Connecting the dots: Mastering Sales and Marketing to skyrocket your monthly payout as a freelancer

[What You Should Know as a Freelancer]
You see, anybody can look beautiful when everyone looks beautiful. Anyone can look smart when everyone looks smart. The pro deserving admiration and consistent exceptional reward and security - is the person who fashions himself to do well when others don't, won't or can't. A lot
of spectators can score all penalties they take if they are not the one playing it - so what? Let's see them playing the last penalty in a stadium of 20,000 spectators. In history, an economic cycle separates boys from men, girls from women, brilliant from dull, and agile from
weak. There is no in-between - it's only a coinage to wet our average efforts. Salespeople often triumph in all of these situations.

It's not what led to the situation, it's how they are able to play themselves out of the situation. There is unemployment in Nigeria - and then?
People play themselves out of the mess. Selling is an art, a tradition that's as old as the human race itself. When they aren't welcome, salespeople sell to people who hate them. They sell to buyers who had pre-determined not to see them. I had sold to people who left their
wallets at home, promised their wives they'd come home without buying anything, or worse, shocked at being sold to at all. I know how to sell when people do not want to buy.

Selling is selling, and people who can't or won't sell under a very harsh conditions can't or won't
sell even when gifted the perfect selling environment. Selling is dependent on the attitude of the salesperson, not that of the buyer. Lmao, people always want to buy. Always. At times, they may try controlling their buying impulses more than at others; they may have decided they
can't afford or need to wait before buying but impulse control loses out to red-hot lust all the time. As humans, we suspend logic, discipline, pre-conceived ideas, moral beliefs, and anything else required to get what we really want. It's inherent in humans and will continue
till Jesus comes....

People routinely, grossly overpay for slippers, phones, computers, earpieces, shirts, and even food. They pay outrageous amounts to own an estate, overly pay for hotel rooms because they desperately want status and the grudging envy of their friends. What
People want governs their behaviour all the time. If people aren't buying what you are selling, it is one or three possible explanations; you are selling to the wrong people, you've failed to connect what you are selling with what they Really want or you are a truly inept
salesperson.

Connect this with your fiverr Gigs or Upwork profiles. See the dots.

You see more than 500 requests on fiverr within an hour...about 1000 of similar requests on Upwork in less than 90 seconds and still complain of no sales. It's not that people aren't buying.
They are. Everyday, non-stop. People may stop buying what they really want if and when Arsenal wins the champions league. It's that hard.

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