{"id":6596,"date":"2020-02-29T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2020-02-29T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T21:38:07","slug":"sales-and-the-mentality-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sales-and-the-mentality-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales and The Mentality Behind It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sales-Mentality.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6597\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sales-Mentality.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?attachment_id=6597\" class=\"wp-image-6597 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sales-Mentality.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sales-Mentality-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Relating back to my previous blog post, what can really define a bad salesperson and a good salesperson is the mentality that each of them has. It can be perfectly summarized in the image above, &#8220;<em>winners find solutions, losers find excuses.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember back in my old sales job, someone had told a story about how they were on their way to an in-home visit (we&#8217;ll call them X) and had someone shadowing them (person Y). The two individuals arrived at the house and no one was there. Person X didn&#8217;t want to have their time to go to waste, so she decided to walk over to that person&#8217;s neighbor and asked if she knew when her client would be back home. The neighbor actually invited them into their house, and X ended up selling one of the more expensive products to the neighbor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moral of the story is that only those with the right mentality can make the best of a bad situation. Most people would have turned away from the first house with their head down since they had just shown whoever they were shadowing a bad experience, and could have turned the prospective worker from applying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relating back to my previous blog post, what can really define a bad salesperson and a good salesperson is the mentality that each of them has. It can be perfectly summarized in the image above, &#8220;winners find solutions, losers find excuses.&#8221; I remember back in my old sales job, someone had told a story about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}