{"id":5726,"date":"2019-04-15T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2019-04-15T17:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:28:51","slug":"blaine-hursts-advice-on-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/blaine-hursts-advice-on-problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaine Hurst&#8217;s Advice on Problem Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blaine Hurst\u2019s Advice on Problem Solving<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past Monday, I had the honor of joining Mr. Blaine Hurst for lunch in the entrepreneurship center for E + I. He was such a personable <g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\">business man<\/g> and shared story after story of how he has completely evolved Panera bread through their Panera 2.0 initiative. One of the biggest problems he constantly must overcome is that of systematic problems. He can easily spot out one issue that his customers are facing and solve it quickly due to a significantly large team and <g class=\"gr_ gr_19 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"19\" data-gr-id=\"19\">massive<\/g> budget. Even though he is capable of solving these small issues quickly, he mentioned to me that the most efficient and effective way to solve problems is by tackling them systematically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.joshuanhook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/960x0.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for problems\" width=\"402\" height=\"267\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 402px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 402\/267;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> During this lunch I had with him, he said, \u201cThe biggest mistake that young entrepreneurs make these days is attempting a problem of today, instead of forecasting and proactively solving the problems of the future. This is exactly what he and his team aim to do, and it has proven to be extremely successful for Panera 2.0. In sales, it is extremely important to dig deep into the pains of your client and attempt to solve the problems that they might not even know about. A salesperson who can accurately forecast these things is on the road to success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaine Hurst\u2019s Advice on Problem Solving This past Monday, I had the honor of joining Mr. Blaine Hurst for lunch in the entrepreneurship center for E + I. He was such a personable business man and shared story after story of how he has completely evolved Panera bread through their Panera 2.0 initiative. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","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\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5727,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}