How to Avoid Wasting Time on Bad Deals
Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount
Jeb Blount
4.7 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Each working day salespeople are surprised to find out, after investing blood, sweat, and tears, and of course promises to the boss, the account they have been working on will not close. But, walking away from a bad deal is one of the hardest things to do in sales. On this podcast episode Jeb Blount explores the pitfalls of poor qualifying and throwing good money after bad.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a sales gravy podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Jeff Blunt, best-selling author of People Buy You, |
| 0:06.0 | and I'm here to help you knock down more doors, |
| 0:09.0 | close bigger deals, and rock your commission check. |
| 0:12.0 | On this episode, we're going to discuss why so many salespeople gamble on low probability deals. |
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| 1:17.7 | I'm going to go to iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get the podcast, and take just a second and write a review. In the course of Kenny Rogers' famous song, The Gambler, the old |
| 1:23.0 | gambler urges the young man to know when to walk away and to know when to run. |
| 1:28.0 | And I've given the same advice to thousands of sales professionals, advice that has rarely |
| 1:32.2 | been heated. |
| 1:33.7 | Packing up and walking away from a deal that is going nowhere is one of the hardest things |
| 1:38.3 | to do in sales. |
| 1:39.6 | And even some of the best salespeople I know have continued to work on accounts that from |
| 1:43.8 | anybody's |
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