{"id":1206,"date":"2016-06-07T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2016-06-07T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:55:39","slug":"hiding-behind-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/2016\/06\/07\/hiding-behind-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding Behind Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>In the very recent past, it has been taught making a phone call was \u201cold school.\u201d That sales is now all about social selling and electronic correspondence. But one thing has NOT changed. A sale doesn\u2019t happen until a salesperson engages with a customer. Funny how quick the cycle came back around.<\/h4>\n<h4>We have become presenters, quoters, proposers, and dare I say it \u201crelationship builders\u201d but not in a good way. We hide behind these things because it give us permission to not to talk to the customer but still appear active. Because at the heart of it all salespeople still fear rejection. Technology has given us the perfect hiding place.<\/h4>\n<h4>It is time to use the tools we have developed as they were designed not as a shield. Yes we have to use social media, do research and recognize what screen is best to message with a customer. But we still need sales managers to teach the \u201clost art\u201d of telephone prospecting. We need sales people to include calls in their customer touch mix.<\/h4>\n<h4>The funny thing is if we do this right, telephone calls can be a great differentiator. Customers will respond to you because they don\u2019t want to simply interact with only electrons all day. As the great Rick Springfield once sang \u201cwe all need the HUMAN TOUCH!\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rick Springfield - Human Touch (Live)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o-NzAhL3nsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the very recent past, it has been taught making a phone call was \u201cold school.\u201d That sales is now all about social selling and electronic correspondence. But one thing has NOT changed. A sale doesn\u2019t happen until a salesperson engages with a customer. Funny how quick the cycle came back around. We have become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","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=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}