THE #1 SKILL THAT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT YET EVERYONE NEEDS TO WIN IN B2B SALES
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
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ποΈ 3 March 2023
β±οΈ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's one of the skills that really separates the great reps from the OK reps, and a lot |
| 0:08.1 | of people misinterpret this as just pure raw intelligence, or a six sense in sales. |
| 0:16.9 | And I want you to kind of think of it as a skill that you can develop. |
| 0:21.8 | It's not hard, but it does take concentrated effort, does require thinking, so there's |
| 0:28.1 | an intellectual element to it, but it can quickly separate the best from the rest. |
| 0:36.3 | What am I talking about? |
| 0:38.5 | Judgment. |
| 0:39.5 | Now, we use judgment all day long, whether we accept it or not, we might be hijacking |
| 0:46.3 | someone else's judgment. |
| 0:47.9 | We might be just doing what we're told, we might be doing what's easy, or we might be |
| 0:53.3 | doing what's first on our to do, to do list and working our way down. |
| 0:59.2 | Well, what we spend our time on pretty much determines how well we do in sales. |
| 1:05.9 | If we're spending time on a deal that's not really likely to close and not spending |
| 1:11.8 | a deal that could pretty easily close, that's bad judgment. |
| 1:17.8 | And a lot of us kind of relinquish this to other people. |
| 1:22.1 | Well, we'll tell my manager that, or I wish my company gave me that freedom. |
| 1:27.6 | Well, maybe you want to own that. |
| 1:34.4 | This is something that helped me in my career greatly. |
| 1:39.9 | I hate it waste in time. |
| 1:42.1 | And I saw a lot of people wasting enormous amounts of time on deals that had no business |
| 1:51.4 | in the pipeline. |
| 1:53.3 | Yeah, they were willing to talk to the rep, but I could tell in the QBR, they're never |
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