{"id":192,"date":"2007-07-19T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officeondemand.ca\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-11-03T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:09:13","slug":"i-got-no-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/small-business-marketing\/i-got-no-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Got No Empathy\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I injured my left shoulder. I landed smack on the top causing what feels like a minor separated shoulder. Afterwards my shoulder hurt so much I could barely move my left arm, or even get up from a sitting position.<\/p>\n<p>I was in such pain that on Saturday, I skipped my morning 30 mile bike ride and canceled an afternoon sail with one of my best friends despite perfect weather.<\/p>\n<p>If you know me, biking and sailing on the weekend are two of my favorite activities and I have to be in serious pain to pass them up.<\/p>\n<p>If that wasn&#8217;t bad enough when I was getting ready to go out for dinner Saturday evening I had to ask my wife to help me get my socks on and tie my shoes. How embarrassing is that?<\/p>\n<p>Still I got no empathy or sympathy from my wife! Instead my son and wife made fun of me.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>When my wife asked how I injured my shoulder I told her I was practicing forward kneeling rolls at the gym, basically a somersault starting with one knee on the ground. I&#8217;d been watching a 14-year old perform them with ease and figured I could do them too.<\/p>\n<p>My wife thought I was pretty silly to even be attempting them and reminded me I&#8217;m not a kid anymore. (This is a discussion we have frequently.)<\/p>\n<p>Am I looking for empathy? No &#8211; but your prospects are.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be successful at selling &#8211; EMPATHY is the key. You need to understand your prospects&#8217; problems and concerns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfsstore.com\/howtosell.html\"><strong>Discover how to use empathy to close more sales with this link &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nCharlie<br \/>\nSmall Business Marketing Ideas That Work<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/dd1bedd9-af74-4a57-991a-160a297bac0e\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=dd1bedd9-af74-4a57-991a-160a297bac0e\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I injured my left shoulder. I landed smack on the top causing what feels like a minor separated shoulder. Afterwards my shoulder hurt so much I could barely move my left arm, or even get up from a sitting position. I was in such pain that on Saturday, I skipped my morning 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[192,386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}