{"id":6059,"date":"2019-05-09T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2019-05-09T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T17:32:46","slug":"the-heart-of-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/the-heart-of-the-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of the Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Salesman”, there is at times a dirty connotation to that word, a feeling of distrust, ill ease that comes on from previous experiences or just media portrayal of sleazy car salesmen. There is definitely reason for that uneasy feeling that sometimes is associated with sales. Honestly the reason for that is fairly clear, there are a lot of people in sales just looking out for their own interests and not trying to serve their prospects’ needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Christians we are called to be servant-minded just as Christ was. There isn’t a divide between work life and faith so as salespeople we are also called to serve. It may seem counter-intuitive or not economical to do so but it is in fact the best way to do business. What goes around ready does come around and in business relationships if you are caught only looking out for yourself odds are you will miss out on longevity of relationships in favor of short-term return. That isn’t a sustainable business model to always just go for the fast cash and swindle people at every turn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traditional negatively viewed salesperson is in it for the money. What if we as Christians flip that perception on its head? What if we’re in it for the people and the money is just a perk? Didn’t Jesus call us to love God and then love others? I’m not sure I’ve ever read a version of the Bible that says “Love money” or “Love success” and that is for good reason. If we are living life for each other in all things, if we seek to serve first then God will bless our endeavors. It is within his will that people care for one another and if we seek to do this in our sales and our businesses it will lead to the most prosperous outcomes for all involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Salesman”, there is at times a dirty connotation to that word, a feeling of distrust, ill ease that comes on from previous experiences or just media portrayal of sleazy car salesmen. There is definitely reason for that uneasy feeling that sometimes is associated with sales. Honestly the reason for that is fairly clear, there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,63,1],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god-and-sales","category-uncategorized","tag-serve-otherssecond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}