THE #1 SECRET TO BECOMING GREAT AT B2B SALES WITHOUT COMPROMISING
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
4.8 β’ 1.2K Ratings
ποΈ 19 August 2022
β±οΈ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever put on a sales voice or feel like you need to act differently than your authentic |
| 0:06.4 | self? |
| 0:07.8 | We all do to a certain extent. |
| 0:10.2 | We have our professional polished voice when we're selling. |
| 0:16.3 | But what if you just took the way you viewed selling and made it your own? |
| 0:23.2 | Yes, I called being a maverick when I started writing my book. |
| 0:29.8 | And I couldn't have picked a worse term at a worse time. |
| 0:33.0 | It was right around 2008 during the election. |
| 0:39.3 | John McCain was running for president and they hijacked my term. |
| 0:43.8 | So it kind of lost its uniqueness back then. |
| 0:47.3 | But the point or what I was trying to get out of using the word maverick is the best sales |
| 0:52.2 | people I've ever met have a unique slant on selling. |
| 0:58.6 | And it's not what you see in the movies. |
| 1:00.8 | It's not what you see on TV. |
| 1:03.5 | It's not that bad persona. |
| 1:06.7 | It's being authentic, being themselves, leveraging their strengths. |
| 1:12.6 | That's what authentic really is. |
| 1:16.1 | Because when you hear authentic, a lot of people go, well, wait a second. |
| 1:20.9 | That's me sitting on the couch watching Netflix. |
| 1:23.8 | Is that authentic? |
| 1:25.2 | Well, it may be. |
| 1:27.2 | But in sales too often, we're putting on the buzzword voice, the professional uptone, |
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