50 Ideas To Grow Your Podcast

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1. Post consistently every week

2. Chop up your episode into short-form clips

3. Ask for feedback

4. Show the behind-the-scenes process of creating an episode

5. Look up the last 10 things you purchased and reach out to the people who created them

6. Review your old interviews

7. Ask yourself: how can I be more useful?

8. Post consistently where the attention is (TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram).

9. Find the podcaster you want to be like. Study what they did when they were at your stage.

10. Ask someone who enjoys the podcast: what, in particular, do they enjoy about it?

11. Ask yourself: how am I producing something that nobody else could create?

12. Get more reviews on Spotify

13. Upgrade your equipment

14. Add timestamps

15. Move to a location where there is a high density of people you want to talk to

16. Spend an extra hour researching

17. Tweet out a list of your dream guests

18. Text a podcast episode to 10 friends

19. Study your best-performing episodes and figure out how to make a series or do the ones that perform the best, again

20. Become a more interesting person

21. Start posting on a new channel

22. Check your best-performing posts on an old channel

23. Watch or listen to an episode with someone who represents your ideal listener

24. Review a transcript of your show

25. Talk to another podcast at your level/size/episode

26. Coach someone who is behind you

27. Ask for help from someone who has a bigger show than you

28. Tell 10 people your 5 dream guests

29. Make friends with 10 other podcasts

30. Outsource some parts you hate

31. Improve the video

32. Improve the audio

33. Study an interview from a top-podcaster

34. Improve thumbnails

35. Reach out to 3 high-profile potential guests

36. Come up with at least 10 titles for every episode

37. Add show notes

38. Make it as easy as possible for yourself to keep going

39. Send your new episode to 100 people personally (by text)

40. Whenever you find something interesting about someone, jot it down in your notes in the event you ever interview them

41. When people tell you they enjoy the show, get them to rate it on Spotify

42. Ask guests who they’d like to see on your show

43. Take an improv class

44. Do standup comedy

45. Take a cold shower before recording

46. Be on the lookout for interesting stories or people throughout your day

47. Let someone know when they’ve been mentioned on your podcast

48. Publish your most important takeaways from an episode

49. Put your episode in Auphonic to level out the audio

50. Meditate