How Do I Pick a Topic for My Podcast?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

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

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Jim, who has several different interests. How does he choose which interest will make the best podcast? To learn how to better serve your audience, listen to Smart Passive Income Episode 178 with Ryan Levesque (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/the-ask-formula/). The acronym I use is FOCUS (Follow One Course Until Success), from John Lee Dumas (http://www.eofire.com/). Do you have a question about starting your podcast? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Lynda.com. Try out all of Lynda.com's courses for free for seven days. Go http://lynda.com/AskPat to get started. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com
0:07.0	What's up everybody, Patflin here, and welcome to episode 445 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.8	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:21.0	And today, we have a great question from Jim.
0:24.0	But before we get to Jim's question, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is lynda.com,
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0:33.5	your business, tech, and creative skills.
0:35.6	I actually use it myself.
0:36.7	The best thing that I've used it for was actually to help teach me how to use my DSLR camera.
0:40.9	I also use it to keep up to date to a lot for a lot of pieces of software that I use,
0:46.2	Photoshop, for example, and other things.
0:48.8	And you can actually get a 10-day free trial right now to all of the videos.
0:53.0	These aren't just little YouTube videos. These are
0:54.9	highly produced studio quality videos. You can get all access by going to linda.com slash ask pat.
1:01.8	That's L-Y-N-D-A.com slash ask pat. All right. And here's today's question from Jim.
1:09.0	Hello. Thank you for doing this. My question for you and the listeners
1:12.8	is, how does someone pick a subject for their podcast? For instance, in the past, I did
1:20.4	podcasts, e-books, and blogs about financing for small and medium-sized businesses like a loan for equipment for real estate
1:30.3	or startups acquisitions etc they did a lot of podcasts on those not a lot of success
1:38.6	I also love learning about and sharing ideas on marketing, helping businesses generate more revenue,
1:45.6	things like that. Also, more on a personal assignment. I like inspiring and helping others with
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