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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Power of Storytelling in Sales | Stories Matter Keynote

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, David dives into the critical role stories play in teaching lessons and adding value to our lives. Drawing from his personal experiences with his wife and father, David highlights the intertwined nature of abundance and happiness. He goes beyond discussing how to amass wealth, shedding light on making money in ways that truly matter. He also presents his unique insights on various topics, such as the dual paths to adding value to people's lives, the importance of being interested rather than interesting, and interpreting faith as a positive anticipation of the future.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So this is the story as matters I was told and I thought no better place for me to speak

0:09.5

because my life is about lessons and the best way to teach lessons is to tell stories

0:17.6

and the best way to provide value is to tell stories because the lessons hold the value.

0:27.6

Now there's only two ways to provide value and I know in the car industry that most of

0:34.4

the reputation, whether it's true or not, is indicative of how I learned how to sell.

0:39.8

See I made my first million nine months out of law school selling because I was an expert

0:45.6

at what they call overselling back end selling line manipulating and cheating.

0:51.2

Some of you may understand those methodologies of making money and people that are really

0:57.1

good at it can make a lot of money by over selling back and selling line manipulating

1:01.8

and cheating people.

1:04.4

But it didn't last for me and here I am years later after losing over a hundred million

1:09.6

dollars in my thirties.

1:11.7

While I was running the most notable sports agency in the world, they made a movie

1:15.0

Jeremy Guire about my firm.

1:17.6

Every week I need to fix first picks in the draft, Warren Moon, Troikman, Steve Young,

1:23.5

Lennox Lewis, Vander Holyfield, Sebastian Ramirez, it didn't matter who we had, it was not

1:30.1

only losing everything but I had access to what billionaires couldn't even afford.

1:34.8

And at that time I didn't understand value because those qualities that made me a multi-millionaire

1:42.3

and got me my job as CEO of the most notable sports agency in the world was still that I

1:48.2

could over sell back and sell a lot of manipulating cheat better than most people.

1:54.0

And it was my wife who pointed out value to me as she threatened to leave me in my thirties

2:03.5

as I came home at 5.30 in the morning from lying to her manipulating cheating, overselling

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