and get a 9-to-5 job. After just two hours of coaching, his insights changed my whole approach. On my very next sales call, I followed his advice to the letter–and landed a $40,000 project in just 40 minutes.

Update – I just landed another ghostwriting gig. That makes $80k in sales in about 6 weeks. You are a miracle worker!

Matthew’s advice and support has been critical in securing my place in the Los Angeles market as a writer, producer, and editor, working on some of Fall’s biggest launches, and marketing campaigns including spots for ABC, CBS, Disney, CW, G4, Esquire Network, TruTV, Soap Net, & FX, and campaigns for the features 21 and Over, 2 Guns, and This is the End. After 20 years of experience working with many of the major Australian television networks as a writer, editor and producer I decided to take my career to the next level by heading to Los Angeles. Soon after arriving, I realised getting into the Los Angeles market was a much harder endeavour than I first thought. In Australia I had grown relationships and status over many years, with many of the major television stations, and in Los Angeles I had to start again. Matthew’s help has been amazing! He talked me through keeping a clear mind when approaching prospective clients; managing my time to prioritize and get the money-generating tasks done each week; provided ways of staying motivated to call what seemed to be an endless number of people each day; and gave me invaluable advice when negotiating complex engagement contracts. Matthew is the essential ingredient to any business that has a great functional skill but lacks the sales, marketing and time management strategies to get the world to know it.

Matthew is a driven individual. His ability to engage clients and staff to take them to the next level is inspiring and shows genuine care. He has a unique ability to take any product or service provided by a business, find a prosperous new niche for it, and then differentiate it to propel the business into rapid growth. More amazingly, he seems to be able to scale a business to handle this growth seamlessly.

It is my view that Matthew will make a major success of any business that he turns his hand to.

I was so surprised at his quick grasp of my business and direct helpful advice that I could use straight away.

The training, advice and assistance provided has been invaluable to my business and has definitely produced some amazing changes, developments, and results both personally and in my business practices.

Matthew is a very thorough and enthusiastic individual with a lot of skills in sales, new business and coaching. I highly recommend him!

Matthew Pollard was a delight and genius to work with, effervescent and confidence-instilling.

Matthew’s ability to show insight and create change in even the most experienced of individuals, such as myself, is a skill not many people possess. Matthew’s advice and feedback were of vital assistance to me, and under his guidance I honed and critiqued my future training sessions. I was very impressed by Matthew’s invaluable inputs. His business experience coupled with personal empathy and his ability to understand individual needs in order to help his client’s gain that edge is rare and highly commendable.

Matthew is a highly driven and focused individual. He has many strengths when it comes to building successful business strategies from the ground up. I was lucky enough to work with him while he took one of these ventures, Choice Mobiles, from a small telecommunications outfit, to a genuine b2b competitor to the likes of Telstra and Optus. Matthew is an old hand when it comes to entrepreneurial experience, while paired with a young mind holding what seems limitless fresh and innovative ideas.

Matthew is an inspired and driven thought leader. His personable yet determined approach to getting results is what makes Matthew stand out amongst his peers. Anyone would be lucky to work with him.

Matthew has a fantastic ability to build sales and marketing teams, use creativity to differentiate his product from all others, and lead by example. Few individuals can offer such valued expertise and insight.

Matthew is perhaps the best sales coach and mentor I have worked with. His energy, enthusiasm and attitude affects the people around him. He has had a tremendous impact on my business life. So if you get the opportunity to work with Matthew, do it; you will definitely learn something.

I have been working with Matthew for a year. I have achieved tremendous clarity and confidence. I feel more comfortable to approach my niche with my unique message and a story that’s relevant to them, a package of service that adds value and offer what they need. He is an inspiration. I know with practice I shall succeed:))