{"id":774,"date":"2015-03-11T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=774"},"modified":"2015-03-11T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:34:28","slug":"use-superior-knowledge-sparingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/use-superior-knowledge-sparingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Use superior knowledge sparingly"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Don’t sabotage sales with your expertise – use your superior knowledge sparingly.” – Rule 24<\/p>\n

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Doing IT work, web design, and generally techy and computery stuff for people I learned very quickly not to flaunt my knowledge or throw industry jargon around too heavily. After a while, people start looking at you like you’re an alien from the future…<\/p>\n

I’ve learned to summarize and break things down into understandable steps. I’ve also learned that people don’t necessarily want the answer to questions they ask. I’ve started answering the question, “why is my computer doing that,” with something like, “because it’s being temperamental because of the new update, don’t worry, I’ll patch it up,” instead of something like, “well, you have a few registry errors, outdated drivers, and I think you’ve been trying to defragment your solid state drive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Don’t sabotage sales with your expertise – use your superior knowledge sparingly.” – Rule 24 Doing IT work, web design, and generally techy and computery stuff for people I learned very quickly not to flaunt my knowledge or throw industry jargon around too heavily. After a while, people start looking at you like you’re an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}