How to Make a Podcast: Lessons from an NPR Producer

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

If you want to be the best, you have to learn from the best. I was falling short of my targets with my podcast, so I hired an expert NPR producer to help me. In this episode I share everything I learned from hiring an expert to help me make my podcast better. Use these lessons in your own podcasting — or when hiring an expert for any part of your business.

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0:00.0	I'm doing a story on how transparent the weed industry is in Washington State because they
0:08.0	have a lot of transparency was and I had a nightmare last night about like
0:13.2	going there reporting at some like far weed farm and then having an anxiety attack
0:19.0	because like they wanted to they want me to get high and i want to be like a good
0:22.2	reporter uh... to they want me to get high and I want to be a good reporter.
0:22.6	Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.
0:27.0	What up everyone, it's your boy, Mr. Still Your Penny's aka Rabbi Can't Lose,
0:36.2	aka Noah Kagan. In today's episode I wanted to share how hiring an NPR
0:40.7	producer changed my podcast forever and how it can help you dramatically
0:45.4	in all of your content creations. NPR makes eight out of the top ten
0:49.8	podcast. It's insane and I learned three major things that I'm going to share with you today. Number one, how to hook your listeners. Number two, why editing is king. And number three, how to create a real narrative for your work and closing out what you make.
1:05.7	Before I begin, here's a message from our sponsor, Square Space.
1:09.0	Psych, just kidding. Before I begin, I wanted to tell you who the NPR producer is. His name is Nick. He's worked with NPR for over three and a half years. He's done night shifts, morning shifts. He's put in the time and the tips and things that he's been able to share with us are amazing so he's
1:22.5	definitely paid his dues and I'm excited for you to hear this episode. Enjoy.
1:25.9	If you don't hook people in like the first minute
1:33.3	you're screwed the first couple minutes like those are extremely crucial
1:37.6	if you think about watching tv right
1:40.2	you're flipping the channel that something doesn't catch your eye in the first three seconds
1:43.6	you got one of your keys is going to be like getting that top just compact telling
1:48.8	people exactly what they're going to get and not going at a at a angle. I want you to consider using something
1:56.6	that we like to call teetape right you're gonna say do what I'm gonna do
2:00.1	what I'm gonna do in the show here's three things you're going to learn are three stories
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