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The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.

HOW THIS REP APPLIED HIS BACKGROUND TO CLOSE HUGE B2B SALES

The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.

Brian Burns

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0

In sales there's always this big debate. Do you double down on what you're

0:04.7

great at or do you try and up level the parts of your sales game that isn't at

0:10.9

the A level? You can take whatever strategy you like. But today's guest double

0:17.0

down on what he was already good at and then made it his superpower in sales

0:24.4

and how he was able to get larger deals done and justified. Now you may think

0:32.6

that this might take getting a degree. It does. It does take initiative. It does

0:38.5

take you going out and learning this stuff. But if you hear this interview you

0:46.6

get the outcome. You get the big deals done. Now I've always wrestled with this when

0:54.7

I first got into sales. I would recommend starting with what you're already

0:59.7

good at. Here's the reason. When you're good at something and you apply it you get

1:05.7

that double mean hit. Meaning that it feels good. You're good at something. And then

1:11.6

what you can do is then apply that to some of the other elements of your sales

1:18.4

game. Now when I got into sales what I was good at was I knew the product

1:23.3

really well. I was great at the demos and getting people excited and on the

1:28.9

technical side. And I augmented that with my CEO who was fantastic on the business

1:34.8

side. Now not everybody has that luxury. But we have to first be aware of it and second

1:42.6

find a way of doubling down on what we're good at and having other people or other tools

1:50.4

or situations help us with the weaker parts. Let's get into the interview. I think

1:56.1

you're really going to like this guy. He's got a great story. Before we do make sure

2:00.6

you're checking out our friends over at Scratchpad. It's the easiest funnest way to get

2:04.7

your data out of your head and into the CRM and make sure you look like you spent hours

2:09.5

on it when it was just seconds. Also they've got this new capability. You're getting a

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