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This is terrible advice. Spending your life learning how to sell people crap that they don't need is wasting your life. You should work hard to make a great p
by richcollins 16y ago
This is terrible advice. Spending your life learning how to sell people crap that they don't need is wasting your life.
You should work hard to make a great product. If you don't know how to make a great product and don't have to patience to learn, go work for someone that does.
- nutjob123 16y agoBeing able to produce a product is nice but it won't sell itself by merely existing. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" If you release a product and no one knows will anyone buy it?
- mfukar 16y agoNo, it might be wasting their life, but it's solid advice for the OP. It's been proven to work. I'm terribly sorry, but not everyone's purpose is to make great products that help mankind. Some people just wanna get rich.
- richcollins 16y agoPeople that "just wanna get rich" are predators and parasites. They don't deserve any respect.
- robryan 16y agoNow that's an over generalisation, just because your not concerned whether people actually need the product doesn't mean that you aren't doing your best to ensure your product is the best it can possibly be.
- loewenskind 16y agoWhat about people who want to get rich so they can work on things that help mankind but can't easily (if at all) be monetized?
- DevX101 16y agoThe ability to sell is getting the customer to choose YOUR product over alternatives. There are very few products out there that we need and cannot be substituted. I've got a perfectly sharp knife in my kitchen, but after watching the sales genius in the above video, I feel like I NEED to get one of his carrot peelers.
- richcollins 16y agoIf your product is easily substituted then you should be spending time differentiating through value, not perception of value.
- DevX101 16y agoTell that to the multi-billion dollar advertising industry. Having the perception of value is THE necessary condition to selling your product. Having actual value may create this perception of value, but this is not necessarily so. I've seen several products including a few startups here on this site that I KNOW have great value, due to my own close observation. But there are many potentials customers who don't immediately see this value after casual review, or don't know about it. Reality is perception.
- aik 16y agoCase in point: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201096309840.htm http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b42010963... "Being Steve Jobs' boss": Jobs from the perspective of John Sculley
- richcollins 16y agoI'm not saying that it doesn't work. I'm saying that its one of the things about the human condition that needs to be fixed.
- bambax 16y agoYou don't buy them because they're cheap, you buy them because they're good and they work. The potato peeler IS a great product, and who doesn't need one?!?
- lubos 16y agoI don't need one... I eat all my vegetables with the skin on. call me lazy but it's healthier that way too
- jimrandomh 16y agoOr hire someone who does. Hiring salespeople or advertisement writers may be very necessary.