{"id":9705,"date":"2023-02-06T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2023-02-07T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:27:46","slug":"first-blog-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/first-blog-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to the in-class lectures, I believe that it is important to address the stigma surrounding many salemen. From the portrayals that we see in movies to the stories that we here about in real life, they all tend to paint the picture that in sales, the only thing that matters is closing the deal. In reality however, a small percentage of people taint the perception of the majority of the group; not all car salesmen will deliberately try to manipulate you, nor will all stock brokers try to get you to buy into a company that is not a good fit for you. An example of good salemanship can be seen from my personal experience working for an investment bank, where I have observed nothing but the utmost transparency between the firm and the client and predation is not something to be tolerated. When there is mutual respect, and a well defined sense of morality in sales, great things can happen. It is important to be prepared for the fact that unscrupulous salemen exist and that you will likely come across multiple in your lifetime, however, it is far better to provide to trust but verify what a salesman has to say. Be mindful of your interactions with people in sales, exercise caution when prudent, but do not come to hasty conclusions based on a single bad interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to the in-class lectures, I believe that it is important to address the stigma surrounding many salemen. From the portrayals that we see in movies to the stories that we here about in real life, they all tend to paint the picture that in sales, the only thing that matters is closing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","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\/3116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9765,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}