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Getting past rejection
Getting over no and moving past rejection The entertainment industry is filled with rejection. Big Tech is filled with rejection (see: recent layoffs). In fact, all industries are filled with rejection. You know this. But that doesn’t make it any easier when it happens to you. If you’ve recently been rejected from a job, a dream, a person, or a situation, I feel for you. I’m bummed on your behalf. I can only imagine how you feel. But if you were recently rejected, I’m also very proud of you. Proud? Yes, proud. You put yourself in a situation where you could be rejected. This takes courage. You’re putting yourself out…
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Use Chartable to find your Apple Podcast Chart’s Rank
Use Chartable to find your Apple Podcast Chart’s Rank When it comes to finding your show on Apple Podcasts, use Chartable to find your Apple Podcast Charts ranking. Without a doubt, Chartable is a superior resource than the Apple Podcast App. First of all, the Apple Podcast Charts aren’t easy to find within the app. You may have to do some digging. Second of all, the Apple Podcast Charts by category or sub-category are even harder to find, and the sub-category charts don’t display the ranking numbers. So if visibility and details are what you want, again — use Chartable. How to use Chartable to find your ranking Chartable is…
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How to improve your content strategy
One tweak to improve your content strategy Many companies send emails as a piece of their content strategy. But many of these same companies don’t seem to consider their content strategy before marketing. Marketing, unfortunately, tends to come first – and then sales quickly thereafter. Of course, these two strategies aren’t mutually exclusive. They go hand-in-hand. But tell me, is your content strategy playing third-string to your marketing and sales efforts? I’m wiling to bet that without a clear content strategy, your engagement rate is lower than you’d like. And if your numbers are low, here’s a quick way to improve them. Take Amazon Prime Video’s content, for example… When…
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How to Start a Podcast: A Few Resources
How to Start a Podcast according to Tim Ferriss (and others) Suffice it to say, Tim Ferriss has improved my life. While he’s improved my life in many ways — through the likes of improved exercise, eating, sleeping, getting things done, debt freedom, emotional intelligence, and more — if I’m being quite honest, he’s also one of the main reasons why I learned how to start a podcast in the first place. Yes, not only does Tim have a wealth of information on how to start a podcast, how to make a good podcast, and how to make a successful podcast that lasts, he also has an abundance of principles…
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Podcasting For Film – An Ecosystem of Possibilities
Podcasting for Film or Podcasting with Films? It’s true – the line between TV, film, apps, and media is blurring. Remember Quibi, the short-form (and short-lived) micro-stories app featuring Hollywood talent? The value proposition was a convergence of Netflix and Clubhouse (without the IPs of the former or the scarcity and community of the latter). Quibi tried to blend short attention spans with a long back catalog positioned behind a paywall without actively involving the user. While no media (or mediums) lives in a vacuum, all media (and mediums) co-exists and can, if integrated properly, cohabitate. Podcasting is no exception. Podcasting can certainly benefit from the presence or companionship of…
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Radio Dramas Reimagined – Agatha Christie
Three Radio Dramas from the past for today Murder in the Studio is a collection of three thematically related — and subject unrelated — one-act radio dramas by The Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. Written three decades apart (one from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s), these short plays were posthumously put together as a meditation on capitalism, gender, and murder. In each story, there is an acquisition, a possession, a taking. And in each story there is a reversal of the possessor’s fate, culminating in a Greek-like tragedy where a fury takes vengeance. Without giving away too much, let’s just say that the outcome is horrific. These are murder mysteries,…
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Why Podcast Content Matters
Podcast Content is More Important than Podcast Sales People don’t buy products from podcasters. People accept advice from podcasters they know, like, and trust. As a result, the single most important thing that you can do for your podcast is to position yourself as the podcast host (or podcast GUIDE…but more on this later). The second most important thing you can do for your podcast is to create a podcast content strategy that is bigger than yourself. Ask yourself: what actually grabs my attention? What keeps me engaged? And: what is a mission that I can tackle each and every week for years to come? If you start to understand…
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On Being a New Podcaster
How Being a New Podcaster Primes you for a Book It’s worth mentioning that as a new podcaster, when you deliver a podcast on a weekly basis it will begin to do many things. (a) It will help you build an audience. (b) It will help you nurture an audience. And (c) It will help create value and trust. Finally, then there’s (d): once “a” through “c” are in place, it will position you to sell to that audience, especially if the item being sold is a book or a course. So what does this mean for you? If writing a book is your ambition, then a podcast is a…
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Getting Out of Debt
Debt Freedom begins with the choice In “The Most Beautiful Book in the World,” Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt tells the story of a group of women prisoners who happen upon an illegal pen and an empty notebook. With this first possibility to communicate outside of their prison and the decision to use this notebook to write to their daughters, the women pass the notebook back and forth, night after night, each risking their own life. And yet…they can’t write. They continue to fail until one woman finally sets down the only thing she can think to tell her daughter: a recipe. Amazed, the rest follow suit. What results is a cookbook. It…
