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Hey, what's up everybody?

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 83 of Ask Pat.

This is where I answer your online business questions five days a week.

Now, if you're just getting started in an online business, I recommend you check out my free resource over at smartpassiveincome.com. You can go to smart passive income.com

slash start. That'll take you to my getting started page, all the information you need to get

started, the right podcast episodes to listen to the right articles to read if you're just

starting out and some videos to help you

get started right away. So again, smart passive income.com slash start. Now, today's question

comes from Tim, and it's all about finding your audience and helping them out. So let's hear from

Tim right now. Hey, Pat, Tim here. My question is, how do you find your blog audience and how do you find out the problems they have that you could turn into a product such as an e-book or e-course? I am in a very untapped niche and I'm having trouble finding the readers that I know are out there. Thanks.

Tim, thank you so much for your questions. Actually, these are perfect questions for those people just starting out, and also perfect

questions for people who might be struggling, who might have a blog and might be targeting

a particular niche and might not have that audience that they're hoping to have.

So let's start with your first question, which was, how do you find your blog audience?

Well, of course, you want to

know a little bit about them and what they do and what their interests are. And the goal is to find

where they are, where they hang out. And to do that, you want to go and search for areas where they

might be convening online, where they might be coming together. And there are a number of different

ways to do that. Now, Tim, I wish you had given me a specific niche. That there are a number of different ways to do that.

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