Comments on: The Audacity of Free

By: cosplay

cosplay — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:50:29 +0000

I would like to know if there is a way to post short stories, and ongoing episodes for a story online and that it gets legitimate copyright on a site. I want to avoid sending my material to get copyright each time I make an update to my stories. The …

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By: nuki

nuki — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:38:30 +0000

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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:25:01 +0000

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By: Simon Salt

Simon Salt — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:27:00 +0000

Chris, I was actually working on a similar post with a couple of others as the result of experiences we have had recently with people asking for “Free”. I was asked to MC a conference for two days, expected to travel there on my own dime and get nothing for it. The conference ticket was selling for $600, even if everyone who attended (approx 200) got the discounted ticket of $400 that is still a gross profit of $80,000. Because it was a brand new conference I didnt ask for a speaker fee, just travel and accommodation. Instead of negotiating with me the conference organizers got very mad at me for asking, and told me “good luck” and then walked away. That was when I decided Free is not Me. My time, my content and my contribution is worth something, even if its only a plane ticket and a hotel room. As always great post.

By: Tammy Collins

Tammy Collins — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:07:00 +0000

Free is so difficult for exactly the reasons mentioned. I have had potential tax clients tell me they can do their taxes online for free. I smile and tell them to go ahead. When they receive the inevitable letter from the IRS, they call me to fix it, which I do for much more than their initial tax return would have cost them had I prepared it. Ah well, live and learn. Free is never really free at all. Great post!

By: The Redhead

The Redhead — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:56:00 +0000

Bottom line: you get what you pay for. Do you walk into your doctor’s office and haggle? Do you tell your CPA that Turbo Tax is only $59.99?

No. Professionals charge for their services. We also charge our friends. We also understand when and how to ask to bend someone’s ear. We also know when people are bending the shit out of us and soon enough, we break.

Pay the man. Woman. Hamster. Doctor. Lawyer. Indian Chief. If the economy sucks so bad that you can’t afford it, then you wait until you can. You don’t ask someone else to make THEIR business suffer.

Hat tip, Chris. *and thanks to Dave Peck for RTing this and putting it back on my radar

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15 Ways to Handle ‘Pick Your Brand’ Requests | Eeden Labs — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:27:59 +0000

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By: yah00

yah00 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:51:00 +0000

Thanks, Chris. I’m just getting my presentation coaching business off the ground and have been going back and forth about providing “gratis” work for initial exposure

By: The Value of … « Taking Aim

The Value of … « Taking Aim — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:16:34 +0000

[...] about everything from incentive-based pricing to picking a consultant’s brain to the “audacity of free” and it reminded me of the retail dilemma. The common theme among the aforementioned posts is [...]

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