{"id":118,"date":"2009-07-27T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matriximpact.com\/fsf\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-07-27T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T14:53:00","slug":"are-salespeople-growing-stale-and-are-customers-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/2009\/07\/27\/are-salespeople-growing-stale-and-are-customers-frustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Are salespeople growing stale and are customers frustrated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">A great discussion on Linked In today prompted this post, here is my answer to the question:<\/h4>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The short answer &#8220;are salespeople growing stale NO, are customers frustrated YES. Here&#8217;s why&#8230;<br \/>\nBusiness people want to work with other business people. I am proud to be a sales person but I am successful because of what I know about business; generally my overall business acumen and specifically my client&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sales people are churned out now at a disgusting rate with such a small percentage surviving. Management has some responsibility here but let&#8217;s face it the ultimate responsibility lays at he door of the individual. Most seek the EASIEST way to success, few are willing to do what it takes, REALLY TAKE!<\/p>\n<p>So are salespeople growing stale NO, they are growing lazy. Are customers frustrated YES they want somebody who &#8220;sits on their side of the table&#8221; and is not just worried with features and benefits. If you are not a life long student of business and its practices and you don&#8217;t put in the time to learn about your customer&#8217;s business well &#8220;Vaya Con Huevos&#8221; Go with Eggs cuz nobody else will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great discussion on Linked In today prompted this post, here is my answer to the question: The short answer &#8220;are salespeople growing stale NO, are customers frustrated YES. Here&#8217;s why&#8230; Business people want to work with other business people. I am proud to be a sales person but I am successful because of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice","category-sales-3-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}