As an entrepreneur with a flagship blog being in a niche read by a lot of other bloggers / entrepreneurs / marketers, I tend to get a lot of questions. Some stupid, some pretty alright, some so difficult that I have to ask around to get the answer to. :)

I tend to get these questions through MSN / Email… now although in the past I used to answer them pretty quickly, I haven’t been doing so during the past month or so because of uni starting and a few other things… I have something like 300 unopened emails that aren’t spam, all of which I have to get through.

The problem with discussion over instant messenger or email is that it’s completely hidden from the outside world… and due to this, I get the same questions over and over and over again. For example, today three people asked me which was the best blogging platform to use starting out… within half an hour of each other!

One of my blogging projects, that is Blog Premiere has also been dying over the last month… no longer.

I’m not too worried about the front page, but would like to start on the forum. The forum used to be a great place to network and a great motivator to start on projects… however, it now gets a few posts daily only.

Why should you join BP?

- Networking. I mentioned it above, but I’ll mention it again. Everyone that isn’t banned (there are a few dozen iPhone spammers… :razz: ) on BP is a blogger / marketer / entrepreneur and ALL of them have something to offer you.

- Free stuff. There’s a lot of free stuff in the private section of the forums – stuff that has been sold elsewhere and stuff that can make you a decent amount of money. To access the private section, you only need ten decent posts… you can do those in less than ten minutes. Ask anyone currently there and they’ll tell you the information in the private section is worth making those ten posts for. :)

- Keep up to date. A great way to know what’s going on in the blogosphere is to read the threads started and the stuff that people are blogging about… you can see that all at BP.

- Learn. I learned everything I know now off forums when I started out… so can you. Ask questions (this is a great time, see below), help people out… if you believe in good karma, get some of that. :razz:

- Promote yourself! Of course, as a blogger you have to be a tad selfish to succeed online. Promote your website and your brand… there’s a section that updates members with YOUR most recent posts, the recent blog feed plugin and of course signature links / avatars.

Anyways… as Blog Premiere is dead right now, how am I going to get your guys to visit and post? By providing an incentive.

For the next seven days (and depending on how well this goes, maybe thereafter too)… EVERY single question you ask on Blog Premiere I will answer. No matter how stupid or how idiotic you think the question is, I’ll answer it to the best of my ability.

What do I ask? All I ask is that you sign up at Blog Premiere, and if you have the time… help people out. Yes, I’ll be answering your questions, but if you help people out they’re likely to help you too… more opinions is always great.

This benefits me because now questions I commonly get privately will be posted publicly… so whenever someone asks me a question on instant messenger, all I have to do is link them to the BP thread. As I have holidays for the next few days, I have time to sit on my backside and help you guys out.

This does mean one thing though… unless your questions are specifically related to something, I will NOT answer them via instant messenger. If you register and post it at Blog Premiere, you’re guaranteeing that’ll it’ll be answered… and you’ll get the whole lot of other benefits mentioned above.

So… what are you waiting for? Get started and pick my (and various other bloggers) brains today!

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