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

THE SECRET WAY THIS REP GETS THE CLIENT TO OPEN UP

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 2 December 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0

Some of the best salespeople always seem to have a very unique wrinkle in their background,

0:06.8

something that they tend to leverage in both the skill set and an analogy into becoming great at sales.

0:15.3

And today is one of those cases where the person has really applied something that they learned or the mindset or the

0:23.0

skill set required to be successful in one career and apply it to another.

0:28.0

And this is something that we should leverage.

0:31.2

If we're already good at a certain thing, how can we apply it to sales, whether it's

0:37.3

questioning or presenting or building rapport or being

0:42.8

curious or telling stories or just being charming, whatever it is that allows us to connect with

0:51.0

the other person, engage them in a conversation that builds into a business

0:57.6

discussion. These skills are critical. And today we're going to give you a bunch of examples

1:03.7

and how you can apply them to your sale. How do you can develop this skill to get the client

1:10.5

to focus on the things that you want to?

1:13.5

And this is a lot of what I teach and more of a structured approach based off of how the client is thinking and start the conversation, get the meeting.

1:24.9

Instead of focusing on your value proposition, your messaging, all on you

1:29.9

and how great and enticing the product is, that's great if they believe it, if there's a pain

1:37.4

that they want to solve. But until they recognize that, we're really not helping.

1:45.6

We're pushing them away instead of having them magnetically pulled towards us.

1:52.1

Now, there's an idea, Brian.

1:54.2

Go to b2brevenue.com.

1:56.4

Check out the courses.

1:57.5

If you're in the courses, make sure you're checking out the office hours and the one-on-ones

2:01.3

for all the great examples of how people are having success and getting success selling in today's

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