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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today's question comes from Josh, who wants to add a forum to his site, but worries that he'll bite off more than he can chew. Do you have a question about getting to connect with your audience? Record that question at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:01.0	Ask Pat.com.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 75 of Ask Pat.
0:15.3	Very happy you're here so I can help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.6	Now we have a question from Josh from the UK about forums. a really great question actually. But before we get to Josh's
0:24.9	question and voicemail, let's talk about today's sponsor, which is FreshBooks. FreshBooks is an
0:29.8	amazing company that allows you to easily organize your finances on the cloud on any device and
0:35.6	allows you to quickly get a snapshot of what's going on in your
0:38.2	business, create great looking invoices for your clients. And it's something I wish I had gotten
0:43.5	started with sooner because in the beginning, I was using Excel and it was just a mess. And so I
0:48.7	finally got on board, started organizing. If you go to get freshbooks.com and put in Ask Pat
0:53.9	in the how'd you hear about us
0:54.9	section, you get 30 day free trial. So check that out. Again, getfreshbooks.com,
0:59.7	ask Pat in the referral section. Now let's get right into today's question from Josh. Josh,
1:04.1	take it away. Hi, Pat. It's Josh from the United Kingdom here. I have a blog in the outdoors
1:09.2	niche and I get a lot of questions emailed to me from my visitors.
1:12.6	This has led me to consider adding a forum to my site, and I know it would be great for content ideas, and it will help build the community on the site.
1:19.3	But I'm curious to get your thoughts on this, because I haven't seen any forums on any of your niche sites that you've shared with us on the blog or on the podcast. Am I opening myself up to a load of trouble,
1:28.1	or do you think it would be something that would be valuable for my site? I love what you're doing
1:32.4	here on the podcast. I love what you're doing over on the smart passive income blog. I listen to
1:36.7	the podcast every morning on my run. It gets me through that. So thanks very much for that.
1:40.8	I look forward to hearing your answer. Thank you. Josh, thank you so much for your question. And also thank you for taking me on the runs
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