{"id":10175,"date":"2023-03-28T02:16:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=10175"},"modified":"2023-03-28T02:16:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:16:42","slug":"being-real-is-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/being-real-is-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Real Is A Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, I write the tale of a sales experience from Playthings! During the January season (one of our slowest times of the year), There was a middle aged couple that came into our store with their kids. This family seemed a bit stressed at first so, seeing the pain, I went and asked the kids if they wanted to play with a few toys that I had demonstrated. The kids were more than happy to do this and the parents were glad to have a few moments of rest, knowing their kids were having fun in a place they had already started to trust. When the kids eventually played around without me, I had a chance to introduce myself to the parents and just talk about their lives a bit. They talked about being stressed, but thankful for their family and they really wanted some things that their kids would love that aren\u2019t staring at iPads. It took a bit of talking to get to this pain but, once I found it, I showed them that their kids were not only getting along with each other, but were also playing with toys and using their imaginations to have fun! The parents were delighted to see this, so much so that they made me write a note for my boss the next day about how happy they were with how I helped them. I think it is incredible how much of an impact that being genuine and looking for others best interests can not only be used to sell, but can be used to bring families closer to each other!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, I write the tale of a sales experience from Playthings! During the January season (one of our slowest times of the year), There was a middle aged couple that came into our store with their kids. This family seemed a bit stressed at first so, seeing the pain, I went and asked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attunement","category-sales-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175","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\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}