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The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.

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

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 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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