Three Simple Rules To Make Your Podcast Successful
- Tell the Truth
- Make it Matter
- Never Be Boring
Questions to Help You Edit
Why should you listen to this?
Why would someone want to hear this?
The Best Podcasts:
Inform Entertain Inspire Persuade Connect
The best conversations come from listening. When doing an interview listen and make the interview more of a conversation.
Making Engaging Content
When you are telling the truth and being transparent, you can share your opinion on a topic and ask your audience to share theirs.
By asking a specific question it’s easier than “send me some feedback.”
When delivering content you should be doing one of the following:
- Inform
- Entertain
- Inspire
- Persuade
- Connect
Place Your Listener in the Movie
Try to work visual words into your podcast. Help trigger the theater of the mind.
There is a framework called the Story Spine from Kenn Adams that is used by many storytellers it is:
- Once upon a time there was ___.
- Every day, ___.
- One day ___.
- Because of that, ___.
- Because of that, ___. (and so on)
- Until finally ___.
- And every day after that ___.
Growing Your Podcast
When you are on other platforms, be amazing and leave them wanting more.
So many people go to other platforms (like Clubhouse) and tell them to come to the podcast.
If you bring amazing content to the conversation those same people will ask you where to find more of you.
It all starts with being Amazing.
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If you’re worried about sounding stupid, getting lost in technology, spending too much money, the School of Podcasting can help you avoid all that.