Quick Tip 13 | The Real Secret to Superstar Success
Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount
Jeb Blount
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🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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On this Sales Gravy Quick Tip, Jeb Blount reveals the real secret to superstar sales success. The good news is it’s obvious and within your grasp.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Job Blunt, author of Fanatical Prospecting and Cells EQ, and this is a sales gravy quick tip. |
| 0:07.0 | There are bad salespeople, mediocre salespeople, good salespeople, consistent salespeople, and then there are the superstars. |
| 0:15.4 | The elusive talent that companies and sales organizations spend billions of dollars to identify, recruit, retain, |
| 0:22.7 | and emulate. The coveted top 20% that produce 80% of the sales. Superstars out-earn other sales |
| 0:30.9 | people by a wide margin. They win the trips and the prizes, take on the spiffs, and they get the |
| 0:35.8 | recognition that they also ran so badly |
| 0:38.3 | crave. |
| 0:39.3 | And the superstars, well, they're not one-hit wonders. |
| 0:42.3 | Year in and year out, they tend to stay on top. |
| 0:46.3 | And superstars are great at selling. |
| 0:48.3 | They've got the talent and the skills, they're competitive, and they have the drive to perform. |
| 0:52.3 | They understand how to manage the sales process. They ask great questions, deliver winning presentations, and they have the drive to perform. They understand how to manage the sales process. |
| 0:55.1 | They ask great questions, deliver winning presentations, and they close the deal. |
| 1:00.2 | They've also got exceptional people skills, high emotional intelligence, and most of all, |
| 1:05.2 | they enjoy selling. But here's the thing. So do lots of salespeople. Lots of salespeople possess the drive and the hunger to succeed. |
| 1:13.6 | Lots of salespeople had the intelligence, skills, and training to be top performers. |
| 1:18.6 | Lots of salespeople are competitive, understand the sales process, and know how to close business. |
| 1:24.6 | Yet they consistently underperform and fail to reach their true potential. |
| 1:29.3 | And that's what leaves so many salespeople, sales leaders, and executives scratching their heads. |
| 1:35.3 | And wondering how the elite top 20% produce such massive results year in and year out while everyone else seems to struggle. |
| 1:42.3 | So is there really a secret to consistent |
| 1:45.3 | sustained sales success? Well, the good news is the path to superstar level success is |
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