19 May 2026

Chapter 9: Sales and Marketing — Selling the Dream You Haven't Proved Yet

Chapter 8 covered the structural obstacles of distribution — the tied pubs, the wholesaler lock-ins, the supermarket squeeze. This chapter is about something more personal and, for many people, far more uncomfortable: the actual selling. And alongside it, the relentless grind of marketing a product when nobody knows who you are and you can't afford to change that.

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