

Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount
Jeb Blount
From the author of Fanatical Prospecting and the company that re-invented sales training, the Sales Gravy Podcast helps you win bigger, sell better, elevate your game, and make more money fast.
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May 3, 2021 • 31min
Sales Fitness
If you are tired of being tired, you'll love this Sales Gravy Podcast episode.
Jeb Blount and Rachel Pitts (Women Your Mother Warned You About) offer tips for staying fit. For sales professionals, to out wit and out perform your competitors, you need to be physically fit because mental energy is limited by your physical energy.
Jeb and Rachel focus on the golden triangle of fitness: Sleep, Nutrition, and Motion
We want to hear from you. Let us know what you think about this episode – we love your comments and questions. Just send Jeb a text message at 1-706-397-4599 or CLICK HERE TO TEXT.

Apr 30, 2021 • 23min
Sales Process Pivot Points | Jeb Blount & Diane Helbig | Part Four
On this Sales Gravy Podcast episode Jeb Blount (Sales EQ) and Diane Helbig (Succeed Without Selling) discuss the power of mapping and uncovering sales process pivot points.
You will learn how these pivot points help bend win probability in your favor and offer important clues for when it may be time to walk away from a deal.
Listen to Part One – Selling Without Selling
Listen to Part Two – Intentional Empathy
Listen to Part Three - Sales is a Process

Apr 23, 2021 • 15min
Sales is a Process | Jeb Blount & Diane Helbig | Part Three
On this Sales Gravy Podcast episode Jeb Blount (Sales EQ) and Diane Helbig (Succeed Without Selling) discuss why sales is a process. You will learn about pre-call planning, the science of selling and why winging it on sales calls is wickedly stupid.
Listen to Part One - Selling Without Selling
Listen to Part Two - Intentional Empathy

Apr 15, 2021 • 10min
Intentional Empathy | Jeb Blount & Diane Helbig | Part Two
On this Sales Gravy Podcast episode Jeb Blount (Sales EQ) and Diane Helbig (Succeed Without Selling) discuss intentional empathy discuss and it is a meta-skill in complex sales.
Empathy is the key to stepping into your buyer's shoes, understanding their situation, and building relationships.
Yet, the best salespeople are naturally less empathetic and more self-centered. Therefore, to be more effective at closing complex sales, they must focus on and leverage intentional empathy.
Listen to Part One – Selling Without Selling
Listen to Part Three – Sales is a Process
Becoming Other-Focused
Jeb: The statistics and scientific data tell us that salespeople who are more self-centered over time, have a tendency to do better than people who are more empathetic. Now there's a reason for that.
That exists in sales, and even as a business owner, you need to be a little bit self-centered because you have to put all your effort into your business. How do we, as naturally self-centered people, shift into becoming other-focused?
Really Get To Know Your Prospect
Diane: If you believe that being interested in other people is how you're going to get to a goal, and that goal is to have really great business with people and companies you really like and can really help, you naturally want to do whatever it takes to make that happen. Long-term, that's going to be what's best for your business and best for you.
So then if you say, “The only way I'm going to know whether this is a relationship I should enter into is by learning about them. So I just have to make that happen.” Your focus has to be on discovery, investigation, archeology, whatever you want to call it, so that I can learn as much about them— not just about the problem they're having that I could solve— but about them, how they work, their philosophies, their values, etc.
Those things are all part of being in a business relationship. The more I know, the more I'm going to be able to identify how I can help them. And then I can shine because I'm going to be able to point it out to them. I'm really able to say, “This is what I heard, this is how we can help.”
It's hard to have objections when I really heard what you said and I’m matching everything that you told me. Then we're both walking down the same road. I think it comes down to really understanding what you want and the way to get there is by knowing as much as you possibly can about your prospect.
The Best Objection In Sales
Jeb: Yesterday, I was doing a training with a group of veteran salespeople and we were talking about objections. And one of the things I said to them is, “The best objection that you get is the one that never shows up.” And it doesn't show up because you did all the work up front and you got to know them.
