{"id":598,"date":"2010-12-30T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2010-12-30T09:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T15:33:39","slug":"gasp-holiday-sales-up-over-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gasp&#8221; Holiday sales up over last year!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a really bad economy, gloomers, doomers and a lot of others still went shopping&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holiday Shopping: $30.8 Billion Spent<\/strong><br \/>\nBy CNNMoney.com December 29, 2010: 10:21 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Holiday shopping was strong right through Christmas, with consumers spending a record $30.8 billion for the season, according to research firm comScore in a report issued Wednesday.   Especially online sales:  for the 56 days ended Dec. 27 rose 13% from the same period in 2009.  There was a 17% year-over-year surge overall in the week that ended Dec. 26.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;because  1.    People don&#8217;t want to spend less on gifts this year than they spent last year.   AND;<\/p>\n<p>2.  Sales is never about the money it&#8217;s always about the desire.  When people really desire something they always will go find the money.<\/p>\n<p>If your prospects are giving you the &#8220;I don&#8217;t have the money&#8221; excuse  &#8211; it&#8217;s simply because you didn&#8217;t touch on &#8211; and ignite &#8211; their <strong>emotions<\/strong> relating to the benefits of your product or service or Freedom.  The kind of Freedom you and they &#8220;get to&#8221; feel after you&#8217;ve worked with a team of people who constantly &#038; continuously seek to improve themselves and the world we live in.  The kind of Freedom you &#8220;get to&#8221; feel when you know in your heart of hearts that you&#8217;re part of something bigger than all of us and that by your contribution as a team member you &#8220;get to&#8221; to put your head on the pillow at night knowing that you&#8217;ve given your all.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of every presentation a &#8220;sale&#8221; will be made.  Either you will have lit their fire for the benefits relating to the purchase of your product, service or Freedom and they buy you &#8211; or from you.  Or you &#8220;buy&#8221; their excuses &#8211; paying with your feelings of disappointment, lack, a smaller bank account and wasted time.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is our true product.  One that people have paid the highest price for.  Whether it&#8217;s for something as simple as Christmas shopping or something bigger &#8211; people will always find the money for the things they really desire.   And therefore we know this for a fact; money is never the issue &#8211; the level of Desire always is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nBill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a really bad economy, gloomers, doomers and a lot of others still went shopping&#8230;. Holiday Shopping: $30.8 Billion Spent By CNNMoney.com December 29, 2010: 10:21 PM ET Holiday shopping was strong right through Christmas, with consumers spending a record &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,31],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}