Startup Selling: Talking Sales with Scott Sambucci

Today’s guest is Brian “I Help Startups Grow” Manning, he’s the Head of Growth at PatientPing which is a company in the HealthTech sector that connects health care providers and allows them to share information, coordinate care, and work together to get patients healthier faster.

Brian was also the CoFounder of Zocdoc's Enterprise Team and has been doing enterprise sales for 18+ years.

In this episode, we really focused on two main themes: Enterprise Sales and Sales Team Management. Just a few of the topics we covered include:

• The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when selling to big companies - The Sales Process vs. The Buy Process.
• Helping your buyers through their own "Buying Process"
• How enterprise sales is a lot like project management
• Being empathetic in your sales process.
• How to sell innovation.
• The Access Audit.
• Known Said/ Known Unsaid/ Unknown Problems.
• How to use scarcity to move the sale forward -- Creating FOMO.
• Sales management - From individual contributor to manager.
• How to build effective, and real, relationships with your team - 1:1s, weekly, monthly and quarterly strategies.
• Sharing failures to create confidence with the team.

Some of the books and resources that were mentioned by Brian:

• The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon
• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott

Where to find Brian on the Interwebs:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briancmanning/
• Personal Blog: https://www.briancmanning.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bcmanning