People Don't Value What They Get For Free
That’s what I’m forced to conclude after too many experiences that tell me most people don’t value what they get for free.
I recently launched a new membership site called Member’s Exchange the aim of which is to form a small group of 50 webmasters who want to co-operate to help each improve their web businesses and succeed on the Web.
Whilst it’s a paid membership, members can also pay in kind, by what they give back to other members.
Before I launched the paid membership I had an equally small group I had formed to help for free with their web design and promotion issues.
What I was forced to conclude from this group was that the majority of them did not seem to value what they got for free.
Regrettably it was not my first experience in reaching such a conclusion as I have tried to help many other people for free.
I think it’s a sad reflection on how cynical and mistrusting people have become on the web. The worst group seem to be webmasters themselves who are constantly bombarded with products and solutions offering them the success they so desperately want but continues to elude them.
When someone presents a genuine offer of help and support, their defensive radar is such that it prevents them from being open to the idea that perhaps the offer could be genuine.
Have we all become so cynical that if something genuine was presented to us we would not recognise it if it smacked us between the eyes, or do we refuse to accept that there can ever be anything genuine on the web.
It’s right to have a healthy scepticism about all these instant solutions, easy push button schemes and how to make $60,000 in one month sitting in your underpants claims.
And I’m just as cynical and sceptical as anyone else who has spent 5 years on the web. But I would never want to get to the stage of being like some people who like deer in a car’s headlights are frozen to the spot.
They seemed numbed by repeated bad experiences from ever taking anymore risks or seizing a genuine no risk opportunity of help and support.
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