{"id":37,"date":"2011-08-28T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/educate-first-before-selling\/"},"modified":"2014-12-06T19:29:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T19:29:25","slug":"educate-first-before-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/educate-first-before-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Educate First Before Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1155 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Educate_First_Before_Selling-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Educate_First_Before_Selling\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I love sales and marketing. It\u2019s one of my passions in life. And I love sharing ideas with people to provide an opportunity to experience a transformation that can improve their results.<\/p>\n<p>I learned an idea from my mentor Eric Lofholm a few years ago that sums up this sentiment. He said educate first before selling. It\u2019s an interesting concept. Education provides the chance to share something that can have impact on someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Earning a sale becomes an extension of the education process. The question for you is what can you do to educate prospects? This is not rocket science.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Position Yourself As An Expert<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This conversation becomes easier if you have positioned yourself an expert. As an expert, part of your role is to educate people. Let\u2019s face it, people love experts. And as an expert, you have the ability to influence people.<\/p>\n<p>What steps can you take to educate people? Take action now to start the process.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Rick Cooper<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Online Marketing Expert<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love sales and marketing. It\u2019s one of my passions in life. And I love sharing ideas with people to provide an opportunity to experience a transformation that can improve their results. I learned an idea from my mentor Eric Lofholm a few years ago that sums up this sentiment. He said educate first before &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/educate-first-before-selling\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,29,30,31],"tags":[32,36,35,8,34,33],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attraction-marketing","category-expert-marketing","category-opportunities","category-teleseminars","tag-educate","tag-expert","tag-marketing","tag-online-marketing","tag-sales","tag-selling","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2vsw5-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}