Is It Worth Creating My Own Guide When Many Already Exist?

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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

🗓️ 26 May 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Frank asks a question that many bloggers and podcasters will encounter: his audience is asking him questions that he could answer in a guide—but a lot of similar guides and tutorials already exist. Is it worth making his own? Frank's site is http://www.socialtechzone.com/. Do you have a question about creating guides, tutorials, and ebooks? Record your question at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to LegalZoom for sponsoring today's episode. Go to http://www.legalzoom.com/ and enter the discount code "Pat" at checkout. 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	AskPatt.
0:01.0	Ask Pat.com.
0:06.0	Dot com.
0:07.0	.com.
0:09.0	Askpats.
0:10.0	Hey everybody, what's up?
0:12.0	Welcome to episode 90 of Ask Pat.
0:14.0	I appreciate you being here and listening in on all the answers to the questions that people like you have submitted to the show.
0:20.0	Now, you might notice, especially if you've been listening to the show for a while, that my
0:24.4	voice is a little echoey right now.
0:26.2	That's because I'm actually in an empty office.
0:28.7	I moved all the furniture out of my office because this week, there's people who are going to
0:33.6	come in and build stuff in it and turn it into the office that I want.
0:38.7	So I had an interior designer to help design it.
0:41.5	But currently the way the office is, I just had to clear everything out to make way for the construction people.
0:47.5	So apologize for the echo, but it's okay.
0:50.3	You'll be able to hear the answer to today's question from Frank. So let's get to today's
0:55.5	question right now. Hi, Pat. This is Frank Angeloni from social tech zone.com where I interview
1:03.5	well-known entrepreneurs in the field of business. My question for you is, if I see somebody else
1:10.5	online who is producing a similar guide or
1:15.4	tutorial in their particular topic, so for me, since I do a podcast and I've had well-known guests
1:24.9	on my show, I get a lot of people asking me how to do certain things with their podcasts.
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