Free Advice: You Can’t Live Off It
Are you someone always looking for free advice from others? If so, STOP!
This article might offend some people. I guess this is where I use #sorrynotsorry. There are people roaming this earth who think the world owes them something just for waking up every morning. These people think that they will never have to pay for advice. They ask everyone they know for free advice and feel like they never have to pay for help.
These people think that just because someone holds the knowledge to answer their question that by simply asking them, it should ensure them the answer—just like that, simple. Free advice. I hate to say it but it doesn’t work that way. And people need to understand that.
Hey Doc, does this sound normal?
I like to consider myself pretty knowledgeable about the health, fitness, and supplement industries. I’ve been in them the better part of 15 years. I, along with many others in the industry, get a large number of emails from people who ask questions about health/fitness/supplementation. At what point should you turn them away and direct them to the services you offer?
After all, do you send your doctor an email when you are sick and lay out all of your symptoms and ask for free advice on what medicine you need? Generally, you’d still need a prescription. Or you were cutting up veggies for dinner and sliced your finger in the process. Would you think by calling the hospital and asking them how to stitch up your finger that they would walk you through it over the phone? No. It doesn’t work that way.
So, hopefully you get where I’m going with this. It’s your job to WORK with people and guide them down the right path to their own health and fitness journey. You’re there for guidance and to hold their hand when they need it. There’s a price that comes along with that.
It’s your decision regarding free advice
Your time, knowledge, and education is all worth something. You have the right to decide whether or not you want to give out free advice or mention your services which could be personal training, nutrition consulting, or just consulting in general where you could jump on Skype or Google Hangouts and answer any questions at a flat hourly rate. You have that right, it’s YOUR business.
If someone is coming to you with questions then they clearly look at you as a knowledgeable person or even an expert in the industry (don’t let your head get big, we already have enough internet gurus and experts who have no credentials what so ever). So, stop giving out free advice.
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