- Where will you go? I chose to go to the UF campus.
- What kind of people will you approach? I will approach students that were walking through campus.
- What will you say to get the conversation started? I will simply approach people and begin talking with them. On campus, this is not too uncommon of an occurrence.
- What is your plan for the conversation? I decided to tell people that today is "National Make Someone Smile Day" and so I would like to give them $1 to make them smile.
- Out of five attempts, how many dollar bills do you think you will be able to give away. I think that while it is free money, some people may be skeptical of my true intentions and decline.
My interactions giving away money:
My results:
- What are your reflections on this exercise? I found this exercise interesting. While I understand the concept and what it is supposed to achieve, I'm not sure how indicative it truly was of trying to give someone a sales pitch. Someone is much more willing to pause for a moment to RECEIVE a free dollar than they are to sit for 5 minutes and listen to a sales pitch in which they are expected to SPEND their own money.
- Was giving away a dollar easier or harder than you imagined? Ultimately the exercise was actually simpler/easier than I had thought it would be.
- Were your predictions correct or incorrect? If they were incorrect, why? My predictions were half correct, half incorrect. I initially anticipated that some people may be a bit skeptical and decline my offer. However, while people did look skeptical, they accepted the dollar anyways.
- What assumptions did you make about the people you planned to talk to, which were wrong? I assumed that people may ask me questions and want to know more about what I was doing and why. However, I was never asked any questions, people just gave me an odd look and took my dollar.
xoxo The EntrepreTraveler
I really liked your reasoning for giving away the free money. Because you gave a reason at the start of the conversation, I feel that this made your subjects more receptive to taking the dollar. I also agree with your statement that this exercise really shows us that people are likely to receive what you are giving when they don't actually have to put forth effort or listen to a pitch from you. If you want to check out my free money exercise, you can view it here: http://isabellaruggeri.blogspot.com/2016/02/blog-post.html.
ReplyDeleteMarissa,
ReplyDeleteI like the technique you used for this as well! Clearly am not clever enough to think of a good reason to give away a dollar because I had some serious trouble. What I did was just kind of hand them the dollar and most people looked at me weirdly and either accepted it or thought it was creepy I was recording them and thought I was up to something. I was only able to give away one of my dollars so clearly you are much better at this than. Take a look at my post if you want! http://ffavorule.blogspot.com/2016/02/free-money.html