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

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

Careers, Business

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 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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