{"id":2409,"date":"2017-01-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:47:43","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-quantifying-value-is-like-finding-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/thoughtful-thursdays-quantifying-value-is-like-finding-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Quantifying value is like finding treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article worth reading&nbsp;that appeared&nbsp;in the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B5dFki35gE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Globe and Mail<\/a> recently, talked about baseball player agents developing a new way to measure a clients&#8217; value to their employer. They found a way to calculate&nbsp;the positive dollar&nbsp;impact the player had in every respect that impacted the team, directly and indirectly. The bottom line was that the value to the&nbsp;employer was&nbsp;$7 million more&nbsp;than the player was being paid.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s thought is about&nbsp;applying similar&nbsp;ingenuity to redefine the value of buying from you over the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Include all aspects of what you and your company does to promote&nbsp;the products and services you represent. In addition to&nbsp;the products services themselves, analyze and quantify the value that your activities brings to your customer. Did you include PR and social media? Trade shows? Testimonials?<\/p>\n<p>Are you&nbsp;looking everywhere&nbsp;when determining&nbsp;the&nbsp;value in buying from you?<\/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>An article worth reading&nbsp;that appeared&nbsp;in the Globe and Mail recently, talked about baseball player agents developing a new way to measure a clients&#8217; value to their employer. They found a way to calculate&nbsp;the positive dollar&nbsp;impact&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/thoughtful-thursdays-quantifying-value-is-like-finding-treasure\/\">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":[15,5,3,6],"tags":[60,47,73,45],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","category-value-selling","tag-sales-2","tag-selling-skills-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-value-selling-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","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=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}