{"id":1595,"date":"2015-04-23T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:01:12","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-what-do-you-do-about-declining-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/23\/thoughtful-thursdays-what-do-you-do-about-declining-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; What do you do about declining sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todays thought is about making a habit of&nbsp;maintaining and growing&nbsp;your prospect list.<\/p>\n<p>No sales person is immune from experiencing the feeling of declining sales. Sooner or&nbsp;later it happens to all of us.<\/p>\n<p>One&nbsp;way to minimize the frequency of this happening is to always have a rich list of prospects in your sales hopper. Phrases like keeping the funnel full&nbsp;and having a lot of pokers in the fire describe the act of maintaining your prospect list.<\/p>\n<p>When sales are good it is easy to become complacent or to begin to rest on your laurels. It begins innocently enough, it does not take a lot of time before it becomes a habit, and habits are hard to&nbsp;break. When sales begin to decline it is might be too late to react if you have not been keeping your sales hopper full.<\/p>\n<p>Never stop prospecting.<\/p>\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>Todays thought is about making a habit of&nbsp;maintaining and growing&nbsp;your prospect list. No sales person is immune from experiencing the feeling of declining sales. Sooner or&nbsp;later it happens to all of us. One&nbsp;way to minimize&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/23\/thoughtful-thursdays-what-do-you-do-about-declining-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":[15,65,5,3,1],"tags":[60,69,35,73],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-process","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","category-uncategorized","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-process-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}