THE SECRETS TO THIS REP STAYING ON TOP IN B2B SALES AND SELLING
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
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ποΈ 20 January 2022
β±οΈ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Recently, there seems to be this huge trend to move sales into more the science-based factory |
| 0:08.7 | worker role, where we're trying to count everything, analyze everything, AI everything, |
| 0:19.0 | and the problem is it's reducing revenue, not increasing it. |
| 0:23.6 | It's keeping managers and operations people really busy, but reducing revenue, selling |
| 0:31.6 | the marginal sale. |
| 0:33.4 | Now I'm talking about going out and finding somebody who has the problem that you have |
| 0:39.7 | or you solve and helping them solve it. |
| 0:43.8 | Inbound, yeah, you can do inbound as a machine, if they're qualified, if they're interested, |
| 0:52.6 | if there's brand recognition, problem recognition, what they call product market fit, that's |
| 0:58.5 | one thing. |
| 1:00.1 | Most of us don't have that. |
| 1:02.4 | Most of us have no inbound. |
| 1:04.1 | We have to go out and get it. |
| 1:06.1 | We have to go find it. |
| 1:07.8 | We have to go create it. |
| 1:11.1 | And this is what has really changed in sales in the last five years. |
| 1:17.1 | Now all the prospecting and experts from the 90s, the fanatics, I love when someone |
| 1:24.5 | says, I want to be a fanatical prospector, and I go, you go nuts. |
| 1:29.4 | That worked marginally in the 90s, maybe even not so well, depending on what you were selling, |
| 1:37.8 | how well it was understood, was it more of a commodity, somebody already had one, they |
| 1:42.8 | need another or a replacement. |
| 1:45.8 | In that case, the numbers and the volume could have a big impact. |
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