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This is the end. The end of the line for Profitcast. And though there might be no more developed road beyond this point, the journey is far from over. The journey of discovery, both into defining what it means to profit and in making an uber customizable model apply for a specific situation, is one that is always met with undeveloped terrain. No one model works perfectly for two people (or... it's just extremely unlikely). And so podcasters trailblaze as explorers did when settling in new places all over the world: when no road was paved, they made their own ruts. Read more... The post PC 110 | This Is The End appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to the penultimate episode of Profitcast! Before we close this chapter of the Profitcast journey, Brian sits down to chat with Lisa Woodruff, a professional organizer and host of Professional Organizer's Think Tank (P.O.T. Tank). Lisa's journey goes back 8 years and she shares the passion behind what she does and why she does it. Read more... The post PC 109 | Empathy and Transparency with Lisa Woodruff appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week we have two fantastic updates to share with you all, and some commentary, of course. Sit back and enjoy the wonderful wisdom of our two profit and success stories! Also, be sure you're signed up for The Real Brian show... because September 1 will come more quickly than you can even imagine. Read more... The post PC 108 | Profit and Success Part 3 appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

These Profit and Success Stories from previous guests on Profitcast have been like a colorful montage of the podcast’s run. I was thinking about montages I’ve seen recently… and whether they’ve been at a wedding or a birthday party or someone just taking a few minutes to show me a slideshow of their recent vacation, […] The post PC 107 | Profit and Success Stories Part 2 appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

It's a bittersweet installment of Profitcast this week. As excited as we all are for The Real Brian Show to begin and for Brian to let the Real Brian loose, there will be many things to miss about Profitcast. In the words of Geoffrey Chaucer, the late 14th Century poet who knew how to write about love and loss, "All good things must come to an end." (That's from Troilus and Criseyde if you're looking for some light summer reading.) Unlike the tragedies of our favorite dead poets and playwrights, the saga of The Real Brian will continue! This is real life, people. Read more... The post PC 106 | Profit and Success Stories Part 1 appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back from Podcast Movement! In this week's episode of Profitcast, Brian shares some stories and experiences from his time at Podcast Movement 2016, the biggest takeaways and what's next for The Real Brian Show. We'd love to hear about your experience and takeaways from PM16. Leave a comment or shoot Brian an email! Read more... The post PC 105 | Why Podcast Movement is Essential appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Who is your podcast really about? Is it about you? Is it about your listeners? This is the topic Brian tackles in this week's episode of Profitcast! Reminding us of Brian Ibbot's mantra, "Listeners come for the content and stay for the host," The Real Brian takes a closer look at what this shocking and outrageous statement, that our podcast is ALL about us, is really getting at! It seems that there is a healthy balance between acknowledging our listeners deserve respect and that our content should honor the reason they found us in the first place while also realizing that, ultimately, without us there would be no podcast. Read more... The post PC 104 | Your Podcast Is ALL About YOU appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Not long ago I came across a word math meme that simply said: Underestimating Time + Overestimating Capacity = Being Overwhelmed. Living in an on-the-go culture, as we do, underestimating time is such an easy thing to do. We think we have more than we do, we always need more than we have, and it never rolls over into the next month. If we were to do a study about why people do or do not listen to podcasts (or certain podcasts) or even why they would or would not buy into a product/service being offered, I'd hazard a guess that being overwhelmed with life is a top reason. "I've got too much going on to try that new thing." Or... "I know I have to spend a little money to make a little money, but I'm too overwhelmed with bills to even consider it." Read more... The post PC 103 | What Benefit Do You Offer? appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week's guest was particularly exciting for me because I've been listening to his show from the beginning. Marc Gunn of the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast joins the Real Brian to talk about the success he's seen in the last 10+ years around his very popular fan-supported podcast. Read more... The post PC 102 | Simplify and Focus with Marc Gunn appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Mindset. Mindset, mindset, mindset. Why do we keep coming back to this topic? Because it doesn't just matter, it is and can be pivotal in all our endeavors. This is more than positive thinking. Sometimes positive thinking is akin to the 19th century writer and philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky's observation of a white polar bear: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute" (1863). The stronger the focus is on trying to stay positive, the more annoying it becomes. Mindset isn't about a singular focus, it's about a manner of living, which Brian and Kate beautifully emphasize in this installment of Profitcast. Read more... The post PC 101 | Impacting People with Kate Erickson appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

