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
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ποΈ 24 May 2022
β±οΈ 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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