Cole Gordon Review: Remote Closing Academy, Closers.io, And The Sales Call You Pay For

There are at least three Cole Gordons on the internet, and only one of them wants you on a Zoom.

Nicolas Cole writes books about writing books and sells Premium Ghostwriting Academy with Dickie Bush. Wrong guy. I already did him. If you typed “cole” into the search bar because of a yacht and a ghostwriting Slack, you’re in the wrong kitchen.

There’s also a Cole Gordon who plays golf for a living. Also wrong. If a PGA leaderboard sent you, close the tab. I cannot help your fantasy draft.

The one you’re actually stalking is Cole Thomas Gordon. Granville, Ohio. Ohio University, Applied Nutrition. The plan, per his own PR writeup, was medicine. The plot twist is a sales floor.

That’s the pitch, in his mouth, before I start throwing receipts.

Remote closing is a new, rapidly growing industry — Cole called it 3.2 billion a year back in 2022, which is his number, not a census I ran. Info marketers are drowning in booked calls and starving for people who can take those calls and not fold. You don’t build a brand. You don’t run ads. You don’t invent an offer. You hop on Zoom for someone who already did all that, and you take a cut when the card runs. First thirty days he closed, he says he was at 10k a month. Snap. Not a promise. His story. Location freedom. Time freedom. Monday through Thursday if the guru you’re selling for is cool with it. Fill out the app. Hop on the calendar. See if they can close you.

I still rehearse my Chipotle order in the parking lot. You think I’m taking eight warm leads a day for a man who used to sell protein advice?

Read on for my Cole Gordon / Remote Closing Academy review.

Who even is Cole Thomas Gordon?

CEO and founder of Closers.io. Also the guy behind 7-Figure Selling Academy, Remote Closing Academy, and Gordon Advertising, LLC. Victorious PR — that’s a hired shop, file it like a dating-app bio — says 8-figure entrepreneur, investor, sales trainer, millions sold in coaching / consulting / agency. LinkedIn says he took Closers.io from 0 to 30 million a year in about three years. Closers.io’s own process page talks about downloading everything he learned on the way to 400k a month solo into your closers.

That’s self-reported. I am not in his Mercury. I am not in his payroll file. I can barely keep a loyalty punch card in one piece.

Granville. Ohio University, Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Nutrition, 2011 to 2015. He was going to do medicine, then personal development and sales ate the calendar, and he says he became the #1 rep at multiple companies. Fine. Lots of closers have a “I was gonna be a doctor / lawyer / priest” origin because the alternative is “I got good at asking for the card.”

TOS contact address: 1834 Mackinnon Avenue, Cardiff, California 92007. Entity language hops between Closers IO, LLC and Closers IO Consulting LLC. Last TOS update I fetched: October 17, 2024. A third-party listing also throws a Sharon Valley Road, 43023 address and rcasupport@gmail.com. I’m not picking a winner. I’m telling you the paperwork has more than one zip code energy.

Aaron Martinez shows up in other people’s RCA writeups as the partner currently yelling about the course on YouTube. Solar-marketer background, 30k-a-month closer claims — that’s their reporting, not my stakeout.

Closers.io is not the course

People mash these together like they’re the same login. They’re not.

Closers.io is the company that helps a business that already sells something expensive build an internal sales department. Homepage energy: top 1% talent. Assets and economics first — validated offer, repeatable process, a comp plan that doesn’t explode. Then they vet recruits so you’re hiring from a pile instead of a prayer. Then they ramp closers toward KPI. Then systems: morning meetings, end-of-day check-ins, dashboards, culture, the whole “please stop living on the phone, founder” kit. FAQ says this is not outsourced sales. The reps work for you. They do not take a percentage of sales, because they say the economics break at scale if they do.

Name-drop collage on the site: Dean Graziosi, Frank Kern, Russ Ruffino, Todd Brown, Jay Abraham, Aleric Heck, Rich Schefren, Tanner Chidester, Rob Dial, Pete Vargas, Elliot Hulse, Craig Proctor, Brooke Castillo, Clark Kegley, Pedro Adao, Jon Morrow. LinkedIn adds Tony Robbins, Grant Cardone, Agora Financial, “plus 1000+ others.” That is a client list they published. It is not me in Tony’s accounts payable.

Remote Closing Academy is the other door. That’s the one for humans who want to become the closer. High-ticket inbound. Coaching, courses, info. You take the Zoom. You run the script. You eat when you close. Ippei’s 2026 writeup says RCA launched in 2020 and has certified over 2,200 students. That’s their number riding inside someone else’s review. Placement is “we’ll work with you until you find work” energy — not a signed offer letter in the welcome packet.

Got it? Good. Don’t pay course money thinking you just hired Closers.io to build you a team. Don’t pay team money thinking you just bought a Udemy login.

