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What Does it Mean To Be REAL?

For the past couple of years now, I have learned that those old hard-sales techniques don't really work anymore. It's not that they weren't effective at one time or another, but now a days, with the use of the internet and people constantly being bombarded with other peoples products and opportunities--we are much more aware of being "sold" to. Many authors say that no one really wants to be sold to, but people definitely enjoy buying. Isn't that interesting?? So, how do we offer people a solution to their problem without trying to force them to believe our product is better than Joe Smiths product? How best can we serve others--without trying to use sales techniques, like closing and manipulating to get the results we want? Well, I don't know about you but it doesn't feel good to try to force others to bend to your will. In fact it doesn't work! It's like trying to roll a boulder through the sand--pretty hard to do. But what if there w