#093: Zafer Karaca - Why Diversity in Sales Drives Understanding of Customers’ Pain Points

My next guest on Scale Your Sales Podcast is Zafer Karaca. He is VP of Cloud Red Hat synergy at IBM. He is leading key growth initiatives across the US with a primary focus to optimize IBM's go-to-market strategies, and to enable clients to accelerate their Cloud journey to drive business transformation with open Hybrid Cloud solutions and AI. Welcome to Scale Your Sales Podcast Zafer Karaca. 00:00 Why Diversity in Sales Drives Understanding of Customers’ Pain Points 04:24 Zafer says, The Moment we say we’re going to Control the Innovation, it means we’re Killing it!   07:51 The Real Value of Salespeople is Help Customers Understand their Pain Points from a Business Perspective.  11.36 The Advantage of Being in a Virtual World is the ability to better Understand the Customers’ Culture  15:53 Why IBM Program Removed College Degree Pre-Requirement for Many entry Jobs.  20:44 Zafer says, You Can’t Run a Global Organization, Unless you Bring Diversity at All Levels  24:30 For Long-term Growth Create an Ecosystem that is Open for Partnerships.   27:00 End.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/karacazafer/    https://twitter.com/zfrkaraca   Janice B Gordon, the awarding-winning Customer Growth Expert and founder of Scale Your Sales, listed 25 of the Top 100 Global Business Influencers in 2017. Janice helps companies around the world adopt the Scale Your Sales framework to develop their leading-edge capabilities in securing, maintaining, and growing their most valued customer relationships for long-term value and partnership.      Book Janice to speak virtually at your next event https://janicebgordon.com    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janice-b-gordon-customer-growth-expert   Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaniceBGordon    Scale Your Sales Podcast: http://scaleyoursales.libsyn.com    More on the blog https://scaleyoursales.co.uk/blog    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janicebgordon      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScaleYourSalesJBG