HOW THIS REP IS CRUSHING IT IN THE MOST DIFFICULT OF MARKETS
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 24 February 2023
β±οΈ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What could be harder than recruiting? Recruiting especially when it's |
| 0:05.0 | commission only and you're out all by your own starting from scratch. That's |
| 0:10.1 | we're gonna get into today. But before we do, big thank you for everybody who |
| 0:14.0 | support it. They're show by telling a friend about it, liking, commenting, and |
| 0:17.5 | sharing on LinkedIn and just being a good old salesperson. Here we go. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey Smith, thanks for joining us today. There's a way to get started. Give us a |
| 0:36.5 | little background on yourself. Hey, I'm Smith Richardson, Regional VPS sales |
| 0:41.4 | with GPS and Goldman Consulting and we're a company based in Columbia, |
| 0:46.4 | South Carolina, staffing and recruiting industry. A little fact about me is that I |
| 0:52.1 | started in the almost the great recession. Okay, so 2008, right? Didn't know any |
| 0:59.8 | better. And I thought, well, on the people person, so sales is right for me, |
| 1:04.9 | right? How hard can this be? That's totally not true. We that's a huge |
| 1:08.8 | misconception. I'm sure people who've been in sales a while realize that. But |
| 1:15.6 | one thing it taught me was to go out and have conversations with people that |
| 1:21.1 | didn't need anything that they were dealing with layoffs. They were dealing |
| 1:26.2 | with uncertainty. And it gave me an opportunity to cut my teeth in the |
| 1:32.3 | industry of sales, staffing, recruiting. And it led to relationships that that |
| 1:39.2 | started bubbling into job orders and placements, you know, a year into it, two |
| 1:46.1 | years into it where people were recovering. And I was still around. I was still |
| 1:50.8 | around doing it, where some of the people were coming and going in my industry. |
| 1:55.2 | Well, and this is something that I think sales people get wrong. Everyone's |
| 1:59.1 | trying to find somebody who has the need exactly right now with what you have to |
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