{"id":5571,"date":"2019-03-25T20:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2019-03-25T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T20:08:57","slug":"telling-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/telling-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the context of sales, using storytelling as a tool is a\nhighly effective means of increasing conversion and ultimately raise profits. Stories\nappeal to all types of people, from all backgrounds and walks of life. Telling\na story engages the audience and gives them a glimpse into an interesting\nexperience that may have happened in your life. Perhaps the most powerful\ncomponent of storytelling is the fact that it creates an opportunity for the\naudience to relate to the speaker in a very personal sense. This sense of\nrelating to somebody else can be the beginning of a meaningful friendship,\nwhich is a great type of reaction to occur in a sales setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that it has become apparent how important it is to\nengage with prospective clients as a salesman, you might be wondering how to\ntell a compelling story that would intrigue the client. The simple answer to\nthis idea is that you can only know what to say after learning more about the\ncustomer and truly trying to build sincere repour with them. There is no\nelaborate, canned story that a salesman should employ every time in hopes of\neliciting genuine response. Getting to know the target audience on a one to one\nlevel will yield far more pertinent information and make the conversation more\nenjoyable in general. True connection is something that everybody wants, so\nbeing able to give that to a potential client in a meaningful setting is a\nsure-fire way to gain their attention. At the end of the day, accomplishing\nthis task through storytelling should prove to be a fruitful strategy for\nnearly anybody involved in sales. The key is simply to make sure that the\ninteraction is in fact sincere and the customer will be able to see and\nappreciate that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of sales, using storytelling as a tool is a highly effective means of increasing conversion and ultimately raise profits. Stories appeal to all types of people, from all backgrounds and walks of life. Telling a story engages the audience and gives them a glimpse into an interesting experience that may have happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationship-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}