The close, the way he teaches it

I wrote this up in 2021 on Zuubly when Cole was still walking people through four steps like a recipe on the back of a soup can. Prior reporting. Same physics.

Intro. Rapport. Frame the call. Then you gather. Questions, data, can you even help this person. Kill objections while you’re still smiling. Then the transition — the little bridge where they almost ask you to pitch. Then you explain the thing so it feels like oxygen. Then you commit them to the process before you commit them to the price. Ask how they feel. If they’re mushy, you do the 1-to-10. Anything under an 8, you ask what’s in the way. That, Cole says, is the real objection. Money is easy if they already believe. His words, not mine. He said it on a YouTube that Zuubly linked in 2021.

Onboarding before the number. Always. Then: “So the investment is just ten K.” Then you shut up. You let them break the silence. Billing address. Card. Facebook group. Next call.

Which is adorable, because that’s also how they sell you Remote Closing Academy. The product is a mirror with a calendar link.

Cole’s 2022 case for the job, the short version: saturated ecom / affiliate / agency / influencer land versus this “blue ocean.” You get paid in proportion to the problem you solve. Cash flow beats a three-year Shopify science fair. Phone plus a signal equals an office. Schedule is a negotiation, not a time clock.

He also says — and this is the one honest sentence I will hand him — that not everybody hits 10k in thirty days, he worked hard, and he is not promising your month looks like his month. Then the same paragraph walks 20, 30, 40k “if not more” back onto the table like a waiter who swore he was done talking about dessert.

The price is a sales call

Homeboy will not put a number on the porch.

Closers.io: book a demo. RCA: apply, talk to a closer. The consumer domain has been remoteclosingacademy.com / theremoteclosingacademy.com depending on the year; this pass, remoteclosingacademy.com was wearing a ClickFunnels costume and the other host was coughing up SSL errors. The funnel physics did not change. You still have to get on the phone to hear the sticker.

What the internet keeps repeating: around 8,400. Kyle says it out loud. Ippei cites a forum user. Digital Course Detective prints 8,400 with installments. Side Hustles Database same. Older reviews also float 5,997 and 7,500, which is how you know this number moves when the closer likes your face. One 2022 contract writeup for a Closers.io LLC business package said 18,000 for three months of coaching / STA / Skool. That’s a different animal. Don’t mash the B2B retainer into the consumer course.

Cole’s own student-income talk, via Ippei: 10k, 30k, even 70k a month after RCA. Also via Ippei: ZipRecruiter’s remote-closer range is a much colder shower — roughly 1,667 to 14,042 a month, average around 6,508. That’s a job board, not a Stripe screenshot. File both. Do not average them into a personality.

Fetched August 2026. Product: closers.io. Terms: closers.io/terms-of-service. Kyle: youtube.com/watch?v=_Lfe2edgtIs.

Kyle, Reddit, and the “used” download

Kyle’s RCA video is the one that starts with junk-removal websites in Austin and then actually talks about the course. Training: two to eight weeks, your pace. Structured, live coaching, community. Cole’s a known name. Price around 8,400. Then the sentence that should be in neon: mixed experiences regarding job placement. Not “they handed me a W-2 in module three.” Mixed.

Ippei scraped a tiny Reddit pile. One person: pricey, but they placed me. One person: unethical to charge this and skip a return window. One person: false advertising, a full year, 45+ hours a week, didn’t earn a quarter of what was promised. That’s three humans, not a census. Trustpilot, per Ippei, leans happy — including a 3-star who got asked to review before finishing the training, which is my favorite genre of 5-star factory, and a 1-star who used the words false advertising. I did not sit in their Slack.

Refunds. Official. Closers.io terms, Section 6, fetched this month: no refund or exchange policy. Digital products are “used” after being emailed, downloaded, or opened. Your only move is unsubscribe. Cancel mid-cycle and they keep the month. No credit. No prorate. You email support and fill out a cancellation survey or they may bill the next cycle anyway. That is not a 14-day hug. That is a trapdoor with a PDF.

I found no FTC case and no SEC case in this pass. Don’t invent a courtroom so the article feels like a Netflix category.

Who this is for (and who should skip)

This is for you if:

• You actually like talking to strangers who are one “I need to talk to my husband” away from hanging up
• You understand commission-only means some weeks you eat toast and call it a mindset
• 8,400-ish (or whatever number they put on your call) is money you can set on fire without calling your mom
• You want a skill you can take to the next info-offer when this one dies, because they do die

Skip if:

• You thought Closers.io was going to build you a team and RCA was a software login
• You need a refund window that isn’t “the file opened, so it’s used”
• You wanted passive income. This is a job. A phone job. With better lighting.
• You are here because of Nicolas Cole or a golf broadcast. Wrong Cole. Go home.

Verdict?

