{"id":1612,"date":"2016-02-08T15:24:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2016-02-08T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:24:38","slug":"believing-is-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/believing-is-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Believing is Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard it said that, &#8220;you have to believe in what you are selling.&#8221; I have often wondered if this statement is true, then how does a used car salesman sell a junky car to a customer? So is it then safe to assume that everyone believes in what they are selling? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>So what can we assume? It would be safe to presume\u00a0that the salesman has\u00a0belief\u00a0in the sale but maybe not in what he is selling. So what is the difference? Believing in the sale is doing anything it takes to sell a product, regardless of its fit for the customer. Believing in what you are selling is selling the product you believe fits the need of the customer.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, I worked for a large health insurer in Pittsburgh, Pa. While I do not &#8220;love&#8221; health insurance, I do believe it is a necessary entity to allow people to afford their healthcare related bills, and I would have no problem selling it to the right fitting customer.<\/p>\n<p>When looking for future employment I think it is vital to seek a company that sells a product you &#8220;believe in.&#8221; Nobody wants to be that used car salesman and I believe this is one step in the right direction to becoming a salesperson with integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard it said that, &#8220;you have to believe in what you are selling.&#8221; I have often wondered if this statement is true, then how does a used car salesman sell a junky car to a customer? So is it then safe to assume that everyone believes in what they are selling? Probably not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}