August 17, 2022
Podcasting for Beginners: How to Avoid these Podcast Mistakes
My podcast is the number one way that I grow my business and throughout my journey as a podcaster and podcast agency owner, I have encountered some podcast mistakes. Now, I am sharing these mistakes with you so you’ll know how to avoid them.
Ever since I started publishing podcast episodes every week, I’ve seen the growth and success it has brought to my business and I want others to learn and experience it too. I help you set up this amazing podcast so that you can grow your business with ease by showing up weekly on your podcast and just knowing that the content you’re putting out is going to land right.
Making mistakes is inevitable if you are new to podcasting and are still learning how to use it. Even experienced podcasters can make mistakes; it’s all a part of learning. Here are the three mistakes podcasters are making, that ultimately led them to quit and not get far in their podcasting journey.
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Podcast Mistake #1: Not Leveraging SEO
It means the keywords that you use to title your podcast title description and show notes. Those have to be very SEO rich and SEO friendly so that when somebody is looking for you on a podcast, they can find you because you were strategic about how you titled your podcast episode. So this is the number one thing that I see people make a mistake where they’ll make this amazing podcast episode, but then they’ll label it as something very elusive.
Podcast Mistake #2: People give up too quickly
The average episode for podcasters is 10 episodes meaning people quit after the tenth episode. I have been podcasting since May 15 of 2020. And my business is where it is now because I stayed consistent. When I was just starting, I only had 1000 downloads. And that’s not a lot of downloads, okay, that’s a very small amount of downloads for you to get during that period of time. But it didn’t quit. I just stayed the course. I kept going at it. And boom, at some point, my podcasts exploded! My podcast just took off, and then downloads started coming in very consistently, and my podcast just grew.
Podcast Mistake #3: People aim for perfection
Whether it’s because they want everything to be a certain way. and they’re creating hurdles for themselves. Or they’re watching way too many videos on YouTube, they’re just being super perfectionists and not making it happen.
People tend to make everything perfect and get stuck. The more you dig the internet, the more stuff you find and the more perfectionist you get. The beauty about this is that you get to start imperfectly and show up and just stressed that it’s gonna grow.
Another reason why podcasters quit is, that they get bored. The reason is, it takes a while to receive feedback. The podcast is a little bit passive
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