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by David Priemer
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David Priemer spent years selling software at Salesforce.com, one of the most successful sales organizations in history. He was good at his job. He hit his numbers. He followed the playbook. And yet, something felt wrong.
**Author:** David Priemer
**Estimated Reading Time:** 45 minutes
**What You'll Learn:**
- Why the sales tactics you hate as a buyer are the same ones destroying your sales results - How to align your selling approach with the way modern buyers actually make decisions - The science behind why emotions, not logic, drive purchasing behavior - Practical frameworks for discovery, messaging, and objection handling that feel authentic - How to build a sales process rooted in empathy without sacrificing effectiveness
**Who This Book Is For:**
Sales professionals who feel uncomfortable with traditional selling tactics. Founders and entrepreneurs who need to sell but hate feeling pushy. Sales leaders who want to modernize their team's approach. Anyone who has ever thought, "I would never buy from someone who sells like that," and then realized they sell exactly that way.
David Priemer spent years selling software at Salesforce.com, one of the most successful sales organizations in history. He was good at his job. He hit his numbers. He followed the playbook. And yet, something felt wrong. The playbook told him to create urgency where none existed. It told him to overcome objections rather than understand them. It told him to push for the close, to control the conversation, to always be closing. But when Priemer stepped back and looked at his own behavior as a buyer, he realized something uncomfortable: he would never buy from someone who sold the way he was taught to sell. This realization became the foundation of a new approach to selling. The central question Priemer asks is deceptively simple: Why do we sell in ways that we ourselves would never respond to as buyers? Think about your own experiences as a customer. When a salesperson calls you repeatedly after you've expressed disinterest, how do you feel? When someone uses high-pressure tactics to force a decision, do you lean in or pull away? When a vendor clearly doesn't understand your problem but keeps pushing their solution, do you trust them more or less? Now think about how you sell. Do you follow up relentlessly because your manager told you to? Do you create artificial deadlines to move deals forward? Do you pitch features before understanding the buyer's actual situation? The gap between how we buy and how we sell is enormous. And it's not just a moral problem. It's a practical one. Buyers have changed. They have more information, more options, and more skepticism than ever before. The old tactics don't just feel wrong. They don't work. Priemer's insight is that the solution isn't to try harder with the old playbook. The solution is to fundamentally rethink the sales process from the ground up, using the way you buy…
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Get the complete summary in the appSell the way you buy. If a tactic would annoy you as a buyer, don't use it as a seller.
Attention is earned through value, not volume. More aggressive outreach is rarely the solution.
Emotions drive decisions. Understand the buyer's fears and hopes, not just their requirements.
Experience is your product. Every interaction shapes how customers perceive your offering.
Clear messaging is a competitive advantage. If you can't explain what you do in one sentence, fix that first.
Discovery is where deals are won or lost. Invest time in understanding before prescribing.
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Motivated to help readers with every day salespeople find themselves in a similar moral and operational dilemma, David Priemer wrote “Sell the Way You Buy” to package those ideas for a fast, focused read. In “Sell the Way You Buy”, David Priemer focuses on every day salespeople find themselves in a similar moral and operational dilemma. Through “Sell the Way You Buy”, David Priemer distills the core ideas on business into lessons readers can absorb in a single short sitting. Readers turn to this…
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