{"id":10070,"date":"2017-04-14T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2017-04-14T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T15:37:06","slug":"distribution-first-steps-are-miserable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/distribution-first-steps-are-miserable\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution. First Steps Are Miserable!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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“Your face looks like a fake mask.”<\/div>\n
– rando comment<\/div>\n
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LARRY CHIANG says: “Not a mask! My face is pure joy bc I read #WTDTYAHBS<\/a>. #ch6<\/a> =sales and distribution work.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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4\/13\/17, 8:27 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Not a mask! My face is pure joy bc I read #WTDTYAHBS<\/a>. #ch6<\/a> = cold called at Daily Illini to sell display advertising. #blessed<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/x5NiJNxQFW<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


Later, I coached up Stanford Daily reps on how to sell
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We sold display ads by cold-calling tech bloggers to buy display advertising. If they called back…, it’s a pretty large win psychologically<\/i>. <\/div>\n
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4\/13\/17, 8:28 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Cold calling was effen miserable. twitter.com\/larrychiang\/st\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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When you meet a kindred spirit (person who also crawled through the mud tunnel that is distribution tasks. Aka we “did things that didn’t scale”. <\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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4\/13\/17, 8:29 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Selling cars at village in Naperville was effen miserable. twitter.com\/larrychiang\/st\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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4\/13\/17, 8:33 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Andy Duffrain had to crawl thru 3 football fields of sewage to be free. Selling is like taking a pooh shower where dirt is your ONLY soap twitter.com\/larrychiang\/st\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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By Larry Chiang “Your face looks like a fake mask.” – rando comment LARRY CHIANG says: “Not a mask! My face is pure joy bc I read #WTDTYAHBS. #ch6 =sales and distribution work.” Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 4\/13\/17, 8:27 AM Not a mask! My face is pure joy bc I read #WTDTYAHBS. #ch6 = cold called at Daily Illini to sell display […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}