{"id":4005,"date":"2018-03-10T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2018-03-11T02:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T02:03:25","slug":"not-a-sales-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/not-a-sales-job\/","title":{"rendered":"(Not a) Sales Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the start of this “Sales in the Startup” course, I had the impression that I would never be in sales, nor would I ever want to. The second class period, though, we learned a bit about non-sales selling. And coincidentally, we discussed the very job I have an internship in right now: ministry.<\/p>\n

Non-Sales Selling<\/h4>\n

The term non-sales selling is introduced in Daniel Pink’s book,\u00a0To Sell is Human\u00a0<\/em>in the first few pages as, “persuading, convincing, and influencing others to give up something they’ve got in exchange for what we’ve got.”<\/p>\n

As the book continues, I learned about a study done entitled\u00a0What Do You Do At Work?<\/em>\u00a0“where two main findings emerged: 1. people are now spending about 40 percent of their time at work engaged in non-sales selling — persuading, influencing, and convincing others in ways that don’t involve anyone making a purchase. Across a range of professions, we are devoting roughly twenty-four minutes of every hour to moving others. 2. People consider this aspect of their work crucial to their professional success — even in excess of the considerable amount of time they devote to it.”<\/p>\n

Ministry<\/h4>\n

For the past (almost) year, I have had an internship at a church in middle school ministry. I go to every youth group event that is held, hang out with middle-schoolers frequently, and am always looking for ways to relate to them.<\/p>\n

How does this relate to selling, you might ask, like I did early on in the class? Pink’s book poses the question: “What percentage of your work involves convincing or persuading people to give up something they value for something you have?”<\/p>\n

When I thought more about this – it hit me. Something that we say in the church ALL the time is along the lines of “Lay down this old, no good, anxiety-filled life. Lay down your burdens, and trade it for a loving, caring, incredibly selfless love that Jesus provides!” Perspective change<\/strong>. I’d love to have a job in sales. Helping others see that what I have (a relationship with Jesus) is so much more valuable than anything they could ever have would be a job I would be in love with and honored to have.<\/p>\n

\"Lay<\/p>\n

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At the start of this “Sales in the Startup” course, I had the impression that I would never be in sales, nor would I ever want to. The second class period, though, we learned a bit about non-sales selling. And coincidentally, we discussed the very job I have an internship in right now: ministry. Non-Sales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sales-selling","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","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\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}