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All right, so let's go over a few different tips on how you can grow your podcast audience.

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Now, there's really no magic formula.

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Ultimately, the best tip that I can give you is just it's just about creating quality content and doing

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it consistently.

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OK.

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Now, here's a few of them that might help you, though, so you can post about every new episode on

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your social media.

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Another one that you can do is leverage your current social media, following often the best way to

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start building and kind of get that snowball rolling with your audio podcast is simply to leverage social

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media or following that you might have.

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Do you have an email list?

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You have a blog?

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Do you have a following on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, whatever it is.

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Right.

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Do you have a following leverage that following and move it over to your podcasts.

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OK.

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The next thing would be to kneel down.

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I've already hit on this many, many times, but kneeling down is one of the easiest ways to completely

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lower your competition.

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If you're competing for a broad market, then you're basically going after everybody and if so, fact

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that you're going after nobody's niche down.

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You know who your target audience member is and you'll be able more so each or more easily excuse me,

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to kind of speak to them.

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And, you know, rank against other related podcasts for that.

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OK, so niche down literally one of the simplest things.

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Now you can go broader as you grow.

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But in the beginning, you pick a niche.

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Stick with it and create content surrounding that.

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That way when somebody that does find you, you know, finds you, they're gonna know.

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This podcast is for me.

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Now, don't just rely on the podcasting platform as well.

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Now I say this for a tip to grow on everyone.

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Right.

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People ask me, like, how do I grow my Instagram?

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Then category.

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I had a girl, Facebook page girl, my YouTube channel or whatever it is.

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Right.

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And the key here is don't just rely on that platform.

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You can grow your audience everywhere and move them over to everywhere.

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In this case, your podcast.

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Right.

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So if you go on, you know, post your audio content to Instagram with would like a funny video like

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attatched or something like that or or moving our talking head video or whatever you want to do.

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Right.

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Or also post your audio quality, your audio content to, you know, a Facebook page or something like

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that, whatever it is that you want to do.

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What I'm saying is you don't just have to strictly grow organically on anchor.

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You can grow everywhere.

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And then funnel all that traffic into anchor.

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Right.

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So if you want to use, you know, and also posts across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, whatever it

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is, then also link to your anchor podcast where it's hosted.

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That will grow your audience a lot faster than just, you know, posting to anchor and hoping that people

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find you.

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You can also this is one of the best tips, you know, always network and always kind of, you know,

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collab if you can.

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So you can appear as a guest on other podcasts and other channels and cross promote and get cross exposure.

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So one of the easiest ways to do that is simply figure out what you have an expertise in, figure out

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who has a podcast on that, because everybody is always looking for content, new ideas and people to

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interview and then offer to be a guest.

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And explain why you'd be a good host.

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Right.

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What value can you bring to their audience and to their podcast?

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That's one of the easiest ways to help in other ways to reach out to another show and cross promote

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them.

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Right.

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So that's B.S..

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I'm not with them.

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So cross promote them.

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Another easy way that we've covered before is, you know, do Q and A's for people like we're even interview

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somebody that already has that expertise.

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Right.

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That's an easy way to grow because then you're increasing the content value, OK, which is basically,

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you know, with the tip right here and the tip that I gave in the beginning, create engaging and interesting

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content.

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One of the best ways that you can do that and grow.

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And then obviously you want to do that consistently.

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Now, you can also post on relevant Facebook and Reddit groups and forums and stuff like that.

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There's literally a group on anything.

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So whether it's a podcasting forum to grow your podcasts where everyone supports each other or if it's

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like a Facebook group that's related to the niche that you're creating a podcast on.

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That's an easy idea.

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Also, depending on the platform, you can reply to comments.

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You can also ask listeners to review your podcast, Five Stars.

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And one of the easiest ways that people grow, you know, if you have the funds or if you have a cool

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idea to do, if you have an expertise in, for example, like let's say you're doing a marketing podcast,

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you can give a free consulting call away and then you're just giving your time and not your money.

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Something like that.

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But you can do a giveaway.

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OK.

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So, for example, like say like, hey, I'd really appreciate it if you guys went and reviewed it.

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And for everybody that reviews it, you know, I'm going to pick one lucky winner.

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One of the five star reviews at the end of the month and give that person, you know, X whatever it

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is that you want to give away.

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So those are just some, you know, really easy ideas to grow your podcasts.

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There's a lot of different ways.

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But ultimately, no matter what you do, there's no magic pill.

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It's ultimately about creating an engaging and interesting content and doing it consistently.