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What's up,

Welcome to episode 510 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

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

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

Hi, Pat.

Podcasters like us know how important ratings and reviews are on iTunes.

Since I don't have a tribe established, I did what I thought was the next best thing and put

out a request to friends and colleagues, but the results there were disappointing.

I guess that's the subject

of another discussion. I'm wondering what ideas you have to generate R&R that is honest, above-board,

and effective, like offering Starbucks gift cards or something, but there's always the question of where

to find people to ask. Your help would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Hey, Andy, what's up? Thank you so much for the question today. I really appreciate it.

And this is something of big interest to me, and I'm sure a lot of other people out there, not just people who are doing podcasts, but those who collect reviews for anything, whether you are selling physical products on Amazon or maybe books or what have you.

If there's some sort of public domain where there are reviews, which obviously help

new consumers of whatever it is that you're doing, get involved with what you're doing.

It's really important to know what works.

And so I appreciate this question, and it is something that I've thought about before.

First thing that you want to do is make sure that you ask and ask on your show and it's okay to do

that especially at the end when you have provided some sort of value that's your way of sort of

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