{"id":1270,"date":"2014-07-31T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:40:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:40:35","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-new-to-outside-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/thoughtful-thursdays-new-to-outside-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; New to outside sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to outside sales, congratulations and&nbsp;welcome! Yes I am biased and know that sales&nbsp;it is not for everyone, but for those who take to it, there&nbsp;are few&nbsp;better jobs. Whether you&nbsp;were waiting for the opportunity or you accepted the offer reluctantly, the practical experience you have the opportunity to&nbsp;gain from being an outside sales representative is extremely valuable. You will learn and improve transferable skills that today are not even on your radar. Trust me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you take&nbsp;a few moments&nbsp;to think about it, sales has a lot to offer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are paid not to be in the office<\/li>\n<li>You may have a company vehicle or be receiving a car&nbsp;allowance<\/li>\n<li>Your travel expenses are reimbursed<\/li>\n<li>You&nbsp;have the opportunity to meet&nbsp;an engage with&nbsp;new&nbsp;people on a daily basis<\/li>\n<li>You are paid to help<\/li>\n<li>Much of your time is your schedule<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and on, but I digress. So you are new to outside sales. There is no better time to put good practices in place that will serve you well&nbsp; throughout your career.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seek out mentorship from seasoned sales veterans<\/li>\n<li>Seek out mentorship from the sales support team<\/li>\n<li>Ask lots of questions and listen to the answers<\/li>\n<li>Learn to be a better listener every day<\/li>\n<li>Learn to give your undivided attention to people<\/li>\n<li>Be on time<\/li>\n<li>Make structure work for you, not against you<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy the experience, there are few better<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a title=\"Contact Sakanashiand Associates Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact me <\/a>and I will respond.<\/p>\n<p>Please share Thoughtful Thursdays posts with people you feel may find the topic interesting and helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to outside sales, congratulations and&nbsp;welcome! Yes I am biased and know that sales&nbsp;it is not for everyone, but for those who take to it, there&nbsp;are few&nbsp;better jobs. Whether you&nbsp;were waiting for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/thoughtful-thursdays-new-to-outside-sales\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,3],"tags":[60,35,73],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}