{"id":719,"date":"2013-06-27T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:05:21","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-dress-for-the-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/thoughtful-thursdays-dress-for-the-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Dress for the part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People buy from people they like and successful sales people earn their customers trust before attempting to sell anything.<\/p>\n<p>The first rungs on the trust ladder&nbsp;are often based on first impression perceptions and making a good first impression&nbsp;can often lead to a shorter&nbsp;sales cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The thought for today is in the form of a tip list to help make a good first&nbsp;impression, before uttering a word:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dress neatly<\/li>\n<li>Be sure your shoes are clean and polished<\/li>\n<li>If you are not sure, err on the side of overdressing<\/li>\n<li>If your clothes are not wrinkle free, iron them<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You are a sales professional and possibly a business owner, so dress for the part.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People buy from people they like and successful sales people earn their customers trust before attempting to sell anything. The first rungs on the trust ladder&nbsp;are often based on first impression perceptions and making a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/thoughtful-thursdays-dress-for-the-part\/\">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":[12,5,3],"tags":[50,35,73],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-people-buy-from-people-they-like","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}