{"id":3753,"date":"2025-08-16T08:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:47:33","slug":"are-you-complimenting-customers-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/?p=3753","title":{"rendered":"Are you complimenting customers enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compliment customers? Whatever for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well I&#8217;m sure you have heard the old advice which says: \u201cTreat the cleaner like you treat the CEO.\u201d<br><br>I think that\u2019s outdated. Here\u2019s the upgrade\u2026<br><br>The art of the &#8216;Genuine Compliment&#8217;.<br><br>Noticed something positive about someone?<br><br>Don&#8217;t just think it &#8211; say it \u2014 without agenda, without expectation!<br><br>It could be their great piece of jewellery, the energy in their voice, the brilliance of their work. If you spot it, let them know.<br><br>Done sincerely, it\u2019s a simple, ethical way to build rapport \u2014 and it makes both of you feel good.<br><br>No, it might not close a deal immediately. But it will make people like you more\u2026 and liking often leads to talking, which leads to opportunities.<br><br>How many free, ethical, easy sales tools can you say that about?<br><br>What\u2019s the best compliment you\u2019ve given or received at work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a compliment can help you sell more &#8211; but only if it&#8217;s genuine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[159,176,21,12,46],"tags":[38,14,57,419,420,45,124,18,115,70,269,58,110],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-prospecting","category-sales-tips","category-sales-training","category-training","tag-basic-sales-skills","tag-best-sales-trainer","tag-closing","tag-compliments","tag-rapport-in-sales","tag-sales","tag-sales-courses-london","tag-sales-trainer-enfield","tag-sales-trainer-london","tag-sales-training","tag-sales-training-birmingham","tag-sales-training-enfield","tag-sales-training-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaptivesalesgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}