Charisma matters more than technique in sales. Mark says successful salespeople are both interesting and genuinely interested in others. One salesman built rapport with doctors by finding common ground at dinners before discussing products.
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Charisma is the difference maker, nothing else. If you look at every single person who's been successful in this company, every single person who has crossed the finish line, changed the world, it's because they showed up with a level of charisma.
And that goes back to Mark's point about being interesting and interested. I, I've sat at been at, you know, I don't know how many thousands of, you know, dinners with doctors, and they know why they're there. They know why you're there. They know at some point there's going to be some degree of some sort of, you know, product-related discussion. But most of the time you're just sort of circling in conversation to find a topic that is not related to the product that there's some common knowledge on.