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

How Do I Choose Between Creating a Lead Magnet or an Epic Post?

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

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Benji, who asks about content. How should he choose what becomes a lead magnet and what becomes epic content that lives on the blog? Benji's site is http://www.thecoffeeconcierge.net/. Do you have a question about your blog content? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0

Hey, what I'm

0:08.0

Hey, what's up,

0:11.8

Pat here and welcome to episode 541 of Ask Pat.

0:15.6

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:17.3

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your all-known business questions five days a week.

0:21.1

All right, here's today's question from Benji.

0:24.0

Hey, Pat, Benji here. Just had a question about resources and choosing whether they should be

0:30.6

lead magnets or epic posts, if you will. I've always kind of struggled with deciding whether I should create a

0:38.9

resource as something that's given away in exchange for a name and an email address or if I should

0:44.8

just give it away for free with hopes of getting links or helping my organic traffic. So I was wondering

0:53.9

if you can weigh in on what you think about this and what do you think

1:00.3

is the best way to kind of decide what to do with the resource you're creating.

1:06.0

Thank you so much for all that you do, your big inspiration and hero of mine.

1:11.1

Hey, Benji, what's up?

1:12.2

Thank you so much for the question and the kind words.

1:14.2

I really appreciate that.

1:15.7

The coffeeconcierge.net.

1:17.4

I'm literally drinking a coffee as I record this episode because it's early morning.

1:22.1

And so I have to definitely check out your site because I love coffee.

1:25.2

Anyway, thank you again so much for the question.

1:27.1

How do you choose between creating a lead magnet or an epic post, one that, you know, they both

1:33.6

have pros and cons, of course.

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