{"id":272,"date":"2015-02-19T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2015-02-23T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:38:16","slug":"five-coping-strategies-for-a-sales-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/five-coping-strategies-for-a-sales-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Coping Strategies for a Sales Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Five Coping Strategies for a Sales Slump<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/76801100.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/76801100-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"76801100\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Into the life of every business, a sales slump will eventually fall,&#8221; reports Inc.com. &#8220;Customers cancel orders, opportunities get delayed, prospects turn out to be dead-ends. Worst case, you can have a &#8216;perfect storm&#8217; where nothing seems to go right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What to do? &#8220;Keep your head down and soldier on,&#8221; and:<\/p>\n<p>1. Don&#8217;t panic (this is not the time to freak out).<\/p>\n<p>2. Give yourself some credit (if you&#8217;ve gotten this far, you&#8217;re not the type to crumble under pressure).<\/p>\n<p>3. Reframe the current situation (use it as an opportunity to train your brain and hone your emotional resilience).<\/p>\n<p>4. Evaluate your sales tactics (have you changed anything since more successful times?)<\/p>\n<p>5. Work your sales process (focus on the mechanics and keep making the calls).<\/p>\n<p>Read the full post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/geoffrey-james\/how-to-cope-with-a-sales-slump.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/\">Sintel Systems<\/a> is a quality provider of tailored Point of Sale systems across retail, restaurant and service industries, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/frozen-yogurt\">frozen yogurt shops<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/pizza\">pizzerias<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/sushi\">sushi restaurants<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/food-service\/coffee-77\">caf\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/retail\">retail stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a single source for business solutions, our experienced, knowledgeable team negotiates the complex POS landscape to enable you to find the right POS system for your business and budget.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/pos-supplies\/hardware\">Hardware<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/point-of-sale\/pos-supplies\/software\">Software<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sintelsystems.com\/catalog\/category\/view\/id\/118\">Support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Coping Strategies for a Sales Slump &#8220;Into the life of every business, a sales slump will eventually fall,&#8221; reports Inc.com. &#8220;Customers cancel orders, opportunities get delayed, prospects turn out to be dead-ends. Worst case, you can have a &#8216;perfect storm&#8217; where nothing seems to go right.&#8221; What to do? &#8220;Keep your head down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sintelsystemspos.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}