{"id":5420,"date":"2019-03-13T04:29:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2019-03-13T04:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:29:38","slug":"dos-and-donts-of-selling-to-friends-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/dos-and-donts-of-selling-to-friends-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;t&#8217;s of Selling to Friends and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"380\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/18767688_1559940074037630_5644288747591920470_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5421 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/18767688_1559940074037630_5644288747591920470_n.jpg 339w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/18767688_1559940074037630_5644288747591920470_n-268x300.jpg 268w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 339px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 339\/380;\" \/><figcaption>My brother Adam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of my internship this summer, I was employed to create a client base based off my natural market. In other words, sell to friends and family. This was tough for a number of reasons, mainly because everyone I talked to just saw me as a kid and had trouble taking me seriously as a professional. They had trouble getting the little kid out of their mind and could not believe that a 21 year old man could actually help out their finances. In fact, I got a good amount of responses that basically said that I was too young to handle their finances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I figured out is that when dealing with friends and family, it is best to separate business from personal life and command respect in the sales region. This helps to allow them to take you seriously as a professional as opposed to as a kid. Go and meet at places you&#8217;ve never been or have the meetings in your office. Don&#8217;t hold meetings over the phone. It is too easy to get the wrong impression from their end because you are not providing a visual to them and it feels disconnected. This reinforces the idea of you as a kid. It is also helpful to bring an older colleague along to help reinforce the idea that you are serious and there are more people behind you than just good faith from childhood. Also, a lot of people will meet with you because you&#8217;re nice or they liked your parents. Attack those meetings and use that goodwill to your advantage. Make sure that you are able to milk that meeting for at least solid leads. However, don&#8217;t be too ferocious or then grandma will block your number because you have called looking for leads or sale 5 times in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of my internship this summer, I was employed to create a client base based off my natural market. In other words, sell to friends and family. This was tough for a number of reasons, mainly because everyone I talked to just saw me as a kid and had trouble taking me seriously as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dos-and-donts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}