Why Do You Give Stuff Away For Free When Other People Charge?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today's question comes from Jerry, who wonders about free vs. paid content strategies for blogs. Why give away information for free? Why ask someone to pay? I bet you have a question about business strategy! Leave it at http://www.askpat.com/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPat.
0:01.0	AskPat.com.
0:10.6	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:11.9	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 26 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	I'm here to help answer your online business questions daily, five days a week.
0:19.9	And today I want to mention a resource, which is actually a presentation that I did at New Media
0:24.5	Expo a couple of years ago.
0:26.2	This is all about the power of using free in your business and why you should be using
0:30.6	some component of free in your business to make more business.
0:34.9	You can check out that presentation at askpat.com slash power of free.
0:41.3	One word.
0:42.4	And that, of course, has to do with today's question from Jerry.
0:44.8	So let's get to today's question from Jerry right now.
0:48.0	Pat, tell me, I understand why you do not charge.
0:52.5	I'm just confused why there's so many out there that do charge and do basically the same thing
0:57.8	or same set of things that you're doing.
1:00.5	I'm confused.
1:01.9	I get this.
1:03.3	I believe in it.
1:04.5	I think you're very, very sincere.
1:06.3	I respect your success.
1:07.5	I really just don't get what, you know, why you give it away and, you know,
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