HOW THIS REP WENT FROM COMEDY TO ENTERPRISE 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 27 September 2022
β±οΈ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you were to ask most salespeople, what's the key to prospecting? |
| 0:06.3 | Most of people would say, oh, it's coming up with that right pitch, that right approach |
| 0:12.2 | to get the person interested and go from completely unknowing about the problem to now interested |
| 0:18.6 | in it. |
| 0:19.6 | That magic pitch, a better pitch. |
| 0:22.7 | That's what we'd all say, isn't it? |
| 0:25.6 | Your pitch must be wrong. |
| 0:26.9 | You're messaging. |
| 0:27.9 | Sales ready messaging is not strong enough. |
| 0:32.0 | You need the why now and the why you and all that. |
| 0:37.2 | And that might find interest. |
| 0:40.8 | But in sales, we got to be smarter than finding interest because we're in a predicament |
| 0:46.6 | now because interest tends to find us. |
| 0:52.2 | And if you think of the number of people in your territory that are in active pain, |
| 0:56.4 | you think it's probably what, five, ten percent? |
| 1:01.1 | Think again. |
| 1:02.1 | It's probably near one tenth of one percent, maybe. |
| 1:07.2 | That's why it's so hard today. |
| 1:10.2 | Today's guest has a very different approach. |
| 1:12.8 | It's not about finding a better pitch. |
| 1:16.0 | It's about connecting with the other person. |
| 1:19.5 | Oh, I know you've heard that a million times. |
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