{"id":300,"date":"2007-03-17T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/03\/17\/is-it-worth-it-to-give-away-information\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T19:17:34","slug":"is-it-worth-it-to-give-away-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/is-it-worth-it-to-give-away-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Worth It To Give Away Information?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/02\/16\/giving-away-free-information-part-1\/\">previous post<\/a> I wrote about giving away free information. How it helps your standing in the eyes of customers and search engines.<\/p>\n<p>I recently drove about 300 miles to meet with a potential client. My first thought when they asked to meet with me was that they had mentioned in the beginning that they were looking for someone local. I wondered it they were serious about hiring me or just looking to pick my brain for free information. I thought that our meeting went very well, but they eventually hired the local person which made me believe that my suspicions were correct. The question I now ask myself is whether it is worth it to give away &#8220;free information&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the answer is YES!<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Articles\/070317-Free-Information.html\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I wrote about giving away free information. How it helps your standing in the eyes of customers and search engines. I recently drove about 300 miles to meet with a potential client. My first thought when they asked to meet with me was that they had mentioned in the beginning that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}