Too Ashamed to Sell 😔

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Damon Brown
May 21, 2025

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Hi reader,

The idea of networking parties makes most of us cringe.

The need to show your best self.

Heavy active listening.

Smoozing.

But what if you could offer a perspective, a shift, maybe even a solution to someone at the party?

Then it moves from talking about yourself.

To making yourself of service.

And not about you 🪞

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Seth Godin once said that not offering your product or service to someone who may need it is a selfish act.

I agree with him.

We work hard to bring our ideas into reality.

Do personal trade-offs or even sacrifices.

But then we’re afraid to tell people what we have created with love, with sweat, with even tears?

Sure, it may stem from our insecurity about it being good enough or worth it.

The result is still about you, not them 😬

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The true unselfish act is to share what you’ve created.

Tell them the narrative behind it.

Give of yourself.

And if they are part of the audience you want to serve, ask them their opinion.

After tinkering in our proverbial laboratory, we may not even have enough objectivity to know if our stuff is good.

Or ready.

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🙋🏾 I’m Damon! (http://www.damonbrown.net) I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & others like yourself bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, I co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with my infant son.

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