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There is no comparison. Selling stuff as white person (extremely culturally aware) in Africa is like stealing candy from a baby. People want to know you, and y

• smcin 1y ago
  Don't be so quick to discount your experience though; selling enterprise software/SaaS is different to marketing and selling consumer goods/services. Tell us what you learned, about both. Were all your perfume sales face-to-face, or did you use text, or word-of-mouth? Did you give discounts for referrals? How much did the brand name matter, or not? etc. (Compare to e.g. https://www.ted.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-human/what-we-can-learn-from-great-salespeople-w-colin-coggins-transcript https://www.ted.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-human/what-w...)