WHAT SELLING SMARTER LOOKS LIKE AND HOW YOU CAN APPLY IT
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
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ποΈ 21 February 2023
β±οΈ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know, |
| 0:01.0 | You know, |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Hey, Chris, thanks for joining us today. |
| 3:32.7 | Give us a little background in yourself. |
| 3:35.0 | Well, you know, I spent 25 years running an operating restaurants, Brian, as a restaurant manager and bar manager. |
| 3:45.1 | And always I felt like a salesperson trapped inside of a hospitality worker's body, if you will. |
| 3:51.9 | About 15 years ago, my wife moved from education and educational sales and had tremendous success, allowing me about nine |
| 3:59.8 | years ago to take a step into a different direction. And I was fortunate to be picked up by CCP |
| 4:05.7 | industries as a sales rep. Did that for a couple of years. And because I think there's so much |
| 4:12.1 | training involved in restaurants, I navigated toward training other reps. And then about five years ago, I was promoted |
| 4:20.1 | to being original sales manager here in the Great Lakes area. So, great. And what was it like |
| 4:25.4 | managing restaurants? I'm a big customer of restaurants. I can't imagine being on the other side, though. |
| 4:33.0 | You know what you should. |
| 4:34.3 | You just take a dive in for a month. |
| 4:37.4 | It is really, there's nothing more. |
| 4:39.7 | It's kind of like it's exciting. |
| 4:41.8 | There's always something going on. |
| 4:43.6 | There's an energy, a vibe that I just, I think it's hard to replace by anything else. |
| 4:49.8 | But there's also just terror, moments of terror and a lot of nightmares. |
| 4:57.3 | And to this day, I still have some. |
| 5:00.5 | Well, I think the corollaries to selling are very close where you've only got to control over |
| 5:08.0 | a certain amount of things. |
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