I am sure you have heard the saying “Just Do It” well in this episode we have an ever better saying…

In this episode of Monday Sales Coach we are also going to talk about Arguably The Most Important Job In Sales.

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Doing versus Keep Doing

You can’t get too far from the social media experts who tell you to, hustle, grind, put in the work, just do it. It’s a pretty popular message and it makes sense. You can’t finish unless you start.

But, doing isn’t as hard as keep doing.

It’s easy to write a blog post, it’s not easy to write one every day for a week or a year.

It’s easy to read a good book, it’s not easy to read a book a week/month for a year.

It’s easy to eat healthy over the weekend, it’s not easy to keep eating healthy.

It’s easy to go to the gym once or twice, it’s not easy to keep going to the gym.

It’s easy to start a lot of things, it’s just not so easy to keep doing them.

We spend billions of dollars and billions of hours every year starting things. Imagine if we kept doing the things we started. The hustle and grind

The hustle and grind are in the keep doing category. It’s the ugly, boring, getting your hands dirty, while you struggle to keep going. It’s not just doing it, it’s doing it over and over for a long time.

Maybe it’s time we switch from just do it, to keep doing it. That appears to be the part we struggle with.

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The Most Important Job In Sales

Sales Development Reps Your Job Is Arguably The Most Important Job In Sales

I work with a lot of SDR’s (also called BDR’s, Inside Sales Reps and more) and one of the things I often see is how many of them can’t wait to get promoted to account executive. For many SDRs, the role of setting appointments and being the first line of qualification is less than glamorous. Often, it’s not just the SDR’s who feel this way; it often pervades an entire organization’s culture, perpetuated by management.

SDRs are seen as the grunts too often, and that’s a shame, it needs to stop.

The world of sales has changed dramatically in the past ten years and at the center of this shift is the addition of sales development reps. These reps are responsible for picking the good from the bad AND teeing up the good.

It’s this latter part that I focus on most and use to differentiate great SDRs from average SDRs.

Whether from a marketing download or a from a cold call, the job of the SDR is to convince a prospect to have a meeting, to sit through a demo, etc.

It’s the SDR’s job to create demand, enough demand that the prospect is not only willing to meet with a salesperson but wants to meet with a salesperson.

There is a big difference between willing to meet and wants to meet and the best SDRs get prospects to want to meet with your sales people.

Ya don’t think there is a big difference between wants and willing? How different do you think the call is gonna go if the prospect was willing to meet with you vs. wants to meet with you. Yeah, I thought so. I’ll take wants to any day of the week.

Getting prospects or buyers to want to meet starts with recognizing that the meeting, the demo or whatever action you want the buyer to take IS the sale.

Great SDR’s understand that the meeting they are trying to get the prospect to take is their closed deal. It’s their sale and therefore, like any other sale, they have to provide enough value that the prospects says; yes,