Social Proof: A Powerful Technique for Getting Past Objections
Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount
Jeb Blount
4.7 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The Social Proof Heuristic is a powerful way to minimize fear. On this podcast, you’ll learn how to leverage it to make it easy for your buyer to move forward.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the sales gravy podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Jeb Blunt, best-selling author of fanatical prospecting and sales EQ, and I'm here to help you open more doors, close bigger deals, and rock your commission check. |
| 0:19.0 | In just a moment, I'm going to share a powerful technique for minimizing objections. |
| 0:24.8 | First, though, I have a question. |
| 0:27.0 | Have you ever been in the early stages of a deal and frustrated because you know you're talking to the wrong person, but you can't find the real decision maker? |
| 0:35.4 | It happens all the time, which is why so many deals stall. |
| 0:39.7 | Not sure you do a Google search and you spend hours digging through LinkedIn, but still it's |
| 0:43.6 | almost impossible to see who reports to whom, and of course you never get contact information. |
| 0:49.5 | Whenever I'm in this spot, I turn to Discoverorg. I just open my Discoverorg dashboard, do a quick |
| 0:56.0 | search, and in a nanosecond, I'm looking at the entire company org chart. I see all the reporting |
| 1:01.8 | lines, and I get full contact information, including email and phone, something that you'll never |
| 1:07.8 | get on a LinkedIn search. And what I love the most is the information |
| 1:12.1 | is accurate because all Discoverorg records are confirmed by human beings. The entire sales team at |
| 1:18.2 | sales gravy counts on Discoverorg and I'm positive that you will love Discoverorg too. |
| 1:23.2 | And here's the good news. Discoverorg makes it easy for you to check it out yourself for free. |
| 1:29.3 | To get free data that is authenticated by human beings, just go to discoverorg.com. |
| 1:35.9 | That's discoverorg.com and click the button that says free data. |
| 1:40.3 | What we know empirically about human behavior is that humans follow the crowd. |
| 1:45.1 | We are compelled to do the things that other people are doing. |
| 1:48.4 | And when something is popular and we see other people doing it, we feel that it is safe for us to do it too. |
| 1:55.0 | And the more people who are doing a thing have a belief in something or share an opinion, |
| 1:59.5 | the higher the probability that |
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