How Do I Recruit An Honest Focus Group?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Our question today comes from Peter, who is starting a business-to-business podcast. He would like to run a sample episode past a focus group, and wants to know where to find participants who will give honest feedback. Check out the Smart Passive Income Podcast #129 (http://smartpassiveincome.com/session129) to learn more about Peek (http://peek.usertesting.com/), which is a great user-testing tool. I also mention Fiverr (http://fiverr.com) Do you have a question about improving your podcast? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. 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 210 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.6	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions, blogging, entrepreneurship, podcasting, startup questions, or anything else related to those things, five days a week.
0:26.2	But before we get to today's question from Peter, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is FreshBooks.
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0:38.7	save time and just headaches and all that stuff that comes along with keeping track of your
0:44.5	finances. It was something that I wish I found sooner because before I was using Plano Excel to
0:50.5	keep track of my finances, which was pretty difficult for me come tax season, which
0:57.0	always seems to roll around much faster than we wanted to. But anyway, if you'd like to get your
1:01.3	hands on FreshBook for a free trial, go to get freshbooks.com and enter Ask Pat in the How
1:07.1	Did You Hear About Us section? Awesome. Now, let's get to today's question from Peter.
1:12.4	Hi, Pat.
1:12.8	My name is Peter McGee, and I'm about to get started at my very first B2B podcast.
1:17.7	And what I'd like to know is whether I should record one episode and then focus, group it out to make
1:23.4	sure that it's entertaining and informative and all the things that a good podcast should be.
1:29.1	And if so, how do I actually go about finding people to participate in the focus group?
1:33.4	Because I don't really want it to be my friends and colleagues because they're just going to tell
1:37.2	me that it's great.
1:38.7	And I really love some constructive feedback, maybe even from other podcasters.
1:43.3	So I was wondering if you have any
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