THE 3 SECRETS TO SELLING TO THE CIO AND OTHER EXECUTIVES
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
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ποΈ 14 February 2023
β±οΈ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know, |
| 0:01.0 | You know, |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Hey, Janet, thanks for joining us today's way getting started. Tell us a little bit about yourself. |
| 1:37.8 | Well, I may have taken a unique path to sales compared to some. I've been doing this for probably |
| 1:45.2 | over 30 years. It started out in accounting and finance and found that I couldn't really sit |
| 1:51.5 | still very well. So I transitioned into accounting and finance sales and enjoyed that and then |
| 1:58.2 | added on accounting finance, distribution, manufacturing, |
| 2:01.3 | process manufacturing, eventually became a national sales manager. |
| 2:06.9 | And then I went to Oracle, went to Oracle for a while. |
| 2:11.0 | And I found that people really liked their products, but they didn't like the business practices. So I created my |
| 2:20.8 | own business as a reseller at Oracle because the products were great, but business, they wanted |
| 2:26.4 | to have someone wear their hat, right? So I did that pretty successfully for a while. And then I |
| 2:32.9 | actually stepped aside for 10 years and was a mom. |
| 2:36.2 | And so that was rare to step aside. And while I stepped aside, I was an active angel investor. |
| 2:42.0 | So what was interesting about that is I got to wear many hats. You know, I had the accounting finance background, but then suddenly I was in charge of QA because there was no staff. |
| 2:50.9 | And I got to wear many different hats. |
| 2:53.4 | And so I went from being a business owner to a contributor in many different areas. |
| 3:00.8 | Oh, you need this? |
| 3:01.5 | Suddenly I'm an expert, right? |
| 3:03.0 | So I did that. |
| 3:04.2 | And then once both kids got licenses, I went back to work and I've been |
| 3:07.7 | back at it for eight years and having a great time. It's kind of been a unique journey. |
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