{"id":11325,"date":"2024-04-14T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=11325"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:28:27","slug":"the-trial-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/the-trial-close\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we learned the term ABC, which stands for, &#8220;always be closing.&#8221; This term has great significance and can make a successful salesperson. This term pushes toward the understanding that you should always be pushing towards the close. The trail close is a closing technique that I will be discussing in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I find it best to give an example on how I interpret it. Say you are pitching your product to a prospect and you have 4 main features to point out to them. A trail close should be inserted after you go through the second feature, in order to get a feel on where the customer&#8217;s head is at about your product. You could say something like, &#8220;So what do you think so far?&#8221; This allows you to gauge what the prospect is feeling and how you should guide the rest of your sales presentation. If they seem like they are really liking the product, or if they are not liking it, you can easily adjust your approach. Basically, the trial close services as a &#8220;trial&#8221; to see if the prospect is interesting in potentially making a purchase. The trail close is an effective closing technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we learned the term ABC, which stands for, &#8220;always be closing.&#8221; This term has great significance and can make a successful salesperson. This term pushes toward the understanding that you should always be pushing towards the close. The trail close is a closing technique that I will be discussing in this blog post. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325","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\/3140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}