Comments on: Ethical Entrepreneurship

By: Pace

Pace — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:27:23 +0000

@Andy: Thank you. It feels good to be seen. (:

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:19:25 +0000

“I’m not trying to sucker people out of a buck, I’m not acting selfishly. I’m trying to help people, first and foremost.”

And that’s why I let you guys e-mail me your blog posts. It’s a business blog, yes, but you’re not being jackasses about it. You actually mean what you say, and you’re not trying to pitch yourselves every sentence. You’re just talking, and it happens to be relevant to both your lives, and your business.

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By: Pace

Pace — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:23:13 +0000

@Megan: Yes! Let’s do that when we do the site redesign! I’ve added it to the wiki.

@James: Thank you very much! Feel free to spread liberally! (: I hope you have a good day too.

@Oliver: YES! That’s awesome synchronicity! And the flip side of that coin is the ethical obligation we have as healers and/or worldchangers. It makes me really happy that you and your therapist are thinking these awesome things too. (:

@Teyli: Right! We’ve talked a lot about perceived value and pricing. Our current plan is to have a healthy mix of giving away free stuff and charging a quality-feeling price. For example, we’re planning on giving away our e-book for free but selling the print book for a reasonable price. We may give free workshops sometimes but other workshops will have a good, quality-feeling price, the kind of price you feel good about paying for something that could turn your life around in an awesome way. And if we give a money back or double your money back guarantee, then even the skeptics will know that we truly believe we’re offering something of true value rather than inflated value. Thanks for reading and for sharing your thoughts!

By: Teyli

Teyli — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:53:50 +0000

Another thing you may consider is that consumers are more likely to treat your opinion as valid if there is some level of cost associated with receiving your opinion. The old, “It costs more so it must be better” allows producers to increase perceived value without necessarily increasing product quality.

Would it also lend your work additional credence to have some (any) price associated with it? And by increasing the perceived value of your work, do you then in turn increase the perception of your expertise and your consumers’ level of confidence that what you say can help them?

I don’t mean to imply that your work needs any artificial inflation of value, I find it to be quite valuable already. I’m trying to say (albeit wordily) is that if your goal is to help people, it may improve your helpfulness to engender a subconscious trust in you before they even begin reading.

Just some thoughts I had after reading this post as well as your post on becoming an expert.

By: Oliver Danni

Oliver Danni — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:32:51 +0000

My therapist and I just had this VERY SAME CONVERSATION yesterday! You’d like him a lot, he’s very ethically aligned with us (I can’t wait for him to read your book, holy SHIT.) We were talking about being healers and having to make a living, and whether it’s possible to actually make a living doing what you love when what you love is something you don’t think people should have to pay to be able to have. Basically the conclusion that we came to is that by doing things to make SURE that you, the healer, know that you’re doing what you’re doing BECAUSE YOU LOVE IT…like having pro bono clients, like volunteering the exact same services you’re offering for a fee to people who can’t afford the fee (not a “watered down version” of the services), like using your free time to empower the communities you’re working in that may not be able to afford your services, like educating others about healing so there are more people out there able to do the work (instead of trying to keep all the work to yourself so you get paid more in a “competitive market” type way).

He’s been doing this a lot longer than I have, but I’m working on it. ;-)

By: James. S.

James. S. — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:05:44 +0000

Hey, I’m a friend of Megan’s and quite new to your blog. The only way I can describe this post is inspirational. This is definitely a philosophy that needs to be spread. Have a good day.

By: Megan M.

Megan M. — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:52:53 +0000

Okay, wow. Y’all need “digg” icons or some such thing, so that when I feel the urge to clap, I can satisfy that urge by giving you a vote or something. Whew.

I guess I’ll make do with posting you on Twitter. Ha ha!