{"id":2446,"date":"2017-02-16T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:46:10","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-small-business-and-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/thoughtful-thursdays-small-business-and-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Small business and sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales is one of the biggest challenges for small and micro businesses. It is not necessarily&nbsp;the process of making sales, but managing and executing tasks other than those that are sales related. Business operations,finance and marketing also require resources.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s sales thought is about managing a business&nbsp;while&nbsp;maintaining sales activities.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend to my customers that they not let sales activities drop below two days a week. It is not easy to accomplish, however is even more difficult if sales revenues drop. I also recommend having a plan ready to hire contractors or employees sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>If your too busy to maintain sales activities for at least two days a week, it is worth checking into getting help.<\/p>\n<p>Think bigger and focus on&nbsp;increasing sales revenues so that the business is in a position to grow. Revenues from sales pay for the costs of doing business.<\/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>Sales is one of the biggest challenges for small and micro businesses. It is not necessarily&nbsp;the process of making sales, but managing and executing tasks other than those that are sales related. Business operations,finance and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/thoughtful-thursdays-small-business-and-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":[12,15,3],"tags":[77,60,73],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-sales","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-business-management","tag-sales-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","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=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}