28 - 5 First-Year Podcasting Mistakes to Avoid (Recap!)

BREAKDOWN:

3:29 - Overview Recap: Ideating, buying gear, launch, frequency/release cadence, top 5 episodes

6:05 - Finding guests - do guests’ audiences matter?

8:56 - Analytics: Gender split!

9:10 - How to get on the charts worldwide as a small podcast

11:30 - Spotify Labs

12:29 - Getting monetized through Spotify for Podcasters’ Ad Ambassador program

14:13 - Going viral on TikTok with a podcast clip

16:35 - Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid in First Year of Podcasting - #1: Not having clear goals

18:10 - #2 Not seeing out advice from people actually executing at your level 

25:54 - #3 Not finding the balance of researching/preparing and starting/executing

28:17 - Avoiding tech issues + what gear I use

30:50 - Picking a hosting platform

31:35 - Total gear cost

35:19 - #4 Having unrealistic expectations about growing listenership 

38:00 - how to optimize other platforms to get listens on your podcast

39:20 - hot take: maybe don’t start a podcast

42:47 - #5 Not having realistic expectations for podcasting as a networking tool 

45:50 - Episode recap

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