As is often the case with persuasion, what you do first matters.

就想通常有说服力的案例一样，你首先做什么关系重大。

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I've asterisked the tasks I want you to do first.

我在要你首先完成的任务旁边标上了星号。

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I've placed an asterisk next to the tasks I want you to do first.

我在要你首先完成的任务旁边标上了星号。

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"You train,you raise money. So you walk twenty miles your first day, you sleep in a tent, you wake up I got to do this again?

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And the first thing you do is ask is it an instance of some problem that other people have already solved?

而且你以前从没碰过这个问题,你首先要做的一件事就是问问自己,这是不是一个别人已经解决了的问题？

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Because your store might not do so good, if you just first open and no one has ever heard of you,

因为你的商店也许会没那么好。如果你是第一次开店，没有人听说过你的话，

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What do you do first?

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"It makes sense to do the deals like USA that you know you can do easily first, " says Gerbrandt.

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