S2E140 How I Sell
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Sales often gets a bad rap but, done right, it can be the best thing in the world. In this episode, Brian teaches a powerful strategy to sell well and shares three principles that will help you achieve phenomenal success in your sales career.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why people buy emotionally and justify logically.
· Why facts tell, but stories sell.
· Why people need help making decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“If you just meet the transactional needs of a customer, you'll get paid - but you won't make an advocate.” – Brian Buffini
“When you meet the emotional and transactional needs of the customer, you create advocates.” – Brian Buffini
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” – Dale Carnegie
“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn't a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” – Jimmy Neil Smith
“We all need a little nudge in helping make good decisions.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to it's a good life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
| 0:07.8 | yourself and your business. |
| 0:09.8 | Here's your host, Fander of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney. |
| 0:15.3 | Well, the top of the morning, too, yet, and welcome to today's episode, how I sell. |
| 0:24.0 | You know, I love sales. |
| 0:25.0 | I've been a salesman my whole life, whether selling paint jobs for my dad, t-shirts on the |
| 0:30.9 | beach in California, 10 years in the real estate industry, and almost three decades now selling |
| 0:36.8 | from stage. |
| 0:37.8 | I love sales, and I just enjoy when it's done right. |
| 0:41.8 | Now, typically, when I do sales training, I'm very specific on what to do, what to say, |
| 0:48.9 | and how to say it. |
| 0:50.2 | Today, I'm going to speak in more strategic terms by giving you general principles and |
| 0:55.4 | guidelines that I hope will help you in your sales career. |
| 0:59.6 | So here's the three principles. |
| 1:01.8 | People buy emotionally and justify logically, facts tell, and stories sell, and people need |
| 1:10.4 | help in making decisions. |
| 1:12.8 | So let's dive in. |
| 1:14.4 | First major point, people buy emotionally and justify logically. |
| 1:20.4 | Now that sounds a little dodgy. |
| 1:22.8 | It's okay for people to buy emotionally what we don't want is them to be emotionalistic. |
| 1:28.6 | And so when they're emotionalistic, now it becomes to me a transactional sale. |
| 1:33.6 | You can get somebody to be emotionalistic and they make a reflux purchase or an impulse |
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