{"id":6529,"date":"2022-10-10T23:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2022-10-10T23:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:01:34","slug":"against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/10\/against\/","title":{"rendered":"Against"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In sales, it&#8217;s a simple trick and technique where your customer will throw you against your competitor. They will remind you what features you don&#8217;t have or what price point will work for them. At times they will also come back asking about being costlier. I have gone through all these scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our market expects us to join the pit and get into pricing negotiation, so most companies have a sticker price and original price. We have not been part of this madness. As a result, we have lost a few customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The introspection makes me wonder if we should have followed industry practice and gotten into a negotiation like selling vegetables and haggling. The reason being a lot many of us enjoy the process and get a sense of superiority and self-gratification in winning some battle in reducing the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sales, it&#8217;s a simple trick and technique where your customer will throw you against your competitor. They will remind you what features you don&#8217;t have or what price point will work for them. At times they will also come back asking about being costlier. I have gone through all these scenarios. Our market expects &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/10\/against\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Against&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,121],"tags":[1401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}