THE TOP 3 THINGS THAT THIS REP DOES TO STAY #1 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 24 June 2022
β±οΈ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You |
| 0:30.0 | you |
| 0:58.0 | us today is where you're getting started. It gives a little background on yourself. |
| 1:01.3 | Thanks, Brian. Yeah. So I've been in IT sales around 15 years. |
| 1:06.4 | Started off in the inside, did that for a couple of years. And then after doing that for about a |
| 1:13.2 | year and a half, nearly two years, been in the outside sales role and sales leadership roles |
| 1:19.5 | for the last 13 years. And why sales for you? You know, it's really something that, |
| 1:25.5 | you know, I had some family members and some friends do it as I was growing up. And I got to |
| 1:33.6 | be around it as a younger one and kind of seeing how what they did for a living. And I'm a competitive |
| 1:42.0 | guy by nature. You play a lot of sports growing up. And I just love the aspect of really running |
| 1:48.8 | your own franchise, trying to go out and work with folks and no day was ever the same day. |
| 1:57.2 | It seemed like every day bought something different and that was appealing to me. |
| 2:00.9 | Cool. The variety and kind of control over your income and winning. |
| 2:07.2 | Absolutely. Was it the joy of winning or the hatred of losing the trophy? |
| 2:12.8 | Combination. I always jokingly say I hate to lose more than I love the win, |
| 2:17.9 | but winning always feels pretty good. So, you know, it does. Unfortunately in sales, |
| 2:24.4 | you know, you get a lot more nose than you do, yeses. But, you know, there's nothing that beats |
| 2:30.5 | the thrill of winning a hard work than long, arduous process. |
| 2:37.5 | Now, you've sold some pretty complex stuff, pretty high-tech, big deals. |
| 2:43.2 | Yeah. Yeah. Combination. So, you know, I've really been in the IT infrastructure space |
| 2:50.0 | the 15 years I've been in sales. I've sold everything from networking, cyber security, |
| 2:55.6 | storage, virtualization, you name it. Essentially, you know, the deals range in size, |
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