How to Talk to Your Customers

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Kind of off topic, but I'm amazed by this website's home page with the "steps". I like the format. Jordan Belfort said in his book that one key characteristic of good salespeople is that they take control over the sales process, making any kind of potential customer walk the steps you have defined as your sales process. When you take that lead and master it, you can sell to virtually anyone in front of you.

If you know how to master that process, then you're probably already good at sales.

For years I thought I was terrible at sales.

Then one day I talked with a designer friend about what Reddit is and why I like it. He is in his 40s and had never heard of it. He then immediately said to me "Wtf are you saying you are great at sales!". Until that point I had never realized talking about stuff you love is actually pitching.

Did he buy something? A lot of people like to fuck, you want to hear their adventures all day? I think your perspective how good you are will change when your future is actually dependent on selling . Don't let office politics foul you.

He bought an idea :)

I'm honestly not claiming I'm good at sales but that maybe I'm not as terrible as I thought.

Hi thanks a lot for the comment. That is my site.

I just hate it when I discover a cool blog post and the person seemed cool too but then I didn't know what to do next. So I thought I would just walk them through what I want them to do.

also I totally stole this idea from this author who writes about marketing books: https://selfpublishingformula.com/

Cool. Thanks for sharing the link. That website takes the idea of steps to a whole new level. It's definitely not a "one man company".

Hey, by the way, I just checked your HN profile and it doesn't have a link to your website.

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