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Hey, I'm Steph Taylor, and this is my pod talk on how to monetize your podcast with a digital product.

So, first of all, why would we want to monetize our podcasts with a digital product?

Digital products are a low-risk, high-reward way to monetize your podcast.

Firstly, you can launch and validate your product, a digital product, before you put the

work in to create it.

You can sell 10 or 1,000 for pretty much the same amount of work and for pretty

much the same amount of overheads that go into it as well. You can start creating them from

day one of podcasting journey rather than sponsorship or advertising where they want to know your download

numbers, they want to know who's listening, you can start creating and selling and monetizing

your podcast with a digital product before you've got your first ever listener.

And lastly, you can help your listeners to get bigger wins,

which will in turn keep them more engaged because now they are more invested.

You've helped them and they are going to be the most engaged listeners because of that.

So I'm going to share with you today my five-step process for monetizing your podcast

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