Episode Summary
Podcasts have become more popular with brands in the last few years. Companies use podcasts as a way to reach their audience on a different channel. By providing audio content, you can share information with customers and they can consume content while doing other things (walking their dog, washing dishes, etc.). But a podcast is more than just an audio channel. It’s a powerful medium for tech companies and can fuel your entire content marketing strategy.
In this episode, Tristan Pelligrino recently joined Anatolii Ulitovsky’s live video series to talk about the power of podcasting. In addition, they explored different podcast strategies and discussed the most helpful ways to grow your show.
Guest Profile
Name: Tristan Pelligrino
What he does: He’s the Co-Founder of Motion
Company: Motion
Noteworthy: Tristan is the co-host of the Recorded Content podcast
Key Insights
- Podcasting is about building relationships: Your podcast is not just a piece of audio content that you simply upload to a streaming platform and leave as is. It’s so much more than that. Your podcast should be about relationships, Tristan explains. When you’re asking me about where do you start with a podcast, I think the first thing is to really understand what a podcast can be today. It’s more than this audio file that you put out on Buzzsprout or Anchor or whatever podcasting hosting platform that you select. A podcast is really about relationships like you just talked about. That’s one of the top three things that you selected there and it really unlocks a lot of other content.
- Always deliver on your promise: One of the prerequisites to success is always delivering on your promises, Tristan explains. I think the biggest way to keep someone interested in your show or your particular episode is to deliver on the promise. So let’s say you have a podcast episode title or you have something in the intro. You are really the entire episode you’re trying to fulfill that first thing that you set out to do. And that’s why a lot of people talk about it as a hook or some cold open, something that draws interest or that early connection with your audience is kind of that gateway to their attention but then the entire time, the entire episode you’re just always connecting back to that beginning piece.
- Play to your strengths: Instead of being laser-focused on your weaknesses, try another tactic. Focus on your strengths and play them up, Tristan says. When it comes to differentiation, perhaps as a podcast host or creating differentiation with your show in general, I think the first thing is to understand that you as a person or a podcast host, you are unique just as yourself and a lot of advice that you see out there is to really try to improve your weaknesses. But when it comes to maybe creating content, maybe flip it the other way. Why don’t you focus on the strengths that you have as a content creator or as a person, as a marketer? And why don’t you double down on what you’re really strong at? And that’s probably the direction that I would recommend.
Episode Highlights
Keep your call-to-action simple
Try to make it simple, make it very direct and clearly state what they’re going to get out of that call-to-action. And that typically is the best way that we try to take that from a CTA standpoint with podcasts.
Grow your show through collaborations
The first thing that you can do is focus on the collaborations, the folks that you bring on as guests. That is one way right there that you can grow your show just by capitalizing on other audiences. So Anatolii, right now I’m on your show and I would love to take the content that we’re creating here and use it in a lot of different ways. That is going to help you get visibility into a new audience, I’m assuming. So that’s just one piece of it there, trying to create those co-marketing opportunities that you have just through the natural conversations that you’re creating through a podcast.
Focus on podcast SEO
If you have very clear titles and you optimize your descriptions, you’re very clear with your show name and the summary that is attached to your show name, all those things can really contribute to helping find your podcast episodes on sites like Listen Notes or in the podcast apps. So that’s one thing, just low-hanging fruit is to answer those questions and maybe use a keyword strategy in some places.
Practice your podcasting skills
The best way I think is to maybe start a podcast without actually launching one. Maybe build some of those skills that are required to be a good podcaster. For years I was behind the camera. I did a lot of documentary-style content. So I interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people before I ever even did a podcast episode and I’m still working on interviewing techniques and crafting questions and it’s just a lot of fun for me. But I think if you’re going to start or you have a goal of starting a show, start working on some of those things to build some of those skills and figure out maybe what you want to focus on initially.
