{"id":1232,"date":"2015-04-29T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2015-04-29T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T17:36:19","slug":"your-selling-a-relationship-not-a-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/your-selling-a-relationship-not-a-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Selling a Relationship, Not a Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple weeks of the semester in class I began to think about how everything we have gone over in class can be brought together. \u00a0There has to be a foundation in &#8220;Sales&#8221; where all the rules and techniques come from. \u00a0I thought about being on the other end sales, the buyer, and wondered what really pushed me to making a buying decision. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t any specific feature or warranty but what did push me toward purchase was the salesman himself.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship with a client should be your main focus when pushing a sale. \u00a0Before even mentioning your product to a potential client you should get to know them. \u00a0It creates a sense of trust on the buyers side as well as gives you some background information on whether or not you could even help them to begin with. \u00a0To the buyer, you will feel less like a salesman and more like a friend which can break down so many barriers in the sales process.<\/p>\n<p>As an ethical salesman, your job is to solve problems or fufill needs. \u00a0Getting to know the people you are trying to serve is a crucial factor that comes into play in reaching that end goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple weeks of the semester in class I began to think about how everything we have gone over in class can be brought together. \u00a0There has to be a foundation in &#8220;Sales&#8221; where all the rules and techniques come from. \u00a0I thought about being on the other end sales, the buyer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}