Clip from Episode 30: Getting to #1 Through Personal Relationships – Jelle den Dunnen of Bullhorn:

I’ll often tell my clients and prospects that if they’re not being smart I’ll just share that. But I’ll always try to tell them what they can learn from that and why they’re doing things that I think they’re not really smart in how we can do things differently. Because it’s important that you’re seen as a partner not as a supplier. That’s very important and really emphasize that a lot in my interaction with the people that I work with.

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Clip from Episode 30: Getting to #1 Through Personal Relationships – Jelle den Dunnen of Bullhorn:

I’ll often tell my clients and prospects that if they’re not being smart I’ll just share that. But I’ll always try to tell them what they can learn from that and why they’re doing things that I think they’re not really smart in how we can do things differently. Because it’s important that you’re seen as a partner not as a supplier. That’s very important and really emphasize that a lot in my interaction with the people that I work with.

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Clip from Episode 30: Getting to #1 Through Personal Relationships – Jelle den Dunnen of Bullhorn:

I would say that every loss is an opportunity to learn. I think that’s a catch phrase that we hear more frequently but definitely bear in mind with every single challenge or obstacle or loss that you face in a sales experience. What can you learn from this and I think one of the biggest things that I’ve learned throughout the years is being me to be honest I think that when I started being until I was quite young that I always wanted to position myself as very professional. So I always wore a suit and tie tried to address people very formally and you know that was only you know getting me in a fairly average performance to be honest. But it was only until like my manager of my previous employer really taught me that they need to do is I want to do business with Jelle. So I need to be personable. I need to be myself in the way that I communicate the way that I work with them. My personal traits I need to show them I can be informal because that’s who I am. And I think that has made a lot of impact in my relationships at work but also with the relationships that I have with clients and prospects.

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Clip from Episode 30: Getting to #1 Through Personal Relationships – Jelle den Dunnen of Bullhorn:

Once I’ve kind of recognized the deals that I have in my pipeline and I qualify them on you know how live they are how real they are. I also look at how much of a match are they not only with the technology that we provide but also with our company our culture and the way that we do things as well as that I do things personally because the personal relationship that you have with your prospects is very important as well. If you can’t get along then you won’t sell it to them eventually or it’s going to be a lot a lot of work. Versus how easy it can be when you have a good relationship so that’s also a very important criteria for me as well. In my day to day work I would say that every single day I look at my key deals and see what can I do for these deals today. What are the open items that I still need to do. So that’s kind of how I look on a day to day basis. On a per deal strategy. I think the interviews are most important that we do quite early on in the process to understand more about the business of the prospect itself their goals their challenges and where you can make an impact for them. And that’s what I used to recognize and decide what the right strategy is.

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Clip from Episode 30: Getting to #1 Through Personal Relationships – Jelle den Dunnen of Bullhorn:

I think that the most important thing for me to start with would be qualification of pipeline. It’s so easy for any sales rep to kind of you know start working on every opportunity that passes by. But what really makes people stand out what I’ve seen in my organization is the people that qualify their deals and pick their cherries to focus on. And that’s what I’ve been working on a lot in the last couple of years to really nurture down and get it right on what the key deals are for me. And I not only use that to qualify my pipeline, but also use that throughout the day in my day to day work as well. Yeah, and that’s really become a consistent theme on the show. I think that the best sellers are really focusing on the right deals. How are you. What what is that qualification process for you? How are you making those decisions? So we have a qualification mechanism in our company that we use but it’s also of course coming from experience and I think the most important thing is definitely you know look at the fact that I sell software is are they in an active buying cycle. Then second would be have they quantified the impact of not changing their technology to their business. And then of course you know are you really differentiating and it’s not just like us piece that you see yourself as as a company but what would the customer or prospect tell you what your differentiators are. Those are the most important things I would say.

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