{"id":2098,"date":"2016-04-04T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2016-04-04T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:46:11","slug":"real-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/real-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Adams once said, &#8220;To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s market effective sales tactics and attitudes have changed. 50 years ago what was typically\u00a0seen was often a\u00a0loud, overly confident, &#8220;slick&#8221; and often pushy demeanor. Today what appeals, especially to the younger demographics, is when they see someone being &#8220;real&#8221;. While it should be valuable for it&#8217;s own sake, we cannot underestimate the power of being sincere and having integrity.<\/p>\n<p>What this practically looks like in sales in many ways seeps into every aspect of the process. From being overly-honest and transparent when discussing details, facts and figures, to sincerely following up with customers after your sale to make sure everything has worked out and that you were effective in helping them .<\/p>\n<p>But what leads to this overarching demeanor? I think that much of it lies in a genuine care for the people who&#8217;s pain you are looking to solve. If you truly want to help others, more than you care about the potential money made from a sale, then you will act with sincere integrity and that will direct the sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Adams once said, &#8220;To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.&#8221; In today&#8217;s market effective sales tactics and attitudes have changed. 50 years ago what was typically\u00a0seen was often a\u00a0loud, overly confident, &#8220;slick&#8221; and often pushy demeanor. Today what appeals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}