As Brian and I were talking about what type of discussion would be useful concerning co-hosts, I thought about the incredible interviews he's had over the last 100 episodes of Profitcast and how many of them concern the importance of being prepared prior to podcast launch. While the scale of criticality between a podcast launch and an Apollo launch is almost incomparable, it does expose the fact that there will inevitably be things that go wrong after a launch, in spite of extensive preparation and checklists. Read more... The post PC 100 | Looking Back at 100 Episodes with Emilee O’Leary appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Author of 4-Hour Work Week, 4-Hour Body, and 4-Hour Chef, it was no surprise to anyone when Tim Ferriss's podcast took off after his April 2014 debut. And why shouldn't it? Established fan base, established author, calculable results; Tim raced to the top of Best Of iTunes lists in both 2014 and 2015, experienced extraordinary numbers for total downloads, and locks down interviews from the hottest names of the decade. Read more... The post PC 99 | How did Tim Ferriss Grow His Podcast? appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! This week, Brian gets to chat with Ryan Gray of The Premed Years Podcast and founder of Medical School HQ. Ryan is a USAF flight surgeon turned physician turned full time podcaster who spends his time collecting resources, interviewing students and doctors, and providing perspectives that help premed students in all walks of life. In addition to podcasts, Ryan also provides mock interview prep, one-on-one interview prep, and assistance with editing personal statements. He's developed quite the niche for himself and is seeing tremendous benefits from the considerable effort he's poured in to his venture. Anxious to hear where every surge of success came from? Better listen!Read more... The post PC 98 | Every Surge of Success Came from… with Ryan Gray appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! This week our guest is Yann Ilunga of the 360 Entrepreneur Podcast. Brian talks with Yann about his upcoming summit and gets the details on how you can do the same, if Yann's story strikes a chord with you! Read more... The post PC 97 | How to Do a Virtual Summit with Yann Ilunga appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

What happens when an entrepreneur takes a month off of working after going, and going full boar, for 15 years? Well, you’re about to find out! Brian is back from his sabbatical and has learned a lot. He gets honest, he gets real, and he gets under our skin. In a good way, of course. […] The post PC 96 | Why YOU Should Take a Sabbatical appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

As passion podcasters, we should be asking ourselves daily how bad do I want it? But we don't, do we? We get caught up in the go-go-go, we get tangled in the weeds, we get obsessed with the minutiae and forget about the big picture. Those are overlooked at a high-level, but there are lower-level aspects to the big picture that also go overlooked. This week's guest on Profticast is Amanda Bayerle, one-half of the How Bad Do I Want It? Podcast. Through Amanda, we are reminded of a very important aspect to rounding out a sustainable entrepreneur lifestyle. Read more... The post PC 95 | 16K Downloads in 6 weeks With Amanda Bayerle appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast, we're so glad you could join us on this day-after-tax-day in the United States! Typically, Tax Day (the day filing taxes is due) is April 15, but because the 15th was Emancepation Day, the day when we freed ourselves from the oppressive British and their inane tax regulations... Tax Day was moved to Monday the 18th. We can continue carrying out our patriotic duty of paying taxes to the man. Very important, very interesting stuff, I know. No, what is interesting is the guest Brian chats with this week! Colin Gray, of Podcraft, brings his world of business to Profitcast to talk with Brian about his experience and how applying some business techniques might come in useful while you're making decisions about your podcast. Read more... The post PC 94 | Glorious Tips For Your Podcast With Colin Gray appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

