Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis

Aaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos, podcasts and more. Notably he was a founding member of the Hammerstone team, which he’s recently left, to focus his energy on doing something he loves. Most recently, Aaron has launched Screencasting.com, a course teaching you how to make better screencasts.Timestamps00:00 Intro01:25 Aaron's Background02:10 Learning Software Engineering through books03:24 Audience Building05:51 Benefits of each content medium08:07 Making time for everything09:27 Having a full time job10:23 Leaving Hammerstone12:36 Launching Screencasting.com14:33 How has the launch gone?15:25 RecommendationsRecommendationsBook - Any textbook in your fieldPodcast - No Plans to MergeIndie Hacker - Jordan O’ConnorMy linksTwitterIndie Bites TwitterIndie Bites YouTubeJoin the membershipPersonal Website2 Hour Podcast CoursePodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)This Indie Life PodcastSponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.