{"id":11626,"date":"2024-05-14T00:46:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T00:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=11626"},"modified":"2024-05-14T00:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T00:46:54","slug":"i-only-sold-three-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/i-only-sold-three-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"I Only Sold Three Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Ducky Durby experience was a mixed one. Firstly I was late to class and never actually made it to the classroom. I was adopted by a passing team who knew me. They quickly explained the competition but to be honest I had approached several prospects before I really knew what I was even selling. That definitely hurt my sales.<\/p>\n<p>I then ran into my girlfriend and I thought I had a guaranteed sale but she had already bought a duck. This was a huge blow. I wandered campus aimlessly with my handful of unsigned duck wavers. Every person I walked up to had already bought a duck or was dead set against buying one on account of already being asked twenty times.<\/p>\n<p>I then thought that nobody would have gone to Pew and I was right. I was the only duck selling in the building. However, the music majors were not so excited about a Greek life event. I only sold two ducks. On my way out I ran into a Grove City Staff member who I had I knew relatively well. As an adult with a full-time job, she was more willing to part with a few bucks to support the cause. This was when I realized I should have been approaching non-students from the beginning. But the time ran out and I only sold three ducks total. My group did not win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Ducky Durby experience was a mixed one. Firstly I was late to class and never actually made it to the classroom. I was adopted by a passing team who knew me. They quickly explained the competition but to be honest I had approached several prospects before I really knew what I was even selling. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626","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\/3160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11629,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions\/11629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}