Posts Tagged ‘generosity’

The benefits of generosity for small/online businesses

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Tokens of goodwill have always been among the building blocks of relationships, they have preceded diplomatic relations between world powers, built trust between strangers, saved many a man from the couch after a miscalculation regarding how the wife would take certain jokes about her weight.

The free gift with purchase has been a long standing tradition of the infomercial and product launch world. Free samples are employed regularly by companies the world over.

So how do we harness this when we’re on a budget? That’s the big thing, money is tight for everyone. What a lot of us forget is that what we have to give needn’t cost us money.

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Used

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I hate feeling like I’ve been used. It happens a lot. As in a regular occurrence. It happens in all kinds of different and creative ways and in some cases I think I might be aware of it on some level, other times it could have happened months ago and suddenly I realise and proceed to bang my head on the nearest solid object (desk and steering wheel are firm favourites) until concussion becomes my primary concern.

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