As you got to know them, either the objections got on the table or the objections just went away and it's often when you go, “Hello, wanna buy?” you know, that's when the objections go up. So I think what you said about making sure that you're doing all of that homework is really important.
You're doing sales archeology and understanding them and as you pull all of that information in, you're matching your recommendations to what they see as both their success criteria and their evaluation criteria for doing business with you. And when you match it up, there's no objection. It just makes sense to do business together for both of you.
Build Trust And Show Up As A Professional
Diane: If it doesn't match up, it doesn't match up. So you say, “Listen, I'm not the best resource for you. Let me point you towards somebody who is.” And there's no weird conversation, but this is also why the salesperson has to ask a lot of questions and questions that are uncomfortable like the budget question or the decision-making question.
There are ways of asking those questions so that you just continue to build trust and show up as a professional. You show up as someone who really knows what they're doing and really understands that you need that information in order to be able to accurately propose a solution with that person or not.
The Shift From Outcome-Focused to Other-Focused Selling
Jeb: I made a statement earlier that salespeople who overperform have a tendency to be lower on the empathy scale, so they're more self-centered. And what you're saying is that we need to be more other-focused. When I say self-centered, I mean outcome-focused.
So when I'm in a meeting, I'm always thinking about the outcome. What's the next step? What am I getting to? What am I closing for? And that's one of the reasons why people who are more self-centered and less other-focused have a tendency to do better over time.
They're much more likely to advance the sale through the process. People who are high empathy and really other-focused when it comes down to asking for the next step, they're thinking, “Oh my God, I don't want to be too pushy.” So they end up with a lot of “call me maybe’s” and you know, “I'll get with you next week,” and things like that.
A Customer For Now or A Customer For Life?
One of the problems is that people who are more self-centric or lower on the empathy scale, work great in transactional sales.
So if I need to sell you something and it's a one-call close, probably the best attribute you can have is no empathy, close the deal. But when you're talking about building long-term relationships, when you’re talking about complex sales and spending a lot of money, and serving your customers over time, you can't live in that world.
All you're focused on is getting as much out of your customer in the shortest amount of time, with the least amount of emotional investment, and it just doesn't work. So you have to start getting intentional about being-other focused. In other words, before you walk into a conversation with a customer, you have to tell your brain to stop, listen, pay attention, get out of your own head.
Remember The Benefits
The way that I do that is I remind myself of the benefits. As you said, if I really listen, if I'm really doing that sales archeology, it helps me focus on what I really want.
Do I want to close the sale really quickly and burn the customer relationship? Or do I want a customer for life? Do I want to turn a small sale into something big? I made a sale in 2012, then that company spent more than $3 million with my company. It was a tiny sale back then. Focusing on that long-term relationship has paid off over and over for us.

Apr 13, 2021 • 11min
Succeed Without Selling | Diane Helbig & Jeb Blount | Part One
This Sales Gravy Podcast episode is part one of Jeb Blount's (Virtual Selling) conversation with Diane Helbig (Succeed Without Selling) about why for business owners, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals success in selling and business growth really isn't about "selling." Instead, when you focus on solving problems, that's when the real magic happens.
Listen to Part Two – Intentional Empathy
Listen to Part Three – Sales is a Process
We want to hear from you. Let us know what you think about this episode – we love your comments and questions. Just send Jeb a text message at 1-706-397-4599 or CLICK HERE TO TEXT.
Ps. You can access Sales Gravy University Here
Why Did You Choose To Write This Book?
Diane: The book is called Succeed Without Selling: The More You Think About Selling The Less You'll Sell. I decided to write it because so many salespeople and small business owners are, in my estimation, behaving badly because they are so focused on selling that they're not getting what they want. They're not getting the results that they want and it's frustrating.
And so I thought, this is what I teach when I do sales training. What if I could put it into a book and just tell them everything about sales mindset? You know, what happens when you do this, but what happens when you do that, with scripts and, and templates in the back of the book.
