{"id":1007,"date":"2015-03-16T01:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2015-04-06T01:56:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T01:56:20","slug":"a-really-good-commencement-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/a-really-good-commencement-address\/","title":{"rendered":"A Really Good Commencement Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did my title reel you in? Thought so. Don\u2019t ever accuse me of being anything less than creative.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s the close of the semester quickly approaching, the last for many of us. Maybe it\u2019s the promise of spring and new beginnings and the need for any advice, even if it\u2019s embedded in cheap commencement addresses. But I\u2019m hooked.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Pink is pretty dynamic. Even if you\u2019re sick of reading his book, which would be a tough sell, you\u2019d be off the mark if you didn\u2019t gain something from his thoughts at Weinberg College last year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"2014 Weinberg College Convocation Address by Daniel Pink\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VOU6zoRI3BU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good sales in practice: \u00a0humor to increase identification, a message applicable to the audience, and linguistic tricks to help them remember what you\u2019ve said. Watch and let it all be a little lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, it\u2019s okay to not know <em>exactly <\/em>what you\u2019re going to say, or do, before you take the plunge. A good reminder when everything shouts that we must have it figured out, right this second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did my title reel you in? Thought so. Don\u2019t ever accuse me of being anything less than creative. Maybe it\u2019s the close of the semester quickly approaching, the last for many of us. Maybe it\u2019s the promise of spring and new beginnings and the need for any advice, even if it\u2019s embedded in cheap commencement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}