THIS REP'S SECRET TO WINNING IN B2B SALES AND SELLING
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
4.8 β’ 1.2K Ratings
ποΈ 22 April 2022
β±οΈ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Early in sales, people make the same classic mistake over and over again. |
| 0:06.1 | And some of us never get out of this routine. |
| 0:09.0 | We look for the little hacks, the little shortcuts, the little tips and tricks. |
| 0:15.9 | And then we think we can cobble them together into a sales process. |
| 0:21.1 | But that's not a sales process. |
| 0:23.8 | The smartest thing I ever did in my sales career was I modeled myself and I studied the best |
| 0:32.3 | sales people. |
| 0:33.6 | I started with the books like everybody does, but the books are in this ideal world where |
| 0:40.4 | they control the sale. |
| 0:42.4 | They control the problem. |
| 0:44.3 | They control all the variables and the politics. |
| 0:48.2 | But that's not the real world. |
| 0:49.8 | The real world is this random thing where there's all these crazy behaviors that are |
| 0:56.6 | happening. |
| 0:58.3 | And the default is to not change, not buy stuff, stay the course. |
| 1:05.5 | The key that you have to learn is to play the whole game of sales. |
| 1:10.8 | And to play the whole game of sales, you got to understand the whole game. |
| 1:16.0 | Now it doesn't mean you have to study and learn every possible variant of the game, but |
| 1:20.3 | you have to understand the core principles. |
| 1:23.6 | And then be able to guide the client through it, not react and service them. |
| 1:29.8 | Anyone can service a client. |
| 1:32.8 | You're like a proposal, can I get you three? |
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