Discover what podcasters can learn from dog training, how to triple your podcast reviews, and why quality content trumps quality recording in the latest episode of Build A Big Podcast.
Key Themes
- Podcasting Impact: Creating a podcast that attracts and helps people.
- Quality Content: The importance of content in a world of unlimited choices.
- Engagement vs. Perfection: Balancing care and effort with micromanagement.
- Reviews Matter: Understanding the impact of reviews and strategies to increase them.
- Accessibility of Quality Recording: The ease of obtaining quality audio at a low cost.
- Crime Podcast Success: Analyzing the dominance of true crime podcasts in reviews.
- Backing Up Recordings: The importance of backup recorders during interviews.
Topics covered in this episode:
- Podcasting lessons from the dog park and the parallels between dog owner behavior and podcaster behavior
- The importance of being invested, showing up, and caring about your podcast, and not just pretending to be a podcaster
- Strategies to triple your podcast reviews, including creating a short, memorable podcast link, showing the apps for podcast listening, and giving specific instructions on leaving reviews
- The significance of quality audio recording being available to everyone and how content matters more than ever with the abundance of listener choices
- Insights from analyzing 20,000,000 podcast reviews, including the domination of the true crime genre in terms of ratings, and how explicit podcasts tend to garner more reviews
- The affordability and features of the Zoom F3 and H4 recorders for backup recording during interviews, and the importance of running a backup recorder to avoid losing important content.
- The connection between the listener's engagement and the genre of podcasts, and the considerations when pursuing reviews as part of the growth and marketing strategy for a podcast
Episode Timestamps
- 00:00 High-quality virtual studio for podcast recording.
- 03:03 Learning from dog trainer about human behavior.
- 08:46 Podcast reviews matter for sponsors and guests.
- 12:13 Want more podcast reviews? Create tutorials for leaving podcast reviews on apps.
- 13:11 This will help you get more podcast reviews on specific podcasting platforms.
- 17:26 Easy-to-use 32-bit float recorder for backup.
- 19:46 Seek reviews to boost podcast ratings effectively.
- 23:07 Big Podcast shares stats on true crime.
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About this episode of Build a Big Podcast:
This is the audio companion to Issue 170 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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