Enterprise Sellers Win or Lose on People Skills in the Age of AI (Ask Jeb)
Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount
Jeb Blount
4.7 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Enterprise selling is evolving fast, and the salespeople who understand what is coming are going to pull away from the rest of the field. In this episode of Ask Jeb on the Sales Gravy Podcast, Brian, a sales leader in Canada managing an enterprise team selling into large organizations, brings a big question: where is AI taking enterprise sales over the next few years, and what does that mean for sellers and their teams today?
Jeb's answer might surprise you. He believes AI is about to flip the information advantage back to salespeople. For years, it has been said that buyers need salespeople less and less due to the wealth of information widely available. Jeb breaks down why that is about to change, and why the sellers who learn to use AI as a research and intelligence engine will walk into accounts as true consultants with information their customers do not have.
But there is a caveat. Lazy salespeople and low-skill salespeople will not be able to operate in that environment. The technology only amplifies what you bring to the table.
Brian and Jeb also dig into a challenge a lot of enterprise teams are facing right now: getting back in front of customers after years of leaning on virtual meetings. Jeb makes a point that challenges every salesperson who has ever said their customers do not want to meet in person. Spoiler: it is not your customers who are avoiding the meeting.
In this episode you will learn:
- Why AI is poised to flip the information advantage from buyers back to sellers
- What the human-to-human relationship looks like in long, complex sales cycles
- Why salespeople project their own avoidance onto their customers and how to stop
- How to ask for a meeting with confidence instead of leaving the decision to your prospect
- The egg timer story: how Jeb turned a five-minute ask into an hour-long executive conversation
- Why great discovery and genuine curiosity will always outperform a polished pitch
Whether you are leading an enterprise team or carrying a bag yourself, this episode is a direct challenge to the habits that are keeping you from getting in front of the people who can actually buy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the sales gravy podcast. Hi, I'm Jeb Blunt, bestselling author, fanatical prospecting, objection, sales EQ, and ink, and I'm here to help you open more doors, close bigger deals, and rock your commission check. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome back to the sales gravy podcast. It's Wisdom Wednesday where you drive the |
| 0:22.0 | agenda because on this segment of the sales gravy podcast, you bring your biggest sales challenges |
| 0:26.9 | and Jeb Blunt delivers his best answers. And those answers, they come straight from the trenches |
| 0:31.9 | because Jeb's not just teaching sales, he's out there prospecting, closing, and leading sales |
| 0:37.2 | teams every single day. |
| 0:39.1 | Let's take that next caller. |
| 0:42.6 | Hey, Jabin. |
| 0:43.5 | Brian from Canada here. |
| 0:44.9 | So, you know, my team, we're in that enterprise market, selling to large complex sales, |
| 0:49.8 | FP1,000 organizations. |
| 0:51.3 | Just today, my team got our price for co-pilot. |
| 0:55.3 | You know, it's interesting to see the ROI and how companies are viewing that. Where do you see like fast forward three or five |
| 1:00.7 | years from now? Where do you see the enterprise side of the market? Where do you see AI, you know, |
| 1:05.4 | maturing that, you know, there's going to be younger sellers, there's going to be younger buyers. |
| 1:10.2 | So that always evolves. |
| 1:12.2 | But where do you see this today versus three or five years from now? |
| 1:15.7 | I think that in enterprise selling where you've got longer cell cycles and you have a great |
| 1:23.3 | part of the cell cycle is just shaping. |
| 1:25.6 | What you're doing is you're building a relationship, |
| 1:28.4 | you're educating, and you're leading up to and creating an opportunity to open up a buying |
| 1:33.6 | window by anticipating what we call decisive points, but there's a decisive point where the |
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