{"id":7080,"date":"2020-03-29T03:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T03:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2020-03-29T03:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T03:30:04","slug":"sell-moments-not-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sell-moments-not-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell Moments not Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the goal of a sales rep is to sell what they have to offer and that is most likely a material item. For example tickets, shoes, clothes, cars, and food. Researchers have pointed out that while there are people who love to buy &#8216;things&#8217; the majority of the population walk on a more conservative lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>I, personally, am not one to buy something on the spot. I rarely have a want or a desire when it comes to material items. I am not a minimalist but I do not enjoy &#8216;getting things&#8217;. I am a &#8216;make a memory&#8217; type of soul. If someone tried to sell me a raffle ticket to buy a blanket, I will not buy it, however, if that someone framed the blanket into a moment in my head, that is one step closer for me to buy the raffle ticket.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a trend lately from buying materials to buying memories because the world is changing in how they see the importance of moments. Spending time with loved ones and friends are more valued and if you can wrap that into a selling pitch, you are more likely to make a sale than spewing off the qualities of the object.<a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-06.38.06.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6812 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-06.38.06-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-06.38.06-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-06.38.06-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-06.38.06-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-06.38.06-624x413.png 624w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-06.38.06.png 1524w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the goal of a sales rep is to sell what they have to offer and that is most likely a material item. For example tickets, shoes, clothes, cars, and food. Researchers have pointed out that while there are people who love to buy &#8216;things&#8217; the majority of the population walk on a more conservative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}