Ferriss: Soft-sell outreach gets more responses than aggressive persistence
Tim Ferriss · #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration · Apr 9, 2014 · at 26:58
Tim Ferriss discusses the outreach strategy he used early in his career to connect with and get advice from high-profile figures.
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“You tend to get more bites with a softer cell, so I always give them an easy way out.”
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