How Can I Bootstrap More Traffic to my Website?

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

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today’s question comes from James: How he can get more traction on his site in a bootstrapping kind of way? James’ website is http://lasercutterfaq.com. Starting at Episode 900 and leading up to (and including) Episode 1000, I’ve been leaving clues to a puzzle. Next week I’m giving away $1,000 to a random person who solves it, every day! You can also get multiple entries for sharing the podcast. To enter into the drawing go to AskPat.com/solve. In this episode I mention my new course, Power-Up Podcasting. In it, I’ll show you how to launch a successful podcast. Check out http://poweruppodcasting.com to sign up for the waitlist. Do you have a question about online marketing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.9	AskPath.com.
0:10.3	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.4	Patflin here and welcome to episode 992 of AskPath.
0:14.5	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.1	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.8	Sweet.
0:20.2	Now, here's today's
0:20.8	question from James. Hi, Pat. This is James from laser cutter FAQ.com. First, I just want to say thank you for
0:28.1	all the great work you do and the positive impact you're having on people's lives. My website is a
0:33.1	question and answer site where people can ask and answer questions about working with laser
0:37.2	cutters and engravers.
0:38.3	I want this site to grow into a useful resource for the maker community and anyone else who works with lasers.
0:44.3	I don't have a lot of money for advertising right now, so I'm trying to grow it organically.
0:49.3	But since the site relies on the interactions of users, it's really dependent on network effects for growth.
0:56.3	I was wondering if you had some suggestions on how I could get more traction on the site in a bootstrapping kind of way.
1:02.4	Thank you again for all the awesome work you do and for taking the time to answer this question.
1:07.2	Hey, James, thank you so much for the question today. I appreciate it.
1:09.3	I'm going to give you an idea that I've shared in many different places, but you can potentially take it and incorporate it
1:16.7	into your own site. Now, the origin of this idea comes from my podcasting course. This is
1:21.2	poweruppodcasting.com. You can all sign up for the waitlist there if you'd like, actually,
1:25.2	powerup podcasting.com. But this is a tip I offer people who are just starting out.
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