{"id":4201,"date":"2018-03-18T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2018-03-18T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:57:15","slug":"how-not-to-interact-with-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/how-not-to-interact-with-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to interact with Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you get pretty annoyed when you get pestered by salespeople who come up to you, engage in awkward conversation with you, and give you unnecessary compliments. To me, it almost always feels scripted and fake, and I get uncomfortable or even angry sometimes when I&#8217;m bothered by relentless salespeople. When thinking about my experiences with these kind of people, I immediately was reminded of a scene from one of my favorite movies, Nacho Libre, which roughly displays this kind of interaction.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4_DJw0srtps<\/p>\n<p>In this scene, although Ramses is a jerk and Nacho Libre is innocently asking a request, Ramses takes the role of the potential prospect who is bothered by a &#8220;salesman&#8221;. When pestered and complimented, he reacted in anger and quite obviously didn&#8217;t give Nacho what he was seeking. I have also been tempted to react this way with annoying salespeople who try to force their product on me, or compliment me in order to try to sell me something, and I&#8217;m sure most of you have wanted to react this way as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you get pretty annoyed when you get pestered by salespeople who come up to you, engage in awkward conversation with you, and give you unnecessary compliments. To me, it almost always feels scripted and fake, and I get uncomfortable or even angry sometimes when I&#8217;m bothered by relentless salespeople. When thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}