Episode 48

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Published on:

9th Sep 2021

Staying Grounded in Sales Selling Tens of Millions - Brandon Fluharty, VP of Strategic Account Solutions, LivePerson

Summary:

Brandon Fluharty is the VP of Strategic Account Solutions at LivePerson. He is a senior individual contributor for the organization focused on acquiring top tier, strategic enterprise accounts by enabling a major digital transformation centered around helping brands more easily communicate with their customers and employees at scale. He also uses his active role as a Strategic SaaS Seller to create a personal brand and content that helps elite sales professionals learn from successes and failures.

In his work he puts focus on avoiding burnout to achieve optimal results consistently, because, as he says, he fell into the trap of needing to hustle and grind to get to the top like many others in Enterprise SaaS sales.

This episode, you'll learn how someone selling over $10M in revenue a year stays grounded, how the money doesn't effect his approach, and how to structure your philosophy of sales to sustain you for the long term.

Key Moments:

4:00 - Why should kids look up to sales as much as professions like teachers, doctors, lawyers?

6:15 - Brandon's first conscious sale as a kid

15:05 - Human qualities in sales

21:05 - Developing an "Operating System" for consistent success. Avoiding burnout.

33:20 - Staying grounded, how to handle stress and sales tips for sales people and non-sales individuals

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About the Podcast

Sell By Being Human
On the Sell By Being Human podcast, award-winning sales professional Alex Smith provides the proven way to harness your innate human skills like empathy, curiosity, and kindness to learn how to sell and navigate the sales journey.
This is where human connection and sales meet. You may be someone whose success depends on influence, negotiation, and your ability to create change, but you may reject aggressive sales tactics. Maybe you feel stuck in corporate "autopilot," knowing your best asset is your genuine personality, but you struggle to use it to get what you want. Then this channel is for you.

It will teach you how to close the gap between wanting to be ethical and feeling pressured to sell aggressively. You’ll also learn actionable strategies for translating emotional intelligence into high-trust results. Join Alex and top guests, including NY Times bestsellers, keynote speakers, and global founders, as they prove that being truly human is the ultimate sales advantage.

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Alex Smith

Alex Smith is a seasoned sales professional and podcast host who champions a human-first approach to selling. With nearly two decades of experience, he explores how empathy, curiosity, and genuine connection drive influence in everyday life. Through his podcast, he highlights stories from people across all professions, showing that anyone can persuade and create impact simply by being human.