{"id":1578,"date":"2015-04-09T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:01:54","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-work-on-your-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/thoughtful-thursdays-work-on-your-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Always be working on your game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s thought is about working on your game.<\/p>\n<p>All&nbsp;people at the top of their game,&nbsp;no matter what that game is,&nbsp;work very hard to stay on top.<\/p>\n<p>They know that the competition is waiting for them to falter, eager to take their place.<\/p>\n<p>As a sales professional working on your game includes the visuals such as the way you present yourself .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoes clean<\/li>\n<li>Teeth brushed<\/li>\n<li>Suits&nbsp;pressed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is often&nbsp;overlooked is training. After all, you know how to sell, right? Just as your suits require regular&nbsp;cleaning and pressing, your sales skills set will also benefit from &#8220;sharpening&#8221; on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Over a period of time selling skills loose their edge and without maintenance may lose there original effectiveness. This can translate to lost sales and missed objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing sales training and sales skills development are as important to working on your game as making sure your shoes are clean and polished.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a title=\"Contact Sakanashi and Associates\" 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>Today&#8217;s thought is about working on your game. All&nbsp;people at the top of their game,&nbsp;no matter what that game is,&nbsp;work very hard to stay on top. They know that the competition is waiting for them&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/thoughtful-thursdays-work-on-your-game\/\">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":[5,8,3],"tags":[60,47,73],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-tips","category-selling-skills","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-selling-skills-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","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=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}