If I can just give them everything, hopefully, a bell will go off in their head and they'll start doing things differently and achieve better results.
So Why Does Being Successful in Sales Have Nothing To Do With Selling?
Diane: When salespeople are selling, they are thinking about themselves. They're thinking about the fact that they have to hit quota, that they have to get revenue, that they have to do all of these things. Their mindset is, “I need to convince you that you need what I have to sell. I have to be eloquent enough and say the right things. I have to be persuasive.”
They do it at networking events, they do it when they're in a sales meeting, they do it all the time. And the truth is that when salespeople behave that way, they don't get the sale because they're not listening. They're not matching what they have to what that person needs. They're not hearing what the situation is.
So that's why I say that it's not about selling. It's about solving, right? It's about connecting and making sure that it's a good fit because that's how you get long-term business relationships that serve your business for decades.
Sales Is Not About Selling, It's About Solving
Jeb: I totally agree with you. Not that long ago, I was doing training out in Oregon and one of the people in my class was an ex CIA agent. I was teaching some concepts out of Sales EQ around human influence frameworks.
And he grabbed me and said, “What's the difference between what you're teaching and what we were doing as CIA agents? Essentially, when we were bringing people in, we were using the same frameworks you're teaching to get people to turn over information or rat out someone else. And I said, “The human brain works the way the human brain works."
For example, if you listen to someone, it makes them like you more. It's just how we operate. And if they like you more and you listen to them, they're more likely to give you something because you made them feel good. I mean, that's just basic influence frameworks, but what you said is exactly how I explained it to him.
I said, “In your line of work, you were using these influence frameworks to manipulate people into giving you what you wanted. And in my line of work, I help people, and I solve problems."
"I'm Not The Right Fit For You"
Jeb: The very last thing I want to do is sell someone something, or do something for someone that they don't want or don't need. And that doesn't mean that I couldn't because I'm pretty good at influencing people and persuading people. I could certainly do that. I could go out and sell things to people that they didn't need, but I never do that.
It's a normal thing for me and my business to turn customers away and say, “We're the wrong fit for you. You should not do this because you're going to spend money with me and you're not going to get the outcome that you desire." And I've always led with that. And I believe that people know there's sincerity in that. What’s so funny about it is when you tell them, “I'm the wrong fit for you,” they start trying to figure out how you can be a fit for them.
Diane: That is so true! Exactly. I had someone say to me, once I said, “Listen, I'm not the right resource for you.” She said, “Well, I sure hope you are because I trust you.” And I said, “Well, then you're going to have to trust me when I tell you I am not the right resource for you.” It's exactly what you say. And those people will refer you to people because you're honest.
People Gravitate Towards Salespeople Who Don't Sell
Jeb: Exactly right. You're honest. There’s a local place where I live called C&C Tire, we only take our cars there because we trust Tommy and he’s honest. If he can’t fix it, he won’t say, “Yeah I can fix it.” And then you spend money with him. He'll say this isn't going to happen here, let me get you someone that can do that.
Or if you come in and say, “I need this fixed. Cause I think this is the problem.” He'll say, “Nah, it's a $2 part. You don't have this problem.” And he's always been that way. If you look at his business, there are people waiting in line to get him to work on their cars because he's not trying to sell you something that you don't need.
Diane: And because we are so used to mechanics selling us things we don't need that, he’s a gem, right? So the salespeople who don't sell are the ones that people gravitate toward because they know they're going to be told the truth. It's a total integrity thing.
And I'll add something to what you were talking about, which is when you convince somebody they need what you have, it's a really bad relationship. And neither of you like it. So why would you do it? You're going to end up spending time with someone that it's just difficult all the time.
The Gangrene of Business Relationships
Jeb: If I sell you something that you don't need and you realize that I did that, then you resent me. Maybe you’re a small business. I’ve been in this position before where I needed a sale or I needed to get a deal done.
