{"id":2812,"date":"2017-02-20T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2017-02-20T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:55:11","slug":"honesty-vs-tmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/honesty-vs-tmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Honesty vs. TMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honesty is one of the most valued attributes of any human and is very important in being a successful salesman. When a salesman is honest and has a track record of being honest,\u00a0customers\u00a0can trust what the salesman is saying. They can trust they are getting a good deal, or that\u00a0the product is as good as he is saying.\u00a0Honesty allows for a sale to go smoothly with little questioning and fact checking from the customer. In a sale it is helpful for the salesman to\u00a0present the facts as facts and not\u00a0twist them.\u00a0Another\u00a0valuable attribute to selling is discernment. A good salesman must be\u00a0discerning with information they give the client. The salesman needs to be honest,\u00a0but at the\u00a0same time\u00a0revealing too much information too soon can me detrimental to a sale. Not necessarily because it is bad information, but because this extra information is not what the customer looking for. A customer might be in need of a computer that can help the customer schedule appointments and run daily business operations, the computer that you are selling can does that in addition to a million other things. A good salesman will not dwell on the million other things the computer can do, but instead show how the computer can meet the needs of the customer. A good salesperson will present the\u00a0benefits of the product that meet the needs of the customer but nothing more unless the customer asks. They will let the customer do most of the talking and answer any questions that the customer has.\u00a0In conclusion, a good salesman must be both honest and discerning with the information they give their\u00a0client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honesty is one of the most valued attributes of any human and is very important in being a successful salesman. When a salesman is honest and has a track record of being honest,\u00a0customers\u00a0can trust what the salesman is saying. They can trust they are getting a good deal, or that\u00a0the product is as good as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","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\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}