{"id":1844,"date":"2016-03-04T23:36:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2016-03-04T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T23:36:23","slug":"technology-changing-the-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/technology-changing-the-salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Changing the Salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not too long ago and before advances in technology there was a sales model that was effective in its time. This model rested on the idea of \u201cCaveat Emptor\u201d or \u201cBuyer beware\u201d. In other words this was a model that believed that profitability came from cheating the customer or in one way or another tricking a consumer into an action that would be a loss to them. At this point there was no way for a customer to have a say in the buying process because it was the salesman\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Salesman.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1845\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1845 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Salesman-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Salesman\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Salesman-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Salesman-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Salesman-624x312.jpg 624w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Salesman.jpg 980w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/150;\" \/><\/a>job to have more information and to know more about the product or service being sold. This put the consumer at a huge disadvantage and easy to take advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, with the aid of advances in technology, power has shifted into the customers hands, making the playing field fair. Within seconds anyone can have access to limitless amounts of information on a product or background and reviews on a company or service. The game of sales has now been transformed into one that makes it profitable to be honest and success means being liked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago and before advances in technology there was a sales model that was effective in its time. This model rested on the idea of \u201cCaveat Emptor\u201d or \u201cBuyer beware\u201d. In other words this was a model that believed that profitability came from cheating the customer or in one way or another tricking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}