Comments on: Will Work for Whuffie?

By: Paul Jacob

Paul Jacob — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:36:10 +0000

RE: “If you will continue to work for free, why not just spend nothing and go nowhere? It’s more sustainable”

Excellent blog, and important topic, Miss Hunt. These principles applies to most self-employed/entrepreneur. It’s a difficult move for anybody new to the self-employment to step up and ask for the proper rate for services to be rendered. One could be met with a lots of rejection at first, as so many people will be seeking to hire you for almost nothing, advancing their own pursuits with minimum impact to their cash flow.
Like the old adage: “Know who your real friends are”

Cheers! pj

By: Donna Jackson

Donna Jackson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:33:03 +0000

great post, thanks for telling it like it is, I nodded all the way through. I have finally learned this month that what you don’t charge for in blogging, writing and guestposting, is really just undoing your hard work. So often I have rushed to produce a guest post, Only to find they were slack in putting it up or put it up with a broken link to my blog, the link love would have been the only payback if it worked. Now I build my own brand, learned that from @garyvee ,and ill do almost anything for free for charity, but thats it. Love to tweet and support other’s success stories that are my mentors I link to them often in posts too and comment on others blogs. i believe in karma..
“When you undercut yourself, you undercut the whole industry”

By: Jason Baer

Jason Baer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:37:34 +0000

I read this at the absolute perfect time. Just finished a conference call with several of my speaking agents about rates and 2010 gigs and what I will and will not do. Thanks so much for clearly stating the case that just because social media is “free” booking expert speakers shouldn’t be. See you at SXSW. Cuz we’d be there anyway

By: Michael Kozakewich

Michael Kozakewich — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:14:10 +0000

Ha, $15,000 would last me three years.

I guess the bigger question is, how long did it take you to get where you are? I’m too young to comprehend it!

Here’s to progress.

By: Bengt Littorin

Bengt Littorin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:22:06 +0000

Hi there Chelsea
Tara of course should answer this but since I am here I start
Whuffie is basically social capital and also the name of her book (see above for link)and also the reason why we stalk hear:-) It is an really interesting as aconcept when we talk about the driving force in on line interaction. The word come from the science fiction novel “Down and out in the magic kingdom”
Regards
Bengt

By: chelsea

chelsea — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:17:46 +0000

New to the site.
Turned off by:
‘A lot’ is two words, not one.
What the hell is ‘whuffie’?

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By: Justin Maxwell

Justin Maxwell — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:04:58 +0000

Hey Tara,

This seems somewhat parallel with the “hustling” post from last week, which I also agreed with. There’s something inherently “hustled” about conferences where the majority of speakers are speaking for free, and thus promoting their own work/site/technology/name under the guise of shared knowledge to justify the time and expense.

By: Carlos Hernandez

Carlos Hernandez — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:11:13 +0000

I remember your preso at AdTech SF (or Web 2.0 Expo) this past spring…”Give it away until you go broke. Be sure to pay the rent and buy groceries.”

I was adequately compensated in my former corporate life and feel called to help people (I serve the unemployed Boomer market to become biztech savvy).

Reality sets in when I get home and the spouse asks, “So how much did you make today?”

It’s a balancing act.