Alan Versteeg

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2023 by Alan Versteeg · across every show →

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Dec 19, 2023 negative
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Versteeg: Sales scaling issues stem from lack of value clarity, not training
“So often I say is that it's not a sales training challenge often. It's about understanding the clarity of our value and baking that in to how we operate as a business.”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 18:20 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Dec 19, 2023 positive
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Versteeg: Proactive objection prevention builds more trust than reactive handling
“What I know works better, not my view, it's scientifically known in psychology, is You want to run what I call empathetic objection prevention, meaning if I'm about to partner with you, the better you could read my mind, the more I trust you.”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 23:44 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Dec 19, 2023 positive
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Versteeg: Sales scripts are guardrails until reps master core value ingredients
“The script is your initial recipe. It's when you're a little bit struggling, where to take the conversation, he has a guideline. This is just your guardrails in terms of your conversation. But what eventually happens with any chef, they've got the ingredients …”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 28:50 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Dec 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Versteeg: Top sales earners are defined by aligned values, not methodology
“The evidence that the top performing earners in sales in the world sell with noble purpose. You can't predict their personalities. You can't predict them by sales process. You can't predict them by methodology. What you can see is aligned values.”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 39:05 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Dec 19, 2023
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Versteeg: The only reason to measure any metric is to change behavior
“The only reason we should measure anything is to change it. We shouldn't measure something to talk about it because it doesn't change it.”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 33:54 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Dec 19, 2023 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Versteeg: Extroverts and introverts differ by only 0.03% in sales success
“And by the way, the only difference between extroverts and introverts in sales success is 0.03%. So let's just debunk that myth. There's no difference in whether you have the gift of the gab or whether you're silent.”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 39:49 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Dec 19, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Versteeg: Training methodology alone does not shift sales performance curves
“And they still, with all this history of data, No evidence that we move the bell curve on sales when we only train methodology. Methodologies are tweaks to a good values system.”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 41:28 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Dec 19, 2023 positive
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Versteeg: Outbound prospecting requires treating prospects like clients immediately
“When you're prospecting, when you're outbound, that effectively what you're trying to do is you're trying to treat the client upfront, like a client, not like a prospect or a suspect or a number or a data point. So I love the approach you took where you lead w…”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 9:29 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
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