{"id":5929,"date":"2019-05-06T02:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T02:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2019-05-06T02:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T02:07:15","slug":"just-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/just-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When it comes to something like the game of sales, small differences can go an incredibly long way, and when it comes to something as easy as a smile, why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ak6.picdn.net\/shutterstock\/videos\/3875606\/thumb\/9.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for smiling business woman\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In David Carnegie&#8217;s well renowned book <em>How to Win Friends and Influence People, <\/em>Carnegie outlines a number of tips which can be used throughout sales conversations in order to better your odds of &#8220;winning the sale.&#8221; The number one tip that Carnegie has for us, as salespeople is to smile! He calls it a &#8220;simple way to make a good first impression,&#8221; which could not be more true. I am increasingly interested in tips such as these which are so simple, yet so impactful. Even when going about our daily interactions with one another, a simple smile can go a long way in the way you are perceived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smiles can be implemented throughout businesses to bring them to their full selling capacity. We see fantastic examples of this from places such as Chik-Fil-A and Starbucks. When an employee is happy while dealing with a customer, that customer will inevitably enjoy their experience much more. However, if that same employee seems as though their job is sucking the life out of them before your very eyes, you will undoubtedly feel much different about your experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Implementing a simple smile into your daily life, as well as into your selling endeavors can make you much more successful than if you were without that smile. So just smile! it will go a long way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to something like the game of sales, small differences can go an incredibly long way, and when it comes to something as easy as a smile, why not? In David Carnegie&#8217;s well renowned book How to Win Friends and Influence People, Carnegie outlines a number of tips which can be used throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dos-and-donts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5963,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}