{"id":1578,"date":"2016-02-07T19:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T19:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2016-02-07T19:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T19:10:42","slug":"sales-part-of-the-human-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sales-part-of-the-human-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales: Part of the Human Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last fifty years the sales profession has given a negative impression. Pushy, annoying, and sleazy are just a few of the adjectives thrown out by the populace to define the ever present peddler of goods. There is one big hole in this perception: if the act of selling is defined as getting others to part with something they value for something of you think they should value then we all participate in sales every day of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it, when was the last time you had to talk someone into doing something? Teachers are convincing their students to do their homework every day, just as mothers are convincing their children to make their beds every day and doctors are convincing their patients to take their medications every day. Convincing someone to do something is so quintessentially human that no one ever bats an eyelash at it when it happens away from monetary exchanges. So, why, if money is just a manifestation of perceived value, should we be so squeamish of the prospect of monetary selling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last fifty years the sales profession has given a negative impression. Pushy, annoying, and sleazy are just a few of the adjectives thrown out by the populace to define the ever present peddler of goods. There is one big hole in this perception: if the act of selling is defined as getting others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}