Study Hall: How to Make Money from a Podcast
Earn Your Leisure
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🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this study hall, podcast superstar Mandii B discusses three revenue streams that podcasters can use to monetize their shows. She opened up about her experience with patreon, live touring and ads.
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| 0:00.0 | So how did you make the money? So there's a couple of different ways how you make money on the podcast and you're you're |
| 0:04.5 | Guys, specifically so first I want to talk about patreon. Yes, patreon is something that once again shout out to them |
| 0:11.0 | We didn't know anything about patreon so we started a podcast and somebody actually put in a comment or Instagram like you guys have a patreon |
| 0:17.5 | And like what's that you know, you know, a page on this and we like no, I'm like all right, let me just type it in |
| 0:24.2 | Let's see what this is actually that's the one site that there's a ton to Google about like when you start podcasting |
| 0:31.7 | There is no blueprint to what we're doing. There's not so I can give you all of the steps that I did exactly |
| 0:37.3 | That doesn't mean you're gonna see the success of money I made |
| 0:39.8 | There's just really no blueprints at this but patreon there is and again at this point we first started the podcast |
| 0:45.4 | We were paying for studio. We were paying for edits. We needed fires. We need there was expenses coming out and |
| 0:50.4 | And we were like okay, let's find a way to bring money in and so we started our patreon account |
| 0:56.2 | So all right, so you guys really don't really well with patreon |
| 0:58.9 | So can you talk about that like what's your what's your model for patreon? |
| 1:02.3 | So for patreon we wanted to you have to give them more than what they're getting |
| 1:06.5 | So as podcasting I don't think people realize like the amount of information we give out that's for free |
| 1:12.0 | To a lot of people and we started growing I we really have supporters |
| 1:16.4 | I like to think of our audience as there are sisters. There are best friends wearing their head as those things and so |
| 1:26.0 | Being as vulnerable as we have and transparent with our lives people wanted to support us |
| 1:30.8 | But we were just giving them content for free. So we were like okay, what can we give them for a subscription? |
| 1:36.2 | That's what pot patreon is it's a description |
| 1:38.5 | Platform that you could add to your already present platform for creatives for creative |
| 1:42.8 | It doesn't have to be podcasting anything videos any anybody can have a page to have a patreon |
| 1:48.6 | Account and how much you make a patreon? |
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