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Three Things You Need to Know to Produce A Successful Podcast in 2021
Everyone, welcome to my podcast.
Just kidding. If you’re still reading, you know that this is not a podcast but, in fact, a Blog, and with a cheesy introduction.
Podcasting has been around for over a decade. It didn’t hit any traction until about 4 or 5 years ago, but it’s grown faster than anyone could expect when it did. As of March 2021, there are 1,750,000 podcasts with over 43 million episodes published to the world. You can’t help to think, is it worth starting a podcast? Yes, you should. If you read my article on if blogging is dead (which has been around longer and has also had millions and millions more out there.) You know I’m going to say yes, it is still worth starting a podcast in 2021. But that’s not what this article is about. We don’t want to just start a podcast in 2021. We want it to be successful. We have to beat the other 1.75 million podcasts out there to the world, grow to the top, and ideally make a living off it. Whatever else your goal is for starting a podcast, let’s start to dive into what it takes to start a successful podcast.
Over the course of the last six months, I have decided to start a podcast production company. We are still in the beginning stages of producing the podcast shows and plan to release three shows within the next three months…