{"id":7616,"date":"2021-02-08T06:34:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2021-02-08T06:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:34:39","slug":"moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is not easy, it will not go your way, you will face challenges and failures. The same thing goes for sales. There will be shut downs, rejections, poor selling and customer experiences and extreme pressure. The important thing is to ask yourself, What are you gonna do about it? Are you going to give up and play the victim or are you going to move forward and make a change?<\/p>\n<p>In the clip that I have attached from the movie Rocky, Rocky is giving his son some motivational advice to his son that demonstrates the importance of moving forward:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Rocky Balboa&#039;s inspirational speech to his son.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Z5OookwOoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here Rocky Balboa understands the challenges that his son experiences due to his status, but what&#8217;s important to notice is that Rocky challenges his son to start taking responsibility of his own life and not let his family status dictate his success. Success comes from learning and growing from challenges and therefore moving on to press towards the end goal. In sales, when faced with challenges, it is vital to react responsibly otherwise you are putting yours and the company&#8217;s reputation on the line. It can actually cause more damage than what&#8217;s already been done. Adjustment must be made to close those deals, ensure customer satisfaction and maintaining the goal of the company and product.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t be a coward and quit when things get difficult. Remember this acronym (yes it is cheesy but hopefully helpful) CALM: Correct, Adjust, Learn and Move. Remembering these four steps will ensure that when you face a challenge in the sales world, but also life in general, you can be better equipped to respond responsibly and effectively to moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is not easy, it will not go your way, you will face challenges and failures. The same thing goes for sales. There will be shut downs, rejections, poor selling and customer experiences and extreme pressure. The important thing is to ask yourself, What are you gonna do about it? Are you going to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616","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\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7617,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}