It’s almost time for people here to start submitting their taxes again and for most this means choosing that tax software again. I was then hearing how people want the cheapest option available and it just happens that there are online tax applications such as Studiotax that you can use for free. Ironically, even though people want the cheapest option, because it is free this made people scare in using it as they assume it must be a scam of some sort.

Kind of funny how that works huh? I guess it’s good in a sense that people are skeptical as usually when things are free there must be a catch. Like in this case though it seems like their income generating revenue is to use advertisements on its site. Not too bad of a trade off if you are looking to use a free tax software I say.

Would you be afraid to use something like this because of the sole fact that it is free to use? To me, it just means you should do your research on why it is free as it’s one of those situations where you shouldn’t let your fear be the dictating factor on whether or not you should use the free service or not.

I noticed there was a grand opening for two different stores. As usual, they try to do things in an effort to draw a crowd. Both of them were trying the free giveaway routine except one business was giving away free food where they were having a free barbeque of sort while the other was giving away items in the form of door prizes.

Interestingly enough, the one that was giving away free items seemed to have drew the bigger crowd. My personal thought is that the people that would be going to the stores placed more value in the items even though they were so cheap. Whereas when it comes to things like a hotdog the assumption is they could always make it themselves anyways. I would think you would be able to attract a more targeted audience too by giving away free stuff that the customers you hope to attract will appreciate.

Usually companies that launch some kind of product would love to brag that they say sold one million units in a day. Essentially, for people on the outside you get the impression that it must be good to sell that many units so fast. Hence, it just builds up the hype to potentially sell even more.

There was a recent launch for a product and I was thinking of buying it it in the near future. Funny enough, it did also use this strategy though where if you bought the item right on the launch day and then registered it with the company that you would receive some kind of reward. You literally had like one day to do it.

Even I admit that kind of swayed me a little to want to buy it right on the launch day. However, I ended up not as I figured I would probably save more when there is a sale and with the money I save that free item is obtainable for less.

I was doing some comparison shopping for an item that I was looking to buy as a Christmas gift. Interestingly enough, I saw multiple store have the product for the same sale price. Therefore, in that sense it made no different. There was then this one store that gave away a $2 item for free for anyone that purchased the main item. As silly as it sounds, that was a good enough reason to buy it from this place. To me the price of the product itself was the same elsewhere and in this case I got more.

Kind of makes you think of how cheap you can go in terms of offering a free product to entice people to buy the item from your place instead if the prices are the same. Example, a free pair of socks or even like a chocolate bar. Sounds kind of far fetch, but when you are in that wanting the best deal and value mentality I’m almost inclined to say that would work in drawing the customer to you.

I always joked about it as a kid where it would be neat if you were able to buy real products with monopoly money as I often found myself with a lot of money after various game matches. Just today I was surprised to see that while in the train station there was a MacDonald there and people were literally trading in Monopoly money for food items like its fries.

I never thought that a company would actually implement something like that. That got me curious to read about it online and I found it rather humorous that people were actually attempting to make counterfeited Monopoly money over this. I guess with real and play money people will just do anything to try and get things for free.

I can imagine how hard it would be to keep track of this type of promotion too as identity a genuine Monopoly bill is probably harder than a real dollar bill. Interesting promotion though nonetheless.