{"id":2439,"date":"2010-10-08T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/selling-through-cycles\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:08:20","slug":"selling-through-cycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/selling-through-cycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Through Cycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thought I had about sales approaches based on economic conditions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booming Economy<\/strong> \u2013 Salespeople should focus their message (value proposition) on efficiency and velocity.\u00a0 Their solution should essentially provide an improvement in productivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recessionary Economy<\/strong> \u2013 Salespeople should focus their message on reducing waste\/improving profits.\u00a0 Their solution should provide a method for getting more out of what the customer has today.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I am oversimplifying things, but I think this approach has merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought I had about sales approaches based on economic conditions: Booming Economy \u2013 Salespeople should focus their message (value proposition) on efficiency and velocity.\u00a0 Their solution should essentially provide an improvement in productivity. Recessionary Economy \u2013 Salespeople should focus their message on reducing waste\/improving profits.\u00a0 Their solution should provide a method for getting more out of what the customer has today. Perhaps I am oversimplifying things, but I think this approach has merit.<\/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":[267,602,1649,34,1188],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Dl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"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=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"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! -->