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Welcome to Side-Usel School. Thanks for tuning in today. We have talked before about

how to get sponsors for a podcast. We've got lots of listeners out there starting podcasts

of their own, hoping to get paid for them, which is always nice. Getting paid for something

you enjoy, something you're good at, some kind of creative project that you produce. But

the advice for an existing podcast or really any sort of community or medium that has some

traction and is gaining listeners is a little bit different than something that hasn't

actually been launched yet. In fact, what if the podcast is brand new? It hasn't actually

released in the episodes yet. Do you have to wait until you built up an audience and then

go to potential sponsors? Or might there be a way to effectively launch with sponsorship

and therefore revenue? This could be especially important for anybody out there creating a narrative,

driven or storytelling series. One of these things that's kind of A to 12 episodes long,

it's contained. There's a lot of work that goes in the writing, the research, the production

as opposed to a traditional interview format kind of podcast. But it really could be for

any show. The broad question is, is it possible to get sponsors for a podcast that hasn't

actually been released yet? And if so, how? Let's talk about it after this quick message

to my sponsor. Thank you sponsor and thank you listeners. When you're buried in orders

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