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

THE #1 THING THAT THIS LEADER SAYS MAKES THE BEST B2B SALES PEOPLE

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 17 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, what is some of the first principles of being a great salesperson?

0:05.2

We're going to be talking about one of the key, you know, core ingredients.

0:11.7

And a lot of people think just because I know what this is that I am it.

0:19.4

Nope.

0:20.4

Sorry.

0:21.4

Sorry.

0:22.4

It doesn't work that way.

0:23.4

You can think you're thin.

0:24.4

You can think you're strong and fast, but that doesn't make it so.

0:29.4

What you have to do is integrate this into your personality, into your identity, into

0:36.3

your process, into every single day of your activity.

0:44.0

Otherwise we tend to slip backwards because it's kind of easier to be reactive.

0:54.2

A lot of us like being reactive.

0:57.5

It's comfortable, but to be proactive, to be owning your attitude, owning your personal

1:06.7

responsibility, taking action, making it up to us to make things happen for us.

1:16.1

This personal responsibility or what we're going to be talking about today, the internal

1:20.7

focus of control is critical.

1:24.8

Because what's the opposite of it?

1:26.8

The opposite of it on the very other end of the spectrum is the victim mentality.

1:34.0

And that is the killer.

1:36.0

That I hear all the time.

1:38.0

Oh, if only my manager wasn't in the way, tell that to corporate.

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