{"id":710,"date":"2015-03-10T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=710"},"modified":"2015-03-10T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T17:38:21","slug":"people-dont-like-being-sold-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/people-dont-like-being-sold-to\/","title":{"rendered":"People Don&#8217;t Like Being Sold To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People today have such a bad perception of salesmen. \u00a0There are very obvious reasons behind that but the perception is slowly fading away due to the movement toward &#8220;relationship selling&#8221;. \u00a0That being said, there is a mentality that seems almost genetic which creates a hatred for being &#8220;sold to&#8221;. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know a single person who would say that they like to be convinced or have their mind changed. \u00a0How can you overcome this as a salesperson?<\/p>\n<p>As a salesperson, you need to take your client through the sales process without them even knowing that they are. \u00a0In saying this I don&#8217;t mean withholding product information or fastalking, I simply mean that the communication between you and the client should feel like a regular conversation. \u00a0By being fluent and educated you can guide the sale through the process in such a way that your client doesn&#8217;t feel like they&#8217;re being sold. \u00a0As the salesperson, you don&#8217;t have to be talking the whole time. \u00a0Half of your job should be to listen! \u00a0Let the client talk and build repor with them. \u00a0This is a huge component in being able to make sure the sale feels more like a friendly conversation as opposed to a hard sale.<\/p>\n<p>When the client feels more comfortable there will be less resistance in closing. \u00a0The comfortability comes from having conversations that are relatable to each person and feels like everyday talk. \u00a0In doing this, you will have less objections and road blocks in the sales cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People today have such a bad perception of salesmen. \u00a0There are very obvious reasons behind that but the perception is slowly fading away due to the movement toward &#8220;relationship selling&#8221;. \u00a0That being said, there is a mentality that seems almost genetic which creates a hatred for being &#8220;sold to&#8221;. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know a single person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}