Build a Big Podcast is the marketing podcast for podcasters! How to grow your podcast audience, better connect with listeners, and spread your message through podcasting with podcast marketing tips from media marketing expert David Hooper, author of Big Podcast – Grow Your Podcast Audience, Build Listener Loyalty, and Get Everybody Talking About Your Show.
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episode 583: Make Them Feel You! (Big Podcast Insider Issue 171)
In this episode of Build a Big Podcast, David Hooper discusses the importance of making your audience feel connected to your podcast, shares tips for naming and recording a podcast, and explores the benefits of co-hosting versus having guest appearances.
Key Themes
- Audience Connection: Making people feel you
- Branding: Importance of podcast names
- Marketing: Alternatives for voice over recordings
- Impactful Content: Effectively managing time zones
- Collaboration: Benefits of cohosting a podcast
- Tools and Resources: resources to help you build a better, more successful podcast
- Monetization: Big Podcast AMP coaching program
Topics covered in this episode:
- The importance of making your audience feel your message and how it can impact your podcast's success.
- Challenges faced by unhoused individuals and how a local newspaper is addressing the issue to create awareness.
- Ways to avoid limitations by choosing specific names for a podcast and the impact it can have on its future options and growth.
- The concept of "Record This For Free," a subreddit where individuals can find or post free voice-over gigs, and how it can be beneficial for podcasters.
- An introduction to an alternative to Adobe Enhance, with features for audio and video recording and enhancement
- The significance of using Eastern Time for scheduling podcast interviews and managing time zones effectively
- Co-hosted podcasts as an alternative to working with guests, along with its benefits and considerations for success
Episode Timestamps
- 00:00 Grow your podcast, attract new audience, profit.
- 06:16 Connect with neighbors, engage authentically, don't shy away.
- 08:11 Empower your audience and engage in discussion
- 12:44 Volunteer work helps audio projects (including yours) get made
- 15:38 Enhance sound with AI, improve clarity
- 19:09 Podcasting trend: co-hosted shows, rotating casts
- 23:21 Audio monetization program and personalized coaching
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About this episode of Build a Big Podcast:
This is the audio companion to Issue 171 of Big Podcast Insider. If you're interested in more info on what I talk about on this episode and also links, that's where to go. On this episode, I dive into where the money is made in podcasting. how to get more reviews (and subscribers) for your podcast, podcast hosting, and more.
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Want more help growing your podcast audience?
- Big Podcast Extra - Podcasting Tips
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