{"id":216,"date":"2012-10-16T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bettinasettlesrealty.com\/Blogspot\/?p=216"},"modified":"2016-06-16T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:21:49","slug":"are-you-losing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/2012\/10\/16\/are-you-losing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you losing business\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026.and you might not even realize you do\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s market personal and business continues education and fulfillment is much easier than it was in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With many companies having many of their educational material, free or for pay, online available it is truly heartbreaking when I see and talk with prospects for a position and they have not a clue what is going on the field they have chosen to practice in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today phone call was a great example of this again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had contacted a very well know business person I need for a task in an area he considers himself an expert in this field (at least what his website said). During the conversation I found out that he was not aware of\u201d recent\u201d changes in his field that happened in 2009 and today is 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I did not tell him during this conversation was that I have several referrals for him in his area of \u201cexpertise\u201d but due to him not willing to keep up with his personal and business continues education in his chosen filed I am moving on to the next potential business in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026.and you might not even realize you do\u2026. &nbsp; In today\u2019s market personal and business continues education and fulfillment is much easier than it was in the past. &nbsp; With many companies having many of their educational material, free or for pay, online available it is truly heartbreaking when I see and talk with prospects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/2012\/10\/16\/are-you-losing-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are you losing business\u2026..<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,12,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-education","category-planning","category-short-sale","category-team-work","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}