THE SECRETS TO PICK WHICH SALES MANAGER TO WORK WITH IN B2B SALES
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
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ποΈ 9 June 2023
β±οΈ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I talk a lot about being a salespreneur, thinking about, you know, personal responsibility about your career, your income, all the things that we have control over. And that is what we should focus on. But guess what? We have to still work for somebody if we're in B2B sales. |
| 0:23.4 | Now, the most common frustration I hear from salespeople and what I felt when I was selling |
| 0:30.6 | was if you get a bad manager. |
| 0:34.7 | And some of this you have control over, some of it you don't. |
| 0:39.7 | And it's really difficult. |
| 0:42.5 | I get it. |
| 0:43.2 | I lived it. |
| 0:44.4 | I've been on it. |
| 0:46.0 | On both sides, even. |
| 0:47.7 | Even when I was a sales manager, sales leader, it was really, it is hard. |
| 0:53.7 | It's a really tough job. And you've got to understand |
| 0:56.7 | what they're going through because it kind of explains why they're being a micromanager |
| 1:03.3 | or just difficult or pressure oriented or very anxious all the time. because their quota is over-assigned as well. |
| 1:14.9 | It's much higher than reality would justify. |
| 1:18.9 | So guess what? |
| 1:20.3 | They put pressure on other people to get magic to happen. |
| 1:24.9 | And that pressure sometimes helps, but a lot of times it hurts. It rushes things |
| 1:30.4 | that aren't ready to be rushed. And today we're going to be talking about this, because the part |
| 1:36.1 | that we do have control over is when we switch jobs or when we decide to work for anybody or with |
| 1:42.4 | somebody, we should really think this through |
| 1:46.0 | from the beginning because if we don't, we end up having a lot of those six to nine month |
| 1:53.0 | things on our resume. And, you know, when we interview with the next contestant, we have to explain the story. |
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