{"id":4532,"date":"2018-05-09T17:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2018-05-09T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:35:29","slug":"sell-me-this-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sell-me-this-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell Me This Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common stereotype of sales career interviews is the &#8220;sell me this product right now&#8221; question. Any job interview, not just for a sales job, in the world of business, will lean heavily on the interviewee&#8217;s ability to sell themselves, their abilities, and the company when they ultimately are hired. I found an article from the Balance Careers that offers insight on how to approach this question.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewers want to see your ability to improvise. The last thing they want to see is a rehearsed answer, so don&#8217;t look at this article for that reason. Despite this temptation, I thought it would be valuable to read about how to approach this kind of question and think about it in terms of what we&#8217;ve learned in this class.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Be Positive and Enthusiastic\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Don&#8217;t be bashful. Go crazy for this pen. Show them how this pen means to you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emphasize the features the interviewer will value &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>features tell, benefits sell. Identify what the interviewer is attracted to in the offering of your pen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be ready to sell &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>you can&#8217;t always expect them to play along like Professor Sweet. Be prepared to rattle off the script.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Probe for reservations about the product or service &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>get past the interest and find out if the fit is right for them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make an attempt to close &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Interviewers want to see that you care. Set up the appointment,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t be afraid to employ some creativity &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>being 100% correct matters less than being persuasive in an improv situation like this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebalancecareers.com\/interview-answers-for-sell-me-this-apple-2060976\">Enjoy the full article!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common stereotype of sales career interviews is the &#8220;sell me this product right now&#8221; question. Any job interview, not just for a sales job, in the world of business, will lean heavily on the interviewee&#8217;s ability to sell themselves, their abilities, and the company when they ultimately are hired. I found an article from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}