---
title: "Chris Pirillo Sells His Mind"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/6/chris-pirillo-sells-his-mind.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/6/chris-pirillo-sells-his-mind.html"
published: "2003-05-06T06:33:00"
updated: "2003-05-06T06:33:00"
tags: ["Blogging", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Chris Pirillo annonced he will now charge you for his tech expertise in answering tech support questions . Since Chris is quite the Tech guru on such a vast number of subjects I can definitely see that happening, but…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Chris Pirillo Sells His Mind

By Roy Osherove May 6, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 6, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Chris Pirillo [annonced](http://chris.pirillo.com/archives/2003_05.html#000929) he will now [charge you for his tech expertise](http://chris.pirillo.com/ask/) in answering tech support questions . Since Chris is quite the Tech guru on such a vast number of subjects I can definitely see that happening, but not at 27$ a pop. The way I see it, Either charge a small fee per question (3$-8$) on a permanent basis,  or charge a very small fee per question as a base price which then changes per question difficulty. Then, the scenraio would go like this:

 upon recievieng the question chris would contact the question owner and tell him '_OK, This is a tough one, it'll cost more then 3$ to answer this one. I'll have to do some major researching_"

or

 _'Easy one! you owe me just one dollar for that one_!"

In any case, this will not scare off those folks out there with really minute problems (i.e "_Outlook blocked my email attachment!_") . Paying 27$ for that one and getting an answer 3 minutes later with 4 sentences - I'd feel cheated.

I've been watching Chris on TechLive's "[Call For Help](http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/?nav)" show for quite a while now and I can honestly say they lost a good one when he left. I really like his non-condescending  attitude toward newbie questions. It really shows personality. I wonder what he'll do next (I'll admit I'm not an avid reader of his blog - That font drives me nuts!).

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

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- May 9, 2003

    ### [Enlightenment](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/enlightenment.html)


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