{"id":365,"date":"2013-01-03T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2019-04-03T07:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:57:48","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-only-5-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/thoughtful-thursdays-only-5-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Only 5 percent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but let&#8217;s think about 5% from a different point of view.<\/p>\n<p>What if you had the opportunity to increase&nbsp;your number of selling days by ten? That represents 2&nbsp;incremental weeks if you are out selling approximately&nbsp;two hundred days of the year. How&nbsp;would ten extra days translate into additional sales revenues?<\/p>\n<p>Impossible you say?&nbsp;I&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;that it is possible, not necessarily easy, but&nbsp;achievable. If you were to increase your personal operational efficiency by two and a half percent, you would be halfway there. I am not talking about&nbsp;working&nbsp;longer days, but accomplishing more&nbsp;in&nbsp;that given day. The net effect is buying time back. Time that you can use to your sales advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Think about&nbsp;the additional calls you will be able to make with ten extra days. Those sales targets are looking more and more acheivable with every additional sales call.<\/p>\n<p>The question is how, and it is a good one.<\/p>\n<p>For everything you do ask yourself if it can be done as well and completed in a shorter period of time. Identify the bottlenecks and be mindful of them. How much time are you spending getting to where you want to go. is there a better way?<\/p>\n<p>It may require you to create new or different routines that feel uncomfortble, that is normal when change is involved. It may not happen overnight, but with a solid commitment to regaining 5% of our time, you will be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRicahrd<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but let&#8217;s think about 5% from a different point of view. What if you had the opportunity to increase&nbsp;your number of selling days by ten? That represents 2&nbsp;incremental weeks if&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/thoughtful-thursdays-only-5-percent\/\">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":[12,16,5,3],"tags":[25,26],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-sales-call-planning","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-process","tag-productivity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}