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It's the 150th edition of The Solopreneur Hour! For this episode it's another round of yours, mine and everyone's favorite: the Q&A show. I spend this hour answering your questions. Whatever topic you want to ask about, I weigh in and give you my thoughts. I love hearing from you and love giving you as much knowledge and actionable content as I can.

If you want to submit a question for the next solo episode, join us in SoloLab or in our Facebook group, Proudly Unemployable.

This week, you guys REALLY brought the thunder.  You served me some toughies.  I hope you get some value out of my answers.  If I've used your question, do me a favor...click "share" on this post, and share it with your friends!

Now without further delay, let's jump right in and get to your questions.

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Sean Ackerman

What has been your biggest challenge since starting your podcast, and how did you overcome it? Cause the audience loves a story Michael.

Arista Hageman

What social media tool has helped grow your business the most? Which ones do you not bother with. Why?

Simon Knapp

If you had to, which would you give up: the Steelers or the Porsche?

Lisa Cummings

We all know that you study comedy. If you had to come up with two funny ice breakers for meeting new people at Podcast Movement, how would you "break into" a group of already-chatting-with-each-other minglers? I know you don't claim to be a comedian, but...you know...improvise for fun.

Timothy Dwight Moser

Do you study only current comedy, or do you spend time on some of the older classics, e.g. Monty Python (my favorite)?

Mike Kelley

What are your predictions on the future of podcasting? How do you think it will evolve and change over the next few years?

Scott Webber

If you could be a professional race car driver or a professional drummer what would you choose ?

Vagarro Willie

If you could sit down and have a beer with your parents today about the solohour podcast, how do you think the conversation would go? What would be their opinion of the show?

Brent Danis

Whats the best way to offer value to someone who you are not connected to yet?

Jennifer Ellis

We've heard that podcasting is one way to build community, what other effective ways do believe could build community other than podcasting and blogging?

Dwain Scott

What process do you like better: Recording then adding the intro and outro or doing it all as one straight show? How much time did this take away from post production.

Jeff Stephens

What type of product delivery have you found most used by members of your training/solo lab? Is it pretty even between video, documents/PDFs, checklists, tutorials. What has been your findings with your audience? Is there an overarching trend? Thanks man, keep up the awesomeness!

Craig Morrison

What are the best first steps for building your audience from scratch? For example guest blogging offering a free ebook.

Chris Davis

I'm trying audible as a sponsor and they suggest that I use "audible trial dot com / my URL." Is that better, the same, or worse than using " my URL dot com / Book" or should I buy a brand new domain altogether? I'm not sure how to do this properly. Is one way better? Thanks Michael!

Miriam Ortiz Y Pino

Can you tell us what platform and about the delivery of your training products - Social Media Ninja - how the download pages connect to your shopping cart etc. I am getting ready to launch my Streamlined Solutions (audio + workbooks) and want the buying and delivery to be as easy as possible for people. What I have set up now - WP, 1Shopping Cart, with an AWeber form in there somewhere, is a little bit clunky. Thanks!