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#467 S2 Episode 336 - BAPTISM OF FIRE: Rod Baptista’s Underdog Story That Sets Him Apart From His Competition

Sales Transformation

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Sales Tips, Sales Training, Founder Led Sales, Marketing, Selling With Video, Founder-led Sales, Sales Prospecting, Management, Sales Management, Business, Sales Advice, Daily Sales Tip, Sales Leadership, Social Selling, Collin Mitchell, Enterprise Selling, Sales Mindset, Outbound Sales, Sales Podcast, Sales

5.02.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

ACUMEN, PROFESSIONALISM, AND GRIT These are the qualities that led Rod Baptista to skyrocket from waiting tables to cold calling, to thought leader, and paid sales trainer. Tune in today to get a quick view of Rod’s story, and what really sets him apart from his colleagues, even when he is the underdog, only here in Sales Transformation. Want to book more meetings and close more deals? Start selling the way your buyers want to buy with Humantic AI! Stop sending boring sales e-mails and start sending personalized GIFs and Memes with VIDU.io! TRANSFORMING MOMENTS More than half of salespeople never intended to be in sales Coming from a non-traditional background Rod's professionalism & grit vs other's educational background What sets Rod apart from other reps in his day “Showing people that you have the grit, you can put in either the hours or in our world, the metrics, you can make a lot of calls, you can send a lot of emails, you can have a lot of conversations, showing people that being told no doesn't faze you, that was the biggest thing that set me apart.” - ROD: ‘Work Harder’ is not dumb Connect with Rod Rod Baptista | ZoomInfo | ZoomInfo Free Trial Connect with Collin LinkedIn | YouTube | Newsletter | Twitter | IG | TikTok

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sellers are told to sell to the persona, but what if there was a better way to be

0:06.2

more authentic by personalizing the entire sales process all the way from

0:11.5

prospecting to closing.

0:13.7

Humantic AI makes this possible. You can gain personality insights that enable

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you to sell the way your buyers want to buy. Head over to Humantic.ai to claim

0:26.4

your free trial so you can book more meetings and close more deals.

0:37.6

Buying behavior has changed. Prospects don't click on links and emails anymore

0:42.7

and they don't watch the videos you spend hours creating every week. Instead,

0:47.4

send personalized gifts and memes using video. You can quickly create engaging

0:52.2

personalized content that immediately grabs your prospect's attention, helps

0:56.8

you stand out in the inbox and does it all without forcing them to click

1:00.6

anything or go anywhere. Head over to vidu.io slash salescast to sign up for

1:07.9

free and spend less time getting your messages across and more time selling.

1:22.2

My name is Colin Mitchell and welcome to sales transformation a daily

1:26.4

podcast with the best moments from the most respected people in the sales world.

1:30.8

The goal of this show is to give you a daily dose weekends included in 10

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minutes or less to help transform the way you sell. I hope you enjoy today's

1:39.9

episode and now to David to tell you what you can expect in today's episode.

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Accument professionalism and grit. These are the qualities that led Rod Betista

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to skyrocket from waiting tables to cold calling to thought leader and paid

2:00.3

sales trainer. Tune in today to get a quick view of Rod's story and what really

2:05.0

sets him apart from his colleagues even when he is the underdog only here in

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