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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

176: Jeffrey Gitomer - Why Sales Is The Greatest Profession In The World

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Careers, Management

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Episode 176: Jeffrey Gitomer - Why Sales Is The Greatest Profession In The World

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The New York Times best sellers The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, The Little Black Book of Connections, and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude. All of his books have been number one best sellers on Amazon.com, including Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless, The Little Red Book of Sales Answers, The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way, The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching!, The Little Teal Book of Trust, Social BOOM!, and The Little Book of Leadership, and 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling. Jeffrey's books have appeared on best-seller lists more than 850 times and have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Episode 176: Jeffrey Gitomer - Why Sales Is The Greatest Profession In The World

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The Learning Leader Show

"Most sales are made after the 7th NO."

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • Common themes within the best performers:
    • Great attitude
    • Deep belief in themselves
    •  Approachable and good sense of humor
    • You like to hang out with them
  • How to judge a great sales professional:
    • Will you do business with them again?
    • Will you refer them to friends/family
  • Understanding the ethics of a sales professional
  • Why sales is the greatest profession in the world
  • The duty of the sales leader
  • The Wells Fargo Fiasco
  • Why Jeffrey was banned from USAir
  • A live role play -- How Jeffrey sells books on a plane (he sells to me)
  • Keys to successful cold-calling: Engaging, approachable, having a good time
  • Why Jeffrey believes he's the greatest sales professional in the world
  • Why new managers need to be trained/coached (A LOT)
  • Jeffrey's process for speaking to large audiences
  • Why Jeffrey prefers to drive a Lexus
  • Using creativity to differentiate and dominate
  • Saying thank you like John Ruhlin
  • The process of learning from customers: Why it's absolutely vital to your success

"People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy."

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0:00.0

Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined focused

0:08.1

work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.

0:13.0

Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success.

0:16.0

You're listening to the Learning Leader Show I I am Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much

0:36.3

for being here. I want to remind you to join us in our Facebook group, The

0:40.2

Learning Leader community. Go to Learning Leader.com.

0:46.1

To sign up and join us further the conversation,

0:48.4

I promise.

0:49.0

It's a lot of fun, a lot of learning taking place.

0:51.6

On to tonight's episode, our featured leader is the great

0:54.1

Jeffrey Gittimer multiple time New York Times best-selling author, few of us books

0:59.7

the Sales Bible, the Little Red Book of Selling. A lot of people in the profession of sales have probably already read them.

1:06.0

Also, he does more than 100 presentations a year, has multiple big corporate customers, and he's in front of millions of readers every week through

1:14.4

a syndicated column also on video and audio. A few of the topics we got into.

1:20.1

Why Sales is the greatest profession in the world and why Jeffrey claims to be the

1:26.6

greatest salesman in the world and then making the transition from individual

1:30.7

contributor to manager a lot of people going through this right now and

1:34.6

then a live role play where Jeffrey tries to sell me. I think you guys will really

1:40.8

enjoy it with Jeffrey Gittimer. All right Jeffrey Gittemmer. I got to tell you real quick Jeffrey off the top

1:56.5

and I know I mentioned to do this this to you briefly my first in our pre-interview

2:00.7

interview yeah our first okay my very first sales job I get hired in 2005 and one of the first books I was given was written by you the little red book of selling and I noticed everyone in my

2:16.4

office had the book as well and so that was my introduction to the profession of

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