Work at Home Moms Talk Radio

Lynette posted something interesting yesterday on the Mom Masterminds Blog.

There are always a few who will tell you not to pay for information. (Honestly, when I was a brand new wannabe WAHM - I felt that way.) Today I know that if I had never paid for an info product or paid someone for some of their unique expertise – I’d still be in debt up to my eyeballs and working a dayjob for someone else.

I got an email today that emphasized the mindset that some people have. The email was in response to my reminder about last night’s Hot Seminar Series.

“Will there be a recording for playback later?”

There will be a recording for this. You can visit http://www.hotseminarseries.com/ and this will give you the details about ordering. A recording and transcript of the show will be available (the order link for Nell’s seminar is not up there yet) for $19.97. The other option Kelly has available is a Season Pass for $97.00 where you can get a recording & transcript of all the seminars.

No way.

All of the direct sales companies and associations I work with record some of their teleconferences and they never charge for a replay. I don’t care about a transcript—I’m too busy to read it. Would rather listen on my cell phone in the car when out and about doing errands.

Being able to listen to the teleconferences and/or replays helps all of us. The better we all are reflects well on our industry as a whole.

But thank you for the offer.

Hi (name withheld),

I do a lot of teleseminars and interviews that are free to the public, but Hot Seminar Series is a big event that takes a lot of work and we do open the event up for free attendance.

Recordings, transcripts and web management all take work. I’m sure you like getting paid for the work you do :) I sure hope that you don’t mind if I get paid for what I do ;)

It doesn’t bother me at all that you don’t want to buy a recording – but it does pinch me just a little to read your email and see that you feel I’m somehow doing our community a disservice by charging for my time and effort.

Kelly

I doubt that she (or many people) have ever stopped to think about the number of man hours that go into preparing for and running a seminar series. (Or this radio show for that matter!)

Since she seems to think it’s wrong that I get paid for my time investment – I wonder if she feels that my VA should do her related work for free? (I’m paying a VA about 2 hours a week or so to help me with it.) Should my other VA also do the transcribing for free? (It takes her about four hours a week to get it done.) And should my host stop charging me for my bandwidth in delivering the recordings?

Creating and delivering information is costly.

Am I splunking for ‘attaboys’? Not at all.

I do want to encourage everyone to think about what to costs people to provide information and to realize that everything can’t be free.

Awesome Update:

A quick response came in just now.

You’re absolutely right…  Of course we all want to get paid.  What was I thinking?!!  And not only do I apologize for basically wanting to take advantage of your hard work, but also for suggesting that you do the business a disservice.  I absolutely love listening to your program when I can, and thank goodness there are people like you who take the time to put these programs, seminars, teleconferences, etc., on for all of us to benefit from.  There is no excuse for my rude behavior.   Consider me in the dog house!!

Furthermore, I will take a look at ordering the Hot Seminars Series.  I’m sure it will benefit me. Again, I really do apologize and hope you will forgive my arrogance on  this one.  Thanks also for replying and setting me straight.

It just proves that when most people take a moment to think about it – they realize that information really IS valuable and worth paying for.