Talking Sales Humor & Lifting Kilts w/ Jon Selig- S5Ep14

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Jon Selig’s 12 years in sales were a well-paid internship for his career in stand-up comedy. Today, he trains sales teams to highlight their prospects’ challenges though comedy writing, empowering them to be credible and memorable.

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Pay Attention To:

The importance of connecting to the people we work with as humans – and how humor can do that.
Why our prospects are getting dehumanized when they are just an entry on a CRM list.
Human connection allows people to own-up to their real challenges.
Sales and stand-up are more closely aligned them people think and rely on paying attention and working the numbers.
“If you bomb in stand up, you lose your dignity. If you bomb in sales you lose your job.”
Why this push for humanizing sales meets resistance when you get to the everyday work in a sales organization.