19. Sell

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For 100 days, I'm going to publish a plus-minus hundred-word post a day on Steemit. These 100 posts will be the insights, routines, and habits of living a better life.

Start selling something — your services, your products, or yourself.

1. Find an audience.
2. Understand their pains and needs.
3. Create a solution—product or services
4. Reach out.
5. Make a transaction and deliver.

Why? Because as human, we’re selling every single day.

• When you were a kid and you want to convince your mom to give you an extra candy, you’re selling.
• When you’re a teenager and you like to impress your crush to go for a date with you, you’re selling.
• When you finished school and attend interview after interview in order to get a job, you’re selling.

Everyone is selling something. Even at this moment, I’m selling myself to convince you that I’m someone you should listen to, and hopefully, you get to my website to read more.

I’m also selling you my writing for a click of the Upvote — so I feel better. (And make some Steem)

Selling is about giving someone else what he/she wants in exchange for what you want. It is to focus on serving your prospect and meeting their needs. There are a lot of skills to master is to achieve that.

Notes: Most people are trying to create a market to serve themselves. A better strategy is—we should recreate ourselves to serve the market.

Footnotes

I write longer articles about strategic thinking and performance improvement on DeanYeong.com. You can download my book about hacking your habits here.