#selling

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#himself #man #many #pleasure #really

Everyone lives by selling something. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#lives #selling #something

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#half #image #music #selling #sing

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#couple #every #hundred #members #probably

The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of selling the attention of their readers to commercial concerns... to tap into the resorvoir of resources constitutred by the growing urban populations ↗

— Manuel De Landa

#advertisements #newspapers #selling-out #business

As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.” (p.92) ↗

— Bob Burg and John David Mann

#reaching-people #selling #business

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#buying-and-selling #conversations #customer-service #customers #enterprise