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Hey, what's up, everybody?

Paplin here and welcome to episode 720 of AskPad.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

All right. Now, here's today's question from Travis.

Hey, Pat, how's it going?

My name's Travis, and I have a question about ghost writing versus guest writing.

I am noticing on your blog that you have by Pat Flynn and on all of your articles.

And I was just wondering if you have a ghost writer who writes them and you just pass some ideas.

And if that is one ethical way to go about it is if an idea originates from you,

is it okay to pass it off to a ghost writer and still maintain that relationship and transparency with your audience?

And that also leads to my next question about guest writing.

If you have a very personal relationship website where people relate to you versus just the information,

if you bring in contributors and guest writers, is that going to affect how people view the content that's being written?

Now, I know on a lot of informational sites that mostly function as magazines and don't really have relationships, you know, they have contributors and writers all over the place.

And I was just wondering how that relates to personal relationship sites where you are an

expertise in something and people read your content because they follow you versus just wanting

information that they could get by a simple Google search and just pulling up like a magazine

site and how to incorporate ghostwriting ethically and how to incorporate guest writing and still

maintain that relationship. That's my question. Thank you so much for everything you do, Pat.

And yeah, bye. Hey, Travis, thank you so much for the question. I really appreciate it. And yeah, bye.

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