{"id":2681,"date":"2017-02-08T03:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T03:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2017-02-08T03:14:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T03:14:40","slug":"selling-to-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/selling-to-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling to Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>At the beginning of this semester, I had a friend who said he was taking a course I had previously taken, and was looking to buy my book that I had\u00a0used for the course. I have no need for the book anymore and my friend needs the book. This is great, I thought,\u00a0I can sell my book and gain shelf space in the process.\u00a0He had a need and I had the means to meet those needs and could get something in return.\u00a0My friend chose the price,\u00a0paid the twenty dollars and I gave him the book. Everything was good. That is\u00a0until a week later when my friend came to me asking to return the book. His professor was requiring the students to buy the online book and the “Learn Smarts” that went with the book. Before my friend asked to return the book and get his money back I was happy. I had twenty dollars that I did not have before and no longer had a book I would have ever used again. Needless to say, when my friend asked to return the book, I was disappointed. I reluctantly gave my friend his money back and put this deplorable book back on my shelf. My friends need was no longer something I could meet and he was asking me to be fair and accept a return on his purchase. I then began to think, what’s more important, those twenty\u00a0dollars, or helping a\u00a0friend out and taking back the book? <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this case it was a no brainer. Help the friend out! But what if this was not a friend but rather someone I had never known\u00a0before? Would I have allowed him to return the book? Would I have made up an excuse and told him I already spent the money? These are questions I probably could only answer if the scenario presented itself, but\u00a0I would hope that I would be willing to accept the book back in all cases. I think that it was and is my job as the salesman not to have a greedy mindset but rather a helpful mindset. In all sales situations I think it is important that we treat our clients as friends, not as dollar signs. We should put the interests of our clients ahead of our own personal monetary gain. <\/span><\/p>\n

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