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
4.8 β’ 1.2K Ratings
ποΈ 4 October 2022
β±οΈ 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 |
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| 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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