THE #2 BEST ACTIVITY THAT FEW EVER DO BUT WILL TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE TOP
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 14 April 2023
β±οΈ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On the podcast, I talk a lot about sales being a performance profession, meaning that it's |
| 0:07.0 | how well you do it, not just that you know how to do it. |
| 0:12.1 | But how do we get better at it? |
| 0:14.3 | Well, we can do that by doing it over and over again. |
| 0:18.2 | But if you don't judge how well you did it, you're probably going to get a little worse. |
| 0:25.2 | And I'm thinking about doing this whole video series on, you know you're a B player when? |
| 0:30.3 | Remember that comedian who said, oh, you know you're a redneck when? |
| 0:35.8 | Because I see so much B player behavior. |
| 0:39.2 | And on a recent podcast, I asked a great sales leader, how do you know when you're talking |
| 0:46.0 | to a B player? |
| 0:47.0 | And he said, you get that know it all sense where there's nothing that's penetrating. |
| 0:51.9 | You know they're not listening, they're just building a story in their head and they |
| 0:57.3 | really don't care what you think and they're rationalizing what they're doing. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, that's one way, but there are many others. |
| 1:08.3 | So as a performance profession, we have a lot of issues. |
| 1:12.0 | How do we practice? |
| 1:13.4 | Well, it's kind of awkward. |
| 1:15.8 | Everyone says role play and that does help, but you need someone else to do that. |
| 1:21.2 | You could talk on the mirror into your smartphone or zoom or anything, but how many people do |
| 1:27.3 | that? |
| 1:28.4 | And if you do it, congratulations. |
| 1:31.3 | But another way, a simpler way of practicing or almost as good as practice is preparation. |
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