I would lower my price, or add on services in order to convince someone that I could help to do business with me. But down the road, as my business grew, I started resenting that customer because I felt like they were taking advantage of me.
Resentment leads to contempt, which is the gangrene of business relationships. It will rot them out at the core until there's a point where you cannot save the relationship. There won't be any referrals, you don't like each other, and it almost always ends badly.
So when your focus is on solving rather than selling, you only solve problems you can solve. You solve the problems you can solve at a price point that allows you to provide the service that the person is expecting you to deliver down the road, post-sale.

Apr 3, 2021 • 7min
God Uses Broken Things | How to Grow From Adversity
On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount focuses on brokeness and the two common mindsets of highly successful people and how to grow from adversity.
This past week I stumbled on this quote passage from Vance Havner.
God uses broken things: broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength and broken people to do great things.
We have all been broken in some way, no matter what your path, no matter where you came from, no matter where you started, no matter where you finished, no matter how rich you are, how poor you are, everyone at some level has been broken.
That's good news because as human beings, brokeness binds us together. It's the one thing that we all have in common.
When we have faced that adversity and we have grown from it, is a story that we can tell other people. It's something we have that's part of us that we can share, and we can help other people with.
One of the things I've noticed recently is that there are a lot of people out there that are doing everything possible to avoid being broken, avoid adversity, and avoid even being bent.
They avoid pain and they shy away from obstacles. This is a mistake because adversity - being broken - is our greatest teacher. It is through the crucible of adversity that we become stronger.
Transformation
Sometimes we're so broken that it transforms us. It changes us. We come back from that deep pain, different than who we were before.
Sometimes it opens up our eyes so that we can truly see. Other times it opens up our heart so that we can truly feel and love. That's the power of brokenness.
God uses broken things.
The Two Most Important Mindsets
I've had the privilege of traveling to every continent on the globe except Antarctica. Along the way I've met some incredible people from all walks of life. What I've learned about successful people, is that ultimately they share two mindsets in common.
First, they believe that there is a higher power in their lives that put them on Earth for a purpose, and they're supposed to fulfill that purpose. In other words, they believe that they're supposed to be successful in their walk in life.
The second thing they believe is that everything happens for a reason. This is the strongest of the two because this mindset gives you strength. This mindset frees you from the chains of victimhood.
This mindset that everything happens for a reason, allows you to learn from being broken.
Learn from adversity, learn from pain, learn from the bad things that are going to happen to you; and trust me, bad things are going to happen to you. You will be broken again and again and again.
The Choice
What successful people realize is that this is just part of walking through life and you have a choice about how you view this brokenness.
If it makes you a victim, you learn nothing. It holds you down, holds you back, and leads to misery and suffering.
On the other hand, if you believe that God (or your personal higher power) uses broken things on purpose, then you ask to most uplifting question: "What am I supposed to learn from this?"
Sometimes what you learn is that you were broken because you were on the wrong path and that you need to get back to your purpose. In other situations, it's a signal that you need to make a quick course correction. What you were doing wasn't working. Try something new.
Sometimes being broken gets you fired up. It's becomes the fuel and the motivation to get back up, dust yourself off, and run back into the game.
God uses broken things, broken soul to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength and broken people to do great things.
Ps. You can access Sales Gravy University Here

Mar 28, 2021 • 9min
How to Balance Prospecting Activity with Account Management
On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Fanatical Prospecting) answers a listener's question about how to effectively balance prospecting for new logos with serving and managing existing accounts.
Balance Prospecting and Account Management
Maggie is a member of my insider group, and she asked me a pretty important question about how to balance prospecting and account management.
“I'm a top salesperson, and I want to stay on top. But one of the things about my job is that I have to manage and service my existing accounts, and I have to go out and look for new logos and new opportunities. And the more business that I sell, the harder it is for me to prospect to go find new opportunities so that I can sell more."
