
Jonny Holsten
Sales trainer, author of "Fix Your Broken Sales Calls," and founder/CEO of BridgeSelling (bridgeselling.com).
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Oct 9, 2026
What Should Be on a Sales Call Scorecard?
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Jonny HolstenGUEST
The impact of that complexity is everybody leaves the room not knowing, how do I apply this? And what do I apply? And so if you got, like you said, the 20-year veteran, the 10-year veteran, and then the new guy who's the expert because he's been on the job for two days all giving you feedback [chuckles] after a role play.

Jonny HolstenGUEST
Now you've got to figure out, what do I apply, and what does my company actually want me to apply? You get in those situations too where it's like, "Hey, two of these feedback tidbits were great, but seven of them, that's not how they want it done." And so I'll tell you a story of this company we worked with.

Jonny HolstenGUEST
They'd just gotten like $130 million in startup funding, so highly funded, ready to scale the sales team, ready to rock and roll.

Jonny HolstenGUEST
And I went in and I observed the training, and they did a role play, and same situation we're talking about here.

Jonny HolstenGUEST
And somebody's saying, "Hey, you should've built more rapport." Another person is saying, "You should've had better discovery." Someone else is saying, "You didn't get any pain points, dig up any pain points." And then they all give some ideas on how to be better.
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15:33Jeb Blount Jr.HOST
What should sales leaders and sales professionals be looking for if they're in an organization to stop using that gut feel but also start trying to make it look good for them and not just look good in general?
Jonny Holsten - Learn to Sell Across the Bridge
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Jonny HolstenGUEST
Well, this is a nice build because let's pretend we did our discovery, which you and I kind of role played out.

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We hit the finances and we kind of got ahead of, we call it vanguarding, which is getting ahead of problems before they come problems, which is the pricing and the buying of the decision or the buying of the fireplace being more expensive than people assume.

Jonny HolstenGUEST
So now let's say we're looking at some models or some different fireplace options.

Jonny HolstenGUEST
And Where I'm thinking as the seller is, all right, we know these pain points.

Jonny HolstenGUEST
And if I have 20 different models that I could show, I'm only going to show the ones that would directly solve the issues we've learned earlier, which is we know the different issues with the fireplace deteriorating, the waking up early because we're cutting logs too small.
