{"id":1005,"date":"2015-09-08T18:59:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2016-02-05T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:43:37","slug":"no-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/no-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"No Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<table id=\"content_LETTER.BLOCK6\" class=\"BlockMargin\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"15\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"left\">\n<h4>We hear sales people every day saying they sell themselves first. But as soon as something goes wrong, they don&#8217;t take responsibility. They blame everyone else in the organization. Traffic, copy, management, the IT department&#8230;.you name it, the fingers start pointing when a promise made to a client falls off the rails.\u00a0 But the client doesn&#8217;t care what went on behind the scenes. They counted on you when they bought, and they&#8217;re counting on you to fix the problem without having to hear a bunch of excuses.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If you did sell yourself, the client bought because of faith in you. You made the promise and it&#8217;s up to you to take responsibility and deliver. You&#8217;ll build a much stronger relationship with your clients when you say something like\u00a0&#8220;I apologise. I made a promise, and it&#8217;s up to me to fix the problem and solve it to your satisfaction immediately.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><a name=\"LETTER.BLOCK7\"><\/a><\/h4>\n<table id=\"content_LETTER.BLOCK7\" class=\"BlockMargin Article2BG\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"15\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"Article2Text\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"left\">\n<h4>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/fac4cac7201\/f5a065d9-6c44-4f16-a7c3-883ca38ef685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"68\" name=\"ACCOUNT.IMAGE.19\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\"><a href=\"mailto:wayne@wensmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Wayne@wensmedia.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear sales people every day saying they sell themselves first. But as soon as something goes wrong, they don&#8217;t take responsibility. They blame everyone else in the organization. Traffic, copy, management, the IT department&#8230;.you name it, the fingers start pointing when a promise made to a client falls off the rails.\u00a0 But the client [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,71],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-excuses","tag-problem-solving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}