{"id":1700,"date":"2016-02-22T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2016-02-22T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T16:05:24","slug":"wishing-for-a-sales-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wishing-for-a-sales-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing for a Sales Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an experience as a buyer this past weekend, and I&#8217;m interested to see if anyone else shares this experience\/feeling or not.<\/p>\n<p>I received a Kindle for my birthday, and I went online to order a case for it. \u00a0I found that there were hundreds of options to choose from, and I had no idea where to start. \u00a0Many of the reviews were mixed, and I had difficulty finding specifics about how each of the cases attached to the device, etc. \u00a0I found myself becoming frustrated that I couldn&#8217;t simply go to a store and ask a salesperson or see the cases in person. \u00a0It felt very similar to buying a case for my phone, except when it comes to phone cases, it&#8217;s easy to see many different versions in person, you can simply look around the dining hall or a classroom to get a feel for what people like.<\/p>\n<p>The internet has certainly made buying faster and at times easier, but I wonder if it gives us\u00a0<em>too<\/em> many options. \u00a0Was it really necessary for me to read hundreds of reviews for dozens of Kindle cases to find the right one? \u00a0I find that this is not an uncommon scenario, though. \u00a0People get so caught up in the reviews of a product that they will waste a lot of time making an inane decision. \u00a0Amazon is a great place to get practically anything you need, but it could use an online sales person to make purchases of new items easier and less stressful for customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an experience as a buyer this past weekend, and I&#8217;m interested to see if anyone else shares this experience\/feeling or not. I received a Kindle for my birthday, and I went online to order a case for it. \u00a0I found that there were hundreds of options to choose from, and I had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pain","category-perspectives-on-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}