- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Lotus Publishing (30 Sep 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905367341
- ISBN-13: 978-1905367344
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 625,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
From cosmetics to gadgets, food to fashion, Mike Essex is an expert at convincing brands big and small to send him freebies. Free Stuff Everyday is Essex's simple step by step guide on how you can do this too. He also details why this is great for brands and how they can build their relationships with customers by giving stuff away. Whether you're a curious consumer, or a brand looking for PR, Essex has a solution for everyone. Free Stuff Everyday is a simple guide for anyone interested in free stuff, with 90 examples, all from his own experience.
About the Author
Essex has over five years experience of getting freebies, and has been nicknamed 'Freebieman' from his expertise. He has been interviewed on BBC News, the Times, ABC News, USA Today and more, sharing his secrets as the master of free stuff.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
"Life as a slayer is very simple. Want, take, have." Faith the Vampire Slayer.
Ok but I'm a shy wimp. The author also claims to be shy (although he sent me a copy of the book to blag a review!). I've recently tried getting freebies from the established sites (got plagued by salesmen), tried competitions (NEVER win) and got bored of submitting neverendless opinion surveys to build towards a teensy Amazon voucher.
Contemporary self help books are generally dull and propagate out of date options. So I was all the more surprised with myself that I interrupted my reading at about page 30 which was all about creating a confident persona, and sent my first blagging email for something that I wanted to try, and had resigned myself to waiting to rent a few months' from now. It might have been better to have waited until the chapter which suggested that you emphasize to the company that you have no intention of returning the free goods....but hey, I was inspired. There's enough examples of different approaches in the book to suit any personality, and the author makes sure he tells you what pitfalls not to fall into if you want repeat freebies. His website is good too!
Note: it starts to get interesting AFTER the sample Kindle chapter ends.
Ok but I'm a shy wimp. The author also claims to be shy (although he sent me a copy of the book to blag a review!). I've recently tried getting freebies from the established sites (got plagued by salesmen), tried competitions (NEVER win) and got bored of submitting neverendless opinion surveys to build towards a teensy Amazon voucher.
Contemporary self help books are generally dull and propagate out of date options. So I was all the more surprised with myself that I interrupted my reading at about page 30 which was all about creating a confident persona, and sent my first blagging email for something that I wanted to try, and had resigned myself to waiting to rent a few months' from now. It might have been better to have waited until the chapter which suggested that you emphasize to the company that you have no intention of returning the free goods....but hey, I was inspired. There's enough examples of different approaches in the book to suit any personality, and the author makes sure he tells you what pitfalls not to fall into if you want repeat freebies. His website is good too!
Note: it starts to get interesting AFTER the sample Kindle chapter ends.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book was an eye opener but it took me time to realise it. The start was either too basic for me or contained unnecessary advice (e.g. creating a persona) but some people will find that information useful so it has a place in the book. Things for me started getting interesting about 25% of the way through the book.
And that is the nature of this book - you are looking for the diamonds in the rough. What will help one person will be irrelevant to you, and vice-versa. Occasionally you come across a nugget of information which really helps you.
As I read further I realised that actually the slow start to the book is indicative of the author's approach - he goes above and beyond the call of duty. He hasn't simply hammered out a book in order to sell it, putting in the bare minimum of effort. Quite the contrary - he shares tips and advice to help you emulate his success, and when you think he's given you enough he gives you some more.
There's a good little snippet on the ability of emails to be misinterpreted (location 1014 on the Kindle) ['We will review any product we are sent for free' implying that the products will be returned. He changes the wording to make it clear, politely, that products will not be returned].
Of course, what you receive isn't truly free - there is a price, and that price is your time in writing the review.
I loved this paragraph of the book: 'Contrary to popular belief, walking into a shop and asking to be give something for nothing is not the best method of getting freebies'. Popular belief? I would have thought it dead obvious that doing that is a quick route to being asked to leave the shop to the sound of laughter. (That doesn't reflect badly on the author - I assume that people have suggested this method to him, or assumed that this is what he does).
A few comments about the Kindle version:
* Pressing the 5-way controller right or left normally skips to the next/previous chapter respectively. It does not work on this e-book.
* I tried to get around that by using the 'Go To' menu, accessing the 'Table of Contents' and using the links there to skip to my chosen chapter. You can't because there is no 'Table of Contents'. The only option is to skip to the start, end or a location. The latter is clumsy as it involves guessing.
* If you use this book to set up a website then you will use it as a reference book so the ability to skip chapters as above is essential.
It's a good book, and the price of the Kindle version is a bargain. I look forward to reading the author's second book.
Edit 12/4/12: I have since kindly been informed that the Chapter Skip function now works (see 'Comments' below).
And that is the nature of this book - you are looking for the diamonds in the rough. What will help one person will be irrelevant to you, and vice-versa. Occasionally you come across a nugget of information which really helps you.
As I read further I realised that actually the slow start to the book is indicative of the author's approach - he goes above and beyond the call of duty. He hasn't simply hammered out a book in order to sell it, putting in the bare minimum of effort. Quite the contrary - he shares tips and advice to help you emulate his success, and when you think he's given you enough he gives you some more.
There's a good little snippet on the ability of emails to be misinterpreted (location 1014 on the Kindle) ['We will review any product we are sent for free' implying that the products will be returned. He changes the wording to make it clear, politely, that products will not be returned].
Of course, what you receive isn't truly free - there is a price, and that price is your time in writing the review.
I loved this paragraph of the book: 'Contrary to popular belief, walking into a shop and asking to be give something for nothing is not the best method of getting freebies'. Popular belief? I would have thought it dead obvious that doing that is a quick route to being asked to leave the shop to the sound of laughter. (That doesn't reflect badly on the author - I assume that people have suggested this method to him, or assumed that this is what he does).
A few comments about the Kindle version:
* Pressing the 5-way controller right or left normally skips to the next/previous chapter respectively. It does not work on this e-book.
* I tried to get around that by using the 'Go To' menu, accessing the 'Table of Contents' and using the links there to skip to my chosen chapter. You can't because there is no 'Table of Contents'. The only option is to skip to the start, end or a location. The latter is clumsy as it involves guessing.
* If you use this book to set up a website then you will use it as a reference book so the ability to skip chapters as above is essential.
It's a good book, and the price of the Kindle version is a bargain. I look forward to reading the author's second book.
Edit 12/4/12: I have since kindly been informed that the Chapter Skip function now works (see 'Comments' below).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Everyone occasionally gets things for free that they didn't expect, but very few people explore why they got that thing for free and look into scaling it up. In Free Stuff Everyday Mike does exactly that and explores how you could potentially furnish a house by understanding what makes brands give away free products. I tried some of techniques from FSE and the results were pretty surprising - I run a music marketing blog in my spare time, and it's amazing how willing music companies were to send free samples of instrument products for me to try out. Definitely recommended!
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Beginners' guide with something for everyone
It strikes me as slightly ironic that I got this book, about getting free stuff, as a freebie. And maybe that just demonstrates that I'm not quite in the target demographic: I've... Read more
Published 1 month ago by R Cotterill
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Good guide with great ideas
I was lucky enough to win a free copy of this book, and I have to say it was a good read, and contains some very useful information. Read more
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A real eye-opener
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A well written informational read
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Fantastic read!!
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Genuinely inspired blagger!
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