{"id":542,"date":"2025-05-14T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:45:33","slug":"why-high-pressure-sales-tactics-are-killing-b2b-deals-and-what-to-do-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/why-high-pressure-sales-tactics-are-killing-b2b-deals-and-what-to-do-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Why High-Pressure Sales Tactics Are Killing B2B Deals (And What to Do Instead)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesalesblog.com\/blog\/why-high-pressure-sales-tactics-are-killing-b2b-deals-and-what-to-do-instead\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Why High-Pressure Sales Tactics Are Killing B2B Deals (And What to Do Instead)\" class=\"hs-featured-image lazyload\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pushy-b2b-sales-tactics-fail.jpg\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>If your sales strategy still relies on pressure and pitches, you&#8217;re losing clients before the real conversation begins.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=2922376&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesalesblog.com%2Fblog%2Fwhy-high-pressure-sales-tactics-are-killing-b2b-deals-and-what-to-do-instead&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.thesalesblog.com%252Fblog&amp;bvt=rss\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your sales strategy still relies on pressure and pitches, you&#8217;re losing clients before the real conversation begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blissfulyogaandmassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}