{"id":2707,"date":"2009-11-18T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2009-11-18T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:54:08","slug":"sales-pitches-guised-as-conference-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/sales-pitches-guised-as-conference-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales pitches guised as conference sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when people just give sales pitches at conferences.<\/p>\n<p>At least respect my intelligence and try to hide it in something that is of value to the audience.<\/p>\n<p>People come along to conferences to learn, meet people and catch up on industry changes. \u00a0Not to hear the latest pitch of how to buy your product.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very ME mindset. I&#8217;d rather focus on helping the audience &#8211; IF\u00a0they want to know more they can have a chat afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>And some do. \u00a0Most dont but this is a quality game not a quantity one. \u00a0Those that do are usually highly motivated to work with me.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a win for everyone, audience gets info they can act on\u00a0themselves, I don&#8217;t waste time on tyre kickers and those that are\u00a0motivated can still have a chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when people just give sales pitches at conferences. At least respect my intelligence and try to hide it in something that is of value to the audience. People come along to conferences to learn, meet people and catch up on industry changes. \u00a0Not to hear the latest pitch of how to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[279,341,1098],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}