Ask And Get Help For Five Bucks – Experiment
I’d like to try an experiment. I’d like to offer my services, in the form of Q&A, for five bucks. Here’s the way I envision it working. You ask me a question (privately). If I can answer it, you send $5 to my PayPal account. If I can’t, you owe me nothing.
What Kinds Of Questions Can You Ask?
You can ask all sorts of questions, though I’d imagine “how-to” questions related to internet marketing, WordPress, blogging, SEO, etc. would be most answerable. And of course, the more specific, the better. Overly broad questions might end up needing an answer that starts with, “Well, it depends…” and that’s never a good answer. 
What Kinds of Questions Should You Not Ask?
Well, as tempting as it may be to try to get me to answer things like “What is the meaning of life?”, it’d be nice if no one’s time gets wasted with silliness. This is for serious stuff. If you need to know how to add a feature to your site, for example, that would probably fall within the types of things that makes sense to ask me.
How Do You Ask Me A Question?
Just use my contact form to get in touch with me. From that point on, you and I can just email back and forth, as I’ll just reply to you via the email address you supply in the contact form. It might be a good idea to note in the contact form that this is a $5 question.
Other Thoughts
This is just an experiment, so I may adjust things as time goes on, or I may decide to stop the experiment completely. Obviously, if you ask me a question that would require 3 months of time to answer, I probably won’t find it worthwhile to answer it for $5, and I’ll just let you know that the question goes beyond the bounds of what I can do in this experiment. But if you think your question can probably be answered within a normal email type of response, then it’s probably within the scope of what I’m hoping to do here.
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Very interesting experiment, indeed, Donna! Can’t wait to hear how it comes out! Think you’ll be blogging about the results?
If I think of a question, I will definitely send it your way!
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I definitely will blog about any results. I’m wondering, of course, if knowledge can be transferred – for pay – but in small increments. Well, obviously, it *can*, but is it something that would end up being a win/win for everyone or not? That…I’m not sure.
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Donna: I’ve asked you myriads of questions over the years. I’m up for sending $5 on the next one(s).
You’ve always given me terrific answers.
BTW: I couldn’t help but come with a wise @ss question on twitter. You handled it with aplomb!!!
Bravo!!
I was actually having this same discussion with Dave at SEODojo, a couple of months ago. Funny, I even went as far buying 2 domains. Lol but it will take some work. Personally, I think the business model is brilliant. However, my idea was more paying by the minute like those horoscope sites. The only kink I see is the platform used, it would have to monitored like Skype, Yahoo, a more instant interaction than email. Great minds… Love it!
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Interesting….let me think about that for a bit and see if there’s any kind of melding of the ideas we can do….
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Hi Donna!
This model seems to be working out for http://www.fiverr.com/ so I don’t see why you couldn’t succeed!
Good luck!
Richard
Good point, Richard!
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Seems like an interesting idea. I hope it works out for you.
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