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Although you hate it, have you been successful at it? What your recommendations for finding someone willing and able to reach out to these potential customers and create real sales?


It took me through many years of my student life with an enough-to-survive income (like $2000 a month). I never tried to expand hard beyond this, because that was enough for me. So I'm no whiz marketer, just aware of the different things I tried and what worked for me.

I really don't know how to find someone, I wrote the emails myself. What I know is how to talk to people to close the sale - and most of it is just about making people feel secure, and going above what they expect.

Aggressive pushing almost never works for me. Just be nice, see if your product really solves their problem, point out what they will save in time and money, and make sure you are there for them.

To do these type of selling you need someone smart and who has empathy with people. Then just monitor the emails they send to make sure they don't sound marketey or selling too hard. Also, they should not get a customer too excited before purchase, cos the customer finds it hard to back down then, so usually just disappears. The customer wants to feel like he chose you, not like you forced him to buy by being so friendly.




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