#1343 - Q&A: How can I find companies to sponsor my podcast?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today’s listener is planning to start a podcast, and wants to take it seriously. How can they find sponsors?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, what's up and welcome to Side Us All School. |
| 0:07.3 | This is your host, Chris Gillibot. |
| 0:09.4 | All year I've been answering listener questions. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm going to say answering listener questions and answers, but there's a two part process. |
| 0:15.0 | Listeners ask the questions. |
| 0:16.1 | I attempt to provide some sort of answer and it's been really fun to hear of all the different |
| 0:20.5 | projects people out there are starting. |
| 0:23.0 | Today's listener has a pretty wild idea. |
| 0:25.6 | They actually want to start a podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | Why would anybody want to do that? |
| 0:30.3 | Well, as an active podcast listener, you might know the answer to reach people like you. |
| 0:35.8 | Millions of people now use podcasts as a primary medium for their news, education and entertainment, |
| 0:40.9 | and millions more use it as a secondary medium. |
| 0:43.5 | There are also a lot of people who don't listen to podcasts, which just means that the |
| 0:46.9 | market has a lot more room to grow, even despite all the people who are listening. |
| 0:50.6 | So when it comes to doing it as a side hustle, a money-making project specifically, what |
| 0:55.0 | do you need to know in terms of attracting sponsors? |
| 0:57.5 | Do you do it on the front end? |
| 0:58.8 | Do you do it a bit later as you build an audience? |
| 1:01.5 | That's what we're going to talk about in this episode. |
| 1:03.3 | So here is a message from our sponsor. |
| 1:05.2 | Hey, thank you so much, sponsor. |
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