{"id":2525,"date":"2016-05-10T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2016-05-10T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:18:59","slug":"fear-of-people-early-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/fear-of-people-early-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of People &#8211; Early Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up I was a really nervous kid who was very reluctant to in social situations. I hated introducing myself and speaking in public. thankfully my father knew the importance of networking and being social. I watched him closely, it seemed to come very naturally to him and he was truly a great salesman in every aspect. as a kid he would point people out and &#8220;ask&#8221; me to introduce myself to them, he would put me in awkward situations to see how id react to the pressure. I remember hating it every time, but in the end I learned it was never as bad as it seemed<\/p>\n<p>After breaking my fear of people I asked my dad to teach some fundamental sales skills that would help me in the future. he immediately responded saying &#8220;cold calling&#8221; and &#8220;door to door&#8221;. over one summer he began to teach me both of these skills. first I worked for his company making cold calls to potential clients. at first I stumbled over my words and got rejected plenty of times. door to door selling didn&#8217;t go much better. i told my dad, the only thing im learning is how to get rejected, he responded with &#8220;exactly&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>little did i know that sales is about taking rejection and picking yourself. the more you get rejected the more you learn to avoid it and start closing sales. i am very thankful for the life lessons sales provides. sales skills have proven themselves to be incredibly useful in so many areas of my development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up I was a really nervous kid who was very reluctant to in social situations. I hated introducing myself and speaking in public. thankfully my father knew the importance of networking and being social. I watched him closely, it seemed to come very naturally to him and he was truly a great salesman in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}