Two\nweeks ago, I had the opportunity to fly to Seattle with my dad for a tradeshow\nwith his company, Keystone Ridge Designs. \nHe has been to many tradeshows of all sizes and finds that it is a\nstrong suit of his when it comes to selling. \nIt gives him the chance to talk to people face to face and really focus\nin on what they are specifically looking for at a particular tradeshow. Seattle\u2019s tradeshow this year was called the \u2018Main\nStreet Now Conference\u2019 which focused on products or services targeted for smaller\ntown main streets. My dad came prepared\nby knowing the local Washington state customers that have previously purchased\nproducts from KRD and ready to meet new potential clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I let\nmy dad do most of the selling to the customers that he had previously worked\nwith but I made sure to engage with people walking around the tradeshow by\ninforming them of who KRD is and drawing them in by asking about their\nneeds. It was interesting just to meet new\npeople and discover where they were from or why they were at the Seattle\ntradeshow. My dad made a connection with\nthe Mayor of a small town in Texas that had over a 100-million-dollar budget\nfor site furnishings on their main street. \nWatching the way he connected with her about similar interests while\nstill selling KRD\u2019s products showed me how to be a genuine salesperson in the industry. The week-long trip was important to see my\ndad\u2019s selling tactics in action but also the engagement he had with building\nrelationships with people, regardless of their interest in his company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to fly to Seattle with my dad for a tradeshow with his company, Keystone Ridge Designs. He has been to many tradeshows of all sizes and finds that it is a strong suit of his when it comes to selling. It gives him the chance to talk to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","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\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}