{"id":6886,"date":"2020-03-17T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2020-03-17T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:54:44","slug":"anastasia-the-coronavirus-what-do-they-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/anastasia-the-coronavirus-what-do-they-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Anastasia &#038; the Coronavirus \u2013 What do they have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As all of the craziness of this week has unfolded, I have been listening to music to help take my mind off of things. So, yesterday I was listening to the Broadway <em>Anastasia<\/em> soundtrack, and few of the words struck me as both interesting and relating to sales in our current situation. Those words come from the song \u201cA Rumor in St. Petersburg,\u201d and those words are: \u201cAh, the music box! It\u2019s genuine Romonov, I could never part with it!\/Two cans of beans comrade?\/Done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the musical, the world around them is changing, and there is a lot of chaos everywhere they turn. That very much feels relatable at this time. Different circumstances, but similar feelings. As I was listening to the track and I heard the words I listed above, my mind immediately shifted to the empty store shelves that have been filling our news feeds in the recent weeks. I began to wonder what sales techniques will look like in the coming days. Will people be more willing to help others and meet their customer\u2019s pain, or will people be more people be willing to take advantage of people in need of scarce resources, like toilet paper? In the words of this song the seller is willing to take beans as payment for a music box that he deemed to be valuable. It is clear that the seller does not actually perceive the music box\u2019s true value and believes two cans of beans to be a good deal. The seller is clearly trying to take advantage of people\u2019s resources. Ironically the music box turns out to be genuine and important to the plot, but the seller did not seem to know that and aimed to take advantage of his customers. Will that happen with the resources that people have in their homes during this pandemic? Is that already happening?<\/p>\n<p>Sales is moving people, and I feel like this could be a great opportunity to help others and build trust in our businesses. We can utilize those good sales techniques and show customers we care about them and build trust. Salespeople can be a great asset in this time of stress and need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As all of the craziness of this week has unfolded, I have been listening to music to help take my mind off of things. So, yesterday I was listening to the Broadway Anastasia soundtrack, and few of the words struck me as both interesting and relating to sales in our current situation. Those words come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,34,22],"tags":[9,18],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pain","category-retail-sales","tag-sales","tag-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886","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\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}