4 Powerful Tips How To Start A Podcast Today
Written by Sebatian Rusk
More and more I'm being asked by those new to the podcasting world, "what are the best tips for starting a podcast?” If I was starting a podcast today, I would do the following 3 steps immediately:
great your podcast is great and all, but you want to be able to connect and communicate with people who have listened to your show. This allows you to share other content with them like a YouTube video, a new blog post, or every now and then, offer them your product or service(s) at a slight discount for being part of your email community. Email works people. content with 2) Use Tools like Headliner.app to create "audio grams" (images with sound that post as a video) and post them across your social media channels and tell every person you talk about your podcasts. 3) Be a guest on OTHER podcasts and promote your show. 4) Find strategic guests to be on your show for an interview. Ask those guests to share the episode they were on and tag you and your show. NOTE: "Everyone and Anyone" is not your ideal guest. Put some thought into the guests
you'd like to bring on the show.
Make sure they are smarter than you and more successful than you so that you can learn from them while creating valuable content by interviewing them. Don't get bogged down by thinking you have to have everything perfect before you start your podcast.
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Download the Anchor.FM app Find a quiet place (if you have a walk-in closet at home, those work great. So does inside a car, parked obviously) Start recording! This may sound elementary but this crucial step is one of the biggest hurdles people have when starting a podcast. They can't seem to get out of their own way and just HIT RECORD!
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You simply need to commit to a realistic schedule for recording your podcast, and stick to it. That may mean 1 episode a month or 1 episode a week, that is entirely up to you, but you want to make sure that you stay realistic with yourself and what you commit to. Podcasting is a marathon. It's those tiny steps that eventually lead to big steps in the future, but first thing is first, you've got to build it! Questions about starting a podcast? Use the link below. PodcastLaunchLabNow.com
Once you've got a 10-20 episodes under your belt then you may consider upping your
mic game with a USB for your computer, but it isn't needed.
As far as marketing your podcast, I've found these tips to be the more useful:
1) Start an email list! Creating
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