Knowing when you can help someone is obviously important in a given scenario is important, but something else that is really important is knowing when there is not a good fit between buyer and seller.\u00a0 As a salesman, but more importantly as a Christian, it is important that you are honest with all prospective customers because it not only glorifies God, but it also helps build relationships with them as well.\u00a0 When assessing a scenario with a prospective client it is important to realize that sometimes YOU will be the one that has to turn away from the sale even though that sale would make you money.\u00a0 This is how trust is built with someone and just because you may not be able to help them now doesn\u2019t mean that you will not be able to help them later, and if they need help in your area of expertise later down the road you will be at the top of their list because you were honest with them.<\/p>\n
I have heard many stories from my dad, who is a financial planner who specializes in life insurance and retirement planning, about how he has turned people away because he did not offer the type of product they were looking for.\u00a0 Fast forward a few years, most of those people were now in a position where they needed help with something that my dad was able to help them with and he was the first person that they called.<\/p>\n
It is very easy to get sidetracked on making a living and closing sales, especially when you are in a field where there is a definite knowledge gap between customer and seller, to talk someone into buying something that is not right for them.\u00a0 But as good and honest salespeople it is important to know when to turn away from a sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Knowing when you can help someone is obviously important in a given scenario is important, but something else that is really important is knowing when there is not a good fit between buyer and seller.\u00a0 As a salesman, but more importantly as a Christian, it is important that you are honest with all prospective customers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8615,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}