{"id":2509,"date":"2016-05-10T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2016-05-10T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T11:46:16","slug":"car-salesmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/car-salesmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Salesmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over Easter break, I visited many various car dealerships looking for a small, affordable car to drive this summer. \u00a0During this search process, I had the opportunity to witness many different salespeople in action. \u00a0At one dealership, the man we worked with was your typical &#8220;salesman&#8221;. \u00a0He was loud, push, and assumed he knew\u00a0<em>exactly<\/em> what we wanted. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t really ask questions, and instead\u00a0simply told me what I needed. \u00a0Finally, we visited a dealership where the man we worked with approached sales from a completely different perspective. \u00a0He asked me what I was looking for, showed me cars, and asked me how similar they were to what I had in mind. \u00a0He was honest with pricing and the features of the cars, and allowed me to test drive the car on my own. \u00a0This experience helped me firsthand to see how much more valuable it is to be a salesman who asks questions and is concerned about the buyer as a person, and not merely a potential profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Easter break, I visited many various car dealerships looking for a small, affordable car to drive this summer. \u00a0During this search process, I had the opportunity to witness many different salespeople in action. \u00a0At one dealership, the man we worked with was your typical &#8220;salesman&#8221;. \u00a0He was loud, push, and assumed he knew\u00a0exactly what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}