How do you sell without feeling sleazy?

Sales calls, sales as a skill, getting first customers.

Axis: sales is education and service … sales is manipulation

Answers by date: 4 records in 4 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2020), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied)	Ali	The way to make large amounts of money online, Ali says, is to provide value at scale, since money is just an exchange of value; seeing making money as evil means never making it.	How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:48:38
2020-11-15	Ali	Ali says making videos is a job and a business that has to pay the bills, and the parasocial belief that creators must be purely altruistic makes any hint of a business enough to call someone a scammer.	How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers 00:16:54
2020-05-19	Ali	Following Gary Vaynerchuk, Ali says you need to provide 25 pieces of valuable free content for every time you ask people to buy something.	How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels 00:14:10
2019-10-09	Ali	Ali's seventh tip, from Paul Graham: do things that don't scale, putting in extra effort at the start to make customers happy and recruit new ones.	How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs 00:09:54

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