{"id":1004,"date":"2012-07-17T05:06:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2012-05-28T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:07:56","slug":"know-your-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/know-your-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/know-your-customer\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Strategic tips for managing your career &#8211; if you are &#8211; or seek to be &#8211; a paddler&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 <strong>Know your customer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Your career is a financial transaction.\u00a0 You are paid because you offer a service or a product that a customer is willing to purchase.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be effective, you must know your customer. That means learning customer needs and wants and understanding how you can fulfill them.<\/p>\n<p>You must sell your expertise to both external and internal customers. Critical internal customers to every employee are bosses, the boss\u2019s boss, other departments, and the organization itself. Each of these constituents buys your services on a daily basis. Discovering how to build relationships and sell to those customers can enhance your career on many levels.<\/p>\n<p>Customer needs change, just as you change.\u00a0 You must continually learn and stay abreast of your customers needs if you want to stay relevant and have a fulfilling career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Action Tip:<\/p>\n<p>Define your customers.\u00a0 List how you meet the needs and want of your customers.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a question about your search? Look to the right and sign up for next Q &amp; A session, join the session and ask your question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategic tips for managing your career &#8211; if you are &#8211; or seek to be &#8211; a paddler&#8230; 3.\u00a0 Know your customer. Your career is a financial transaction.\u00a0 You are paid because you offer a service or a product that a customer is willing to purchase. If you want to be effective, you must know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,7],"tags":[9,71,142,5],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-tips","category-career-management","category-job-search-focus","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-action-tip","tag-career-management","tag-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}