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The Unsold Mindset

Redefining What It Means to Sell

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What if the greatest salespeople on the planet are the opposite of who you think they are?

Everyone sells, every day. It's why the most successful people are better than most at selling themselves, their ideas, or their products and services.

Yet when people hear the word sales they think of an overly confident, articulate extrovert (at best) or a pushy, know-it-all huckster (at worst). Because of these misperceptions, when we find ourselves in a situation where we need to sell, we feel compelled to put on the persona of a "good salesperson." But there's a disconnect between who we think good salespeople are and who they actually are. In any room, they're not the most self-confident, they're the most self-aware. They're not the most sociable, they're the most socially aware. And they don't succeed in spite of obstacles, they succeed because of obstacles.

Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown sought out some of the most successful people from all walks of life, including CEOs, entrepreneurs, doctors, trial lawyers, professional athletes, agents, military leaders, artists, engineers, and countless others in hopes of understanding why these people are so extraordinary. Colin and Garrett found that, as different as all these incredible people were, they all had an eerily similar approach to selling. It didn't matter if they were perceived as optimists or pessimists, logical or emotional, introverted or extroverted, jovial or stoic—they were all unsold on what it meant to sell and unsold on who people expected them to be.

The Unsold Mindset reveals a counterintuitive approach not just to selling but to life. It's a journey toward an entirely new mindset—the greatest sellers on the planet aren't successful because of what they do, they're successful because of what they think. Being a good person and a good salesperson aren't mutually exclusive. The Unsold Mindset will change the way you think about selling and the way you think about yourself.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 7, 2022
      A salesperson doesn’t have to be an untrustworthy antagonist with a glib line and a sweaty palm, according to this zippy outing from Coggins and Brown, cocreators of the University of Southern California’s Sales Mindset for Entrepreneurs course. The best salespeople, they suggest, have an “unsold mindset,” which means they refuse stereotypes about “who they are supposed to be, how they are supposed to act, and what they are supposed to think.” Drawing on interviews with high-powered salespeople, Coggins and Brown offer nine core concepts of effective selling: there’s intentional ignorance (giving up on the idea that one has to know everything about the product they’re selling), treating customers like a teammate rather than acting like their coach, and practicing “pathological optimism.” The jovial advice puts a palatable spin on the profession, and the authors’ examples bring home their point that “there isn’t one right way to succeed”: Yellow Tail wine disrupted the industry by offering something accessible rather than high-quality, for example, and musician Donald Glover impressed an agent with his vulnerability as well as enthusiasm. Readers who need sales skills for career success should give this a look. Agent: Lisa DiMona, Writers House.

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