{"id":812,"date":"2011-09-15T20:07:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=812"},"modified":"2016-01-24T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:48:37","slug":"sales-a-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Sales: A Numbers Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe the B2C marketers sales is a numbers game. Cast as wide a net as possible and reap the maximum rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: the credit card companies. Their mantra: offer the most number of people, the highest amount of credit, sit back and watch the filled out applications come in.<\/p>\n<p>Sales technique: adorn the mass mailing with words like &#8216;exclusive&#8217; or &#8216;limited&#8217; or &#8216;deadline&#8217; or &#8216;act now&#8217;. &#8216;Limited&#8217; as in limited to 3,000,000 Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>At which point does one cross from sales technique to cattle call territory? When will the government step in to regulate industries-gone-wild and their untrue statements?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>*Things That Need to Go Away: Marketing that the company knows is false, the customer knows is false and the regulator allows.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe the B2C marketers sales is a numbers game. Cast as wide a net as possible and reap the maximum rewards. Case in point: the credit card companies. Their mantra: offer the most number of people, the highest amount of credit, sit back and watch the filled out applications come in. Sales technique: <a href='https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=812' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3,8,11,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Ali Ghaemi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}