“Hook me up, Give me a Discount on the Discount(ers)”
The danger of offering a discount is there are some people who want to take further advantage of the offer. They think “Hey if I can get it for 50% off why not 80% off. Truth be told, when we offer discounts we are often, let’s just say… “needy” but when someone tries to rip you off, you have to set your own boundaries. I have “friends” who I only hear from when they want me to run press releases on my popular industry blog for free.
The problem is most of the time the Press Releases are on washed up artists who have no relevance in today’s industry or it’s something totally unrelated. Truth be told, my “friends” who ask me to do this will get paid for me to run it but I’m hit twice below the belt. #1 my readers are wondering why I’m running something irrelevant and unrelated and the “flow” of the blog is interrupted… #2. I’m NOT getting paid to do it.
These people totally ignore how hard you work to establish your business as their concerns are only for themselves and paying their rent… that’s fine.. question is… who is going to pay yours? I don’t reply to those requests anymore but if it’s something that you feel may help get your business rise to the next level by all means do it… JUST KNOW they will KEEP coming back for discounts or FREE work and once you give it to them, they will never see the true value in what you do.
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