Simon Squibb Heated Debate: is 'Free' Better Than 'Paid'?

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Simon joins Rob in this episode where they talk about whether free content, information and services are better than paid. Simon believes free has more value but Rob disagrees. Listen in to find out why! KEY TAKEAWAYS Many businesses have been built on something ‘free’ such as Facebook and Instagram. But Rob quite rightly points out that someone always has to pay for free, using FB as the example, it wasn’t free to create and now it’s users are advertised to. Rob believes that you value things that you pay for. When you are given things for free you don’t value it in the same way. If you are going to do something for free then you need to ensure it has good value. A large chunk of society just cannot afford things. Free has a value for those who can’t afford to pay. Simon argues that podcasting provides a wealth of knowledge with breadth that not many other platforms can rival. Yet it’s free. His core belief and argument is that there are many things we can provide to people for free that have a higher value to society than if we charged for them. BEST MOMENTS “Someone always has to pay for free” “My problem with free is the lack of earning and valuing of it” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0	but I don't believe a transactional amount necessarily proves whether or not it's got value.
0:05.6	I just run more here and I'm with my good friend Simon Squibble, though we might not be friends
0:10.0	by the end of this session. We decided to get together and discuss whether free has any value.
0:17.8	You know if you get given stuff for free or if you try and attend free seminars or you don't
0:23.9	pay your way, you're always trying to hack and get everything for free. We have a very different
0:28.8	opinion on it and we thought we'd discuss it here with you and see if we could come up with
0:34.2	anything useful if we were going to agree or disagree or argue or whatever. So Simon, you think
0:41.2	that free is the way to go. I think free has more value than people give it to. How does anyone
0:47.4	make any living if they can't charge? Well, sometimes it's not game over now, by the way. Yeah,
0:52.8	you win. Good point. I wasn't thinking about earning a living. No, I think
0:58.1	well, I sometimes imagine capitalism with no money. Yeah, but it's also about building
1:05.2	a ecosystem, right? So, I mean, examples of free, like it or not. Facebook is free. It's not free.
1:11.7	Well, because we sold our soul and our data. Well, not anymore. We didn't know we were selling
1:16.0	the beginning. And we've since agreed to sell to be advertised. Yeah, which I again, I don't
1:21.8	agree with that type of free. But my point is that businesses can get built
1:28.2	giving people something for free. There's no disc, there is no, oh, you give something for free,
1:33.2	there's no business in it. That's not a fair argument. I think a better argument is free is one
1:37.6	way to bring value to a community and there is another way to make. But someone always has to pay
1:42.6	for free. Depends on what you're giving away for free, doesn't it? But how do you fund it?
1:47.7	Well, again, I'm sometimes Facebook wasn't free. It might have been free to the user to start,
1:52.2	but when it's free, there's a cost you don't understand. Yeah, but that doesn't neglect the fact
1:58.8	that someone had to put billions into creating. Instagram is free, right? And you're still using it.
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