Free Trials are there for a reason. Do it right and start your Internet Business at no out of pocket
Hi All,
Believe me, I'm talking about this because I've done it wrong and learned by my mistakes how to do it almost Wright
There are enough free trials out there to start your Internet business, however, if you grab the free trial before you are ready for it your free trial period will be over and you will lose out on the main reason you got the free trial in the first place, I.E. to start your IM business for freeeeeeeee.
If you start it for free and don't have to pay before you start making money at least it feels like you have started up with no out of pocket cost (free). In other words if the service is $30 a month and you make $30 before your first payment it almost feels like free.
It's easy to grab the free trial as soon as you find out about it, just so you will "have this or that great tool." RESIST
Get your product ready, have your business plane, no matter how simple, in place, get the reviews from others from the preview copies you sent out, have your website ready to upload, (before you pay for hosting so you can even get that "free,") you can even sell a couple of copies through your sig file to pay for a WSO so that too is "free" if doing a WSO as part of your plan.
DON'T use Free Hosting, Auto Responders, Forums etc and expect people to take you as a serious business. Use Free Trials and make them free by making money before the payments are due.
The exceptions I can think of are gmail, I feel the old stigma of "why are you using free email?" Is gone when you use gmail, OpenOffice is a great sub for Word and the PDF feature is great, Sothink free (although I do have the paid version) and a lot of others.
I'm not touting here that you should expect everything for free, I'm a big fan of paying to get paid. In fact, personally, I feel the "I can get everything for free," attitude is what keeps many of us from getting paid for what we do. I'm saying how it can "feel free," if you time your launch and start to make money before the payments for the free trials come due.
The beauty of free trials is that if they are not working out for you, you can cancel them before you have to pay, go back to the drawing board, correct your mistakes and start over.
I have some other ideas on how to make it "feel free." I'll post them If I can put them into words later.
Does anyone else have any "free" advice?
George Wright P.S.
Believe me, I'm talking about this because I've done it wrong and learned by my mistakes how to do it almost Wright
There are enough free trials out there to start your Internet business, however, if you grab the free trial before you are ready for it your free trial period will be over and you will lose out on the main reason you got the free trial in the first place, I.E. to start your IM business for freeeeeeeee.
If you start it for free and don't have to pay before you start making money at least it feels like you have started up with no out of pocket cost (free). In other words if the service is $30 a month and you make $30 before your first payment it almost feels like free.
It's easy to grab the free trial as soon as you find out about it, just so you will "have this or that great tool." RESIST
Get your product ready, have your business plane, no matter how simple, in place, get the reviews from others from the preview copies you sent out, have your website ready to upload, (before you pay for hosting so you can even get that "free,") you can even sell a couple of copies through your sig file to pay for a WSO so that too is "free" if doing a WSO as part of your plan.
DON'T use Free Hosting, Auto Responders, Forums etc and expect people to take you as a serious business. Use Free Trials and make them free by making money before the payments are due.
The exceptions I can think of are gmail, I feel the old stigma of "why are you using free email?" Is gone when you use gmail, OpenOffice is a great sub for Word and the PDF feature is great, Sothink free (although I do have the paid version) and a lot of others.
I'm not touting here that you should expect everything for free, I'm a big fan of paying to get paid. In fact, personally, I feel the "I can get everything for free," attitude is what keeps many of us from getting paid for what we do. I'm saying how it can "feel free," if you time your launch and start to make money before the payments for the free trials come due.
The beauty of free trials is that if they are not working out for you, you can cancel them before you have to pay, go back to the drawing board, correct your mistakes and start over.
I have some other ideas on how to make it "feel free." I'll post them If I can put them into words later.
Does anyone else have any "free" advice?
George Wright P.S.