Perhaps there’s a way to give away all of your work for free and still support yourself from it. I haven’t discovered that yet, which means I have to charge for some of my work.

If you’re planning to build a business online, you’ll have to face this question yourself soon enough.

When do you charge for your work, and when do you give it away for free?

Some businesses charge from the beginning. Think about your local stores and restaurants. They probably opened with (shock) things for sale.

Online things are much different. Both blogs and service-based sites usually open without anything for sale. To successfully compete in this market, you’ll probably start by giving away most of your work for free as well.

Giving away your work for free has some great benefits. If you do good work and create something useful, people will find out about what you’re doing. You won’t have to pay for advertising to build an audience.

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If you didn’t get paid for what you do, would you still do it?

If you’re working to support yourself through your creativity, are you doing it for the money, or because you love the craft?

What’s your love to money ratio for your job or your startup idea?

How would you like to change that?

Is there a right answer?

The actions we need to take are usually straightforward. It’s the mental game we play with ourselves that really keeps us from succeeding.

In the short video below, I share why you have to stop second-guessing yourself and start taking action. I also explain how a little image I created turned into something thousands of people connected with recently.

(if you’re reading this over email, click here to watch the video)

Mentioned in this post: The Expert Enough Manifesto.

Have you been second-guessing yourself recently? What’s keeping you from taking action to move forward?

Update: the sale is now over. Get on the list to be notified when the next one opens (just click on the link).

For the next 3 days, the BIG Only72 entrepreneurship education sale is on.

This sale ends on Thursday, December 1 at Noon Eastern.

Well over 1,000 people picked up last year’s package. If you’ve thought about buying any sort of business education, this is the perfect time to do it.

This time, I’ve put together something special for this sale. We created a new “Lite” version of our popular Traffic School course just to add to the package.

Traffic School is normally available only twice a year, and it has sold out within 2-3 days every time we’ve opened enrollment.

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Here are 3 awesome black Friday deals you might want to know about. One of these is today only, and the other two run until next Monday.

Web hosting – 50% off with HostGator – I highly recommend HostGator. All my sites are hosted with them. This is an incredible once-a-year deal (today only).

Unconventional Guides sale: Chris Guillebeau is offering a special weekend deal on his entire collection of Unconventional Guides and resources including the Travel Hacking Guide, the Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself and the Empire Building Kit (use the code CRANBERRY).

WooThemes WordPress themes sale: Get 20% to 50% off of these fantastic professional WordPress themes from WooThemes. This sale runs through Monday (use code BLACKSTD for standard packages or BLACKDEV for developer’s packages).

Have a great weekend everybody! Note that the links above are affiliate links, so I’ll earn a little beer money if you purchase. Thanks for the support