Jeremy Ballenger has been pushing me into being more specific about how my blog business model works. Here’s a prime example of how ‘free’ pays. An editor of a mag I occasionally contribute to (very occasionally I might add!) pinged me an email asking about Skype. He’s on deadline (like NOW) and needed a bunch of sound bite type sentences covering the do’s and dont’s of Skype with a couple of advice pointers on its use in a corporate finance setting. It was a Q&A thing. It took me about 10 minutes. Done for free. Don’t even know if I’ll be attributed. Don’t care. Almost immediately, the editor pinged back saying:
> Star – that’s perfect.
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> Big beers on me – and we should talk about your next proper commission,
> too – before Easter?
That’s one way free pays.
Oh yes – Jeremy describes me as ‘the cool accountant.’ Jeez – that’s NEVER happened before.
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