How Can I Encourage Podcast Reviews?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Kristin is starting a new podcast and is planning to run a giveaway for people who leave an iTunes review. I offer some tactics for making this plan easier, as well as some other ideas to drive engagement. The tool I mention is My Podcast Reviews: http://askpat.com/mypodcastreviews Do you have a question about building podcast engagement? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:05.1	AskPath.com.com.
0:09.0	Askpats.com.
0:09.1	Askpats.
0:09.9	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:11.9	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 189 of Ask Pat.
0:14.4	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.2	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.8	All right.
0:20.2	Now, let's get to today's question from Kristen. Hey, Pat. My name is Kristen, and I'm a huge fan of yours. Thank you so much for
0:26.2	all you do. I have a blog and I'm about to launch a podcast. I was thinking of posting a randomized
0:31.5	prize drawing for everyone who writes a review in iTunes in the first few weeks to encourage them
0:36.4	to do so, especially those that might
0:38.4	be on the fence about taking the time. Of course, it wouldn't matter what they say in the review
0:42.7	to be included in the drawing. I really just want it to be an authentic way to bolster the number
0:47.1	of reviews I get. I'm wondering what you think about this idea, and if you have any other ideas
0:52.0	to help encourage reviews, that would be great. Thank you so much.
0:55.5	Hey, Kristen, thanks so much. Congratulations on the upcoming launch of your podcast. I think it's
0:59.2	really smart that you're going into it with the idea of wanting to increase the engagement and the
1:04.7	reviews and ratings for your show. That's obviously something that is very important, not just for
1:09.1	social proof in terms of people coming to your show and being like, hey, should I listen to this?
1:12.6	But also for the iTunes search engine.
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