{"id":1702,"date":"2016-02-22T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T16:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2016-02-22T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T16:16:43","slug":"bonding-after-the-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/bonding-after-the-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonding after the Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was driving back to school after break I stopped to fill my gas tank, and while I was waiting for the gas to pump a man who was also putting gas in his car came over to ask me how I liked my Jeep. \u00a0I told him that I loved it, about its safety features in actions and how well it drove, assuming that he was interested in purchasing one himself. \u00a0We talked about the different aspects of the car for a few minutes, and he asked several questions about it. \u00a0When this stranger asked about the transmission in the car, I told him that it did a good job and tried to sound like I knew more about the car than I really did. \u00a0At the end of our conversation he told me that he worked for Chrysler Jeep in Detroit, and that he was currently working on the transmission for the model of the car that I drive.<\/p>\n<p>This man wasn&#8217;t trying to sell me a car, and he wasn&#8217;t even part of a sales team to sell the car, but the conversation made me feel good about driving a Jeep, as though all facets of the company were looking to help their customers. \u00a0This shows the importance of hiring good employees across the board, whether or not they&#8217;ll actively be interacting with customers on a daily basis. \u00a0Another example would be if your friendly neighbor worked for a software supply company, you&#8217;d be more likely to purchase from his company over his competitor&#8217;s because of your good relationship with him, regardless of his position within the company. \u00a0You want employees who will give your company a good image no matter what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was driving back to school after break I stopped to fill my gas tank, and while I was waiting for the gas to pump a man who was also putting gas in his car came over to ask me how I liked my Jeep. \u00a0I told him that I loved it, about its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,45,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring-salespeople","category-non-sales-selling","category-perspectives-on-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","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=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}