{"id":2171,"date":"2016-06-11T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2016-06-18T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T15:49:31","slug":"but-do-insulting-or-boring-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=2171","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;But Do Insulting Or Boring Sell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=1160\">Fear sells<\/a>. We know that much.<\/p>\n<p>What else sells? You might think &#8216;competence sells&#8217; or &#8216;return on investment sells&#8217; or &#8216;likability sells&#8217; or even &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=925\">fun sells<\/a>,&#8217; et cetra. However, the question of the day is whether insulting a customer sells? What about boring a customer? Does that sell?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the following videos. In the first, a man who appears to have been in business a number of years (success?) utilizes something he calls G.U.T.S.* Sales Training Method or the *Great Un-Orthodox-Un-Traditional Techniques Of Selling Success to insult the customer into buying from him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kTDmMCCeNVo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video, the world&#8217;s most humanlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=712\">automaton <\/a>cranks out calls at rates that would put those embarrassingly useless automated dialing computers to shame. Is he.. could he&#8230; be successful?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XbfDDWXZFec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><em>*Things That Need To Go Away: Calling Lying, Half-Truths, Fudging Or intimidating &#8216;Sales.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear sells. We know that much. What else sells? You might think &#8216;competence sells&#8217; or &#8216;return on investment sells&#8217; or &#8216;likability sells&#8217; or even &#8216;fun sells,&#8217; et cetra. However, the question of the day is whether insulting a customer sells? What about boring a customer? Does that sell? 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