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Key takeaways
- People need to be reminded more than they need to be taught.
- Three, the proof you get from happy customers is way more convincing than any promise you can make in marketing.
- Five, your business is never too big to spend time talking to your customers.
- Seven, growth is stressful, stagnation is stressful, decline is stressful, business is stressful.
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0:00I sold my last company for $46.2 million. Here are seven lessons I learned the hard way. One, nobody knows you exist. Advertise more. Number two, be willing to repeat yourself. People need to be reminded more than they need to be taught. Three, the proof you get from happy customers is way more convincing than any promise you can make in marketing. So, get testimonials and use them often. Four, raising prices almost always makes you more money. But, you hear no more often, and that's okay.
0:25Five, your business is never too big to spend time talking to your customers. Six, before you try anything new, do 10 times more of what already works. Seven, growth is stressful, stagnation is stressful, decline is stressful, business is stressful. There's nothing wrong with you. You don't need to change anything at all. Learn to endure.