{"id":1768,"date":"2015-10-01T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:09:33","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-your-competitor-is-always-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/thoughtful-thursdays-your-competitor-is-always-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Your competitor is always there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s sales thought is about the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Not unlike the rookie player or understudy&nbsp;your competitor is always there, waiting patiently in the wings to step in when the opportunity presents itself.<\/p>\n<p>Maintaining your competitive advantage is a full time job that requires skilled sales management and planning. The last thing you want to do open the door and hold it for your competitor to walk through.<\/p>\n<p>Do not allow yourself to become complacent, nothing is for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely celebrate your successes, but be mindful of resting on your laurels. Your competitor will always be&nbsp;there, ready to take advantage of your misstep.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.<\/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 sales thought is about the competition. Not unlike the rookie player or understudy&nbsp;your competitor is always there, waiting patiently in the wings to step in when the opportunity presents itself. Maintaining your competitive advantage&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/thoughtful-thursdays-your-competitor-is-always-there\/\">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":[64,15,61,5,3],"tags":[78,60,75,35,73],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitive-advantage","category-sales","category-sales-management","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-competitive-advantage","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-management","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","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=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}