Everybody likes getting free stuff, and online retailer Amazon.com regularly offers free music in MP3 format to entice potential customers into checking out some of its more esoteric offerings as well ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman offers a sample at a Costco store - Tim Boyle/Getty Images If the best things in life are free, then a trip to Costco can ...

Costco may be more crowded on the weekends, but there are usually more samples then. How, exactly, does Costco decide on which products to give out, though?

Offering free samples gives you a way to introduce your products to potential new buyers. To help the free samples lead to sales requires you to gather contact information you will use to market to ...