Surely there is a way to do real good and be compensated for it monetarily, right? If I'm presented with a path to riches which doesn't involve doing much good for anybody, is the money worth it? Is the money worth it if I use it to support a more helpful, less profitable project perhaps?
It's beginning to look like "good money for good product" is old-fashioned idealism. Many of the most helpful things (to me, at least) on the Internet are free, like Wikipedia and Google searches. If I was to create something with that level of usefulness, how would I pay my mortgage and fix the Gremlin?
Money. Bah.
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Good news: "Good money for good product" still applies in today's world. The more value you bring to a market place, the more wealth you build. But people are funny units. If you tell someone that something is free they will tend to doubt it, yet that's all people seem to look for. While people extract HUGE value from the services offered by google, they wouldn't pay 50 cents for it - they can feel they can find a simmilar service elsewhere that costs less.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest obsticle here isn't to find out how much to charge for a valuable "good" service, it's a challenge of identifying who the true customers are and what market you're really in. Has Google built a nice fortune because they market a free product to the masses? Nope. Google is in the business of identifying people's wants and needs and matching them with Google's TRUE customers: Companies looking for customers who want or need their products or services. Google is in the business of effective advertizing, not a free search engine.