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John Stopper

John Stopper

Founder of NorthStar8, an enterprise sales strategy firm helping B2B sales teams close deals through strategy and his Compass Selling system.

Sep 18, 2026

9:43
I want to just know how we can use these two principles.
9:46
Yeah, there's a number of principles of sales strategy too that might be helpful here are reality and the principle of reality and the principle of proximity.
9:56
And the principle of reality is, are all parties that are engaged in a sales transaction seeing things as they really are? And one of the dangers of AI is that it could distort reality.
10:09
And not because it claiming it's inherently bad, but a buyer today is using AI as much as a seller, right? So when you engage with them and they want to see the sales evangelist, they have their AI go out and research Donald C.
10:24
Kelly and the sales evangelist.
10:26
And say your website wasn't up to date or you put out, somebody did an analysis of you two years ago and it wasn't a recent one.
10:35
The presentation, the information they're getting back paints that.

8 MINS LATER

18:27
Talk about proximity and then how those two relate and especially when it comes to AI.

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