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It's a Good Life

Quick Cut: S2E225 Mastering the Art of Sales

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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“Selling is an art. When done right it’s a craft; when mastered it’s a beautiful experience.” — Brian Buffini

Many people have a negative connotation of sales, usually because of unskilled, unprofessional, and even unkind transactional experiences. In this episode, Brian describes what good selling is, what it’s not, and how you can excel at it. You’ll learn why sales is a noble profession, why it should be treated as a contact sport, and how you can transform your sales career with just three core principles. By the end of the episode, you will understand why – once it is developed, grown, and mastered – the skill of sales is a game changer in every aspect of business and life.

 

Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:


“Sales is the act of selling something.” — Merriam-Webster


“Most people in sales are in a reaction – they want people to buy from them, they don’t want to sell anything.” — Brian Buffini


“A bad salesperson gets you to make a decision you don’t want to make when you don’t want to make it.” — Brian Buffini


“A good salesperson helps you to make a decision you need to make when you need to make it.” — Brian Buffini


“The free market does not exist without the exchange of goods and services. The only way the exchange of goods and services happens is with sales.” — Brian Buffini


“Never be ashamed to be called a salesperson.” — Brian Buffini


“A salesperson is someone who enthusiastically promotes what they have.” — Brian Buffini


“I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something I sell it, and I sell it hard.” — Estée Lauder


“People love to buy – give them the opportunity.” — Brian Buffini


“Face to face, voice to voice. That’s where the magic is.” — Brian Buffini


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0:00.0

Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.

0:10.0

Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.

0:15.0

Well, I'm fired up to talk to you today about sales.

0:21.0

Mastering the art of sales, and master and arts are normally not affiliated with the dirty, filthy capitalistic practice of sales.

0:32.0

But I want to share with you that selling is an art,

0:35.0

when done right it's a craft, and when mastered it's a beautiful experience.

0:40.0

Sales by its definition, Mr Webster says it's the action of selling something.

0:45.2

Here's the reason why I read it to you today. The word action. You see most people who

0:50.8

are in some form of sales they are in a reaction they want people to

0:56.1

buy from them they don't want to sell anything and the reason being is their

0:59.4

concept of what sales is and so we're to strip all that away today, get to the basics

1:05.3

of what it actually is, what it's not, and then how to be great at it. So we're going to talk

1:10.1

about three points today. That's kind of what I like to do and so the first

1:14.6

major point is sales is a noble profession the second is sales is a contact

1:20.3

sport and third we're going to cover the three questions that every client has.

1:26.6

So let's talk about why so many people have a negative connotation. Here's what a bad salesperson

1:31.2

does. A bad salesperson gets you to make a decision you

1:35.3

don't want to make, when you don't want to make it. That's what a bad salesperson does.

1:40.3

They get you to make a decision you don't want to make when you don't want to make it.

1:46.0

What's a good salesperson do? Good salesperson helps you, doesn't get you, they help you make a decision.

1:52.0

You need to make when you need to make it. A good

1:56.0

salesperson helps you make a decision you need to make when you need to make it.

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