Samples as compensation seems acceptable and pretty fair.
The distribute-for-fun part concerns me a bit, if you recall our "entitlement attitude" discussion. I used to do con t-shirts for folks until they started whining and making demands. It's generally been my experience that people will take one of anything if it's free, whether or not it genuinely interests them. Creating just the slightest barrier to entry, even if it's just a quarter or something, is sufficient to make people take ownership of what they've acquired. Rather than 500 freebies (many of which will later just get tossed out or left somewhere), you might do 150 with some token payment involved. Besides, lasers cost money.
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Date: 2010-03-17 09:37 pm (UTC)The distribute-for-fun part concerns me a bit, if you recall our "entitlement attitude" discussion. I used to do con t-shirts for folks until they started whining and making demands. It's generally been my experience that people will take one of anything if it's free, whether or not it genuinely interests them. Creating just the slightest barrier to entry, even if it's just a quarter or something, is sufficient to make people take ownership of what they've acquired. Rather than 500 freebies (many of which will later just get tossed out or left somewhere), you might do 150 with some token payment involved. Besides, lasers cost money.