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

THE #1 THING THIS REP DID TO BECOME A TOP PERFORMER IN 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 22 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Boy, do we get a good one for you today?

0:03.3

What is that classic mistake that early sales people make?

0:07.6

And I think we all do it.

0:09.6

I did it.

0:10.6

I'm sure you did it at one time or another.

0:12.4

It's that talking, talking too much.

0:16.0

And how soon can we make that shift to asking questions?

0:21.2

And of course, I'm sure you just, you know, the word listen to here is one mouth, oh, shut

0:26.6

the hell up.

0:27.6

I'm so sick of that saying.

0:30.0

But today we're going to go through a little journey with this great rep and you get to

0:35.0

hear it in his voice, the exact distinctions that he has learned through the, you know,

0:41.4

the first five, 10 years of selling.

0:44.2

Now here's the real secret of genius and sales.

0:49.5

You don't have to go through all that.

0:53.3

You don't.

0:54.3

You can learn from others.

0:55.8

And I know in sales, it's hard because we've got terrible role models.

1:01.6

If you watch the media, you know, you think it's boiler room and Vince Diesel comes over

1:06.4

and holds the phone like he's landing a plane and, you know, closes the deal and are, you

1:14.6

know, the wolf of Wall Street and, oh, that's the perfect selling.

1:18.7

He's not selling.

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