{"id":5761,"date":"2019-04-16T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2019-04-16T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:24:16","slug":"interacting-with-sales-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/interacting-with-sales-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"Interacting with sales reps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few weeks ago, I started an internship with a company called Warren Industries. They are a supplier of kitchen appliances, cabinets, water pipes, hot water tanks, and a huge variety of other products. I will be working for them after graduation in a few weeks and I&#8217;ve gotten some chances to speak with customers already. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the first people I got to talk to was a sales rep from a company that sells hot water tanks to us in bulk so that we can sell them to contractors and other people that would buy them from us. I have only been there a few weeks but apparently my company had switched suppliers and this sales rep was not happy. So they gave the intern the meeting with him so that they didn&#8217;t have to listen to him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am new to the industry and have no idea what a hot water tank costs. It turns out after listening to this guy ramble on and plead with me i talked him down to a cost of about $250 per tank. It turns out we were paying another company $315 for the same tank. So I told my boss what he offered and he called the rep and ordered a bunch of these tanks at a huge discount. All it took was someone to talk this company down and to say we aren&#8217;t going to buy from them anymore and they cut their price drastically. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I started an internship with a company called Warren Industries. They are a supplier of kitchen appliances, cabinets, water pipes, hot water tanks, and a huge variety of other products. I will be working for them after graduation in a few weeks and I&#8217;ve gotten some chances to speak with customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761","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\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}