http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/if-your-opinion-is-worth-10-you-should-be-standing-on-the-corner-begging-for-money.html Vlad Mazek on IT, Business and Technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/if-your-opinion-is-worth-10-you-should-be-standing-on-the-corner-begging-for-money.html/comment-page-1#comment-33478 SBSC & MSP Buzz » Blog Archive » Give Up on Managed Services and Write a Book Instead! Wed, 28 May 2008 18:02:57 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/if-your-opinion-is-worth-10-you-should-be-standing-on-the-corner-begging-for-money.html#comment-33478 [...] Since I’m not the most creative guy in the world he proceeded to share with me some book or seminar topics that he believes I’m a Subject Matter Expert in.  “How I made millions with spam sweepstakes $10 at a time” [...] [...] Since I’m not the most creative guy in the world he proceeded to share with me some book or seminar topics that he believes I’m a Subject Matter Expert in.  “How I made millions with spam sweepstakes $10 at a time” [...]

]]> http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/if-your-opinion-is-worth-10-you-should-be-standing-on-the-corner-begging-for-money.html/comment-page-1#comment-31658 Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:09:06 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/if-your-opinion-is-worth-10-you-should-be-standing-on-the-corner-begging-for-money.html#comment-31658 As a good solution provider or IT professional, it’s true you have to definitely value people’s time and businesses as actually worth something, or you’re not going to get the same respect from them, whether they become clients or not. I think the concept behind this is a good one – try to garner response from people by offering something of value (though in this case that’s debatable) in return. It’s a marketing strategy that works well … when you offer something that REALLY has value. Any time you’re trying to elicit response from people as an IT professional – whether it be in the form of a survey or if you are actually trying to attract them as potential clients – you have to provide a real incentive … and $10 is just not going to do it! They’d do better to try offering a free tech assessment, money off a specific service, a useful white paper or DVD on data security or some other relevant topic. As a good solution provider or IT professional, it’s true you have to definitely value people’s time and businesses as actually worth something, or you’re not going to get the same respect from them, whether they become clients or not. I think the concept behind this is a good one – try to garner response from people by offering something of value (though in this case that’s debatable) in return. It’s a marketing strategy that works well … when you offer something that REALLY has value. Any time you’re trying to elicit response from people as an IT professional – whether it be in the form of a survey or if you are actually trying to attract them as potential clients – you have to provide a real incentive … and $10 is just not going to do it! They’d do better to try offering a free tech assessment, money off a specific service, a useful white paper or DVD on data security or some other relevant topic.

]]> http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/if-your-opinion-is-worth-10-you-should-be-standing-on-the-corner-begging-for-money.html/comment-page-1#comment-31333 AllenS Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:43:27 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/if-your-opinion-is-worth-10-you-should-be-standing-on-the-corner-begging-for-money.html#comment-31333 Dude, if you are not going to fill out the survey, could you hook me up pronto? Dude, if you are not going to fill out the survey, could you hook me up pronto?

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