THE #1 THING THAT EVERY GREAT REP NEEDS TO WIN LARGE B2B SALES
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 11 January 2022
β±οΈ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the big things that I learned last year was that at the core of all great sales |
| 0:06.1 | people is this strong sense of personal responsibility, this internal locus of control. |
| 0:16.0 | And they think like entrepreneurs, they take that responsibility, not that they have control |
| 0:22.9 | over the whole company, but they focus on the things that they do have control over. |
| 0:28.9 | And they expand that to the point where they have influence over so many other things. |
| 0:35.2 | Today's guest has taken that because one of the key things that we need to have is the |
| 0:42.0 | ability to have a conversation about what our client cares about that isn't just about |
| 0:48.7 | us and our product. |
| 0:50.6 | We all can do that, but what a client is willing to do, wants to do, likes to do, is talk |
| 0:57.6 | about themselves. |
| 1:00.4 | And to do that, we've got to know something about them, something about their job, something |
| 1:05.0 | about what their persona does. |
| 1:07.9 | It can be related to our product or adjacent to it, but if we only are able to talk about |
| 1:14.2 | what we do, that's not really selling, that's order taking, that's being reactive. |
| 1:22.4 | Personal responsibility is all about proactivity, it's on you. |
| 1:27.6 | And the thing about personal responsibility is that it's yours whether you accept it |
| 1:33.5 | or not. |
| 1:34.5 | It's not voluntary, meaning that if you don't take it, the consequences are on you, regardless. |
| 1:44.2 | And today we're going to be talking about really building up that conversation, building |
| 1:49.2 | up that knowledge and domain experience to be able to have that conversation about their |
| 1:55.8 | industry and what they're facing. |
| 1:58.0 | Now, this is only one way of doing it, there's lots of ways to skin this cat, but are you |
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