{"id":932,"date":"2013-08-25T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T12:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog?p=932"},"modified":"2013-08-25T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T12:53:44","slug":"cool-name-pronunciation-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/cool-name-pronunciation-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Name Pronunciation Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-941\" alt=\"name-pronunciation-sites\" src=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blogwp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/name-pronunciation-sites.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/name-pronunciation-sites.jpg 455w, https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/name-pronunciation-sites-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Something that is a little bit off the topic of magic, but that is a reality for those of us who have to put on our &#8220;salesman&#8221; hat to get new &amp; constant work.<\/p>\n<p>I am talking about pronouncing your new &amp; potential clients names correctly! I have never been good with people&#8217;s names in various countries and even less clever in learning new languages!<\/p>\n<p>But these two websites help a lot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pronouncehow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pronounce How<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pronouncenames.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pronounce Names<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I rely on these sites constantly before picking up the phone or going to a new meeting &#8211; it saves me from making an ass of myself by not getting there name correct! The internet is an amazing support tool in selling and here is further proof.<\/p>\n<p>Not every name is in their database, but there is a lot more than you would think in there. The <em>Pronounce How<\/em> site is especially good, as it has an audio clip too on how the name should sound, along with the text look-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Something that is a little bit off the topic of magic, but that is a reality for those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[38,56,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-behind-the-scenes","7":"category-personal-items","8":"tag-blog","9":"tag-name-pronunciation","10":"tag-selling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}