Good Friday morning everyone. I”ve been wanting to post this blog for a while now. I keep moving movies in and
out, finally I just decided to roll with it like it is, perhaps I’ll do a 2 part on the Top 10 Sales Movies next week. Never the less just so you know I’ve excluded both of the Wall Street films. Yes, they are favorites but every list seems to have them in so I’m assuming they’re a given! There’s also 2 movies where you don’t have to watch the whole movie but I have embedded the clip below that you MUST watch from it. There’s also some in this list which are a little left field too.
Here we go, from the home office in Northern Michigan, The Top 10 Sales Movies
10. Boiler Room
You want the hard sell? You got it with this film. This is about an ambitious young stock broker who bulldozers his clients into buying stock from him and his firm. Check out the clip below of where the firms recruiter (Ben Affleck) holds a group interview. Just love this scene! Warning on this video, there are some “F” bombs.
9. Glengarry Glen Ross
This includes an all-star cast including Pacino, Spacey, Baldwin, Lemon and so on! It’s about a group of middle aged sales people and the trials and tribulations that they go through on a weekly basis. Check out this sales meeting below.
Coffee is for closers – Alec Baldwin!
8. Two For The Money
This is a film that is often passed over but I like it. Matthew McConaughey sells sports betting tips over the phone for a company owned by Al Pacino. Pacino head hunts McConaughey and makes him the main man at the firm. Soon the pressure is on as his tips need to come good. Here’s a scene below where McConaughey asks for more commission from Pacino – I think the response will surprise you!
7. The Wolf Of Wall Street
A new favourite of mine! Complete hard sell, Probably goes against everything I stand for as a sales person but I love it! I just love the energy of the film and what they had in the firm. Here’s a scene where Jordan Belfort (The Wolf) asks his team to “Sell me this pen!”Quality stuff!
6. The Goods – Live Hard, Sell Hard
This movie is about sales people in a car dealership doing what it takes to make quota.
It’s a really funny film with a lot of home truths and not so home truths about the stereotypical sales industry. In this scene below, the sales manager is shredding the photos of a sales person’s family saying they are too fat to be on show in front of a potential customer and that he needs to find photos of skinny kids so they feel sorry for him and give him the sale, Crazy stuff!
5. Any Given Sunday
Ok, so this film has nothing to do with sales – it’s about an American Football Team. But it makes my top 10 because of the motivational speech that Al Pacino gives to his losing team at half time. Should you watch the whole movie? Darn right you should. It’s great and fast paced. Here’s Pacino’s motivational speech. It’s awesome.
4. The Pursuit Of Happyness
A heart-warming film of a salesman (Will Smith) who just doesn’t give up despite so many setbacks and knock backs. Check out this scene below where he finally gets a chance at a firm and how he approaches his cold calling and his mindset behind how he can make more calls than anyone else. Really great piece.
3. Rocky Balboa
The biggest lesson I took from this movie was the line “Life aint about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done” WOW!
I just loved this. You just got to watch this scene below where Rocky tells his son he’s worth more.
2. Moneyball
Once again this has nothing to do with sales but everything to do with winning. Billy Beane (played fantastically well by Brad Pitt) is the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. A bottom of the league baseball team with no hopes. With the help of a Harvard Graduate he looks into the science of winning Baseball games after he loses all of his best players. This is actually a true story and changed the way clubs were run in the future.
You can take a lot from this film about making the way that you sell more scientific in terms of the percentages and your sales process. I know I took a lot out of this movie which helped me and got me to look at things in a different way. In this scene below Beane is running a meeting with his team of scouts where he spells out that they need to think differently to succeed.
And the number 1 sales movie is….
1. Jerry Maguire
“Show me the money” enough said!
Our prospects and merchants get us jumping through hoops sometimes to get their business and Cuba Gooding is no different with this famous scene
How many of you were screaming “Show Me The Money? I was.
How many of these movies have you seen?
Is there one I missed? Let me know at the email below.
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