{"id":3406,"date":"2010-06-07T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2010-06-07T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:00:16","slug":"why-i-dont-usually-do-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-i-dont-usually-do-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t (Usually) Do Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s rap about sales today.<\/p>\n<p>No&#8230; not &#8220;selling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But sales &#8212; as in having a sales <em>event<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people ask why I rarely do sales.  <\/p>\n<p>Is there an ethical reason?  <\/p>\n<p>A strategical reason?  <\/p>\n<p>Otherwise why not get on the stick and have a sale???<\/p>\n<p>First off, it&#8217;s true, I don&#8217;t do many sales.  But, not because they&#8217;re inherently &#8220;wrong.&#8221; It&#8217;s just, in my way of thinking, most people buy when they&#8217;re ready to buy &#8212; sale or not.  (Otherwise, nobody would buy anything from retail stores here in the US all year until &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Another reason is discounting ain&#8217;t selling. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, many think it is.<\/p>\n<p>But in most cases (especially in my market) the more someone pays for something, the better the chances they&#8217;ll USE it, and the more VALUE they&#8217;ll likely get from it.  <\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean I &#8220;gouge&#8221; anyone.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want my products <em>rotting<\/em> on shelves, either.<\/p>\n<p>I want them to be used.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, what&#8217;s the point?<\/p>\n<p>However, I do make exceptions when launching new products.  <\/p>\n<p>Mostly because I LOVE rewarding action takers. <\/p>\n<p>Just like what I&#8217;m going to do with my coming <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.StreetSmartEmail.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Street-Smart Email System<\/a><\/strong> in a few weeks.  The regular price will probably be anywhere from $695.00 to $995.00 (haven&#8217;t decided yet).<\/p>\n<p>But not for launch day customers.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll get it for at LEAST $300.00 or $400.00 off.<\/p>\n<p>To be notified when it&#8217;s ready, hop over to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.StreetSmartEmail.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.StreetSmartEmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> By the way, this is just how I do business now, and could change.  I&#8217;ve worked with businesses where having sales is a <em>major<\/em> (very important) part of the sales funnel.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no one-size-fits-all biz model.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what ye olde goo-roos say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s rap about sales today. No&#8230; not &#8220;selling.&#8221; But sales &#8212; as in having a sales event. Sometimes people ask why I rarely do sales. Is there an ethical reason? A strategical reason? Otherwise why not get on the stick and have a sale??? First off, it&#8217;s true, I don&#8217;t do many sales. But, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}