{"id":7700,"date":"2021-02-17T01:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2021-02-17T01:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:35:23","slug":"sales-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sales-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales In Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selling plays a massive role in politics.\u00a0 When hopeful politicians campaign for office they are selling on several levels.\u00a0 They are selling their platform to voters and they are selling their own vote to donors.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the characteristics required for a salesperson overlap with politicians.\u00a0 Politicians must be winsome, charismatic,\u00a0 and convincing just like salespeople.\u00a0 Politicians work to build a relationship of trust with their base. Similarly, salespeople build trust with their customers.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians must also sell specific policies and decisions to other politicians in order to make good on their promises to their base.\u00a0 Voters experience a form of &#8220;Buyer&#8217;s remorse&#8221; when their candidate doesn&#8217;t fulfill the promises made during the campaign.\u00a0 Therefore, voters should be just as careful if not more so when choosing a politician than when they spend their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling plays a massive role in politics.\u00a0 When hopeful politicians campaign for office they are selling on several levels.\u00a0 They are selling their platform to voters and they are selling their own vote to donors. Many of the characteristics required for a salesperson overlap with politicians.\u00a0 Politicians must be winsome, charismatic,\u00a0 and convincing just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700","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\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}