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Richard Spanier discusses how modern sales practices often misalign with buyer behavior and the need for a frictionless buying process.

Introduction Most sales conversations about underperformance start with the wrong question. Is the messaging wrong? Is the tech stack outdated? Is the lead generation broken? Richard Spanier, author of Trust: Sales 2030 — A Field Guide to Frictionless Buying, argues that almost every assumption modern sales operates on, quotas, champions, gated content, CRM accuracy, pipeline stages, gets the buyer's reality backwards. In this episode of TheInquisitor Podcast, Marcus Cauchi presses Richard on what a genuinely frictionless buying process looks like in practice, and why he believes the systems most sales leaders rely on are built to manage the illusion of control rather than the reality of how people buy. Why This Conversation Matters Sales has spent decades optimising the seller's side of the transaction: better scripts, better cadences, better personalisation at scale. Richard's argument is that none of this addresses the underlying problem, which is that buyers do their own research, reach their own conclusions, and resent being pushed through somebody else's process. If that's true, a huge amount of sales infrastructure, from quotas to lead scoring to discovery calls, is…

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