WHY THE BEST HAVE THIS APPROACH TO THEIR CAREER IN B2B SALES
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople.
Brian Burns
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ποΈ 10 March 2023
β±οΈ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us are employees where W2 in the U.S. that's the tax code for an employee, meaning |
| 0:11.0 | you show up and typically it's employee at will where both the employee can quit at any |
| 0:16.4 | time for any reason and the employer can terminate it at any time for any reason. |
| 0:23.4 | Isn't that nice? |
| 0:26.2 | But in sales, there's kind of this other category that nobody talks about because in sales, |
| 0:37.2 | you think you're an employee. |
| 0:40.4 | You are, legally you're an employee. |
| 0:43.5 | But you start to notice that you don't get treated like the other employees. |
| 0:49.2 | Now I noticed this when I first got into sales. |
| 0:52.8 | I went from being a kind of the pre-sales engineer type person before they called it that. |
| 0:59.6 | And then I worked my butt off to try and get into sales because I saw the cars that they |
| 1:04.9 | were driving, the income that they had. |
| 1:09.0 | Their base salary was my target salary. |
| 1:12.9 | So everything was gravey, I saw no downside until I got into it. |
| 1:18.9 | And I noticed that the people who used to really show me respect and take time out of their |
| 1:26.0 | day to see how I was and to talk to me now only talked about deals, only talked about |
| 1:33.9 | what I was doing for them. |
| 1:36.5 | There was no concern about me as a human being anymore. |
| 1:41.6 | And then I kind of hit me, I'm in sales now. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm only as good as my last quarter, my last deal, my last year. |
| 1:53.6 | And it kind of hurt at first, but the money made up for it. |
| 1:59.8 | And what I want to share today and I got Dustin back on the podcast is that this is not |
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