How Do I Monetize My Growing Audience Authentically?

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

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Vickie, with her wife Larissa, runs a vegetarian lifestyle blog, podcast, community, and website called Vegetarian Zen. Vickie is starting to think about monetizing her audience, after some success using Patreon. But she wants to know how to monetize her growing audience in an authentic way. We explore all of that on the latest AskPat! You can find Vickie at VegetarianZen.com.If you want to be considered for a coaching session, apply via the form at AskPat.com.If you enjoyed today's episode and you love the format of this show and helping other entrepreneurs, can you help me convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating on iTunes (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to me, so thank you so much!Today’s sponsor is FreshBooks, who make the best financial management software out there. It’s ridiculously easy to use and their interface is highly-visual and super-intuitive. You can actually get an unrestricted, thirty-day trial for free; just go to FreshBooks.com/askpat and enter “Ask Pat” in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. 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	AskPat.
0:02.8	AskPat.com.
0:08.7	What's up, everybody, Patflin here, and welcome to episode 168 of Ask Pat 2.0.
0:14.7	You're about to listen into a coaching call between myself and an entrepreneur just like you.
0:19.5	And today we're speaking with Vicky, one of the co-founders of Vegetarian Zen, a community,
0:26.5	a podcast, a website that creates a safe place for people who are interested in vegetarian dietary needs.
0:35.6	And a really great story.
0:37.4	And it's about time that vicky is starting to think about
0:40.5	monetizing her audience she does have some patrons who are supporting the company and the brand through
0:45.3	patreon which is a great start but through this discussion we uncover a number of different ways
0:51.1	that she can monetize her growing audience and her raving fans
0:55.6	and her community and do it authentically.
0:58.1	So let's get to the conversation today with Vicki from vegetarian zen.com.
1:02.8	Here she is.
1:03.6	Hey, Vicki, thank you for being here and welcome to Ask Pat 2.0.
1:07.8	Hi, Pat.
1:08.5	Thank you so much for having me.
1:09.7	I'm so grateful to be here.
1:10.7	Thank you. Oh, hi, Pat. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so grateful to be here. Thank you. Oh, my pleasure. Now,
1:12.3	why don't you take a quick minute to introduce yourself to everybody listening and what it is that you do?
1:17.0	Absolutely. So I am a recovering middle manager from the corporate world. I worked when one of the
1:24.2	largest mutual fund companies for almost 20 years and then last January, January 9th, to be precise, because you don't forget the day. I was told my position was being eliminated. So I had my own personal let go day.
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