If in your sales job, you have to go hunt new accounts and you have to manage the accounts that you go out and close, then Maggie's question makes a lot of sense. It's hard to be a hunter and a zookeeper at the same time.
Going out, prospecting, facing rejection, knocking on doors, picking up the phone, and calling people is completely different than servicing your accounts, upselling, cross-selling, and retaining the business that you have.
This is one of the key reasons why people struggle to balance prospecting with account management.
Prospecting Sucks
The truth is, in most cases, you struggle to strike a balance because prospecting sucks and you don't want to do it. It's a whole lot easier to call up an existing account, solve their problems, do customer service, and upsell and cross-sell with people that already know you than it is to pick up the phone and call an invisible stranger.
It's a whole lot easier to call a friend than to call someone that will probably reject you, because that's what happens in prospecting. You get a lot of rejection. So you say that you struggle with balance, but the reason that you're struggling is that you don't have any balance. You spend all of your time managing accounts and none of your time prospecting.
Next, you procrastinate and put off prospecting. You find every excuse not to prospect. Having an account base gives you really good excuses not to prospect, so you don't. The need to prospect and the need to fill up your pipeline begins to add up.
You Can't Do All of Your Prospecting At Once
Your sales manager is saying, “Hey, you have to go find me some new business,” and you're not making the commissions that you want to make. There's a lot of pressure on you. So suddenly you're faced with, “Oh my goodness gracious, I have to prospect.” Then you try to pile all of your prospecting into one day.
Desperately, you try to do it all at one time. That's when you start to run into big problems because you have the demands of your existing account base and you have to prospect. And nobody wants to spend an entire day prospecting because as I said earlier, prospecting sucks. Suddenly, you're overwhelmed with this big old pile of prospecting that you have to do.
So you don't prospect. Instead, you go back to account management, which makes the problem worse. Because you're overwhelmed and stressed out, you feel out of balance.
You start looking for an easy button solution to a problem that, if you're honest with yourself, you created. Not because of your workload, but because you were avoiding prospecting in the first place.
Prospect Every Single Day
The key is that you need to prospect a little bit every day. And when you do a little bit of prospecting every single day, you begin to take advantage of the cumulative impact of all those little bits of activity.
Breaking up your prospecting activity into little bits that you do every single day also makes it easier. It's a lot more palatable to do the things that you don't want to do in small chunks than to save it all up and do it at one time.
The first thing you want to do is begin blocking time out for prospecting. That means that it needs to be on your calendar. You need an actual time block on your calendar every single day for prospecting.
Account management is going to consume most of your day, spending time with your existing customers. Those customers are going to be calling you. They're going to be interacting with you. They're going to be sending emails to you. So the best time to schedule your prospecting block is at the very beginning of the day.
Front-Load Your Day With A Prospecting Block
If you wait, you will never do it. First of all, you don't want to do it, so it's easy to procrastinate. And second, because so many things are going to be hitting you every time you sit down to prospect, another problem is going to show up and you're going to go chase the problem for an existing customer rather than prospect.
So front-load your day with prospecting. That means the very first thing you do in the morning is prospect. The next thing you want to think about is how much prospecting you actually have to do. And if you're really honest with yourself, it's not that much.
How Much Prospecting Do I Need to Do Everyday?
In Maggie's case, for example, she's a top salesperson and she's got a full book of accounts that she's managing.
Those accounts are putting commissions in her pocket and they're producing revenue. So what she needs to do is sell enough new business to make sure that she's covering any accounts that she loses and she closes enough new business to continually grow her account base and stay on top of the sales rankings.
So the truth is, for Maggie and most salespeople who have to balance account management and prospecting, you only need to dedicate about an hour a day of prospecting to do all of those things. When I say dedicate, I mean actually prospecting with your head down during that block of time.
You're not researching. You're not getting coffee. You're not talking to friends. You're not texting people. You're not answering your email. You're not answering your phone. You're not taking incoming calls and you're not watching cat videos. You are prospecting. You have to dedicate the time to prospecting. If you really think about this, it's not that hard.
