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It’s exciting and easy to create your podcast, just like so many other podcasters. However, if you look around, most of these home internet radio shows fizzle out after a few episodes. Here are some tips on how you can maintain your podcast so you can get more listeners and higher ad revenue opportunities.
Tip 1: Pick a topic narrow enough to be interesting, but broad enough to span multiple episodes.
It’s true that you can choose to talk about anything and everything, but that will limit your audience. Imagine what will happen if only certain episodes attract a few? People won’t subscribe to your podcast if only a couple of episodes are interesting.
So choose a niche topic. For example, how to speak Tagalog.
You can develop that niche topic into various sub niche topics. This way, you’ll have plenty of material for future episodes. For example, learn to speak Tagalog in the following situations: at school, in a hotel, in a restaurant, at the cinema, etc.
Tip 2: Ask your listeners for future episode topics.
In your podcast, provide a voicemail number and email address where your listeners can send their suggestions for future topics. They will appreciate the opportunity to be heard and will come up with a wealth of ideas. It will also make your podcast more fun to listen to if you greet your listeners by name and thank them for their suggestions.
Tip 3: Go out and interview people.
When you interact with other people, you will experience a new flow of ideas. Ask their permission first before recording your interview.
As a bonus, your podcast will provide a nicely varied listening experience because the ambient sounds of the interview location will help color your podcast: the bustle of a coffee shop, the notes of carnival music in the background, the roar of buses . while conducting his interview near a bus station.
When you bring a richer feel to your podcast, you also create that effect on yourself. So you are rejuvenated and inspired to continue creating more episodes, because new places and new people will fire up your creative juices.
So get out of your sterile computer room, meet up with friends, and get inspired. If you do all this, yours will be a podcast that not only grows, but also endures.
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