Cole Thomas Gordon is a real closer who built a real B2B placement shop and a real consumer course that sells the dream of being the person Closers.io might someday place. The skill is real. High-ticket inbound closing is a real job. The 10k / 30k / 70k month is a brochure. The 8,400 is a rumor with a lot of friends. The refund is a ghost story they printed into the terms on purpose.

Not a scam per se. Not a placement guarantee. Useful if you already know you can sell and you want a Rolodex plus a script. Expensive theater if you thought the sales call was a consultation.

They will close you with the same four steps they just taught you. That’s not irony. That’s the curriculum.

I’m good.

Q&A

Q: Is Cole Gordon legit?
A: Real person. Real Granville-to-Cardiff pipeline. Real sites at closers.io. Real YouTube face. The 30-million-a-year and 400k-a-month-solo talk is self-reported. Legit operator. Spicy brochure. Those can both be true.

Q: Wait — Nicolas Cole?
A: Different human. Nicolas Cole is Premium Ghostwriting Academy / Ship 30 / Typeshare. I reviewed that circus already. This Cole does not want you tweeting for founders. He wants you on a close.

Q: The golfer?
A: Also not this guy. If your search history is “Cole Gordon PGA cut,” you have wandered into a sales review like a tourist who followed the wrong Uber.

Q: Is Remote Closing Academy a scam?
A: I didn’t find a regulator hammer. I found a hidden price, a no-refund TOS, mixed placement stories, and income claims that live in ads. “Oversells the job / useful if you can actually sell” is a different zip code than “fake company.” Don’t flatten those.

Q: How much does Remote Closing Academy cost?
A: They will not tell you until a closer has your calendar. Commonly reported around 8,400. Older reviews also say 5,997 and 7,500. One B2B contract writeup said 18,000 for a three-month Closers.io package — that’s the company-side offer, not the consumer course. Confirm on the call. Then screenshot it. Then screenshot it again, because this number likes costumes.

Q: Closers.io vs Remote Closing Academy?
A: Closers.io = they help a business hire and train an internal sales team. RCA = they teach you to be a closer and talk about putting you in a pipeline. Same face. Different invoice.

Q: Do they take a percentage of the deals I close?
A: Closers.io FAQ says absolutely not, because outsourced-split economics break at scale. RCA is a course you pay for. Your later employer pays you commission. Don’t conflate tuition with a rev-share.

Q: Refund?
A: Official TOS: no. Digital is “used” once they email it, you download it, or you open it. Unsubscribe is the consolation prize. Miss the cancellation survey and they may charge the next cycle just to watch you learn about surveys.

Q: What does Kyle say?
A: This video. Two to eight weeks. About 8,400. Mixed job placement. Not a lottery ticket. Then he tries to rent you a junk-removal website, which — look. I respect the hustle. I also respect a man who tells on the placement.

Q: How long is the training?
A: Kyle: 2–8 weeks, your pace. Ippei: a few weeks, same window. Nobody is handing you a semester and a dorm fridge.

Q: Will they place me?
A: They say they’ll work with you until you find work and teach you to source your own seats. Kyle says placement stories are mixed. “Assistance” is not “guaranteed W-2.” If a closer told you otherwise on the sales call, get it in writing or assume it was the close.

Q: What’s the four-step close?
A: Rapport → gather / kill objections → pitch → commit. Temperature check. Onboarding before price. Then the number. Then silence. I wrote it in 2021. It’s still a phone call with better adjectives.

Q: 3.2 billion-dollar industry — is that real?
A: That’s Cole’s 2022 pitch number from the “why become a remote closer” talk. I did not audit the remote-closing GDP. Treat it like a movie title.

Q: Did he really do 10k in his first 30 days?
A: He says so. He also says you’re not promised the same. Both sentences can live in one ad. Only one of them will be on your bank app.

Q: Cole Gordon net worth?
A: Anybody quoting a clean number is doing fan fiction. 30M a year is a LinkedIn sentence. 400k a month solo is a process-page flex. I still have a library book I keep renewing. You think I’m opening his Schwab?

Q: How do I stalk him like a normal person?
A: instagram.com/colethomasgordon. YouTube @ColeThomasGordon. Company closers.io. Don’t Baby Reindeer the man. Book the call like an adult or don’t.

Q: Who should not buy this?
A: Anyone who needs a refund policy, a published price, or a job offer printed on day one. Anyone who hates phones. Anyone who thought “remote closer” meant “laptop estate.” If you cannot sell, 8,400 is a very expensive personality test.

Q: Okay but I still wanna make money online without taking eight closes a day for a guru who hides the tuition.
A: Wild concept: build little local websites, rank them in Google, and rent the leads to real businesses. No 1-to-10. No “investment is just ten K.” No cancellation survey.

It’s about as sexy as organizing the junk drawer… which is why filthy SEO goblins like me keep doing it.

If that quieter path sounds less insane than paying a closer to teach you how to be the closer, start at unemployable.org.