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		<title>Marketing lessons from a wandering monk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2015 11:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hare Krishna&#8217;s are well known for standing in airports or street corners giving flowers to people walking by. Imagine yourself trying to get to your destination when all of a sudden one of these monk guys shove a flower in your hand. You can’t really turn a monk down. You can’t say no I don’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/enlightenment-154910_640-268x300.png" alt="enlightenment-154910_640" width="268" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1346" srcset="https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/enlightenment-154910_640-268x300.png 268w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/enlightenment-154910_640-358x400.png 358w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/enlightenment-154910_640-82x92.png 82w, https://michaelcheney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/enlightenment-154910_640.png 572w" sizes="(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px" />Hare Krishna&#8217;s are well known for standing in airports or street corners giving flowers to people walking by.</p>
<p>Imagine yourself trying to get to your destination when all of a sudden one of these monk guys shove a flower in your hand.</p>
<p>You can’t really turn a monk down.</p>
<p>You can’t say no I don’t want your flower Mr. monk. How dare you, you evil orange-robed villain.</p>
<p>So of course, you accept the flower.</p>
<p>The monk then asks you for a donation.</p>
<p>Without warning, there is a sense of reciprocation. Since the monk gave you something for free, you feel that you kind of owe the guy and give him a donation.</p>
<p>You see the marketing lesson there?</p>
<p>The monks gave something away for free and people almost feel duty-bound to make a donation.</p>
<p>That’s what you should be doing with your marketing efforts as well.</p>
<p>Give something away for free and take some money in return.</p>
<p>Most marketers have no problem giving stuff away. It’s the making money part that is hard to do.</p>
<p>One person that has absolutely no problem making large amounts of money by giving stuff away is fellow marketer Richard Legg.</p>
<p>Last week Richard held a free training webinar showing how to do this.</p>
<p>If you missed it, you can still watch the replay of the training.</p>
<p>Time is of the essence right now though because Richard will be removing the replay at midnight EST on Sunday (tomorrow);</p>
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