March1

Buy your friend’s book…

By: Greg

or their artwork, their CD or support their non-profit.

Everyone loves getting hooked up by a friend. You know, free golf, discount on tires, a free coffee. If you have a friend that can hook you up, you’ll take it every time.

But, should you take it? Should  you take the discount? What about the freebe?

What got me thinking about this is I’ve got a few friends that have books coming out soon and they are getting ready to start promoting. One of their goals is to obviously sell some books. As a friend, my first thought is, well, surely he’ll hook me up with one. But then I thought, no, I’d hope my friends would support my work and buy a copy–no, buy 10 copies when I release a book. I should not ask a friend to hook me up with his book, he worked hard on it, put in time and money and to expect a freebe is to ignore that completely. If our friends won’t buy our art, why would we expect strangers too?

So, if you have friends that are artists in any way, do them a favor-buy!  Nothing will encourage them more, that is, unless you buy and then get 10 friends to do the same.

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