Growing Your Podcast Audience: Time, Tools, and Techniques

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Rozdziały

1. Growing Your Podcast Audience: Time, Tools, and Techniques (00:00:00)

2. Opening (00:00:25)

3. Star Wars Day (00:01:02)

4. 4 Dead In Ohio Day (00:01:21)

5. I'm With You - I Think (00:01:50)

6. Sponsor: PodcastBranding.co (00:02:23)

7. Mugshot: BasedOnaTrueStoryPodcast.com (00:03:47)

8. Protest Gear (00:04:17)

9. Remo on App Sumo (00:04:56)

10. Return of Podcasting in Six Weeks? (00:06:28)

11. Separate Page For My Podcast? (00:10:47)

12. Sub-Domains (00:13:02)

13. Too Many Streams? (00:16:13)

14. How Long to See Audience Growth (00:18:37)

15. New Chapter (00:18:37)

16. Case Study of Ads (00:23:29)

17. Slower but Deeper Growth (00:26:26)

18. Studying Mr. Beast (00:27:03)

19. Titles That Lie (00:29:22)

20. Measure Your Audience (00:30:35)

21. Buzzsprout Ads Update (00:38:45)

22. The Pieces of an Ad Campaign (00:39:44)

23. Testing Your Ads (00:42:27)

24. Ad Infinitum Rant (00:46:25)

25. Mouse Flow (00:48:42)

26. Switchy Link Tracker (00:49:04)

27. Swapping Promos (00:50:29)

28. Sometimes it Doesn't Work (00:51:52)

29. Podcasting Is Hard (00:52:27)

30. Practice, Practice, Practice (00:54:11)

31. Mr. Beast Is Giving Back (00:57:06)

32. Where Do I NEED to go First (00:58:14)

33. It's Not Just ONE Thing (01:01:13)

34. Awesome Supporters (01:03:08)

35. Supporter of the Week (01:05:31)

36. Free Built in Websites (01:07:19)

37. Master Your Craft (01:12:07)

38. Lean Into Being Human (01:14:23)

39. Op3 Stats (01:18:57)

40. Saturday Morning Wrestling (01:20:37)

41. Is Podcasting 2.0 Hype? (01:21:19)

42. Value For Value Stats (01:24:59)

43. PodPing (01:26:51)

44. Wrap It up (01:28:54)