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

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

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 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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