
John Stopper
Founder of NorthStar8, an enterprise sales strategy firm helping B2B sales teams close deals through strategy and his Compass Selling system.
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Sep 18, 2026
AI Didn't Kill Sales Strategy. It Exposed Who Never Had One | John Stopper - 2038
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John StopperGUEST
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.

John StopperGUEST
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.

John StopperGUEST
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.

John StopperGUEST
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.
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Donald C. KellyHOST
Talk about proximity and then how those two relate and especially when it comes to AI.