{"id":3805,"date":"2012-05-16T22:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T06:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2012-05-17T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:48:13","slug":"getting-fans-to-work-for-little-or-free-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/getting-fans-to-work-for-little-or-free-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Fans To Work For Little or Free Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was reading how this company needed people to test out products in a role that is usually rock bottom in terms of pay and hierarchy in a corporate environment.  Instead of hiring a bunch of people though they instead this time simply got fans of their products to do the work for them and sure enough many people embraced the idea.  You&#8217;d be surprised at how many companies in different industries do this.  And this isn&#8217;t simply for say a sampling campaign of sort.<\/p>\n<p>The most common example I see are people that need a large audience for popular TV shows where in many cases they usually hire people to be the fillers.  However, in a lot of cases they simply advertise to people that you can be on TV and a ton of people are willing to do it.  In many ways I guess you can say why not if people are willing to do it for free which saves you the labour cost.  I suppose the one major benefit is that at leas you know these people are excited in dong it.  Whether or not it gives the professional reliability is another question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was reading how this company needed people to test out products in a role that is usually rock bottom in terms of pay and hierarchy in a corporate environment. Instead of hiring a bunch of people though they instead this time simply got fans of their products to do the work for them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1099,3707,3673],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-fans","tag-labour-cost","tag-testing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/timemoney.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-Zn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}