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Have a listen to hear your questions answered on episode 306 of The Solopreneur Hour.

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Robert Bone

Q: The Solopreneur Hour is aimed at the S in the Cash Flow Quadrant, but the book promotes the goal of moving to the B and I quadrants. Is this at odds with your goal of being a Solopreneur, or do think being a Solopreneur is a transition stage?

Do you think this was the area you and Michael Gerber clashed at last year? Finally, did you get the mp3 for your 300th show?

A: I’d say I’m trying to go to the B, I think I’m promoting the B quadrant. I’m outsourcing the jobs and remove myself as much as possible. This is a service-based business so there’s no way to take yourself out of the S in that setting, but you can absolutely make the rest of your business B-based.

Niel Reichl

Q: I have just launched the podcast Ultimate Guide to the Filipina. My avatar is Stephen, a 66 year old US retiree coming over to the Philippines looking for a Filipina wife. The podcast aims to help him find his way around Filipinas who are just in for his money and find true love and much more in the Archipelago many call paradise.

I joined a very active Facebook group of expats in the Phils and learned more of their problems which includes being seen as a walking ATM (cash cow others call it), having a new family with unlimited number of relatives and corresponding financial problems, what food and drinks to avoid, what mosquito repellant lotion to use – the basics a tourist or ex-pat needs to know once they come over.

What I need are more problems to solve. What are your top three problems when you came over to the country that you would pay to avoid?

P.S. The podcast airs twice a day, we now have a little over 1,500 downloads after being available since Aug 5.

A: Good numbers, congratulations! I’m not the guy to ask. I was in the Philippines at a 5-star resort! Language barrier would be the first thing because you’d feel like a fish out of water. Maybe clothing and culture, and food: what you’re eating, what you should wear and what people are used to. Maybe what activities? Match them based on that.

My sense is you should’ve had this on your radar as you set the podcast up: you should’ve had an endless list of things you were going to talk about. I’m concerned that you are already out of problems! I think your best bet is to mine for questions and problems in those ex-pat Facebook groups.

Thom Singer

Q: Did you submit a panel idea to the SXSW Panel Picker for the 2016 event?

A: In fact I did. It’s about podcasting: who should do it, why and should everyone have a podcast? Vote for that panel here!

Shanna Mann

Q: Just a general question: why do podcasts generally use unscripted, usually not even prerecorded ‘ads’ for their sponsors? Did someone test this? How did it become the norm? Even if you like a sponsor, it can’t be easy to sit there and freeform extol their virtues every time you record.

A: Most don’t! John Lee Dumas doesn’t, Start-Up doesn’t but I think Tim Ferriss does.

There’s a certain skill set you need. But sponsors prefer live reads but many hosts don’t have the proper training to do a live read.