{"id":510,"date":"2015-02-22T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=510"},"modified":"2015-02-22T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T18:27:23","slug":"like-a-kid-in-a-100-acre-candy-store-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/like-a-kid-in-a-100-acre-candy-store-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Kid in a 100 Acre Candy Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/candystore.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-171 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/candystore.jpeg\" alt=\"Kid in a candy store\" width=\"160\" height=\"195\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/195;\" \/><\/a>We all know this pain way too well. We are out shopping for a gift or even for ourselves and we get to the store an there are a million variations of the exact same thing. This can happen with phones, clothes, electronics of any kind, furniture\u2026 the list goes on but the idea is that we are overwhelmed by the number of options, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/240479%20\" target=\"_blank\">we end up making a poor decision or we do not buying anything at all because we cannot choose.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rather than leaving a customer to fend for themselves have someone aid the in the decision making process. It is a necessity to have a sales person at a furniture or car dealership. If customers come in not know what they want they will see a field of cars and just walk aimlessly looking at the stickers and just looking at MPGs because they have no idea what else to look for and then leave because they got nothing out of the experience. A salesperson can talk and relate and see what the customer needs. From there they can point them in the right direction and give a customer something to look at and narrow down the choices. That is the biggest step. If you can reduce the number of choices from 31 to 5, that is a victory and something a person can handle.<\/p>\n<p>Now some people do not want any help and do have an idea of what they are looking for, this is more common now because of the customer\u2019s access to information before the buying process. In these cases it is still important to approach them and ask if they need help. People will appreciate the offer and may end up asking that person for advice or detail about a product.<\/p>\n<p>It all comes down to being a business or salesperson who is not pressuring anyone to buy, but rather to be there to inform customers about what they are looking at and help them in the right direction. If you can do that, the potential of losing a sale goes way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know this pain way too well. We are out shopping for a gift or even for ourselves and we get to the store an there are a million variations of the exact same thing. This can happen with phones, clothes, electronics of any kind, furniture\u2026 the list goes on but the idea is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-process","category-sales-struggles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}