266 The X Factors That Built She Podcasts

Catching up on yet another week where we go into the impact of Zoom on our life, mental health and why there are so exhausting! We also respond to feedback all about how we got started, how we got our feet on the ground and what we think about Anchor. We sprinkle in all kinds of business advice and also report on the latest podcasting information plus all the places where we’ve been featured.

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Episode length 1:05:59

• Super quick catch up from the team
• 1:38 Right into the Rona discussion and how our quarantine life is going through the lense of Zoom calls!
• It is much harder to be on video calls and goodness gracious the ‘dead eye’!
• 6:43 Elsie’s antisocial tendencies
• 8:48 Jess answers emails during the show the whole time and checking things and not paying attention to what’s happening
• 11:40 Jess and her camp and acapella on Zoom with a bonus of the 96 year old grandmother seder experience
• Crazy talk about passwords and shiz…are you using your name in your password?
• 18:45 Jess was featured on Inside Podcasting!
• Jess created the best fort for Isaac!
• 21:47 Isaac needs to talk to Santa
• And Isaac would make a great podcaster
• 24:51 Audio feedback from Spencer from Faded Red
• 26:27 How we built a fanbase
• And we break down how we had all sorts of things going on prior to launching our show
• Not everyone listened to She Podcasts but people supported us because they knew us
• 31:50 So….authenticity
• All of the business mistakes that we made and how we shifted and adjusted
• Things on paper seem like a good idea and in execution they are not
• 36:30 We are just now figuring things out NOW
• 40:10 Feedback from Michelle asking about Anchor
• You can have different strategies for all the different platforms
• Elsie’s weird way of listening to TV shows while she works out
• 49:40 Elsie sharing about the Libsyn Headliner webinar
• 52:20 Elsie on a Jacob’s Media article
• 53:00 Trusted kids’s content on PRX
• 55:37 Just because a podcast is not active doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have value
• Elsie will hit her GB data plan - eek
• 58:17 Patreon has laid off soooooo many peeps!
• Asking the hard questions on what needs to happen to survive

Links!

• The reason Zoom calls drain your energy
• Inside Podcasting issue featuring Jess
• Faded Red
• Headliner Webinar from Libsyn
• There Are Over a Million Podcasts in Apple’s Podcasts App. What Does It Mean?
• Trusted kids content in the time of COVID–19
• Patreon lays off 13% of workforce | TechCrunch

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