# I say no to promoting your (unknown) product
*Published: 2014-05-29*
*Tags: wordpress*
*Source: https://chrislema.com/i-say-no-promoting*
---## I say no a lot.

![iStock 000015608339Small](https://cms.chrislema.com/api/media/file/iStock_000015608339Small.jpg)It's true.

Today I got an email sharing with me some amazing new plugin that all of you need. You basically can't live without it. And they wanted to know if I would write a post about it. They wanted to know if they could offer it to me for free so I could write a post about it.

Now, I've talked to others who have wanted the same thing—but their approach is different. They know me. We talk. They have done their homework.

## But this email was different.

It's like they wrote Mr. Lema on it, simply because they got it from the domain name records of my URL.

So today I decided to give them an answer.

Let me begin by saying upfront that I should probably open up this video with my **<rant>** tag.

**</rant>**