Want to meet people, try charging them for it?

Post by alias_neo » Tue, Jul 01, 2025, 8:02 AM UTC

croisillon wrote: post #53

alias_neo wrote: post #33

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I experienced the opposite a few years back. My wife and I were moving city and needed rid of some perfectly functional appliances and furniture. We listed it all for free because we needed it gone quick and the cost of taking it with us was too high. When by the next day we'd had one enquiry from someone who didn't turn up, we changed tactic and switched everything to £1. Within a day the entire lot was gone, people…

had a similar experience getting rid of furnitures the owner told me i could dispose of: free brings no eyeballs on it, €10 and people were begging if i could do at €8 :)

Post by mmarian » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC

rorylaitila wrote: post #78

mmarian wrote: post #77

Hmm, interesting. I launched a blog a few months' back; one of the reasons was to talk to people about things I care about which, in my case, involves the struggles of launching a bootstrapped startup. I put a link to my linkedin and a contact form, just for that. No one contacted me. But funnily enough, when I speak to people they often tell me they've read my blog. And I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at givi…

I've found the number of people that read my work vs interact is greater than 100 to 1. Similarly to you I get a lot of feedback IRL. Some people consider me 'prolific' within my small network, even though it feels like there is often no engagement at all. It's not easy to measure the true effect you have!