{"id":236,"date":"2007-12-17T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2007\/12\/17\/144612.html"},"modified":"2007-12-17T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:46:12","slug":"what-a-way-to-make-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/what-a-way-to-make-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Way to Make a Living!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"\"><span style=\"\"><span style=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Have you ever noticed how negatives seem to jump right out at you and smack you in the forehead, while positives can go unnoticed or be taken for granted?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your sales team hears the negatives everyday. &ldquo;No one listens to your station&rdquo;, &ldquo;Your prices are too high&rdquo;,&nbsp; &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like your creative&rdquo;,&nbsp; &ldquo;My budget is gone &hellip;.&rdquo; They get beat up on the street daily.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At your next sales meeting, try opening a discussion about, &ldquo;What I like most about my career&rdquo; (say &lsquo;career&rsquo;, not &lsquo;job&rsquo;).<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You&rsquo;ll get an amazing array of answers from, &ldquo;I get to be creative&rdquo;, to &ldquo;Helping businesses succeed&rdquo; to &ldquo;It&rsquo;s challenging&rdquo; to &ldquo; I learn something new every day&rdquo; or &ldquo;I get to manage my own time and accounts.&rdquo;<br \/>\n<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">This exercise will achieve three important objectives for you;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">1.) It will remind each account executive about the positives in their daily lives.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">2.) Some of their peers will present positives which others never thought of.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">3.) <strong><em>You will gain valuable insights into each individuals&rsquo; personal motivation to help you in your coaching sessions.<\/em>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">P.S. You might have to seed the discussion well with something you appreciate about your career or company.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Have you ever noticed how negatives seem to jump right out at you and smack you in the forehead, while positives can go unnoticed or be taken for granted? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your sales team hears the negatives everyday. &ldquo;No one listens to your station&rdquo;, &ldquo;Your prices are too high&rdquo;,&nbsp; &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like your creative&rdquo;,&nbsp; &ldquo;My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}