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10 Ways to Reply to: ‘Can I pick your brain?’ | HPC by Tara Hunt

10 Ways to Reply to: ‘Can I pick your brain?’

Posted on 29 November 2009 by Tara Hunt

  1. Can I pick your wallet?
  2. No, but I may let you pick my nose!
  3. Sounds like that would hurt!
  4. So, you’d buy me lunch in exchange for $200 worth of my time? You obviously don’t need my advice. That’s a killer business model you have there already!
  5. OMG, you are a surgeon, too?!
  6. Perhaps if that lunch is in…Paris! (or some other faraway, awesome destination)
  7. Aaaaaaaaah! Zombie! (run away screaming)
  8. Bummer. I’m all out of pickable brain today.
  9. Yay! You picked my brain! What does it win?
  10. Sorry, but I don’t exchange my time for sandwiches anymore.

Do you have any others?

The truth is that real clients pay. If you are blogging, writing articles, tweeting and doing all sorts of other things (like have a book on the market), there are oodles of ways for someone to get the basic information they need from the content you’ve already put out there for free (I have 3 years of archived content here on HPC — for free!). They are just being lazy…or taking advantage of your time. And getting paid for your time is how you support creating all the free content you produce (or at least, that’s how I make my living). And if someone truly thinks your time is valuable, they’ll offer you more than a meal to pay for it.

There are VERY FEW exceptions to this rule. Unless you are good friends and want to do a favour or think the project is cool and want to give your time for free, refer to the list above. Good luck!

note: My time is especially precious as I am a single mom who is the sole support for my family. But it shouldn’t have taken my realizing I was shirking my Mommy duties to give free time to so many people (and I’m asked the ‘brain picking’ question dozens of times per week) to come to this conclusion.

Another Must-Read Post from Tara Hunt.
They will keep picking your brain as long as you let them.

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On PR, Social Media and the Evolution of the Web with Robert Scoble | Brian Solis - PR 2.0

http://www.briansolis.com/2009/11/on-pr-social-media-and-the-evolution-of-the-web-with-robert-scoble/

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FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials

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Beatles Concert Set list Mid South Coliseum, Memphis, TN, August 19, 1966 | via setlist.fm

Also see my recent post about the glory days of the now-mothballed Coliseum

 

 

 

 


 

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Always take a power strip to conferences and share the connection.

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New Homebuyer Credit - November 2009 Official IRS video

Official Video from the IRS

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From John Lennon to Jerry Lawler – The Mid-South Coliseum | Joe Spake's Weblog

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Upload Flickr images to your posterous with posterous bookmarklet

Memphis Skyline at 65 MPH

Want to upload pictures from your flickr photostream to your posterous? The easiest and most effective way seems to be the Posterous Bookmarklet Tool.  Once you have chosen what to include, you can wrtite your message in the comments - HTML iss acctable.
Readers can click on the picture or text link to get to your image.

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Joe Spake has shared: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joespake/4096208337/

Testing Twitter to Posterous -View from my room at the lavish San Diego Westin

Source: flickr.com

 
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Interesting font

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