026 An Entrepreneur's Dream To Podcast As A Business

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Show 026 Quick-Guide

• Welcome Espree Devora!
• The story of a beginner podcaster who finds out podcasting is IT.
• Does podcasting have a reputation that you cannot make money directly from podcasting?
• What does it really take to build a business where your podcast IS the business?
• LOVE as a key factor in podcasting as a business.
• A conversation about the crazy-ness of what’s going on with the podcast “Serial” and the crazy phenomenon.
• Society is ready for podcasting now - and it manifested itself via Serial.
• A bit of wisdom from a new podcast trendsetter via Donna Papacosta.
• What are the factors that have driven podcasting into the main stream media.
• We need to teach our audience how to subscribe and/or listen to our podcasts - all the different ways that you can do it.
• Espree’s podcast distribution strategy, which includes Stitcher, Soundcloud and iTunes, and how she uses each.
• The theory of engagement in a podcast: plot, authentic emotion, companionship.
• Espree got Alex Blumberg to introduce her podcast!!!
• There are no rules for podcasting, peeps. You make the rules.
• Espree has a challenge! Who do you want to meet? Why? And why it would be mutually beneficial for BOTH of you.
• Alex Blumberg is on the show - by proxy ;)
• @hunterwalk’s tweet about “Tech industry discovers podcasting!”
• “Is podcasting going to be a hits-driven business, or can you make a business out of having moderate successes?”
• Community is SO important. And whether it’s financially viable is yet to be proven.
• Elsie does not want the definition of success in podcasting to be tied to download numbers - a paradigm needs to be changed.
• Elsie found Espree on Medium and stalked her and now she’s here and part of the community.
• The scoop on the awesomeness of WeAreLATech.

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Links mentioned by Espree and Elsie!

• Serial
• Donna Papacosta’s article about a podcasting renaissance
• The Hardcore History Podcast
• Ira Glass Video: How To Listen To A Podcast
• Episode 34 of The Feed where Rob Walch talks about the truth about New & Noteworthy
• ‘This American Life’ Producer Raises $1.5 Million for Podcast Startup Gimlet
• TWiT and Leo Laporte
• Tom Merritt’s highly successful Patreon that is up to 13k + per month
• “Tech industry discovers podcasting” tweet by @hunterwalk
• Here I am Naked, Fan Funding. The article that Espree wrote that Elsie found.
• WeAreLATech
• The WeAreLATech Patreon!!!
• Rapportive
• LinkedIn. You can do a free month.

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