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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Should I Periodically Offer New Freebies to My Audience?

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

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today’s question comes from Cookie, who has a podcast called Weight Loss Made Real. She has three short questions. Should she periodically offer new freebies to her audience? How often should she mention her free book on her podcast; on every episode? Does it make sense to use Facebook ads to lead people to the podcast? Check out Cookie's podcast at http://realweightlossrealwomen.com/category/podcast/. Do you have a question about audience engagement? Record it at http://askpat.com/.

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0:00.0

AskPath.

0:07.0

Hey, what's up, everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 998.

0:16.0

How crazy is that? We're so close to episode 1,000 of thousand remember stick around the next couple days

0:20.9

because we're offering prizes to those who entered uh the last couple weeks for a

0:26.3

hundred dollar no thousand dollar because we're approaching episode of thousand it's a thousand

0:31.1

dollar amazon gift card one today one tomorrow and then we're done with that and then we have

0:34.4

a big announcement in episode one thousand this coming monday so make sure you subscribe yes, you can subscribe because I'm not just finishing up at episode 1,000.

0:42.0

There will be more episodes. And you'll want to subscribe if you haven't already.

0:46.9

But for now, let's talk about Cookie, because we're answering a question today from Cookie, which is a really good question.

0:54.4

All right, now, here's today question today from Cookie, which is a really good question. All right.

0:54.6

Now, here's today's question from Cookie.

0:56.7

Hi, Pat.

0:57.4

My name is Cookie Rosenblum, and I'm a fellow podcaster.

1:01.2

My podcast is called Weight Loss Made Real.

1:04.4

I've been doing it for a couple of years, and it's doing pretty well.

1:08.4

I have three short questions.

1:10.5

I'll be as fast as I can. So I've been

1:13.3

giving away to my podcast listeners a downloadable copy of my book, which does sell on Amazon,

1:20.2

but I've been giving it away free for about two years, and it's been excellent at growing my list.

1:25.7

So my list is still growing by two to three hundred people per month.

1:31.0

Do I need to periodically offer different new freebies? The old one is still attracting people to

1:38.8

my list. New people, it's still new to them. So I'm not sure how often I should think about redoing it.

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