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Just written Objections about price are rarely about price

Insight · From a book, last year

Every step you leave for the customer is a step where you lose some of them.

sales pricing

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People don't buy the cheapest option. They buy the one they can most easily justify.

You're learning faster than you've ever learned. But you're forgetting it even faster.

Running a business is one long crash course. A book on pricing, a podcast on hiring, a call with a customer who explains exactly why they churned, a launch that goes sideways and teaches you something you swore you'd never forget.

Three months later you can name the book and not much else.

Every model has read the same books. None of them has your notes.

Generic knowledge is free now, and infinite. Any model will hand you a competent summary of anything you ask it.

The same sentence means different things to different people. It means something different to you now than it did two years ago. What you take from a book depends entirely on what you already have in your head.

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Consistency is a distribution strategy. Showing up weekly beats one perfect launch.

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