Discipline, Sacrifice, and Mindset
In fact, it's really not even about balancing account management and prospecting. It's about having the discipline to manage your day. Discipline is sacrificing what you want now for what you want most.
And if what you want most is to stay on top of the rankings, to produce new business, to earn more money, and to gain the praise and the adoration of your leaders and your peers, then simply tap into that desire to shift your mindset and do a little bit of prospecting every single day.
We want to hear from you. Let us know what you think about this episode – we love your comments and questions. Just send Jeb a text message at 1-706-397-4599 or CLICK HERE TO TEXT.
P.S. You can access Sales Gravy University Here

Mar 22, 2021 • 9min
Coronavirus Talk #10: On Future-Proofing Your Sales Career
On my final Coronavirus talk, I discuss what happens post-pandemic, the power of blending, and what you need to do right now to now to future-proof your sales career.
The Pipe Is Life
A year ago, I made the first coronavirus talk about outbound prospecting. No matter when, where, or how as a salesperson, your number one job is to go out and fill up the pipeline. A lot of people were asking questions at the outset of the coronavirus about whether or not they should prospect at all.
And if we take a look at the last year, the salespeople who kept the pipeline full, crushed it, and salespeople across all industries had the year of their life because they kept prospecting. Salespeople who were prospecting by foot and in-person moved to the telephone. People that were using the telephone found that because they were working at home and not driving as much, they could double up on their prospecting compared to the year before.
A year ago, prospecting consistently was the most important thing that you could do. And today, it is still the most important thing that you can do because the pipe is life. The number one reason why people fail in sales is that they fail to prospect. It's just that simple.
We've been through a lot this year. But as we start looking to the future, as salespeople we've got to think, “How do we future-proof ourselves?”
There's A Whole New Playing Field In Sales
The one thing that is absolutely true about the last year is that we compressed about 10 years’ worth of innovation into a period of about 12 months. Salespeople everywhere woke up to a new playing field.
This playing field was being driven primarily by buyers because buyers had changed. The new playing field was, “I'm not going in person, I'm going to be on a video. I've got to learn how to leverage an omnichannel approach for connecting with my customers and moving deals through my pipeline.”
What top sales professionals discovered over the last year is something called blending.
How To Win With Blending
Blending is choosing the communication channel at any given point in the sales process that gives you the highest probability of achieving your sales outcome at the lowest cost of time, energy, and money. This is the formula for the future: choosing the communication channel that gives you the highest probability of getting the outcome that you desire, at any given place in the sales process, with any given customer, at the lowest cost of time, energy, and money.
Essentially, it’s efficiency + effectiveness = productivity. It’s that simple. So as you start thinking about future-proofing yourself, the number one thing you have to do is start mastering every single communication channel, whether it's direct messaging, the phone, video, email, snail mail, you name it.
It's the ability to use every possible way to connect with someone. Even with social media or smoke signals if you have to. Mastering all of those channels so that you gain a competitive edge. You can meet your buyers where they are and blend these different communication channels so that you can have more conversations with people.
We Can Talk To More People In Less Time
If you just go back to what I said earlier, a year ago, I talked about prospecting because one of the truths about sales is that the more people you talk with, the more you're going to sell. But because we have all these different channels to use, now it makes sense that we can talk to more people in less time, which puts more in the pipeline. That means that we're going to sell a lot more in the long run.
This is future-proofing. Sadly, over the last year, I've noticed that there are two basic types of salespeople. There are wishbones and there are rainmakers. The wishbones are the folks that were hoping and wishing that things would go back to the way they were. There are people right now looking at the end of the pandemic, which is in front of us and it's going to end very soon, who are saying, “I can just go back to the way I was before.”
But let me give you a couple of stats.
