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The speaker explains how storytelling can improve sales by building trust, encouraging change, and overcoming objections. He opens with a personal “connection story” about selling Schlumberger in Russia, where telling a company story helped clients remember and repeat it. He defines a real story as a sequence of related events with a time, place, character, surprise, and clear business point.

He then describes three key sales story types:  
- <strong>Connection stories</strong> to build rapport and trust  
- <strong>Success stories</strong> to show how customers benefited from change  
- <strong>Influence stories</strong> to counter objections and wrong beliefs

He gives examples from Teradata and Cognos to show how stories are more persuasive than facts alone. The core message: buyers and sellers face the same challenges—trust, change, and decision-making—and stories help move conversations forward naturally.

Keywords

sales storytelling

connection stories

success stories

influence stories

customer trust

objection handling