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The $100 MBA Show

MBA518 Q&A Weekends: Should I give free access to my product to influencers or should I charge them?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mandy has a product and somebody big in her marketplace has shown interest in her product. Her question is: should she give this product for free to this somebody? Or should she charge him/her just like any other customer? This is a great question and it could be answered in a few different ways depending on the situation. Let’s hear it! Click play!

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA show! And today is a Q&A weekend's episode where we answer your question right here on the show

0:17.5

If you have a question you want to ask just email us at contact at 100 MBA dot net or you can send me a tweet on Twitter biz republic. As always

0:28.0

I'm your host your coach your teacher Omar Zenholm I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community

0:36.7

online.

0:37.7

Make sure you check out our free goodies over there at 100 MBA.net.

0:42.3

We've got a full video course that's free for you on idea validation. We got free

0:46.8

guides. We have a great blog for you to dive into so check it out. Today's question comes from Mandy and Mandy asks should I give

0:56.1

free access to my product to influencers in my marketplace or should I charge them

1:01.5

for it? Hmm, interesting question, Mandy.

1:05.0

So Mandy is struggling with this concept where she has a product,

1:08.0

and this could be a service even.

1:10.0

But for the sake of the argument, let's say it's a product because she said product in her question.

1:14.0

And somebody big in their marketplace, a VIP in the marketplace, whatever marketplace she's in,

1:19.0

whether that's the arts, health and wellness, business, whatever it is,

1:22.3

an influence from that market is interested

1:24.9

in checking out your product.

1:27.5

Should she give this person free access or should she charge them, just like any other customer?. We get into the details of this

1:34.3

question, it's a good one because there are different situations where you're going to

1:38.0

do different things. So let's get into it guys, let's get down to business.

1:51.0

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