Conventional Wisdom

Katsucon '09 page 15

on Feb. 16, 2009

I'm very happy to say that I did NOT actually do this. Actually, the idea came from a panel on Saturday morning called How to Make Money While Giving Your Content Away Free. During a discussion about T-shirts as promotional material, Brad Guigar (whose caricature is at the table) mentioned how frustrating it is when a person walks by the table, laughs but doesn't buy anything, then brings his friends by to laugh and ALSO not buy anything. Then someone else (Kris Straub, I think?) suggested that this was the Free Content business model of web comics in a nutshell.

Talk about having a comic HANDED to you…

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