“Because you need to understand there is no hidden secret in sales” – Pascal Kaldenbach in today’s Tip 963
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Transcript
Scott Ingram: You’re listening to the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I’m your host, Scott Ingram. Today’s tip comes in the form of a clip from my latest interview on the Sales Success Stories podcast with Pascal Kaldenbach. Pascal is a consistent top performer who’s currently at over 200% of his number while leading a team of 10 who are collectively crushing their numbers at the same time. Here’s just a taste of that conversation:
Pascal Kaldenbach: I would rephrase it, our Winner’s Club. So we have a Winner’s Club in the company, will go to the Maldives this year. Should know them, like the island. I’m driving an Audi A7, which was my dream car. Always, I’m living in a nice house and I have the possibility to do holidays or vacation four times a year. And most important for me, I’m happy and content to wake up every day, including Mondays. So seriously, Scott, I’m not even 30 yet, but I’m already living my dream. So I would never, ever do something different.
But to answer your question more seriously, I would stop wasting too much time on trainers and growth to find the hidden secret, you know. So when I started to do things like the same way every day, I thought, like, you know, there need to be some secret. So I was trying to have the best email written with the best wording and send it out to the customer at the best timing. So I was reading a lot of studies, which is the best opening time for emails or how do you write the best emails. And I was spending a lot of time on my slide deck and from information diet, I was reading books from trainers and gurus who told you, like, just do twice as much as you do now and you will be successful, right? No pain, no gain. Do 100 calls per day, do 200 calls per day, just do more, just be better. And I would really not recommend to do any kind of this one.
So what I mean by that is I would be more clear about my information diet because you need to understand there is no hidden secret in sales, right? Sales is basically get the things done you need to do, listen to the customer, understand the customer, understand the processes and then just push through it. So in the past seven years, I’m in the company. I never, ever had this magic moment where I was standing in the front of ten managers and I had the best slide deck and the best rhetoric skills. And they were just standing up and clapping because of my outstanding performance. This is not how sales is working, right?
So sales is done in the background by sitting down, do your homework, understand the requirements of a customer, and put the customer into your centric of your daily business. So this is something I would definitely do different today. Be more careful and be more recognized about my information diet. Obviously, we will get to this topic a little bit later as well, so I can spend some comments on this one. I’m in a happy situation that I already mentioned. I onboard our new colleagues and I train them up as well. So I have the possibility to do things different, not for myself but for them. And the first task everybody gets in my team is basically they need to listen.
So every time a new colleague comes into our company, they’re basically just talking, talking, talking, how great they are, how great their performance is, and how great everything is. And they talk and talk and I basically tell them, please be quiet and try to understand the importance of listening. I tell them in every conversation you will have in the next two weeks, try to be as silent as possible and try to keep the conversation as long and valuable as possible. What I mean by that is it’s basically what we are doing, Scott, right now, just sit down, listen to somebody actively and then ask a nice and really good follow-up question, like you do always Scott, and just keep the conversation going right. And you will see how things suddenly change because people start to give you some insights. There will start to complain about things, so you really get into their point of view. And this will help you to work together with them, to get them to the solution they are looking for.
Scott Ingram: For the full interview check out episode 127 of the Sales Success Stories podcast, and of course we’ve got a link for you at DailySales.Tips/963 as well.
Once you’ve done that, be sure to come back tomorrow for another great sales tip. Thanks for listening!