How Do I Monetize My Writing After Giving It Away For Free?

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

🗓️ 28 October 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Christian has been giving away his content for free. Now he’s ready to sell a product, but what should he sell if he’s been giving it all away for free? Christian’s site is http://christianboyce.blogspot.com/. Do you have a question about selling your first product? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Flippa. Flippa is the #1 marketplace for buying and selling websites. Go to http://www.flippa.com/pat. 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.
0:09.1	What's up, Pat?
0:12.0	And welcome to episode 201 of Ask Pat.
0:15.4	Yep, 201.
0:16.6	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:18.1	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. Before we get to today's awesome question from Christian,
0:24.5	I do want to say thank you to flippa.com. This episode's sponsor, if you don't know what
0:29.5	flippa is, you're missing out. I've actually purchased a couple websites on there before.
0:33.3	It's the number one marketplace in the world for buying and selling websites and businesses
0:38.1	that already exist and are making money.
0:40.2	For example, there was a site that was recently sold, mobilemag.com, which was a gadget blog.
0:45.0	It was bought for over $28,000.
0:46.8	The site earns $1,300 a month from day one.
0:49.6	So the new owners will have it paid off in about 18 months.
0:52.5	What an awesome investment.
0:55.0	You could tweak it and even get even better with more clear call to actions and it could be earning even more like
0:58.9	two to $3,000 a month. Like how awesome is that? If you want to learn more about making money through
1:03.2	buying and running website, you can head on over to flippa.com slash pat and they're giving away
1:08.1	a killer ebook there and that'll help you get started again flippa.com
1:12.3	slash pat all right now let's get to today's question from christian hi pat this is christian
1:18.1	voice i'm a mackintosh consultant and i have a blog christian boyce dot blogspot dot com over the years
1:26.3	i've written about 400 posts and all the posts are about how to use a Mac better,
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