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What's up, everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 512 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

I hope you're having a great day because I'm having a great day.

I'm feeling good.

And as always, I'm here to answer your online business questions five days a week. All right now, here's today's

question from Nick. Hi, my name is Nick True, and I have a blog at Truetightwad.com. I'm considering

starting a podcast, and my question is, did you pay people to interview them when you were first

starting out? I'm wondering what the common practices are when asking people to interview them when you were first starting out? I'm wondering

what the common practices are when asking people to interview. Do I just cold email these people?

There's a lot of big names out there that I would love to have on the show, and I'm wondering if

it's expected to offer to pay them or if it's common for people to interview for free.

Thanks, Pat, for all that you do, and I'm looking

forward to your answer. Hey, Dick, what's up? Thank you so much for the question. This is one of the

most common questions, and so I appreciate you asking it, because I think it's going to help out

a lot of people. How do you get big names to say yes to come on your show? First of all nick congrats on the new podcast i like the name of the site true tightwad dot com that

reminds me of tightwad hill which was a uh hill in the berkeley hills that overlooked the stadium

memorial stadium it was called tightwad hill because those were people who didn't want to pay for a

ticket so they go up to the hill to watch the football game anyway that's what that reminded me of

but let's help you out here so how do you get people to say yes well there's a few ways to go about it i would initially

actually before i even get into those strategies let's let's just say that i've learned over time

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