20:52 - So that makes sense on solution selling. Another one that comes up quite a bit as well is Sandler. It's been a really popular methodology. How would you describe Sandler? Best place to use it, wrong place to use it. - So Sandler focuses on like, there's a couple big pieces of Sandler. Sandler focuses a lot on engaging the buyer, qualifying them and closing them. That's kind of their like three major like buckets that they teach. And so much of like the initial bucket that they're teaching is around the concepts of upfront contracts. And the upfront contract kind of sounds like, hey, agenda set, if I do all of these things today,
21:45 can we agree that it makes sense to move forward? And it's like, hold on a second.
21:53 We're agreeing to move forward before we've ever even like, we're agreeing to a second date before we've even seen how the first date went. That's like saying, hey, if this first date goes perfect, can we book the second date at the end? - Right. - Hi, nice to meet you. My name's David, like what the fuck? Like, why are you doing that? And it was rooted in psychology of like getting someone to agree to a next step to increase the chance of that next step. So I understand why someone did it, but it's highly manipulative and buyers. And this is like, I rail against people saying methodologies are old. I don't care how old something is.
22:37 I rail against bad sales practices. And to me, Sandler, this is an old and bad sales practice because your buyer has seen it 10 million times. It's like how, it's like almost, they're so used to it that when they hear it, they're just like, great, I'm talking to another sales robot. And so I don't like upfront contracts. Like there shouldn't be a contract in a initial conversation. Like the only contract should be implied and the implied contract as me as the salesperson needs to understand your problems. And if you agree that I understand it well enough and that you agree that I can solve it, we're probably gonna keep talking.
23:24 And if I don't, we're not, but I don't need to state that. Like that's obvious. Like I don't need, we don't need to agree to it. And that's the problem. Like it's the forcing agreement around that is manipulative. So that's one piece that Sandler teaches. The next piece that really falls into the qualifying side is related to like pain funnels. So like Sandler's really big on first, second, third level pain. I'm actually a fan of this part of Sandler. This is really good. This is what I call peeling the onion. This is where like, I almost call it the so what methodology in the sense that it's like, someone's like, oh, I'm struggling with this thing.
24:09 And what most salespeople will do when you tell them you're struggling with this thing, I've got a great solution, let me show you that. As opposed to, hey, why are you struggling with it? How long have you been struggling with it? Who else is it impacting? What happens if you solve it? What happens if you don't? What have you tried to solve it? It's getting to the implication of the problem back to spin and solution selling. And that is where pain funnels are good. I hate that they're called pain funnels though. But that's where that's good. And then they go into their closing side, which is all about like presenting the right solution.
24:42 So what I will say is that Sandler does have a fairly holistic approach. They do cover a deeper and broader set of the sales process than most commercial methodologies. Most of the methodologies out there are really focused on discovery and a little bit on closing. Or they're focused on the middle related to executive conversations. So like GAP and Challenger are some of the best executive conversation frameworks. Spin and solution selling are some of the best discovery-based frameworks. Sandler does blend both, so it is more holistic. The problem is there's a couple key. One, buyers have seen it coming for years.
25:33 So when you deploy Sandler the way Sandler teaches it, it's highly the robotic and buyers don't like that. The other thing is that Sandler is taught by franchises. Sandler itself does not teach this. It's taught by franchise groups that buy into the Sandler franchise. And so what you find anytime anything is franchised is you have inconsistency in the deliverable and inconsistency in the teaching. And so that's the other potential pitfall. Again, not against it. It's just like anything else. Good ideas deployed wrong, bad ideas. And unfortunately, you've got a lot of robotic sellers that are Sandler sellers. - Yeah, and I feel like it's almost,
26:09 the front end of that feels almost like just terrible TikTok sales influencers that are throwing out manipulation techniques. And one, even if you could finesse those, usually people can see right through it. Two, for the average person trying to pull that off, you're just gonna look stupid. So I think, I can't stand like that terrible advice that just gets spewed out on social media. And I know people are falling victim to just like throwing it in their next call and they're just sounding like jerks. - Yeah, it happens a lot. I mean, not to plug my own shit. I won't even like, I'm a big fan of fundamentals. There are sales is all about the really good,