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This seems kind of irrational: the time and effort you spend validating every request personally probably costs more than the actual giveaway.



For me it rarely comes up. When it does I've already spent at least 60 minutes with my prospect and I respond with "no" and move on. Some folks are persistent and maybe, case by brief case, I pick.

Sometime I choose to give a deal to a person for my own reasons, so my one-off pay portal is used there as well.

Or one-off a client for additional money.

It took less than an hour to build, years ago, the functionally it's a one off invoice just tightly integrated with my business and optimised to two inputs. #bpaftw




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