{"id":9120,"date":"2022-03-22T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=9120"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:31:35","slug":"rule-14-a-prospect-who-is-listening-is-no-prospect-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/rule-14-a-prospect-who-is-listening-is-no-prospect-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule #14: A Prospect Who is Listening is No Prospect at All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rule #14 is one of my favorite of Pink&#8217;s Rules. Rule #14 is something that every seller should keep in mind. With this rule, it means that if aren&#8217;t listening as the seller and are talking then you aren&#8217;t selling because you haven&#8217;t asked what the buyer needs or haven&#8217;t found the pain in the buyer. First, you should find a potential problem then you should get the prospect to talk about it. In our notes, Dr. Sweet says that we should say, &#8220;Tell me more about that&#8230;.&#8221; to keep the conversation going. When salespeople talk to much, the buyer isn&#8217;t being heard and they could be over hearing you ramble information that maybe they don&#8217;t even care about. Salespeople should also keep in mine to not interrupt the buyer, and to really listen. Lastly, you shouldn&#8217;t be thinking about your next question while they are talking because then that means you aren&#8217;t listening to what they are saying.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this hand in hand when I took a quick trip to Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods. When I went to this store I was first greeted with people who asked if I was looking for anything specific today. At first I said no, thank you because I didn&#8217;t think I was until I got to the shoe section and I realized that I needed a new pair of tennis shoes. I was kind of looking around frantically until someone came over and asked if I needed help. The guy was super sweet and he asked me what I was looking for in a shoe, my price range, and if I was looking for any specific brand. He asked good questions and let me speak fully without getting interrupted. All in all, I walked out of Dick&#8217;s Sporting Good&#8217;s with a great pair of shoes and a smile on my face from my positive buying experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule #14 is one of my favorite of Pink&#8217;s Rules. Rule #14 is something that every seller should keep in mind. With this rule, it means that if aren&#8217;t listening as the seller and are talking then you aren&#8217;t selling because you haven&#8217;t asked what the buyer needs or haven&#8217;t found the pain in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120","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\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions\/9121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}