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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 October 2021
β±οΈ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When we're involved in a large complex sale, we have several conversations with our clients |
| 0:06.5 | over long periods of time, and hopefully more than one person within that account. |
| 0:12.4 | And during each of these conversations, because we typically don't get them live, or it's |
| 0:18.5 | through email, asynchronous communication, they have the choice to either engage or not |
| 0:25.0 | engage. |
| 0:26.0 | And they do this for one of two reasons. |
| 0:28.9 | When they have to, they need information from you. |
| 0:32.2 | They want something transactional. |
| 0:35.7 | The other is they want to. |
| 0:38.6 | They enjoy talking with you. |
| 0:41.0 | They get value out of it. |
| 0:43.2 | You're aligned on a purpose and a goal. |
| 0:46.2 | You have things in common. |
| 0:49.4 | Now if you don't have that, you're in the transactional sales rep category. |
| 0:55.8 | If you have that, you're in what I call partners of crime. |
| 1:00.6 | Now I wish there was a better description for it, but partners in crime conjures up this |
| 1:07.4 | feeling like you guys and gals have something going on together. |
| 1:15.7 | It's not malicious, it's not unethical, it is ethical, it's noble. |
| 1:21.8 | To try to improve the client's situation, modernize it in some way, automate it, whatever |
| 1:30.4 | it is. |
| 1:31.4 | It's for the betterment of the company, but the company isn't set up for quick changes. |
| 1:37.4 | It's set up for slow or no change. |
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