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For me, most of my most valuable “never gonna give them up” internet marketing products are free.

Wordpress. Wordpress plugins. Flock or Firefox. Firefox or Flock addons. Social sites. Social media apps. Notecapturing software.

I am curious about the creators of these products. Obviously they aren’t making much money from their creations. Certainly I have in no way even begun to repay the creators of wordpress for the immensely valuable toll they have provided me. And yet, I can’t imagine trying to run my business without a wordpress blog. Sure, I have other blogs on other blogging platforms… but my “go to, most relied on, workhorse” blogging platform is wordpress. Hands down.

That is how I feel about flock as well. I like to use Explorer and FireFox just fine. But my preference is decidedly flock. Again, other than spread the word about flock and tell flocker on twitter how much I love flock, I certainly have gotten far more from flock than I can give back.

And truly, Google. I use many different Google applications. Here though, I feel a little better knowing that Google is making money and that these great programs are bringing in a solid income for their creators.

I just find it odd that after all my time online and after all the money I have spent in internet marketing, the most invaluable services I have are free. Realizing this has helped me to stop pulling out my credit card so quickly. I am much more picky now about what is worth my money.

I also am much more apt to make a donation to the creators of the applications that I do rely on. I want to encourage these programmers to continue to make such fine programs and to let them know how much I appreciate them.

Plus, I think it gives me good internet karma.

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