What's up, Ask Pat.

What's up, everybody, Pat fun here, and welcome to episode 322 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

All right, here's today's question from John.

Hey, Pat, this is John.

I'm getting ready to launch a new podcast,

and I was wondering if there's a certain number of listeners or downloads

or a certain time that needs to go by before you begin to monetize the podcast.

I do believe in adding value first and building an audience and then applying monetization.

Just want to get your thoughts.

Thanks.

Hey, John, what's up?

Thank you so much for the question today.

This is an interesting question because, you know, when starting a podcast, it's going to

be hard to monetize right from the start anyway.

So I wouldn't worry about finding advertisers and people to sponsor your show beforehand.

When I started this show, Ask Pat, I already had a largely populated podcast called Smart Passive Income with over 10 million downloads.

And it was very difficult for me to get sponsors to come on board with this brand new show because they

wanted numbers, they wanted proof, they wanted to know that they were listeners on the other end

and what they were like. And so you're going to have to put some time in to see how much

you, how much, how much, how much legs your podcast would have. Now, the cool part is when you get

started, that's when you put all your efforts into the launch of it.

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