How To Become A Millionaire Sales Manager

In today’s episode of the Sales Leadership Show, Kent Billingsley talks about his book From Entrepreneur to Millionaire. He answers questions about how sales leaders can become millionaires by creating value, solving customer pain points, and challenging the status quo. Resources: RevenueGrowthComapny.com Book: Entrepreneur to Millionaire: How to Build a Highly Profitable, Fast-Growth Company and Become Embarrassingly Rich Doing It Book: The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success Kent on LinkedIn The Revenue Growth YouTube Channel  Transcription: Will Barron: this episode of the show is brought to you from the salesman.org HubSpot Studio. Coming up on today's episode of the Sales Leadership Show.   Kent Billingsley: You're in sales to first bring tremendous value to your clients, help your company shadow their numbers, and then you're pay to fortune doing… This game is about bringing the value. You know, let me unpack that because somebody asked me a while back, well, what's the value? The value is helping your clients solve their most complex problems without them having to spend a lot of money and time doing it. Getting outside that sales department box and looking around and saying, well, what's the whys in how we target, how we package our services, how we do our messaging.   Will Barron: Hello sales nation. My name is Will Barron. I'm the host of the Sales Leadership Show. And on today's episode, we have the return of the legend, that is Kent Billingsley. He's the author of From Entrepreneur to Millionaire and that's exactly what we're doing on today's show. We're answering the question of how to, in a sales management to a sales leadership role, how to become a millionaire or multimillionaire.   Will Barron: Everything we talk about is available in assurance of this episode over at salesleadership.org, and so with that said, let's jump right into it. Kent, welcome to the Sales Leadership Show.   Kent Billingsley: Thank you.   Can Sales Leaders Become Millionaires? · [01:28]   Will Barron: I'm glad to have you on mate. Okay, so to hopefully answer the question today and I'm going to do a quote tick, it's going to be the title of the show, how to become a millionaire as a sales manager. But let me ask you this, or a sales leader. But let me ask you this, Kent, just straight up, no messing around. Is it possible to become a millionaire in either one of those roles?   “You should absolutely have the goals, the desire, the vision and the aspiration that you are in sales to first, bring tremendous value to your clients, help your company shutter their numbers, and then you're paid a fortune doing it.” – Kent Billingsley · [01:38]   Kent Billingsley: Not always possible. I expect you to. You should absolutely have the goals, the desire, the vision and the aspiration that you are in sales to first, bring tremendous value to your clients, help your company shadow their numbers, and then you're paid a fortune doing it. And if you don't think that way and in the right order, get out of sales. Get out of sales leadership, get out of sales management, go code, go programme, go work in market and go somewhere else.