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Podcasting Made Simple

How to Make Your Podcast a Top 1% Show | Melanie Benson

Podcasting Made Simple

Alex Sanfilippo, PodMatch.com

Education, Content Marketing, Podcast Guesting, Podcast Hosts, Podcasting, How To, Audience Growth, Podcast Guests, Business, Podcasters, Marketing, Monetization, Technology

5671 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Send Us a Text Message MORE FROM THIS EPISODE: HTTPS://PODMATCH.COM/EP/200 In this episode, Melanie Benson shares 5 strategic steps for how her podcast has been able to reach the top 1% of all podcasts on Apple. Melanie explains why getting your show into the top 1% matters as an authority builder and how it helps you break “the best-kept secret” syndrome that so many of us get trapped in. By following Melanie’s system, you’ll immediately begin seeing your show grow and reach the top 1% befo...

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0:00.0

You're listening to Podcasting Made Simple, where we deliver weekly masterclass episodes

0:09.8

that help podcast hosts and podcast guests elevate their podcasting game.

0:14.2

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

0:16.9

Today's episode features audio from a session of the latest PodPro's quarterly event.

0:21.4

To learn more about the speaker in this episode, along with other helpful resources,

0:25.3

including the video version of this episode and links to attend next quarter's event,

0:29.9

please visit Podpros.com slash 2.0.

0:33.3

And now please enjoy today's episode.

0:40.5

What is it take to get your show to the top 1%?

0:44.5

And why does this even matter?

0:47.0

Hey, it's Melanie Benson here.

0:48.3

Thank you so much for inviting me to this event to talk a little bit about what I've learned on my own journey as a podcast host,

0:56.3

host of Amplify Your Success, to finding out that it's made it to the top 1.5% of the almost

1:03.4

4 million podcasts out there, which I'm super honored. And Alex asked me to share a little bit

1:09.7

about what's worked and how we have gotten the show there.

1:14.4

And so I'm going to unpack it when I look back at what did we do to make this happen.

1:19.9

First of all, I'll say that I went into this very intentionally.

1:23.5

This is my second show.

1:25.0

We're at 300 episodes.

1:26.9

I've been podcasting for nine years, maybe 10 by now.

1:30.4

And I knew that I wanted to have a top podcast, not just a podcast.

1:35.8

And let me just share with you a little bit why that was such an important piece of the puzzle for me.

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