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

UNLESS YOU HAVE THIS - YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED IN B2B SALES

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 13 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

One of the big things about the complex sale versus the transactional sale is that we

0:05.8

have to have patients.

0:09.2

And patients isn't just waiting.

0:11.1

It's not just sitting there twiddling our thumbs, looking at email or the light on our

0:18.3

voicemail to see if, hey, did they call us back?

0:22.4

Patience is knowing that it's a process.

0:27.0

And this alludes us because we're ready to go.

0:31.2

You know, the salespeople, and this is what gets me about time kills all deals.

0:36.6

Well, I don't meet many salespeople who procrastinate.

0:41.2

I see a lot of salespeople are too anxious, too pushy, too outcome driven, but the outcome

0:50.0

has to be at the right time.

0:53.0

And today's interview really digs into this.

0:56.5

And it is something that a lot of people struggle with in the large complex sale.

1:01.3

They don't know what to do unless they're reacting to the client.

1:06.5

What we need to do is guide the client through that journey, but the problem is we have

1:12.6

to know what the journey is.

1:15.5

And we have to know the game that we're playing.

1:18.8

And today the farmer analogy is coming up quite a bit, but I want to preempt your reaction

1:25.7

to that because a lot of people in sales, farmer means like account manager, customer support,

1:33.5

service oriented, that's not what we're talking about.

1:37.4

What we're talking about is the farming metaphor, meaning that it's a long process when

1:44.2

you're a farmer.

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