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The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.

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

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 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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