A Conversation with Dale Dupree

Dale Dupree is the Founder and CSO of The Sales Rebellion. The status quo in sales is mediocrity and this is what Dale is rebelling against. By developing your own personal brand and improving upon inherent strengths instead of conforming to processes, both individual contributors and managers can interact with people on a more human level. Dale shares how his unique methodology aligns the way you operate with your authentic self, creates credibility, and makes sellers stand out to attract clients to start—and continue—to do business with you.  HIGHLIGHTS The Sales Rebellion rises up against the status quo of mediocrity  Anchor change on a desire to give people something better Building The Rebel Refuge platform Call volume is a useless metric for salespeople QUOTES Effective salespeople start with management Dale: "Our rebellion isn't just about going and saying you're doing it wrong. It's about helping people to take their strengths, what does make you a good manager, why did you get to this level in the first place, and how can [you] add that little spice, that pepper and that salt that's needed in order to lead your own rebellion and start to tap into your people better." Interrupt patterns with emotion Dale: "I didn't start pitching products, instead I started pitching more experiences. Hey, you're probably feeling this way at some point in time, whether right now or in the past or it's yet to come, but these are the things that I fix from an emotional standpoint because people buy emotionally more so than anything else. Intelligently, we use our brain to justify the emotion." Crush quota by creating long-lasting business partnerships Dale: "The Rebellion, what we teach and how we train, is to create that. Not just to say hey, let's hit your numbers but to say, let's hit your numbers and build literal relationships in the process that will then expand those numbers lightyears away from wherever you thought you would be with them. Because of that, it is a long game approach because you have to build credibility and trust." Results matter more than call volume as a metric Dale: "A sales trainer coming and saying you need to double your volume or you need to triple your volume and you need to follow this playbook to do it, I think really it just disconnects people further from sales because sales is not about how many people can I dial. It's about how many results do I get a day. And too many times in sales training have I seen people going on and basically saying do the work instead of get the result. And so, I think that's a mindset shift that people need to make." Find out more about Dale in the links below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/copierwarrior/ Website: https://www.thesalesrebellion.com/ More on Andy: Connect on LinkedIn Get Andy's new book "Sell Without Selling Out" on Amazon Learn more at AndyPaul.com Sponsored by: Revenue.io | Unlock exponential growth with an AI-powered RevOps platform | Revenue.io Scratchpad | The fastest way to update Salesforce, take sales notes, and stay on top of to-dos | Scratchpad.com Blueboard | World’s leading experiential rewards & recognition platform | Blueboard.com Explore the Revenue.io Podcast Universe: Sales Enablement Podcast RevOps Podcast Selling with Purpose Podcast