THE SECRETS TO SELLING LARGE DEALS IN TO THE MOST DIFFICULT MARKETS
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
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ποΈ 23 November 2021
β±οΈ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show or welcome back. Hey, this is the show where we interview |
| 0:04.8 | the very best of sales leaders and understand first, why did they get into leadership? |
| 0:11.7 | What's the distinction there between the motives of getting into sales leadership and what |
| 0:17.3 | differences have they found and what is working today to get the very most out of their |
| 0:23.0 | team and have it be fun along the way? Before we get in, make sure you check us out over |
| 0:29.1 | at b2brevenue.com where you can learn about all the stuff that we're covering as far as |
| 0:34.8 | driving revenue in today's world and at the very end, I'll sum it up. Let's get into the |
| 0:40.1 | interview. Hey, Martin, thanks for joining us today as |
| 0:45.4 | we're getting started. Give us a little background on yourself. |
| 0:48.2 | Hi, Brian. Thank you to speak to you. My name is Martin Siddle and I've been selling |
| 0:53.9 | technology into the legal sector in the UK probably for the last 30 years. During this |
| 1:01.7 | time, I've been lucky enough to sell a variety of systems. So I've sold accounting systems, |
| 1:07.0 | ERP systems, document management systems, CRM. But most of my success has come from selling |
| 1:14.0 | what we call case management or workflow solutions. Been really, really successful in that. |
| 1:20.4 | And I guess over the last 30 years, I've had every job you can think going in sales from |
| 1:25.2 | sales rep to sales director, everything in between. And I'm currently head of account |
| 1:31.1 | management to a large content firm called Lexus Nexus. |
| 1:36.6 | And you just found lawyers fun to sell too. Fun may not be the right word. They're certainly |
| 1:47.1 | different. And I think one of the things that is different is you're actually spending |
| 1:51.7 | their money rather than spending a corporate's money. So one of the things I was told by |
| 1:57.1 | very old salesman very early on is you've got to imagine you're selling to a lawyer. |
| 2:01.3 | He has to go home and tell his wife she can't have the holiday because he's just bought |
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