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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How to Become a Better Salesperson

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Simply put, sales is a process to ultimately reach an agreement or understanding where all involved see the vision as beneficial. No matter what we are selling to others, whether it is a product, service, company, or yourself, mastering these five steps will lead you to the successes you desire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You do this SAT course. I will raise it 40%. Kids who get a 40% score higher gets this much more

0:06.5

in scholarship money, gets into these types of schools that get this much more salary. Yes,

0:10.8

you have to pay $1,200 for my course, but I guarantee you, by the time they're 50 years old,

0:15.5

this course has now netted $2.6 million minimum for it. And you see any reason you won't want to do it.

0:22.9

This is the flavor.

0:24.8

Tony Green was my inspiration to be great salesperson. Naturally, he's to me the greatest

0:29.2

ball hitter in the world. And when I was 12 years old, he owned the San Diego School of Baseball,

0:34.2

and it used to just amaze me not only would he take the time to give back and tell me that by helping

0:40.4

me, he was learning more about what he was doing, but more importantly, he would study the old

0:45.6

beta max green screen to see where this relief at hours. Why is he practicing this so much? He's

0:51.2

the greatest hitter, right? He got a 394 last season. You know, I couldn't get it. And then

0:56.3

when I got to law school, he became a salesperson and the stigma that was related to the salesperson.

1:01.0

All the things that naturally were inherent in that stigma of overselling back and selling line

1:06.3

manipulating and cheating, I learned that I had to fight my natural ability by practicing

1:13.5

being open-minded, practicing being open-minded. I only want to do business with open-minded people. Why?

1:20.3

Because I wasted so much time trying to convince close-minded people with something,

1:24.4

re-engineer, a vision of somebody who has a close mind. It takes a thousand times the energy

1:31.6

to re-engineer or to overcome a close-mind that it does to convince or to engineer an open-mind.

1:37.3

And today, as I'm an old man, like I said, because I am in the social realm, where before when I

1:44.0

was looking for help, right, something that takes radical humility and open mind, what was

1:49.3

interesting is there's only two or three people that somebody knew that could help me.

1:54.8

See, the math alone of having a thousand people on average that you can help me with. So,

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