SLS98: How To Avoid The Podfading Fate

Spreaker Live Show #98 for Jan 18th, 2017Our Topics This Week: - How To Avoid The Podfading Fate- Listener Comments and FeedbackShow Duration: 24 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Spreaker has a Blog at Blog.Spreaker.com- Launches beta Ad Revenue Sharing Program Main topic this week: “How To Avoid The Podfading Fate”What is Podfading? Why Should You Care? How To Avoid It? What is Podfading?-For years podcasting usage stats have shown that a large percentage of new podcasts do what’s called Podfade after about 7 episodes. This term means slowing down in publishing new episodes to your feed. This is a very common issue for all podcasters, even those who have been podcasting for a long-time.-Causes: Run out of stuff to talk about-Cause: Live gets in the way-Cause: Too much work to get an episode out-Family obligations getting in the way-Full-Time job not allowing you time to produce your show.-Too much post recording editing and publishing work.. Causes burnout!-Run out of money-Did not plan your show to streamline all processes and distribution methods to be as efficient as possible Why Should You Care About Podfading?-Can be embarrassing to family and friends to quit so fast-Wasting time, money and energy-Missed opportunities that come from creating a great podcastHow To Avoid It?-Plan ahead-Pick a topic or show theme that you have deep knowledge about and connections to potential interesting guests-Find a co-host-Find an easy to publish podcast file host -Easy to use recording setup/equipment-Get an agreement with your wife/husband and kids that a certain day and time each week is podcast time-Commit to doing at least 100 episodes before you would consider podfading-Don’t pre-record a bunch of episodes before you launch your show-Don’t worry too much if the first few episodes are just not that good-Don’t really start promoting your show until episode 5-10 depending on feedback-Do anything and everything to get audience feedbackHow To Restart a Podfaded Show?-Don’t do it-If you must, then change your artwork and maybe event the name of the show.-Then get planning for what it is you are going to do different that will not lead to podfading this time.Listener Comments from SLS97: Ad Revenue Share Program beta launchedFrancesco BaschieriI guess it will work differently for live content and for pre-recorded. For LIVE the ad-insertion point can simply be triggered by pushing a buttonSpreaker Live ShowFrancesco, You are right about Live insertions, did not cover that. It will be an interesting topic for a future episode.Linda IrwinI think seven #tags would be good. Comedy, parody, music, spoof, skits and add humor, funny.Linda IrwinI would want control over ad insertion points.Linda Irwin There is a rumor that Google is going to buy SoundCloud . . . wonder what changes that is going to bring.Spreaker Links:http://Adore.fmhttp://blog.spreaker.comhttp://SpreakerLiveShow.comhttps://Spreaker.comrob at spreaker.comSend Questions and Comments to:Twitter: http://twitter.com/spreaker using #SpreakerLiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/robgreenleeTwitter: http://twitter.com/alexeum Tech Support: support at spreaker.com