Why We Will Never Go Back To "Normal" in Sales
McKinsey did a study of B2B sales and they found that 77% of customers prefer virtual when they're dealing with an existing vendor. 71% of buyers say that they prefer a virtual interaction at the top of the sales funnel when they're evaluating a new vendor. 76% of buyers said that if they have a choice between a telephone call and a video call, they want a video call.
What buyers are telling us is that they like virtual because it's fast, it's easy, and it's frictionless. And the salespeople who are adopting this new technology, they're the ones that are owning the future.
The wishbones who wish things didn't have to change, the wishbones who think maybe things will go back to the way they were are deluding themselves.
And in sales, you cannot be delusional and successful at the same time. To the wishbones who are hoping and wishing that they can go back to their comfort zones: it's never going to go back, ever. We have changed forever. So in order to future-proof yourself, what you have to begin to do is invest and start learning.
Sales Is About Probabilities
I use a simple formula called Adopt, Adapt, Adept. Adopt means that I'm constantly looking for new technology, new ways to communicate, new ways to interact with my customers, new ways to sell, new ways to make myself better at the craft of selling.
And then I adapt those new ways to my way of going to market, to my customer base, to my industry. And so I don't just take everything and say, “Well, there's one black and white way of doing things.” Because there's not, right? Sales is about probabilities.
I want to choose things and use things that give me the highest probability in any given situation. So I adapt it to my particular way of doing things. And then I practice and practice and practice until I become adept at it.
The Difference Between Rainmakers and Wishbones
That's what rainmakers do. Rainmakers practice. They put it into practice and you know, they're going to fail. That's okay. You're going to make a mistake here and there. That's okay. They keep trying.
Wishbones? They try it once and it doesn't work, then they just go back to the way things were before. The word of the day is future-proofing. Future-proof, yourself. This is what I believe. There has never been a better time ever in the history of the sales profession to be in the sales profession.
We have so many things in front of us and so many innovations that are coming our way. We have so many ways to connect with buyers. Salespeople who step into this future, step into this innovation, they're going to own the world. They're going to be the ones that are helping buyers and cashing huge commission checks.
They're going to be the ones on the top of the ranking report at their company and their sales organization. Future-proofing is the word of the day.
Ride the Wave to Future Success
So as a sales professional, right now, as we start looking toward the end of the pandemic, instead of looking backward, and thinking, “Maybe things will go back to the way they were,” I want you to think about moving forward.
And I want you to think about the explosion of innovation that is going to be coming your way, the digital transformation that is going to be rolling over. It's like a tsunami. And I want you to get on your surfboard and I want you to ride that wave because you, the sales professionals, the rainmakers that adopt these new techniques, you're the ones that will own the future.
And you are the ones that will take sales to a completely new level.
More Coronavirus Talk Episodes:
Prospecting Coronavirus Talk #1
Excuses Coronavirus Talk #2
The Gift of Time Coronavirus Talk #3
Confusion Coronavirus Talk #4
Fear and Worry Coronavirus Talk #5
On Mourning Coronavirus Talk #6
Gratitude Coronavirus Talk #7
On New Possibilities #8
On Mental and Physical Resilience #9

Mar 19, 2021 • 44min
How Jeb Blount Jr Learned to Love Sales
On this fun Sales Gravy Podcast episode, Sales Gravy Master Trainer Gina Trimarco and Account Executive Jeb Blount Jr discuss how they learned to love selling. From cold calling, to losing deals, and all of the challenges in between, you'll love the story of how a young college grad finds his way in the sale profession.
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Feb 21, 2021 • 22min
When You Are Coachable People Will Invest in You
On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount is joined by the Women Your Mother Warned You About - Gina Trimarco & Rachel Pitts.
We get behind the scenes with the WYMWYA podcast, learn how Gina and Rachel almost broke up, the value of getting a coach, and why when you are coachable, other people will invest in helping you reach your goals.
We want to hear from you. Let us know what you think about this episode – we love your comments and questions. Just send Jeb a text message at 1-706-397-4599 or just CLICK HERE TO TEXT.
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