{"id":11933,"date":"2025-01-27T21:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:51:25","slug":"how-to-blow-a-sale-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/how-to-blow-a-sale-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Blow a Sale &#8211; The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JJzMUqXrQrE?si=W6dcdGRU0Thwmpsl\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/JJzMUqXrQrE?si=W6dcdGRU0Thwmpsl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love &#8220;The Office&#8221; and it is probably my favorite show, so I felt it was right to have the first blog be about a scene from the show. The link attached will bring you to the short minute long clip. For context, Dwight was a paper salesman, and he just lost his job so now he is out getting interviews, searching for a new job. Dwight is still selling but instead of paper he is selling himself. We have talked about non-traditional sales in class a couple times, and a great example is selling yourself to another employer. Some jobs are relatively easy to attain, especially if you highlight your strengths, come equipped with a resume, and most importantly just don&#8217;t mess up the interview process. That is what makes this scene comical. Dwight brings a resume, another folder that highlights his skills (skills that are completely irrelevant to the job position such as karate), and doesn&#8217;t show too much interest in the interviews; he doesn&#8217;t appear to be serious. If an employer were to ask me to describe myself using 3 words in an interview I would probably say &#8220;Trust worthy, bold, and outgoing&#8221;. Those are 3 good words that anyone can use in an interview to help sell yourself, and the words that Dwight chose to describe himself with were &#8220;hardworking, alpha male, jackhammer, merciless, insatiable, and more&#8221;. You can see that he had completely lost the interest from whoever was interviewing him and ultimately failed to sell himself. The concept of selling yourself applies to even the traditional salesman. I myself do sales, I sell life insurance, mostly accidental death benefits at the moment, and I know that I need to sell myself to the customer. Selling yourself (making them like you) to the client or customer is one of the earliest steps in the sales process, and it makes sense because nobody wants to buy anything from someone they don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/JJzMUqXrQrE?si=W6dcdGRU0Thwmpsl &nbsp; I love &#8220;The Office&#8221; and it is probably my favorite show, so I felt it was right to have the first blog be about a scene from the show. The link attached will bring you to the short minute long clip. For context, Dwight was a paper salesman, and he just lost his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","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\/3169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11940,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions\/11940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}