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

HOW TO FOCUS THE CLIENT ON THE PROBLEM AND NOT THE COST

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 24 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0

Today, we got a great topic.

0:02.0

We're going to be talking a lot about how empathy has impact on sales.

0:07.9

Because if you have empathy, you know what the other person, the company, the team is thinking.

0:15.4

And if you know what they're thinking, what they're feeling, how they win, what they care

0:19.8

about most, both logically and emotionally, then you know how to guide them.

0:26.7

You know what to show them.

0:28.8

You know what to ask them.

0:31.2

But to have that type of empathy, you have to first not talk.

0:39.0

Because if you're talking, you're not really thinking about someone else, you're thinking

0:43.4

about what to say.

0:44.9

And then you got to be curious about what they're up against, what's their world like?

0:50.1

How do they get rewarded?

0:52.0

What if I was them?

0:53.6

Why would I care about if I was them?

0:57.2

That type of empathy, to give you the vision of what they care about, that's a lot.

1:04.4

And in sales, we're usually pressured to really be doing the things that we need, that

1:10.9

we want.

1:12.6

And that's natural.

1:14.2

So if you don't have a process, it doesn't have to be rigid.

1:18.8

I know what people hear process and they think, oh, it's step by step, lock step.

1:24.7

And if you can't move to the next step until you do the last step, that's not what

1:28.2

I mean.

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