{"id":1531,"date":"2016-01-31T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2016-01-31T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:20:30","slug":"no-natural-salespeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/no-natural-salespeople\/","title":{"rendered":"“No ‘natural’ salespeople”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In chapter three of Daniel Pink’s book, To Sell is Human<\/em>, Pink talks about the fact that in a way we are all<\/em> naturally salespeople and therefore there is no single salesman\/saleswoman type that makes one a natural.<\/p>\n

I really empathize with this perspective because I have never considered myself to be an outspoken, charming, persistent seller, but my current job requires selling. I always thought a good seller would be very outgoing, maybe even a little pushy as the text describes, and having a certain catchy personality. But through my experience with selling pet-sitting services, I have learned that the traits I listed above are not always the traits my clients look for. The most successful selling of services I have had in my time working with the company have been when I was able to clearly articulate my passion for the company and the job, and when I was honest and sincere with the client. Those are qualities that I believe can be developed in anyone and don’t take a certain extrovert or introvert character to convey.<\/p>\n

Pink says, “Each of us, because we are human, has a selling instinct, which means that anyone can master the basics of moving others.” I find this very encouraging as well as profound for those that may not find themselves in a direct sales role but still end up conducting non-sales selling. We all in some fashion sell, whether it be ourselves, a product, or a service and we are all capable of moving others in some way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In chapter three of Daniel Pink’s book, To Sell is Human, Pink talks about the fact that in a way we are all naturally salespeople and therefore there is no single salesman\/saleswoman type that makes one a natural. I really empathize with this perspective because I have never considered myself to be an outspoken, charming, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}