{"id":7818,"date":"2021-03-11T14:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:12:05","slug":"sales-and-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sales-and-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales and Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dating and sales have more in common than I thought they did.\u00a0 Both in the hypothetical and theoretical way, people approach sales and romantic dating quite similarly.\u00a0 Many people go into the dating world with a mindset of &#8220;selling yourself,&#8221; trying to put on their best face possible in order to attract the most buyers possible.\u00a0 They fear rejection as the worst thing possible and just want to find <em>a<\/em> buyer, not necessarily the <em>best<\/em> buyer.\u00a0 Going in this way is more the colloquial way of approaching sales, going at it the way the world views it.\u00a0 However, this is not how actual sales work, nor is it how actual dating should work.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the sales core concepts that we talked about in class can be directly applied to dating\u00a0<em>the right way.<\/em>\u00a0 Core concept 1 discusses learning to fail to win, a very helpful maxim when approaching a romantic relationship.\u00a0 Not every person is right for you, just like how not every sale is the right one.\u00a0 In the sales world, sometimes things just aren&#8217;t the right fit, no matter how much you would like them to be.\u00a0 The dating world is no different.\u00a0 Being afraid of rejection holds you back from both pursuing the best relationship or encourages you to stay in a relationship that clearly isn&#8217;t the best fit.\u00a0 Learning to embrace failure like a salesperson can keep you buoyant, optimistic, and on the right track in the dating world.<\/p>\n<p>Dating does not have to be approached as a terrifying ordeal in which rejection and heartbreak is inevitable.\u00a0 It does not even need to be approached as an opportunity to\u00a0<em>sell yourself<\/em> to anyone who&#8217;s willing to pay you the time of day.\u00a0 Instead, dating is like sales in the purest way: it&#8217;s just an opportunity to talk to someone about their life and problems and see if both of your problems and pain are compatible.\u00a0 Sometimes the sale happens and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t, but that&#8217;s the beauty of the sales process &#8211; you can just pick right on up and keep going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating and sales have more in common than I thought they did.\u00a0 Both in the hypothetical and theoretical way, people approach sales and romantic dating quite similarly.\u00a0 Many people go into the dating world with a mindset of &#8220;selling yourself,&#8221; trying to put on their best face possible in order to attract the most buyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7893,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}