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Give one away free to your customer - Right Now!

Guest post by: Peter Lawless

Article Overview: In today's modern society, we are all hell bent in getting as much as we can, in the limited time available to us. So why bother giving things away to your customers? What can you give your customer today, that will make you and the person you give it to, feel great? And you can give lots of them to lots of customers, and it doesn't cost you a cent

Give one away free to your customer - Right Now!

Well many people are altruistic, like Bill Gates, who has pledged $20bn to charity - but he can afford it! So can you give things away right now - yes you can, because it's free

Let me give you a few hints, and also tell you some of the huge benefits to you. In fact since I started doing this, indeed, when I remember to do it, I get a real buzz. So do most of the people I give them to.

I would be lying if I told you it took no effort, or that you did not have to move a muscle, in fact you need to move 13 muscles. The last person that I gave one to, was a particularly glum, emigrant, serving me coffee at the local Spar shop. It completely transformed her, and I walked out of the shop feeling so much better myself.

I must have doubled the number I gave to my 4 ½ year old daughter over the weekend, and wow has her behaviour really got superb, since I made a conscious effort to give her more. And no-one can say I spoil her by giving her these.

Last week, there was someone that I was having problems with. I needed to talk to this person about something, so I gave her one of my free presents. You know what, it was such a good meeting, I went back home, feeling energised, and did some great work.

Did you ever feel depressed? In the US , lots of people spend a fortune on counselling and drugs, trying to beat depression. Drugs, such as ValiumT, release chemicals into your brain that actually trigger responses in your brain cells, to make you "feel" happier. Giving one of these away actually does the same!

I used to get really stressed in traffic, I still do when I am stuck behind someone, crawling along in the fast lane, but giving these things away, have helped reduce my stress a lot. In fact when I am down a side lane, trying to get into the snarling frenzy, that is Irish rush hour traffic, on one of the main roads, come rail, hail or shine, I wind down my window, and chuck one of these out. It nearly always works, since people will stop to pick it up.

For those of you who worked out what this was, a while ago, you are probably smiling to your self right now, you probably feel really good. You certainly must feel a little bit better than when you started reading this.

Why, because you just gave yourself one.
So go on, be a devil, give yourself another one - smile again!

Now, go out there and give another one to the first customer you meet, it will make you both feel really great.

And what is more, people will actually really want to do business with you!

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Re: How Much Of Ourselves Should We Give Away...? - People love free stuffs a lot and sometimes most of the free loafers are not always buyer,but this should not stop you from giving away free stuff. Give as much as possible and some of them one day will buy from you and you should be abler to monetize the free stuff by loading them with links and advertising your product inside
Re: Traffic! How do you get it? - Give away plenty of free valuable stuff. People will be grateful of your gift and will stick around to see what else you have to offer.
Re: How Much Of Ourselves Should We Give Away...? - Hi there, [quote="ideasuniversity":32kncrni]People love free stuffs a lot and sometimes most of the free loafers are not always buyer,but this should not stop you from giving away free stuff. Give as much as possible and some of them one day will buy from you and you should be abler to monetize the free stuff by loading them with links and advertising your product inside[/quote:32kncrni] I agree with ideasuniversity, its like sowing and reaping. When it gets into good, fertile ground there comes a time it will produce fruit, ie financial reward. It is very true, that there are people who regularly go for free stuff only. I have been an addict in the past. I think this creates an issue of finding it later on. How can we categorize it properly? Quite often I remember having downloaded or copied some information, but can't remember how to open it up. Any one knows how that feels? Am I the only one? How can we overcome 'information overload' and retrieve without wasting a lot of precious time?
Re: What to do at the first roadblock? - Upon first discouragement, dig in and see if things are as they seem. Sometimes, even though there are several products out there that appear comparable, they are no match. Maybe they do don't a good job of what they are intended for, or maybe there are several glitches in their system, or perhaps their customer service just plain stinks. Decide how you can "one up" all of these things and decide that you are going to create a better product that more people would want. Attitude is 95% of the battle. If you feel defeated before you've done any research on any of the other products, you're doing yourself a huge disservice. Give yourself a chance and see if you can be the BEST in every way. This will get you far no matter what the venture.
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