{"id":2933,"date":"2017-03-02T05:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2017-03-02T05:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:26:03","slug":"sales-pitches-and-cinematography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sales-pitches-and-cinematography\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Pitches and Cinematography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For today\u2019s blog post I will discuss three best cinematic sales pitches. Too often, the media personifies sales people negatively; either through crude behavior, demanding language, or deceitful persuasion. However, the scenes cited below provide viewers with real reasons as to why sales people act the way they do. Either through tactics of optimism, peer pressure, or creativity, these characters aim to convince their potential clients the <strong>need <\/strong>and <strong>pain <\/strong>their products satisfy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pursuit of Happiness <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This scene is especially memorable because Will Smith is forced to sell himself, his situation, and his credentials. The <em>Pursuit of Happiness<\/em> displays the importance of genuine relationships and integrity that are vital and respected in the sales industry. Smith states, \u201cI am the type of person, if you ask me a question and I don\u2019t know the answer, I am going to tell you that I don\u2019t know. But I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.\u201d Surprisingly, his transparent attitude earned him an offer at the sales firm.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Pursuit Of Happyness - Job Interview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gHXKitKAT1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Music Man <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harold Hill uses the strategic mechanism of pain, in order to convince his current clients into buying his products. He convinces individuals that his products are necessary vital for their future embitterment. Hill states, \u201cAll week long in River City you will be frittering away, your young men will be frittering away their noontime, suppertime for time to get the ball in the pocket.\u201d He warns his clients that an idle brain is the devil\u2019s playground. Through this scare factor, Hill successfully convinces the town into his scheme.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Music Man &quot;Ya Got Trouble&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LI_Oe-jtgdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mad Men<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don introduces the use of emotion in selling, specifically stating that everyone has a story to tell. During this scene, Don is pitching the Hershey\u2019s chocolate brand to a group of associates. After talking about a memorable trip to the convenience store with his father, Don goes on to describe the emotional impact that one Hershey\u2019s cholate bar had on his relationship with his father.\u00a0 Don states, \u201cHis love and the chocolate were tied together. Hershey\u2019s is the currency of affection, a childhood symbol of love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Hershey&#039;s pitch - Don breaks and reveals sad childhood - Mad Men great emotional scene \u05de\u05d3 \u05de\u05df\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gxMef0hYIWw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today\u2019s blog post I will discuss three best cinematic sales pitches. Too often, the media personifies sales people negatively; either through crude behavior, demanding language, or deceitful persuasion. However, the scenes cited below provide viewers with real reasons as to why sales people act the way they do. Either through tactics of optimism, peer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}