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Easy Ways to Grow Your Podcast Audience that Anyone Can Do
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Easy Ways to Grow Your Podcast Audience that Anyone Can Do

Growth hack your podcast - even when you have no budget and no marketing team - and no time
Created byJane Singer
Last updated 8/2024
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What you'll learn

  • You will learn 5 easy to use methods for giving your podcast visibility to an audience of people you likely are not reaching now.
  • This course teaches 5 tried and test methods for growing a podcast without any budget or out of pocket expenses.
  • Each method can be used by individuals and by larger organizations. And can be implemented immediately.
  • By spending just a few hours each month, you will be able to get your podcast out to people across a multiple platforms - or go deeper on specific platforms.

Course content

1 section10 lectures36m total length
  • A Quick Introduction2:26

    Discover five budget-friendly, actionable strategies to boost podcast visibility, attract more listeners, and announce new episodes without spending much, all explained by seasoned host Jane Singer.

  • Method #1 Collaboration4:56

    Collaborate with other hosts in your niche to co-host episodes, showcase your focus and reach, and maintain a consistent weekly cadence through outreach that promotes both shows.

  • Method #2. Social Media Super Stars4:54

    choose guests who are active on social media to boost mutual promotion, reach an engaged audience, and prioritize quality over sheer reach, aiming for meaningful clicks rather than general impressions.

  • Method #3. Guesting4:55

    Reach out to other podcast hosts, present your expertise as a guest, provide a concise 1–2 sentence bio and 3–5 topic ideas, and build a focused outreach database of shows.

  • Success Insight5:33

    Gain success insight from decades in media: top podcast guests readily accept fitting invitations, so keep outreach simple and ensure easy setup with good sound.

  • Method #4. From Podcast to Feature Article3:05

    Transcribe your podcast, edit it into a social media article, repurpose the content, and link to the full episode or catalog to attract text-first audiences at low cost.

  • #5. Go Local2:58

    Go local by featuring local events and people to boost word-of-mouth and visibility in your community. Start small in your city, then expand outward in concentric circles for sustainable growth.

  • More Success Insights3:02

    Stay the course with long-term, disciplined effort to grow a podcast audience; consistency, weekly releases, and persistence compound visibility and opportunities to book guests.

  • A Very Quick Summary1:48

    Collaborate with other podcast hosts and guests with big social reach to boost visibility, then repurpose episodes as articles on text-first platforms and guest on local shows.

  • Fast Action Steps to Success2:54

    Jumpstart your podcast growth with fast action steps: reach five potential co-hosts and five guest prospects, publish three articles from episodes on LinkedIn or Medium, and build a cross-promotion list.

Requirements

  • The student will ideally have a podcast of their own or one that they manage. This way they can immediately start to apply the strategies taught in this course.
  • Students who don't have a podcast, but are thinking of starting one, then the methods in this course will help them get their show off to a fast start.

Description

One of the biggest challenges that podcast hosts face is getting more listeners. How do you get people to know about your podcast? How do you get them to listen to it?

How do you get them to know that you have new shows coming? How do you stand out in a very noisy market?

And is there a way to do this without spending a lot of money or any money at all? And is there a way to do this without spending a lot of money or spending any money at all?

In this short course I'm going to teach you 5 easy, no cost ways that you can drive listeners to your podcast.

Each of the 5 methods I'm going to teach you is easy enough that someone with no marketing experience at all can successfully do them.

Even better - none of them take a lot of time either.

These are simple techniques for growth hacking your podcast - that you start to implement immediately!

I would encourge students to watch the course and then to take action.  Take one of the 5 methods discussed in this course and give it a try.

Each of the 5 methods outlined in the course can be modified to meet your specific circumstances. 

At the end of this course, you're going to have 5 actionable ways that you can use to get your podcast to stand out in the market.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for both beginners and more experienced podcast hosts who want to grow their podcast audience - without having to spend any budget to do paid advertising or who don't have a big team to market their podcast.
  • Anyone can successfully utilize the methods taught in this course to reach a wider audience, build loyal fans and to create more interesting episodes.