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Figuring out what type of podcaster you want to be is important to establishing your podcast. But have you thought about and established what kind of interviewee or guest you want to be on other podcasts?
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Guesting on other people's podcasts is a time-honored way to gain targeted exposure for you and for your podcast to podcast listeners...
Two decades and millions of podcasts later, it's likely what you want to talk about is already talked about. But if you're not afraid of doing things differently, you can still make a splash with your new show.
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It's hard for anyone to keep up with all of the news about any given topic. Unless your full-time gig is keeping up with everything about one thing...
The tools podcasters use are constantly changing. But we tend to ignore changes to a critical piece of our podcasts: the podcaster. Has your podcast changed to keep up with changes in your own life?
I half-jokingly asked a fellow podcaster and friend the "what do you want to be when you grow up?" question. Their immediate response was unexpected and worth exploring further.
"The problem, Evo," they said "with people like us is that's the wrong question...
Podcasters love regular listeners. And regular listeners love their podcasts. Dependability on both sides has been a driving and differentiating factor for podcasting. But is that still a good thing?
When the book I'm reading ends, I go get another book. With millions of choices for me to read, there's never a time when I can't find anything to read.
When the series I'm watching ends, I go get another TV series...
Sometimes the advancements we see in podcasting look pretty small compared to the hype we see and hear about in other forms of media. Would you be better off jumping ship to try the Next Big Thing?
I love distractions. I think it's healthy for podcasters to explore new tools, technologies, and other nifty things that live on the periphery of podcasting.
But don't get so distracted you lose sight of why you are here—to podcast...
Podcast advertising has much greater recall than other forms of ads. But how many times have you forgotten a URL, a coupon code, or even the name of the advertiser when you were ready to take action?
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Support For Abortion Rights
While Americans overwhelmingly support the right of an individual to make their own decisions about abortion, unfortunately, that right is no longer protected everywhere in the U.S...
Podcast advertising has much greater recall than other forms of ads. But how many times have you forgotten a URL, a coupon code, or even the name of the advertiser when you were ready to take action?
Podcast advertising is hard. On all sides of the equation if I'm honest. One company, Vocalize Inc., is trying to change that...
More ad dollars flowing into podcasting is generally seen as a good thing. Yet niche podcasters don't see very much of it. Yes, there are "riches in the niches," but only if your podcast is attractive enough.
Podcasting has a healthy and growing industry set up to serve the needs of both the big-money advertisers and the podcast publishers who get the lion's share of the more-than-a-billion dollars spent on podcast advertising...
Podcasting is an audio-first medium consumed on devices that have built-in microphones. Yet the listening experience is reliant on eyes and hands. What would a voice-only listener experience look like?
https://podcastpontifications.com/episode/a-glimpse-of-podcastings-voice-only-future
Building on my talk with the CEO of Vocalize, today we'll explore a "what if" scenario where podcast listeners only have to use voice commands to control their podcast listening experience...
When people complete your latest podcast episode, what do you want them to do? Reflect on your brilliance? Bask in a sense of satisfaction? Or would simply remembering what you said 5 minutes later be enough?
Making your podcast memorable isn't easy. There isn't an easy-to-fill-out template or checklist to get you there...