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
4.8 β’ 1.2K Ratings
ποΈ 13 June 2023
β±οΈ 47 minutes
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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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