{"id":499,"date":"2007-11-28T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/11\/28\/how-can-i-say-sorry\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T14:38:37","slug":"how-can-i-say-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/how-can-i-say-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Say Sorry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my post from yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/11\/27\/how-can-i-say-no\/\">How Can I Say NO?<\/a> I had a bad link to the article that I was writing about. Sorry about that, it&#8217;s fixed now.<\/p>\n<p>After writing that post I kept seeing things all day that related to it. Mostly people asking for work done for free, most with the &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to be paid later from the profits of your own work.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started this business I took several jobs on a percentage of the sales basis even though deep down I knew better. I was just starting out and had the time, but of all the freebies that I gave out only one is still paying me a little and even after a year I believe that one day it may have been worth it, but it hasn&#8217;t been yet.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the problem really is that people who have to risk nothing won&#8217;t put nearly as much energy in to their promotion and marketing efforts as someone who has something to lose. Where I now do quite a bit of writing <a href=\"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Articles\/070317-Free-Information.html\">and giving away information for free<\/a>, I do it for myself and not for others.<\/p>\n<p>I see Wordpreneur has a good post today called &#8220;My Thoughts on Writing for Free&#8221;. I guess these things everywhere.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpreneur.com\/2007\/11\/my-thoughts-on-writing-for-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my post from yesterday How Can I Say NO? I had a bad link to the article that I was writing about. Sorry about that, it&#8217;s fixed now. After writing that post I kept seeing things all day that related to it. Mostly people asking for work done for free, most with the &#8220;opportunity&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}