Comments on: Are your freebies scaring away new customers? http://www.igniteliving.com/good-business-practice/are-your-freebies-scaring-away-new-customers/ Tips for Productive, Simple and Happy Living Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Charlie http://www.igniteliving.com/good-business-practice/are-your-freebies-scaring-away-new-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Charlie Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:59:55 +0000 http://www.igniteliving.com/good-business-practice/are-your-freebies-scaring-away-new-customers/#comment-89 <strong>Maya -</strong> Thanks! I appreciate it. And I agree that there's something about someone offering themselves up for free that inspires confidence. Putting yourself on the line with your product and betting on success isn't easy. Maybe that's why so many people don't it. <strong>James -</strong> I hear you. I think it's just the nature of things that aren't voluntary. Like, I don't mind helping friends move into a new house, but the second someone says "Hey...you owe me, so you better get over here," I instantly turn very unwilling. Maya -

Thanks! I appreciate it. And I agree that there’s something about someone offering themselves up for free that inspires confidence. Putting yourself on the line with your product and betting on success isn’t easy. Maybe that’s why so many people don’t it.

James -

I hear you. I think it’s just the nature of things that aren’t voluntary. Like, I don’t mind helping friends move into a new house, but the second someone says “Hey…you owe me, so you better get over here,” I instantly turn very unwilling.

]]> By: James Chartrand - We http://www.igniteliving.com/good-business-practice/are-your-freebies-scaring-away-new-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-85 James Chartrand - We Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:24:02 +0000 http://www.igniteliving.com/good-business-practice/are-your-freebies-scaring-away-new-customers/#comment-85 Considering the number of feeds I already read as part of my job, I dont want to have more feeds. (Okay, dammit, this apostrophe issue is chasing me around your blogs. Im gonna go nuts because not putting an apostrophe is like nails on a chalkboard for me...) *ahem* As I was saying... So yes. I dont want another feed in my reader. I want to choose to have the feed and not be forced into it. Subscribe to download? CLICK! Im so gone. Considering the number of feeds I already read as part of my job, I dont want to have more feeds.

(Okay, dammit, this apostrophe issue is chasing me around your blogs. Im gonna go nuts because not putting an apostrophe is like nails on a chalkboard for me…)

*ahem* As I was saying…

So yes. I dont want another feed in my reader. I want to choose to have the feed and not be forced into it. Subscribe to download? CLICK! Im so gone.

]]> By: Maya Norton (The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy) http://www.igniteliving.com/good-business-practice/are-your-freebies-scaring-away-new-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Maya Norton (The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:45:18 +0000 http://www.igniteliving.com/good-business-practice/are-your-freebies-scaring-away-new-customers/#comment-83 I think this post is right on. I recently subscribed to some sites that I have only nominal interest in to check out their ebooks, and yes, I felt coerced. Regardless of advertising dollars, I see the point of an ebook as a way to attract real subscribers and followers to your ideas and site. I have seen many blogs say something to the effect of, "You have to subscribe to see the ebook, but I know you're just subscribing for that." Of course I am. You made me. I didn't want to subscribe and it doesn't inspire any particular loyalty to you. On the other hand, when ebooks or white papers are free, actually free, and I enjoy them, it inspires a lot more confidence and faith in the site than it would have otherwise. Yours is certainly an example of this. That's how I got here via Naomi at IttyBiz and glad I am. Maya I think this post is right on. I recently subscribed to some sites that I have only nominal interest in to check out their ebooks, and yes, I felt coerced.

Regardless of advertising dollars, I see the point of an ebook as a way to attract real subscribers and followers to your ideas and site. I have seen many blogs say something to the effect of, “You have to subscribe to see the ebook, but I know you’re just subscribing for that.” Of course I am. You made me. I didn’t want to subscribe and it doesn’t inspire any particular loyalty to you.

On the other hand, when ebooks or white papers are free, actually free, and I enjoy them, it inspires a lot more confidence and faith in the site than it would have otherwise. Yours is certainly an example of this.

That’s how I got here via Naomi at IttyBiz and glad I am.

Maya

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