{"id":1540,"date":"2008-04-29T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/a-line-for-every-sales-ad\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:47:33","slug":"a-line-for-every-sales-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/a-line-for-every-sales-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"A Line For Every Sales Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bullet point from a Business Development Sales Position ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Demonstrated ability to persevere and remain positively motivated when faced with negative response or rebuff from the customer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What they are describing is the ability to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/sales-aptitudes-series-handling-rejection\/\">handle rejection<\/a>.\u00a0 I think there is no more important differentiation between average salespeople and sales superstars.\u00a0 That quoted line could, or maybe <em>should<\/em>, be in every sales ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bullet point from a Business Development Sales Position ad: Demonstrated ability to persevere and remain positively motivated when faced with negative response or rebuff from the customer What they are describing is the ability to handle rejection.\u00a0 I think there is no more important differentiation between average salespeople and sales superstars.\u00a0 That quoted line could, or maybe should, be in every sales ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[549,530,472,596],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->