{"id":1448,"date":"2015-05-12T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2015-05-12T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:11:11","slug":"social-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/social-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to think of sales in a nonprofit sense- a fundraising angle that is not often considered when dealing with businesses and corporations. \u00a0For instance, if Pink claims that we are always selling- why not divert our attentions to selling a cause to benefit those in need. \u00a0This is always a tough sell because you are selling the idea of charity- a belief is much more difficult to sell than replacement brake pads for that\u00a007 Honda. \u00a0Selling an intangible is difficult specially when people can&#8217;t see direct results of their money time and effort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A good example of this is Nepal with it&#8217;s second recent earthquake. \u00a0A country like this in a dire state of need could use a couple smart university students to design a marketing program and sell relief effort for the unfortunate people who lost homes, buildings and loved ones. \u00a0 Social sales is an interesting area of thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to think of sales in a nonprofit sense- a fundraising angle that is not often considered when dealing with businesses and corporations. \u00a0For instance, if Pink claims that we are always selling- why not divert our attentions to selling a cause to benefit those in need. \u00a0This is always a tough sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}