THE #1 THING THAT CHANGED THIS REP'S ABILITY TO SELL MORE IN B2B SALES AND SELLING
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 5 July 2022
β±οΈ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When you think of the ideal salesperson, you probably think of that likeability, that |
| 0:06.8 | personality, the life of the party, the people person, and that can work and it has worked. |
| 0:15.5 | But if the sale is complex, if you're calling people strangers up, people you don't know |
| 0:22.2 | and you want to build conversations with them, that goes a little ways. |
| 0:29.8 | But what really goes far is what we're talking about today in this interview. |
| 0:37.0 | It's talking about the curiosity and the interest and the other person being empathetic to their |
| 0:44.9 | viewpoint and what they're going through and the struggles and the challenges and the problems |
| 0:51.0 | that they face and how to get them to start talking about that. |
| 0:56.6 | It's a different skill, completely different. |
| 0:59.7 | These people may be quiet. |
| 1:02.0 | They may be not gregarious, not the life of the party, but you'll always find them at |
| 1:07.7 | the party where people are really engaged in talking with them, sharing their stories |
| 1:14.7 | with this person, not leaving them, maybe even people circling around them because they're |
| 1:20.8 | curious and to be curious requires confidence. |
| 1:26.3 | Now, that doesn't sound logical, but think about it. |
| 1:30.9 | Can you be curious without confidence? |
| 1:34.5 | Because sometimes when we don't have confidence, we talk to cover up our anxiety, our insecurity. |
| 1:42.8 | So curiosity builds off of confidence. |
| 1:47.9 | curiosity creates interest in the other person, which then ignites reciprocation and that's |
| 1:55.5 | when you get the magic. |
| 1:58.0 | Let's get into this interview. |
| 1:59.6 | This candidate, or this guest, was a great interview and I certainly understand why he's |
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