{"id":1572,"date":"2015-04-02T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:02:19","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-what-doesnt-your-competition-like-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/thoughtful-thursdays-what-doesnt-your-competition-like-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; What doesn&#8217;t your competition like to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to differentiate themselves from their competitors,&nbsp;a suggestion I&nbsp;offer my clients is to make a habit of&nbsp;doing what their competitors do not like to do.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I was asked how does one find out what their competition does not like to do &#8211; a&nbsp;very good question.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s thought is about determining what your competitor does not like to do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;In conversation with your customers, ask about your competition<\/li>\n<li>Keep your ear to the ground when attending industry conferences and meetings<\/li>\n<li>Be observant, see beyond what is in front of you<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the easiest place to start is to make a list of what you do not like to do\n<ul>\n<li>Then create and execute a plan to develop the habit of doing those things<\/li>\n<li>It is likely that your competition will share a similar list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a title=\"Contact Sakanashi and 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>In order to differentiate themselves from their competitors,&nbsp;a suggestion I&nbsp;offer my clients is to make a habit of&nbsp;doing what their competitors do not like to do. The other day I was asked how does one&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/thoughtful-thursdays-what-doesnt-your-competition-like-to-do\/\">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":[15,5,8,3],"tags":[60,35,47,73],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-tips","category-selling-skills","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-selling-skills-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","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=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}