{"id":3530,"date":"2017-05-08T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2017-05-08T23:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:02:18","slug":"sales-fails-a-personal-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sales-fails-a-personal-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Fails; A Personal Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout my sales experience which has just gotten to it’s one year anniversary, I can’t help but recall all the “fails” that have occurred throughout my experience. \u00a0Listed are upon some of the worst “fails” I’ve had selling Cutco Cutlery.<\/p>\n

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  1. Driving to a client’s house 1 hour away and realizing I was 1 day early<\/li>\n
  2. Showing up to a client’s house and realizing my knives were dirty with VARIOUS foods I had previously cut up (gross!)<\/li>\n
  3. Sneezing almost every sentence because of the amount of CATS the prospect had (I’m allergic). \u00a0We had to do the rest of the demo outside.<\/li>\n
  4. Using the bathroom during at someone’s house that didn’t have a door<\/li>\n
  5. Forgetting about demonstrations and then last minute rushing to get to them<\/li>\n
  6. Cutting myself (two different times)<\/li>\n
  7. Showing up at the wrong house<\/li>\n
  8. Mixing up 2 client’s orders ($1,000 order vs. $60)<\/li>\n
  9. Not knowing if the prospect was male or female once<\/li>\n
  10. 112 demonstrations with NO SALES<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Throughout every fail, there is a new opportunity to learn and recover. \u00a0Thus, we should all embrace our failures and recognize that it is normal (especially in sales) and that the situation can ONLY get better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Throughout my sales experience which has just gotten to it’s one year anniversary, I can’t help but recall all the “fails” that have occurred throughout my experience. \u00a0Listed are upon some of the worst “fails” I’ve had selling Cutco Cutlery. Driving to a client’s house 1 hour away and realizing I was 1 day early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}