More Profitable Podcast | Business Podcast Strategy for Coaches and Consultants

Your podcast cover art and description are two of those things you make a lot of decisions about at launch and then mostly stop thinking about. They keep sitting there doing their jobs while your business, your offers, your audience, and even the way you talk about your work can shift around them.

Neither one needs to be changed constantly, and they probably shouldn’t be. But they do need an occasional check-in to make sure yo...

It’s easy to treat your podcast outro like the least important part of the episode. You record something once, tack it onto the end, and assume hardly anyone is listening by then anyway. The problem is that the people who are still listening are often the people most ready to take a next step with you.

Your outro is where you help them make that move. That means looking at more than the prerecorded “thanks for listening&...

Your podcast introduction can keep doing its job for a long time without you thinking much about it. Then one day you listen back and realize it is talking to an audience you don’t really serve anymore, describing work you no longer do, or setting up a version of the podcast that just doesn’t exist at this point.

That is why I like checking in on this every year. Your business changes in small ways all the time, and your...

Way too often, I sit down with a coach or consultant who tells me their podcast just isn’t working. Then we start talking about their sales calls, and it turns out nearly everyone mentions the show, brings up an episode, or has already implemented something they learned from it.

That means the podcast is working. The problem is that getting the show done still feels too hard, too heavy, or like the juice is no longer worth the...

Coaches and consultants with a podcast can spend an absurd amount of time trying to figure out how long an episode is supposed to be. Is 10 minutes too short to be useful? Is 45 minutes asking too much? Do you need to keep talking because the episode does not feel substantial enough yet, or should you wrap it up before people stop listening?

That is how the clock starts making decisions the strategy should be making. You stretch a f...

Milestone episodes are where a lot of podcasters accidentally lose the plot. You hit 100, 200, or in my case, 700 episodes, and suddenly the episode becomes about proving how big the accomplishment is instead of delivering the kind of value your listener actually came for.

That does not mean you should ignore the milestone or pretend it is not a big deal. It is a big deal. But the celebration still has to belong inside the relations...

Established service providers are very good at convincing themselves they need to learn more before they can move. Another framework, another course, another round of “let me understand this better first.” And sometimes, yes, that is exactly the right move.

But there is a point where more information does not create more progress. It just creates more homework. If your podcast has been sitting in the “I know this c...

You recorded the episode, you sent an email, you maybe promoted it on Instagram a couple of times. Done. On to the next one. But that episode you just moved past? It's still a perfectly good sales asset sitting in your Google Drive doing nothing.

For most podcasters, episodes aren't tied to a date or a news cycle. They're evergreen. And yet we treat them like they expire after release week. I took four months off the podcast and sti...

If you're running your business, working with clients all week, and trying to keep a life running at the same time, the idea of adding "learn how to produce a podcast" to that list is a non-starter. There isn't margin for it. That's the spot Valerie McDonnell was in when she decided to launch the RISE to Intimacy Podcast.

Valerie came to the Launch Accelerator because she wanted a show, not a second job learning audio production, so...

You finish your launch and the messages start coming in. "This was so helpful." "I learned so much." "You really know your stuff." And then you check the sales numbers and almost no one bought. The content landed. The sales didn't.

This happens because most coaches and consultants treat launch episodes like teaching opportunities. You stack the content with frameworks and step-by-step training to prove how much you know, thinking th...

Let's talk about the timing of your podcast calls to action. When you make your asks and what kind of ask you're making at each point changes how well they actually convert. Most podcasters are making one call to action per episode, usually at the end, usually rushed, and wondering why their show isn't converting.

Here's what that one-CTA approach misses. A pre-roll ad does a different job than a mid-episode mention, which does a di...

Podcast pitching services look like a shortcut. Hire someone, get booked on shows, show up and record. But almost every person who asks me about these services is coming off a bad experience, and when I ask what the agency's process was, they can't answer the question. They never asked.

Skipping that question is expensive. Not just in dollars, but in the relationships it can quietly damage when a cold template goes out to someone yo...

Stop asking ChatGPT for content ideas. Stop Googling "podcast topics for coaches." Stop posting on Instagram asking what your audience wants to hear. Your audience doesn't know what they need you to tell them. That's your job, not theirs.

The best content ideas aren't sitting in AI tools or search results. They're already in your business. In your sales call recordings, your DMs, your client conversations. The places where people ar...

There's a toxic belief spreading around the internet that if your podcast isn't on YouTube as a video show, you can't find an audience. That audio-only podcasting is dying. But that's an opinion being presented as fact, and it's causing podcasters to make expensive decisions without understanding if video actually makes sense for their business.

The reality is 53% of podcast listeners still prefer pure audio. Audio completion rates ...

Life gets hard sometimes. Things pile up. And when you're looking at what to put down, your podcast feels like an obvious choice, especially if you're the one doing all the work. But most podcasters assume that stepping away means their show stops working for them entirely.

I didn't release a podcast episode from September through January. Four full months of silence. And during that time, I signed multiple new production clients. O...

A commitment to “record and release in the same week” is the thing keeping your podcast stuck. If your show isn’t built around quarterly planning, it’s not going to work as the sales asset you need it to be.

Every production client I’ve worked with - whether they’ve been with us six months or six years - comes to the table for quarterly strategy. Because the truth is, your content has to serve the...

If you’re still sitting on a podcast idea because you’re waiting for the “right” time, let me stop you. What you’re actually doing is waiting for perfect. And perfect is just procrastination with better branding. While you’re busy “getting ready,” somebody else is already publishing and getting in front of your clients.

I’ve put out 689 episodes of this show. Do I think they&rsqu...

If your downloads have dipped and you’re thinking, “The podcast is broken, what am I doing wrong?”—you’re not alone. It’s easy to spiral when numbers dip, but more downloads doesn’t equal more sales.

Your show has a job inside your sales process. The real question isn’t “How do I get more listeners?” It’s “Is my show actually moving the right people closer to be...

Until now, this podcast housekeeping series has been very much about the listener. It’s been more about the people on the other end who you want to entice into your business.

But what about the impact on how you feel about your podcast? That’s the focus for today’s show, where we dive into the process of putting episodes together.

In this episode of The More Profitable Podcast, you’ll learn about the strategic...