This Will Grow Your Podcast Audience (Insider 204)

Unlock your podcasting potential with tips on rebranding, leveraging Podcasting 2.0, improving audio quality, and an opportunity to join the 30-Day Solo Podcasting Challenge for a special price (see cart and use coupon FINAL27) in this episode of Build a Big Podcast with David Hooper.

Episode Topics

1. General Advice

   • Importance of giving listeners something to care about and something they'll miss if it's gone.

2. Sponsor Advertisement: Riverside.fm

   • Features and benefits of Riverside.fm

   • Overview of multitrack recording and its importance.

   • Free trial and discount code (BIGPODCAST) for Riverside.fm.

3. 30-Day Solo Podcast Challenge

   • Details about joining the 30-day challenge.

   • Benefits: improving hosting skills, clarifying your message, and working with David Hooper and Big Podcast

4. Temporary Rebranding

   • Example of Goldfish crackers rebranding to Chilean Sea Bass

   • How to use creative rebranding to attract attention to your podcast

5. Podcasting 2.0

   • Overview of the concept and its current state

   • Benefits: listener messages, direct donations, advanced RSS features

   • Mention of players supporting Podcasting 2.0:

     • Podverse

     • Fountain

6. Technical Tips: Audio Editing

   • How to make your voice sound better in Audacity

   • Sequence of editing steps: EQ, normalize, compress, normalize

7. Listener Engagement

   • Story about an April Fool's joke that didn't go over well

   • Discussion on how passive listeners often do not interact but still care

   • Encouragement to consider every listener, even those who don’t actively engage

8. Internet Domain Importance

   • Story about the disappearance of the ".io" domain extension

   • Importance of controlling your domain name and using domain-based RSS wrappers

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Episode Timestamps

• 00:00 Halloween enables authenticity; use it for podcasting
• 04:14 Postproduction enhances podcast transitions and content delivery
• 08:32 Podcasting 2.0 offers substantial, evolving upgrades
• 13:31 Audacity adds nondestructive editing (and how to improve your voice)
• 17:01 Each email/comment you get represents many unspoken voices
• 20:22 Domain control isn't always guaranteed; consider alternatives
• 23:25 Join the 30-Day Solo Podcast Challenge 

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About this episode of Build a Big Podcast:​

This is the audio companion to Issue 204 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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