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There was an old legendary HN comment around the following concept: "All things being equal, people buy from their friends. So just make more friends" If you
by warthog 9mo ago
There was an old legendary HN comment around the following concept:
"All things being equal, people buy from their friends. So just make more friends"
If you are confident of your services, just make more friends. Talk to people more. If it is too salesly already, you lost the conversation. Instead try and learn about their lives. I sometimes even open up with "No agenda to sell, genuinely curious"
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- gus_massa 9mo agoI found too many sources in Google, one from 1997, but I can't find the origin of it.
- mekoka 9mo agoCould it be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285438
- jppope 9mo agoThats old as time. The more basic form of it is: "Don't worry about selling, just make a friend"
- nateb2022 9mo agoProbably Colin Dowling: > I say in every talk I give: “All things being equal, people buy from their friends. So make everything else equal, then go make a lot of friends.”