{"id":15888,"date":"2016-03-05T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=15888"},"modified":"2018-12-27T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T00:11:52","slug":"whats-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=15888","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15889\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15889\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15889 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/joseperez-attorney.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney Jose Perez\" width=\"510\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/joseperez-attorney.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/joseperez-attorney-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Jose Perez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>About a decade ago\u00a0Jose Perez was delivering pizzas. But these days,\u00a0 the Ithaca-born, Venezuela-raised attorney is getting his clients sweet deals for\u00a0personal injury, immigration and business contracts. He talked about his personal journey during an entrepreneur forum sponsored by The Upstate Minority Economic Alliance (UMEA) on Friday. The event was held at the Southside Innovation Center.<\/p>\n<p>Perez also shared some business advice.\u00a0Here are some of his tips for getting the most\u00a0from\u00a0your next negotiation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Present a concrete case<\/li>\n<li>Prepare for disputes<\/li>\n<li>Consider unconventional deal structuring<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid to leave the table<\/li>\n<li>Bring the big guns (use leverage when necessary)<\/li>\n<li>Avoid quick fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a decade ago\u00a0Jose Perez was delivering pizzas. But these days,\u00a0 the Ithaca-born, Venezuela-raised attorney is getting his clients sweet deals for\u00a0personal injury, immigration and business contracts. He talked about his personal journey during an entrepreneur forum sponsored by The Upstate Minority Economic Alliance (UMEA) on Friday. The event was held at the Southside Innovation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[4864,5006,4957,2930,4956,4955,867,113,4967,4958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15888"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25604,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888\/revisions\/25604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}