Look, I need to rant about something before we get into this. There is a very famous, very good book called Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount. It's a legit sales bible. This is not that book. This is Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide About Effective and Confident Prospecting, Learn How to Build Your Prospecting Techniques in Network Marketing by J.P. Taser. That title is doing more heavy lifting than the entire audiobook. And at 39 minutes long, I'm not even sure we can call it an audiobook. That's a podcast episode. That's my commute from Santa Monica to Downtown on a good traffic day.
I was waiting for Jenny at the dentist's office when I knocked this out. Didn't even need to adjust my playback speed. At 39 minutes, even at 1.0x you're done before the hygienist calls your name.
The Network Marketing Red Flag You Saw Coming
Let's talk about what this actually is. The description says "network marketing" and that phrase alone should recalibrate your expectations. This isn't enterprise sales methodology. This isn't consultative selling. This is motivational-poster-level advice packaged for MLM distributors who need a pep talk before their next Facebook Live. "Believe in yourself." "Know your target market." "Overcome negative thoughts." My parents didn't need a 39-minute audiobook to figure out that confidence matters when you're asking someone to trust you with their best suit. They learned that by doing it 60 times a day for 30 years.
The content covers conversation techniques, targeting your market, getting people to take action - all topics that deserve depth. What you get instead is surface-level summaries that read like someone condensed a few blog posts into a script. There's no case study. No data. No framework you can actually implement Monday morning. I've seen pitch decks with more tactical substance.
Todd Studer Reads Words Out Loud
Todd Studer narrates, and honestly there's not much to critique because there's not much to work with. He reads clearly, enunciates fine, doesn't stumble. But he's reading what amounts to a pamphlet, so evaluating his narration feels like rating the cinematography of a security camera. The audio is clean, no production issues, no weird background noise. It's competent. That's the nicest word I've got.
The real problem is there's zero variation in energy across the 39 minutes. When you're talking about overcoming self-doubt and then pivoting to conversation frameworks, those are different emotional registers. Studer delivers both with the same steady, informational tone. Fine for an airport safety briefing. Not great for material that's supposed to light a fire under you.
The Jeb Blount Problem (AKA Why This Exists)
I have to address this directly because I think it matters for anyone finding this through a search. Jeb Blount's Fanatical Prospecting is a genuinely useful sales book - specific, tactical, backed by real experience. It runs about 8 hours and change. This J.P. Taser version shares the same two words in the title and... that's about where the similarities end. Whether the naming is coincidental or strategic, the result is confusion. If you're spending a credit thinking you're getting Blount's playbook adapted for network marketing, you're going to be disappointed.
I've recommended Blount's book to at least a dozen startup founders. I would not recommend this to anyone who has access to Google and 39 free minutes, because you could find equivalent or better advice in a handful of articles. And if you're drawn to this because someone in your upline sold you on the dream of financial independence, I'd point you toward Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant first - I gave it a 2.5, which tells you it's not perfect either, but at least it wrestles with real structural questions about how money and work actually intersect.
Who This Might Work For (I'm Stretching Here)
If you're brand new to sales - like, never-made-a-cold-call new - and you're in an MLM structure and you need a very basic confidence boost, maybe this gets you to pick up the phone once. Maybe. But at the price of an Audible credit? No. That credit could buy you Blount's actual book, or Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale, or Chris Voss's Never Split the Difference. Any of those will give you 100x the ROI.
The Consulting Invoice Says "Pass"
Bottom line: 39 minutes, zero frameworks, zero case studies, and a title that borrows equity from a much better book. My 2.0x speed couldn't save this one - not because it was slow, but because there wasn't enough substance to accelerate through. Jenny would say I'm being harsh. Jenny is right. But she'd also say don't spend money on this when better options exist, and Jenny manages our household budget like a CFO, so I trust her judgment.
