Success stories

Careers for our people. Results for our partners.

Two kinds of success matter here: who was built, and what they delivered. The people come first, because they always did.

Career journeys

People who started with no experience and built something

Everyone here walked in without a sales background. What they had in common was that they were coachable.

40+ People developed to date
14 Promoted to team leader
6 Now running their own business
$2,400,000 Raised for charity partners
Sam Larkins
Hall of Fame G.O.A.T.

Sam “Supreme Overlord” Larkins

The greatest to ever do it. Closed his first deal in the delivery room and upsold the midwife on a second baby. He has never heard the word “no” because the objection sees him coming and leaves the country. Charities ring him to ask if he would mind accepting a donation. Pictured moments after being told there were no doors left to knock on.

999,999+Doors knocked
∞Funds raised
0Rejections ever
14/10Doorstep rating
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Representative → Business owner

From a casual job to running his own operation

Joined with no sales experience, looking for something better than shift work. Eighteen months training others before taking on clients, recruitment and cashflow. Opened his own operation with our backing.

2,100+Customers & donors signed
$310,000Raised for charities
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Representative → Campaign manager

Two years from first doorstep to running a campaign

Came in straight out of study with no idea what she wanted to do. Turned out to be good at the part everyone finds hard: the conversation after the first no. Now runs a charity campaign end to end.

1,500+Donors personally signed
11People she has trained
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Representative → Team leader

Nine months from starting to leading a crew

Joined for a few months of work between jobs and stayed. What changed his mind was being coached rather than managed, with someone in the field beside him daily rather than a target on a spreadsheet.

900+Customers signed
4People in his team
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Representative → Trainer

Four months in and already teaching it

Left hospitality wanting something with a ceiling above her head. Took to the coaching side faster than anyone we have had. Her first two trainees are both still here and both ahead of target.

620+Donors signed
2New starters trained
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Team leader → Owner, interstate

Opened an office in a city he had never worked in

Two years learning the trade, then asked for the hardest thing on the board: a market with no team, no contacts and no reputation. Had a working crew in the field inside six weeks.

18People recruited
1New city opened
In their words

What the team say about the training

“I learned more about people in six months here than in three years of study. You cannot fake a conversation on a doorstep.”

— Campaign Manager
Two years with Progress Vault

“Nobody handed me a script and walked away. Someone was out there with me every day until I could do it on my own.”

— Team Leader
Nine months with Progress Vault

“They taught me the business, not just the selling. That is the only reason I could open my own.”

— Business Owner
Mentored through Progress Vault
A Progress Vault campaign team

The same people, on your campaign.

What that delivered for our partners
Business & causes

Campaigns we built, ran and reported on

From the first briefing call to the last shift on a booth: recruitment, training, compliance and the numbers, all ours. All of it funded by us until the cause is ahead.

Charity partner

Regular giving campaign

Strong public recognition but a thin pipeline of regular donors. We trained a dedicated team deeply on the medical detail so they could answer real questions, then ran twelve months across three metro areas.

1,840Regular donors signed
87%Still giving at 12 months
Charity partner

Shopping centre booth programme

A crisis housing charity that people walked past online. Staffed booths in busy centres put a trained person in front of them instead, someone who could explain where the money actually goes and answer the hard question.

2,450+Supporters signed
9Weeks to full scale
Charity partner

Scaling across Sydney

The partner wanted coverage across the city rather than a single site. We recruited, trained and had a second and third team in the field inside six weeks, each led by someone we had promoted from the first.

18People recruited
6Sites running weekly
Charity partner

Awareness and supporter sign-ups

A cause competing for attention against much louder campaigns. We led with local impact rather than the global headline, which gave supporters something they could picture, and the quality of the sign ups reflected it.

1,260Supporters signed
91%Passed quality assurance
Charity partner

Weekend venue and event programme

A programme running week after week across retail sites and community events, staffed by teams trained to open conversations rather than wait for them. Consistent enough to move from a trial to a standing campaign.

48Weekends staffed
1,970+Regular donors signed
In their words

What partners say

“They learned our cause properly before anyone went out. That is rarer than it should be, and our donors noticed it.”

— Fundraising Manager
National health charity

“They carried the cost until we were ahead. For a charity our size that is the only reason we could try face-to-face at all.”

— Head of Fundraising
Crisis housing charity

“Six weeks from the first call to three teams on the ground. We had written that kind of coverage off as out of reach.”

— Campaign Director
Children's welfare foundation
The pathway

Every one of these started at stage one

There is no separate track for the people who get promoted. Everyone learns the same craft in the same order: representative, trainer, team leader, owner. Everyone moves when they are ready rather than when a calendar says so.

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A Progress Vault campaign team

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