{"id":4460,"date":"2011-06-28T20:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napma.com\/data_members\/home\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2014-01-31T04:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T04:10:02","slug":"tom-hopkins-mastering-of-art-of-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/blog\/tom-hopkins-mastering-of-art-of-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Tom Hopkins &#8211; Mastering of Art of Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4482 alignright\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"tom-hopkins\" src=\"http:\/\/napma.com\/data_members\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tom-hopkins1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tom-hopkins1.jpg 406w, http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tom-hopkins1-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><strong>Tom Hopkins is a sales legend. <\/strong><br \/>Many believe that natural   ability is  enough to make you successful in a selling career. The truth of the    matter is that natural skill, combined with &#8220;how to&#8221; training is the  real secret   to high level productivity. Having learned this lesson the  hard way, Tom is   quick to admit that his early sales career was not  successful. After benefiting   from professional training, he became a  dedicated student, internalizing and   refining sales techniques which  enabled him to become the sales leader in his   industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Play:<\/strong><br \/><a class=\"{skin:'black', animate:true, width:'200', volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}\" id=\"mbmaplayer_1383820058736\" href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/NAPMA\/data_members\/TELECONFERENCES\/hopkins.mp3\"><\/a><span class=\"map_params\" style=\"display: block; width: 100px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding: 5px; border-radius: 7px; background: #6f6f6f; color: #fff; text-decoration: none;\"> \u25b6 custom player<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a  data-e-Disable-Page-Transition=\"true\" class=\"download-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/download\/11744\/?tmstv=1777594554\" rel=\"nofollow\" id=\"download-link-11744\" data-redirect=\"false\" >\n\tTom Hopkins - MA Interview\t(129 downloads\t)\n<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hopkins is a sales legend. Many believe that natural ability is enough to make you successful in a selling career&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1350,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-interviews","tag-sales"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 20:15:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}