What Shelby Haas-Sapp has said about Sales psychology

Haas-Sapp argues that intrinsic motivation, rather than personality type, is the main trait that makes someone good at sales.

“I think the main trait of like what makes somebody good is intrinsic motivation, right?”

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Haas-Sapp contends salespeople must enter every encounter believing it will be the sale, even after repeated rejections.

“But you have to go into every single encounter thinking, this is the sale. This is the person that's going to buy from me”

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Haas-Sapp argues that selling with logic alone leads buyers to defer, so emotion must be used to create a buying atmosphere.

“you can't sell with logic because then a buyer is going to make a logical decision”

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Haas-Sapp generalizes that young buyers purchase a dream while older buyers purchase relief from a pain point.

“young people are buying the dream and older people are buying a pain point”

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Haas-Sapp frames rejection as a math equation in which a known closing ratio means early refusals predict upcoming sales.

“So if your closing ratio is let's say 40%, that means every 10 people you talk to, you're going to close four of them”

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