There is this fantastic feeling that comes with having business owners or professionals as friends. Let’s call it a sense of entitlement to discount.
People tend to mix up business and friendship but they are two (very) different things.
Here are 5 reasons why you should avoid asking friends for freebies or discounts.
- Your emotional blackmail won’t put food on their table. Money will.
How can someone make something this awesome and then you’re pushing for discount?
That’s just evil.
- Paying for their services equals supporting their ministry.
You call someone your friend yet you’re not willing to pay for his/her services. If they went broke, you’d be offended when they start asking for funds. Don’t wait until it gets that bad. Support a ministry today.
- You can’t value what you don’t put a price on.
Imagine you had a close friend who happened to be a photographer and you’re getting married in 3 months. You’ve budgeted millions for every other thing minus wedding photos because you know a photographer. The question here is if it were Kelechi Amadi Obi, Obi Somto or TY Bello that was handling the job, would you cut payment corners?
Of course not.
- Implying a ‘scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ deal isn’t enough. Put it on paper.
People tend to throw in the promise of referrals or paying for the next job they bring to you. The only issue with promises is that they are mere words. Contracts and agreements are the real deal.
Get a lawyer today! Sign the dotted lines.
- Take the sentiments out of business. Rates are rates.
If Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Folorunsho Alakija did business based on sentiments and gave all their friends massive discounts, do you think they’ll be anything close to rich? Of course not.
