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Side Hustle School

#1787 - Q&A: How do people discover a new podcast?

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship,, Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Podcasts have a “discoverability problem”: they don't rank in search terms or get links from other sites. If you have a new show, what can you do to make sure people will find it?  

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0:00.0

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0:35.0

Welcome to a new week. It's actually Thanksgiving week for some of us.

0:38.9

I am thankful for you and your listening to SIDOS for school. This is Chris Gellipo.

0:43.5

Marketing is essentially about discoverability.

0:46.2

That's what we're talking about in today's listener question. Consider, for example, a billboard.

0:51.6

The idea of the billboard is to reach a lot of people in a concentrated area with a

0:55.4

specific message. Or it actually could be a general message. It could be branding,

0:59.8

like a sign by Coca-Cola. It could be something time sensitive.

1:03.6

Get tickets to Hamilton. Or it could be for a new movie, skincare line, really anything else.

1:10.0

So if we go from billboards to online, like let's think about how people discover websites.

1:15.0

You know, online links. That's a big one. Search engine optimization. That's a big one.

1:19.6

If somebody writes about your site in the New York Times. Or if you rank highly for relevant

1:23.7

keywords, hopefully a lot of visitors will discover it. But here's our question. What about a podcast?

1:30.2

Because if you think about it, it's a bit different. A podcast isn't a website. It doesn't rank in

1:34.8

search terms or get links from other sites. And all of this points to what is known as a discoverability

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