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

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

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 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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