{"id":21,"date":"2012-12-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/thoughtful-thusdays-a-way-to-offer-value\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T07:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:59:03","slug":"thoughtful-thusdays-a-way-to-offer-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/thoughtful-thusdays-a-way-to-offer-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; A way to offer value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With winter season on the doorstep it was time to take&nbsp;my car in for&nbsp;its annual rust preventative spray.I have been going to the same location, which is close to one of my customers,&nbsp;for several years. They send me notices each year to remind me that it is time to make and appointment and offer a discount at the same time. I am happy with the service and believe the benefit&nbsp;of&nbsp;having my car treated is&nbsp;well worth&nbsp;money spent. This is a real life example of value.<\/p>\n<p>My mom recently moved closer to us and I am helping her with her car maintenance. I thought it would be a good idea to have hers treated with the rust preventative as well. I chose to go to a location closer to home. The price was competitive and the convenience factor spoke for itself.While I was waiting for the work to be completed I had a good conversation with the co-owner of the business and it came up that I had another vehicle, also treated with the same products, but at another location<\/p>\n<p>The next words&nbsp;I heard&nbsp;were a great demonstration of a value proposition. &#8220;We do things a bit differently, we offer a no charge touch up in six months time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;different&#8221; combined with &#8220;no charge&#8221; practically guaranteed I would seriously consider moving all my business to them.<\/p>\n<p>Make a habit of reminding&nbsp;your customers and telling your prospects about why they should consider doing business with you by articulating your value proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling.<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With winter season on the doorstep it was time to take&nbsp;my car in for&nbsp;its annual rust preventative spray.I have been going to the same location, which is close to one of my customers,&nbsp;for several years&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/thoughtful-thusdays-a-way-to-offer-value\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-tips","category-selling-skills","category-thoughtful-thursdays","category-value-proposition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}