THE SECRET THAT TOOK THIS REP TO THE TOP IN LARGE ENTERPRISE SAAS
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 25 February 2022
β±οΈ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In other podcasts, I've always said, people either want to talk with you or have to. |
| 0:06.9 | And guess which one we want. |
| 0:08.7 | For them to want to talk with us, there has to be something of value that they get out |
| 0:14.8 | of it. |
| 0:15.8 | It might be just rapport, it might be current events. |
| 0:19.6 | But the closer it is to business, the better. |
| 0:23.5 | We don't have to start it business, we can build to it. |
| 0:27.8 | But can we hold a conversation about business? |
| 0:33.3 | Now we probably all run into this challenge when we start a new sales job, especially |
| 0:38.1 | in a new industry, or anyways, we've got a new product, you've got to sell it. |
| 0:44.3 | One of the biggest challenges I had in my career is I went from selling software to selling |
| 0:50.3 | this network appliance. |
| 0:52.2 | It was a hardware, special chips, all this security, and it fit into the network layer. |
| 1:00.5 | But the challenge was that software people made the decision. |
| 1:06.4 | But then there was network operations and security got involved. |
| 1:11.6 | And if I couldn't talk with them about it, they weren't interested in talking to me. |
| 1:18.2 | Because there was no need to, no half to, the want to didn't exist there. |
| 1:23.8 | As salespeople, we have to develop that want to talk with us. |
| 1:29.4 | Think about that through each and every conversation with your clients. |
| 1:34.6 | Why are they taking the meeting? |
| 1:36.5 | What are they getting out of it? |
| 1:38.3 | Why would they take the next one? |
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