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Re:Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrep... by mlboss on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:28PM (#42588184)
You need to crawl, walk and then run. I would argue that talking to users on reddit/twitter is also selling. If you cannot sell a $3 dollar widget then selling a $1000 widget is even more difficult. Enterprise sales has a long sales cycle which is very difficult to do without significant runway.
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrep... by pembrook on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:36PM (#42588269)
In fact it's far easier to sell ten $1000/m subscriptions than it is to sell 3,333 $3/m subscriptions (the equivalent).

But you don't learn this until after you've tried the latter.

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrep... by jsk2600 on Friday January 03, 2025 @02:40PM (#42588783)
Also, it's usually far easier to support ten customers vs 3,333.
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrep... by yakshaving_jgt on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:04PM (#42591245)
In my experience, it’s easier to sell something for $1000 than it is to sell something for $3.
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrep... by sliq on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:09PM (#42591654)
one good high-paying client is much easier than 1000 little clients. in every single aspect ;)
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrep... by hermitcrab on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:32PM (#42592129)
As long as you don't only have 1 client. Then you are a basically a consultant and have to do what they say.
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