Triple Your Podcast Reviews (Big Podcast Insider Issue 17...

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Discover what podcasters can learn from dog training, how to triple your podcast reviews, and why quality content trumps quality recording in the latest episode of Build A Big Podcast. Key Themes Podcasting Impact: Creating a podcast that attracts and helps people. Quality Content: The importance of content in a world of unlimited choices. Engagement vs. Perfection: Balancing care and effort with micromanagement. Reviews Matter: Understanding the impact of reviews and strategies to increase them. Accessibility of Quality Recording: The ease of obtaining quality audio at a low cost. Crime Podcast Success: Analyzing the dominance of true crime podcasts in reviews. Backing Up Recordings: The importance of backup recorders during interviews. Topics covered in this episode: Podcasting lessons from the dog park and the parallels between dog owner behavior and podcaster behavior The importance of being invested, showing up, and caring about your podcast, and not just pretending to be a podcaster Strategies to triple your podcast reviews, including creating a short, memorable podcast link, showing the apps for podcast listening, and giving specific instructions on leaving reviews The significance of quality audio recording being available to everyone and how content matters more than ever with the abundance of listener choices Insights from analyzing 20,000,000 podcast reviews, including the domination of the true crime genre in terms of ratings, and how explicit podcasts tend to garner more reviews The affordability and features of the Zoom F3 and H4 recorders for backup recording during interviews, and the importance of running a backup recorder to avoid losing important content. The connection between the listener's engagement and the genre of podcasts, and the considerations when pursuing reviews as part of the growth and marketing strategy for a podcast Episode Timestamps 00:00 High-quality virtual studio for podcast recording. 03:03 Learning from dog trainer about human behavior. 08:46 Podcast reviews matter for sponsors and guests. 12:13 Want more podcast reviews? Create tutorials for leaving podcast reviews on apps. 13:11 This will help you get more podcast reviews on specific podcasting platforms. 17:26 Easy-to-use 32-bit float recorder for backup. 19:46 Seek reviews to boost podcast ratings effectively. 23:07 Big Podcast shares stats on true crime. The Newsletter for Podcasters Big Podcast Insider - Weekly Podcasting Newsletter This episode of Build a Big Podcast is brought to you by Riverside ... Riverside is online recording software that makes it easy for podcasters to record studio-quality interviews from anywhere. Try it free and, if you like it, get 15% off any membership plan when you use the code BIGPODCAST. About this episode of Build a Big Podcast: This is the audio companion to Issue 170 of Big Podcast Insider. If you're interested in more info on what I talk about on this episode and also links, that's where to go. On this episode, I dive into where the money is made in podcasting. how to get more reviews (and subscribers) for your podcast, podcast hosting, and more. Big Podcast Insider is a weekly newsletter on podcasting. If you like the content of this episode, you can subscribe here – it's free and you can unsubscribe at any time with a single click. Want more help growing your podcast audience? Big Podcast Daily - Daily Podcasting Tips Big Podcast AMP (Audio Monetization Program)

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