{"id":2272,"date":"2016-05-01T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2016-05-01T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T15:13:16","slug":"pinks-take-on-the-abcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/pinks-take-on-the-abcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinks take on the ABC&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pinks take on the ABC&#8217;s =<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-left: .375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;\" type=\"1\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\" value=\"1\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal;\">Attunement<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Buoyancy<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;\">Clarity<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Attunement:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: .375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Attunement is the ability to bring ones actions and outlook into harmony with other people and with the context you&#8217;re in.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\">In my personal experience listening is key to understanding what problems someone is facing and how my business or product I am selling fits in harmony with solving there problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Buoyancy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Buoyancy isn&#8217;t about banishing the negative, but about harnessing its power for good.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Another Element of buoyancy<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: .375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Asking Good Questions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Sticking to your sales process (with reasonable flexibility, of course)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Using negative reverses when appropriate <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Going for &#8220;No&#8221; when the situation calls for it<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Buoyancy is something I initially struggled with when I was in sales. It is easy to lose motivation when you hear the word &#8220;No&#8221; 30 times in a row. A good sales person looks at the big picture and the statistics and knows that on average they will get one successful call every 25 phone calls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clarity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Clarity = the capacity to help others see their situations in fresh and more revealing ways, and to identify problems they didn\u2019t realize they had<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is something that can surely close the deal if you can shed light on someones area of expertise that they haven&#8217;t thought of before. I witnessed this at an angel investor meeting when one of the investors had the prospects think of using there product in a different way and they loved it. So much so that they asked him personally to be a partner and to be on their board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinks take on the ABC&#8217;s = Attunement Buoyancy Clarity &nbsp; Attunement: Attunement is the ability to bring ones actions and outlook into harmony with other people and with the context you&#8217;re in. 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