{"id":711,"date":"2008-05-22T21:05:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2008-05-22T21:05:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T04:05:31","slug":"using-fees-to-sort-out-serious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/using-fees-to-sort-out-serious-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Fees To Sort Out Serious People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was reading about a business strategy for a seminar where they tried to sort out the serious minded people from those who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really care when it came to attending.  What they did was that they mentioned the event had a registration fee of about $20.  <\/p>\n<p>In actuality, the event was free upon arrival.  The end result was that most of the attendees were people who were serious when it came to learning at the event and was the ideal type of people they were looking for.  So while they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get as big of a response, they definitely got a lot of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153qualified traffic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that technique before and it is definitely true in many cases where if something is free people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tend to take it very seriously.  Just like joining say some kind of web publishing network, since most of them are free people tend to just sign up and do nothing with it as there is no immediate fear of loss.  Just by putting a price tag on it, many times it will make people want to take action immediately and to really be serious about it.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was reading about a business strategy for a seminar where they tried to sort out the serious minded people from those who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really care when it came to attending. What they did was that they mentioned the event had a registration fee of about $20. In actuality, the event was free upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"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":[5953,915,913,914],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-fear-of-loss","tag-qualified-traffic","tag-sorting-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-bt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}