{"id":2494,"date":"2016-05-10T06:26:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2016-05-10T06:26:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:26:24","slug":"service-in-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/service-in-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Service in Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of service as sales seems so intuitive: of course you are serving your customer as you offer them your product or <em>service. <\/em>However, too often, the culture of sales becomes self-serving. Immersed in a business-place mentality of meeting sales goals and quotas, or of proving personal selling capabilities by capturing every potential prospect, salespeople can get too easily distracted from the true objective of their job. In fact, businesses exist to provide solutions to pain.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of striving to boost sales numbers, salespeople should be seeking to serve their clients by offering solutions to customers\u2019 true pain, not by creating more pain and faux issues. This mentality shift is simply a shift back to the heart of the sales position. With a culture shift within the sales community, sale people can again fulfill a beneficial and edifying service, instead of being known as a nuisance to avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of service as sales seems so intuitive: of course you are serving your customer as you offer them your product or service. However, too often, the culture of sales becomes self-serving. Immersed in a business-place mentality of meeting sales goals and quotas, or of proving personal selling capabilities by capturing every potential prospect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}