{"id":177,"date":"2006-07-19T09:29:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-07-19T09:30:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T14:30:40","slug":"sellings-taboo-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/sellings-taboo-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling&#8217;s Taboo Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales&#038;Marketing Magazine briefly approaches one of sales most taboo topics &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/salesandmarketing.com\/smm\/pitch\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002728892&#038;imw=Y\" target=\"_blank\">Cutting Your Losses<\/a>. Sometimes customers that you worked so hard to close are simply not a good fit for your business and you have to end the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Tricky stuff but there are some good suggestions in this short article.<\/p>\n<p>We had a client 4 years ago who had just purchased her technology company and needed to hire a salesperson. She hired us to find their first outside salesperson but we never completed the search. We presented one strong candidate after another, but she couldn&#8217;t pull the trigger. It finally got to the point where we had to end the relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales&#038;Marketing Magazine briefly approaches one of sales most taboo topics &#8211; Cutting Your Losses. Sometimes customers that you worked so hard to close are simply not a good fit for your business and you have to end the relationship. Tricky stuff but there are some good suggestions in this short article. We had a client 4 years ago who had just purchased her technology company and needed to hire a salesperson. She hired us to find their first outside salesperson but we never completed the search. We presented one strong candidate after another, but she couldn&#8217;t pull the trigger. It finally got to the point where we had to end&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/sellings-taboo-topic\/\">Read More<\/a><\/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":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-2R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"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! -->