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

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

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 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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