{"id":3996,"date":"2018-03-06T05:03:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2018-03-06T05:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:03:33","slug":"a-box-of-sales-and-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/a-box-of-sales-and-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"A Box of Sales and Calories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNcBEyARw6a-raol-CY5pawDVdsMxzxsscGkKGziNaXcOOhg7B\" alt=\"Image result for girl scout cookies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tis the season of gaining five pounds off of Girl Scouts Cookies. From age 8 to age 13 I was the highest cookie box seller of my Troup. Some may ask how? How can someone be so successful in such a competitive industry. My only answer is that I knew how to read my audience. In sales it is necessary to observe EVERYTHING, like we learned in class. As I walked, up to a house I made sure to observe their environment which gave me many clues and hints about their business and behaviors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.girlscouts.org\/content\/dam\/girlscouts-gsusa\/images\/Cookies\/meet-the-cookies\/Meet-the-Cookies4.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for girl scout cookies\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another aspect that helped was my conscious mimicry of each person I met. There were many benefits from this and some disadvantages. When meeting someone I often would mimic their body language and often their accents, if they have one. The problem is that, in many ways, this was offensive. At the time, my 8 year old self didn&#8217;t understand that.<\/p>\n<p>Being the extravert I am, I feel like I could have done better if I had understood the needs to make fewer assertions and ask more questions. I had the difficultly of not talking a ton. I needed to listen more. With any awkward silences, I had to fill them in order for the experience to not become uncomfortable, so I would continue to ramble to fill the empty space. In many ways, this actually scared away the customer because they didn&#8217;t even have the chance to say hello. Many sales people lose their customers because they aren&#8217;t able to read their comfort level and personality causing them to scare away the potential customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tis the season of gaining five pounds off of Girl Scouts Cookies. From age 8 to age 13 I was the highest cookie box seller of my Troup. Some may ask how? How can someone be so successful in such a competitive industry. My only answer is that I knew how to read my audience. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}