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

THIS REP'S #1 SYSTEM TO B2B ENTERPRISE SUCCESS

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 16 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0

One of the hardest parts of being successful in sales is really determining what type of salesperson you should be in each call.

0:12.5

Now, what do I mean by that? Too many people, they see other salespeople and they try and emulate them, or the word authentic comes up but then people go well

0:23.2

maybe authentic is too authentic sometimes and I was thinking about this last week and I got a little

0:31.9

metaphor and story for you I've been doing one of those meal delivery services for a while. Love it. Food is good.

0:42.5

Price is reasonable. It saves me a ton of time. And one of the things I have for breakfast is this

0:49.0

overnight oats. And man, with it, was it delicious? And you're like, Brian, what does this have to do with sales?

0:56.4

I'll get to it.

0:57.3

Hold on.

0:58.0

Stick with me.

1:00.0

Okay.

1:00.7

And so for probably a couple months, I was ordering this overnight oatmeal.

1:06.1

And it had blueberries on it.

1:07.6

It was delicious.

1:09.0

Loved it.

1:10.2

And then all of a sudden, a couple weeks ago, it was

1:13.1

different. They had changed the recipe. And I was like, I hope it's just this week. I hope next

1:20.1

week they return it. They had kind of watered it down. It was still overnight oatmeal,

1:26.7

still had blueberries, but you know why they watered it down. It was still overnight oatmeal, still had blueberries, but you know why they watered it

1:31.5

down. They wanted to make more money, make more oatmeal for the same number of customers.

1:37.7

And this reminded me about what we've been doing in sales. See, I can relate everything to sales,

1:46.1

meaning that people have watered down

1:49.9

the quality of sales.

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