FROM THE OWNER OF THE "YACHTS FOR SALE" YOUTUBE CHANNELS
Everybody asks a yacht brokerage for a broker job.
Almost nobody asks for the job that actually gets them in.
There is a way into the yacht brokerage industry that isn't advertised, isn't obvious, and isn't taught anywhere. A 30-year industry veteran just wrote it down. Where to live. Who to approach. What to say. And what the money really looks like once it's split three ways.
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GET INSTANT ACCESS โฌ7 โIf you've already tried to get in, you know exactly what happens.
You send the CV. Nothing.
You email the brokerages whose yachts you've been watching for years. Nothing.
You get one polite reply that says "come back to us when you have some industry experience" โ which is a beautiful piece of circular logic, because the only way to get industry experience is to be let in.
Meanwhile you watch people who seem no smarter, no hungrier and no more qualified than you walking the docks in Antibes with a lanyard and a client.
So what do they know that you don't?
It was never a qualifications problem.
Here's what actually happens inside a brokerage when your name comes up.
Somebody in that office asks one question:
"Does anybody know this person?"
And if the answer is "I've never heard of them" โ that's the end of it. Not because you're not good enough. Because in an industry this small, being unknown is the same as being unproven.
The highest academic qualification in the world will not open that door. A single person in that room saying "yes, I know him โ he's solid" will open it in an afternoon.
Which means your real job isn't applying. It's becoming known โ fast, deliberately, and from the right position.
That is what this book is about.
What you get for โฌ7:
โ The map.ย
The 10 locations on earth where yacht brokerage careers actually exist โ plus the two landlocked exceptions almost nobody thinks of. Get this wrong and nothing else in the book matters.
โ How to afford it.
Five specific ways to live in Palma, Antibes or Fort Lauderdale without a trust fund โ including the accommodation type most newcomers don't know exists, and the single spending habit that quietly bankrupts more aspiring brokers than rent does.
โ The back door.
There is a department inside most large brokerages that is hard to fill, rarely applied for, and has quietly produced a number of working brokers. Hundreds of people a year ask those firms for a broker job. Almost nobody asks for this one. Chapter 3 names it, explains what you'd do, and lists five firms to approach.
โ 14 businesses that put you on decks.
If crew isn't your route, there's an entire economy serving yachts and yacht owners โ and most of these companies are desperate for exactly the skills you already have. The list is in Chapter 2, with the pitch to make.
โ Your category โ and your strategy.
There are three types of people who break into brokerage, and the route that works for one is a waste of a year for another. Find yourself in Chapter 1, then follow the chapter written for you.
โ Already have a buyer?
The transparent approach that gets you welcomed into a brokerage instead of resented by it โ including why you approach the owner or CEO rather than an individual broker, and the four things to get in writing before you introduce anybody to anyone.
โ The skills that fast-track you.
Six professional backgrounds that shorten your route dramatically. If you have one of them, you're closer than you think โ and you're probably underselling it.
GET INSTANT ACCESS โDavid Seal
...is one of the yacht brokerage industry's veterans and the owner of the "Yachts For Sale" suite of YouTube channels, watched by owners, crew and brokers worldwide.
He has spent decades in and around Monaco, Antibes and the world's yachting hubs โ on both sides of the deal. He's the person aspiring brokers email when they want an honest answer, and this book exists because he was tired of writing the same reply.
He also runs the Yacht Broker Masterclass, the training programme for people who've decided this is the career they want.
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This is for you if you're one of these three:
The complete starter.
Fresh out of education, or a few jobs in and unsatisfied. No connections, no industry knowledge, all of the hunger. You need the longest route mapped clearly โ and Chapter 2 is yours.
The dissatisfied worker.
You're good at what you do. You just don't want to do it for another twenty years. You already have half of what a brokerage looks for โ you've simply never pointed it at yachts. Chapter 3 is yours.
The career builder.
You're already in or near the industry โ captain, surveyor, manager, supplier, shipyard sales โ and you're one strategic move away from the other side of the deal. Chapter 4 is yours.
Grab the ebook now for โฌ7.
Less than a sandwich by the port in Antibes.
Here's the honest comparison. Not knowing which city to move to costs you a year. Approaching the wrong person at a brokerage costs you a relationship you can't get back. Walking into a package negotiation without knowing what a junior broker should insist on costs you thousands in the first twelve months.
Breaking In To Brokerage costs โฌ7 and takes an evening to read.
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