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

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

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 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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