7 Best Practices For Starting Your First Podcast | Ep. #1593

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Seven Best Practices for Starting Your First Podcast In episode #1593, we will give you seven tips that will help you start and grow your first podcast. When you are just starting out in the podcasting game, there will be many kinks you have to iron out. This will be easier for you if you tune into today’s show though. You’ll hear us talk about which mics to use, how to structure your conversations, how to maximize traffic as well as your content’s reach, and a whole lot more! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: Seven Best Practices for Starting Your First Podcast. [00:41] Have a good microphone that doesn’t plug in using USB. [01:28] Be spontaneous in your conversation rather than scripted. [02:12] Grow your podcast by leveraging your existing audience. [02:56] Keep traffic high by listing all past episodes on hosting platforms. [03:41] Maximize reach by repurposing your content. [04:16] Ask for reviews because they help you get into ‘new and noteworthy’ lists. [04:52] What unsolicited response rates are and how they indicate the value of your show. [06:17] That’s it for today! [06:17] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information or call us on 310-349-3785! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Heil PR40 Jay Acunzo Marketing Showrunners Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us: Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.
0:11.5	Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your
0:14.3	instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:19.2	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:24.0	If you want to rank higher on Google,
0:25.9	you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:28.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are.
0:31.3	With Google's core vital update,
0:33.0	that makes it super, super important
0:34.8	to optimize your site for low time.
0:37.6	And one easy way to do it is use the host
0:40.0	that Eric and I use, Dreamhost.
0:42.0	So just go to Dream Host or Google it.
0:44.8	Find it, check it out, and it's a great way
0:47.0	to improve your load time.
0:50.4	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue. And I'm Neil Patel. And today we're going to give you seven best practices for starting your first podcast. So we're coming up on the new year. We're about to hit 2021 and we still get a lot of questions from people that want to start a podcast.
1:06.7	So I'll start with the very first one. The obvious one that I didn't pay too much attention to in the very beginning.
1:11.6	Have a good microphone.
1:13.6	Okay, even if you're doing videos, it's actually been showing that people actually
1:17.7	want you to have very high quality sound.
1:19.7	So my mistake in the very beginning was that I used the blue Yeti microphone.
1:24.0	It's a good microphone, but I plugged it in directly through USB.
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