Jeb Blount
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Influence and Persuasion Techniques Expert

Jeb Blount Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Interpersonal Relationships, Sales and Selling Techniques, Leadership Development
- Best Sellers
- People Buy You, Power Principles
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Publisher
- Affiliation
- SalesGravy.com, Reach Sales Ad Network, Sales Gravy Press, Business Expert Publishing, Sales Leadership Group, Quick and Dirty Tips
Jeb Blount, CEO of SalesGravy.com, is an author andspeaker who has lived in the sales trenches his entire career. Audiences and meeting planners rave about his energy, enthusiasm, and down-to-earth style. As a sales rep, sales manager, director of sales, and vice president of sales, he won virtually every sales award available including Account Executive of the Year, Sales Manager of the Year, National Account Manager of the Year, six time Presidents Club winner, and several Executive Leadership awards. Audiences relate to Jeb because when it comes to sales, business and developing relationships he has “been there, done that, and has the t-shirts to prove it.”His powerful and engaging messages keep audiences on the edge of their seats and asking for more.
Speaking Press and Media
Thought Leader
Jeb is a respected thought leader on sales and sales leadership. He is the bestselling author of three books, People Buy You: The Real Secret to what Matters Most in Business, Sales Guy’s 7 Rules for Outselling the Recession, and Power Principles. He is host of the popular Sales Guy podcast on the Quick and Dirty Tips network. His audio programs have been downloaded in excess of 4 million times. He publishes the weeklySales Gravy eMagazine which is subscribed to by more than 100,0000 sales professionals and sales leaders. In addition, he has written more than 100 articles on the sales profession. He is a regular guest lecturer for the University of Central Florida School of Business and a frequent speaker at the MIT Sales Conference. He provides coaching and mentorship for students participating in the National Collegiate Sales Competition and a judge at the International MBA Sales Competition sponsored by the MIT sales club.
Sales Entrepreneur
In 2006 Jeb founded SalesGravy.com. Often called “the Facebook of the Sales Profession,” Sales Gravy is the largest community of B2B Sales Professionals outside of LinkedIn. Sales Gravy boasts more than 30,000 pages of articles, videos, and audio programs from more than a hundred of the world’s most well known speakers, authors and thought leaders in sales and business. Today Sales Gravy is the most popular sales website on the internet, receiving more traffic that all of its competitors combined.
In 2007 he founded Sales Gravy Jobs which quickly became the #1 ranked sales specific job board in North America (source: Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast). More than 3500 employers including ADP, Verizon Wireless, Ryder, Edward Jones, Allstate, Merck, AT&T and FedEx use Sales Gravy Jobs to Find Better Salespeople™. Today Sales Gravy Jobs is the world’s leading resource for sales talent recruitment and offers career advertising, employer branding, guaranteed qualified applicants, on demand video interviewing, and full service recruitment services.
In 2008 he founded the vertical advertising network, Reach Sales.com. Today Reach Sales is the preferred choice of advertisers who which to reach the sales and sales leadership demographic. Delivering advertising on a network of 45 popular sales content websites Reach Sales has a larger audience tha Selling Power Magazine, Sales and Marketing Magazine, and Sales Management XP Magazine combined.
His Sales Leadership Group provides training and consulting services to sales organizations including sales force deployment strategies; recruiting, hiring, on boarding, compensation, and retention strategies; training and development strategies; and leadership and coaching strategies.
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People Buy You - How to Become a Master of Persuasion
Here’s a question: What is most important to your success? Is it education, experience, product knowledge, job title, territory, or business dress? Is it your company’s reputation, product, price, marketing collateral, delivery lead times, in stock ratios, service guarantees, management strength, or warehouse location? Is it testimonials, the latest Forbes write up, or brand awareness? Is it the investment in the latest CRM software, business 2.0 tools, or social media strategy?
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Great Leaders Ask Great Questions
Here is a fact: As a leader the more questions you ask, the more your people will develop and ultimately win. To help people develop, you must first help them become aware, on their own terms, of the need to change. To do that, you ask questions. Unfortunately most leaders do not ask enough questions.
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What Really Motivates Employees
Each week I travel the country speaking to groups of leaders at meetings and conferences. No matter where I go I’m asked the same question time and again by leaders ranging from frontline managers to CEOs , “How can I motivate my employees?” I’ve heard this question repeated thousands of times. However, what the person asking usually means is “How can I manipulate my employees to do what I want them to do?”
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How Leaders Get People to Do What They are Supposed to Do
Here is the question most often asked by leaders: “How do I get my people to do what they are supposed to do?” In other words, most leaders are interested in how they can move people. Leaders are constantly seeking ways to motivate their employees to do take the right actions, for the right reasons, at the right time.
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In Leadership Character Trumps Competence
We live in a society that thrives on 15-minutes-of-fame thrill rides. Reality shows like The Apprentice, where Donald Trump baits and then summarily fires contestants, dominate TV ratings. These shows frequently glorify the bad behavior that seems to be slowly, but surely, seeping into our society. The 24-hour news cycle is an endless stream of stories about leaders who have been caught doing bad things. In the midst of this barrage it is easy to lose faith that leaders can actually do good and serve others; that men and women of character still exist.
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Leaders are Always on Stage
As a leader you must never forget that you are the boss. You have power, and your decisions impact the lives and careers of the people on your team. Because you are the boss your people watch and analyze your every move—looking for meaning and clues to what you are thinking. What is most important to understand is that your people place meaning on your behaviors based on their own unique perspective.
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People Don’t Do Dumb Things on Purpose: Effective Leaders Assume Positive Intent
During seminars when I teach leaders the principle that “People don’t do dumb things on purpose.” invariably some joker will say, “Looks like you haven’t met my people.” You may be thinking the same thing because like me, you’ve observed people do some really dumb things. What is important to understand, though, is no one wakes up in the morning and looks into the bathroom mirror and says “You know, today I think I’m going to sabotage my job by doing something really stupid.”
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The Five Levers of Leadership
Leaders have tough jobs. Why? Because in most cases they bear 100 percent of the responsibility for the performance of their team yet receive little glory for their efforts. The best leaders work longer hours, endure more stress, and have greater responsibility than the people they manage.
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In the Workplace, Trust is Fragile
Trust in the workplace is fragile. Companies and their leaders have added to the inherent suspicion people carry for their bosses by using the terms trust, teamwork, and transparency as buzz words. They hire consultants, hold special meetings, or do team-building and trust-building exercises. Then everyone goes right back to what they were doing before the feel-good exercise, nothing changes, and skepticism and distrust prevail. What is missing in these often empty exercises is that trust is personal. It is emotional. It is earned. It is a foundation that is built—one brick at a time.
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Leaders Get Paid for What Their People Do
When you get your next paycheck, take a close look at it. The money that was deposited in your bank account was a direct result of the work your people did. You were rewarded for their performance or nonperformance—not yours. To tell yourself anything different is an outright denial of the facts.
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You Need Your People More Than They Need You
In leadership one principle stands above all: You need your people more than they need you. Another way of saying this is that you get paid for what your people do, not for what you do.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jeb Blount
"Sales Professionals are the Elite Athletes of the Business World."
"People Buy You"