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{"id":2304,"date":"2016-12-20T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:23:35","slug":"mmem-vol-12-issue-49-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"MMeM, Vol.12 Issue 49 \u2013 ABC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #ff6600; float: right; font-size: 28px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 150px; text-align: center;\">ABC, <span style=\"color: brown;\">ALWAYS <\/span>BE <strong>CLOSING <\/strong><span style=\"color: brown;\">!<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: khaki; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 80px; line-height: 60px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 2px; border: 1px solid #bdb76b;\">A<\/span> favorite movie of mine from a few years ago was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0104348\/?ref_=nv_sr_3\">Glengarry Glen Ross<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve ever been involved in a sales force or a sales driven job, then you could appreciate this movie. It took me a few years to watch this movie after it first came out and then filtered down to cable and VHS\/DVD (Millennials, email for VHS definition and relevance) Anyway, once I watched it, I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>It was in my mind, the quintessential salesman, excuse me, salesperson&#8217;s movie all around. Whether it was the methods of selling, the art of the deal, the owning of a family room, the &#8220;leads&#8221;, cold calling, or just the &#8220;ABC&#8217;s&#8221; of selling &#8211; &#8220;Always Be Closing&#8221;, etc. this movie delivered all of it.<\/p>\n<p>So, today after a doctor&#8217;s appointment, big surprise for me, I know, I saw this sign and it all came rushing back to me. Now, I get what this establishment was really getting at, probably. But, the salesPERSON in me saw it in an entirely different way.<\/p>\n<p>One side of the sign:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49b.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49b-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and on the other side of the same sign&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49a.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49a-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You want that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/us\/en-us\/product\/mcrib.html?cid=PS:GCM_RET:B::Google:_mcrib_mcdonalds&amp;utm_source=Google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_term=_mcrib_mcdonalds&amp;utm_content=McRib&amp;utm_campaign=Google_GCM_Brand_McRib_BMM&amp;gclid=CKm1hbTLg9ECFdRtgQod0ZYPhQ&amp;gclsrc=ds\">McRib<\/a>&#8230;..don&#8217;t you? You NEED that McRib, right? You know it&#8217;s only a LIMITED time offer. If you don&#8217;t get it now, if you don&#8217;t pounce on this opportunity today, it&#8217;s going to disappear and you&#8217;ll miss out!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I know the manager is referring to hiring people to work the late shift, but this mindset is what I&#8217;m left with after sales jobs and movies to accompany them like the aforementioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0104348\/?ref_=nv_sr_3\">Glengarry Glen Ross<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, yesterday I wrote about Hardee&#8217;s and their Beer Flavored Cheese that you could drizzle on anything so this kind of equals out everything in the blog-o-sphere for me, in my sorry mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/us\/en-us\/product\/mcrib.html?cid=PS:GCM_RET:B::Google:_mcrib_mcdonalds&amp;utm_source=Google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_term=_mcrib_mcdonalds&amp;utm_content=McRib&amp;utm_campaign=Google_GCM_Brand_McRib_BMM&amp;gclid=CKm1hbTLg9ECFdRtgQod0ZYPhQ&amp;gclsrc=ds\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MMeMv12i49c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC, ALWAYS BE CLOSING ! A favorite movie of mine from a few years ago was Glengarry Glen Ross. If you&#8217;ve ever been involved in a sales force or a sales driven job, then you could appreciate this movie. It &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2304\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MMeM, Vol.12 Issue 49 \u2013 ABC!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}