I want to talk about the lessons learned from Jordan Spieth and Danny Willet at the 2016 Masters Tournament and how in the world they relate to this episode of Profitcast! Brian has a lot of guests who talk about putting in a lot of hard work in order to seem like an overnight success; the true overnight success is a rare commodity, and something to neither hope or aim for in a realistic scenario. Managing our expectations going into a business venture means being prepared for a variety of possibilities, including for nothing to turn out the way you expect it to. The post PC 93 | Consistency and Action are KEY for Profit with Nadia Finer appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week on Profitcast, The Real Brian talks with Harry of The Rideshare Guy Blog and Podcast! Harry has a great story of transitioning from the life of an engineer for Boeing to a life of an Uber driver. That lifestyle change helped Harry to look beyond being a driver and start to see holes in available content and information for drivers, employed by such millions-of-dollars enterprises such as Uber and Lyft, and plug them with valuable resources. Now Harry and his team provides tips and strategies for drivers to earn more money by working smarter. Read more... The post PC 92 | 6 Figures a Year With a Podcast | With Harry Campbell appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

We've been told countless times that treating the symptoms, rather than the disease, will produce unpredictable results. Usually it won't produce the results we're hoping for, such as curing what ails us, but it may fool us into thinking we've solved the problem for a time. Read more... The post PC 91 | Stop Looking At the Symptoms appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! This week Brian goes solo, talking about a recent breakthrough he had that was long overdue. Since returning from Heroes & Villains Fan Fest in Chicago a couple weekends ago, Brian's been having some vocal chord issues. For a guy who's voice is strained he does a great job delivering his episode, but send him some happy thoughts anyway! We're all podcasters, we all can envision the panic that might come from losing our voice when our livelihood depends on it. Feel better, Brian! Read more... The post PC 90 | Unlocking Profit That’s Right in Front of You appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week, Profitcast is excited to welcome Erica Duran, of The Erica Duran Show (Freedom Based Luxury Lifestyle Design Radio)! The Real Brian and Erica talk about strategies to employ when taking your business completely online and how to seek a balance amongst your assets and your resources. We want you to see that there is so much waiting to be profited from and give you some parameters on how to achieve it. Read more... The post PC 89 | SO Much Profit and How to Achieve it with Erica Duran appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Our guest this week is no stranger to Profitcast! The Real Brian is joined by Profitcast's first official dedicated sponsor, Jodey Smith, to return to the theme from episode 84 - How To Connect With an Influencer. The topic of discussion this week is What's Holding You Back? The guys drill into the practical and psychological blockages we experience that hold us back from acting on what we know we need to do. Read more... The post PC 88 | What’s Holding You Back? appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week on Profitcast, The Real Brian recruites Rich from the Armchair Ninja Podcast to learn how his extreme hustle turned into fast profit. Careful research helped Rich target a niche that lacked a podcast community and fill a need. Through an intense anthropological immersion into that culture, Rich has found untapped potential nearly everywhere he looks. Read more... The post PC 87 | Extreme Hustle and Fast Profit with Rich, The Armchair Ninja appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week on Profitcast, The Real Brian reconnects with Jason Bryant whom we first spoke with in episode 33 - A Different Way to Monetize Your Podcast. Jason gives us an update on how his business of hosting podcasts for other organizations is going! Jason has seen much success in the last year and graciously offers up many of his observations from what he believes has made him successful. Read more... The post PC 86 | Podcast Hosting Business Update with Jason Bryant appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

So it's not really a math formula, per se, but it IS something I've been researching, observing, formulating, and then LIGHT-BULBING once I realized a commonality across all successful podcasters and entrepreneurs! Read more... The post PC 85 | THE Formula for Profit appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

People skills are one of the most vital aspects to any business. Unless you are an assassin who receives targets via encrypted codes and payments via automatic transfers, dealing with people is just part of the way the world goes round. However, there are people skills, and then there are influencer skills, and this week's Profitcast topic is cenetered around finding and engaging influencers. Read more... The post PC 84 | How to Connect with an Influencer appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week on Profitcast we welcome Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness! In spite of the fact Steve does not utilize the audio medium in his business, he is the perfect example of how to find success by following a passion, niching down, and going hard after something you believe in. Nerd Fitness was conceived in 2009 after Steve made every training mistake known to man and saw zero return for his efforts. As both a guy who wanted to be healthy and a self-proclaimed uber nerd, he wanted a means for others like him to achieve their fitness goals without being intimidated by the culture common to many gyms and fitness centers. Read more... The post PC 83 | Level Up Your Life and Podcast with Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

We are nearly 1/12th of the way through the Year of Profit, still well inside Q1 of 2016, but it's never too late to set goals. And that's what we're focusing on this week... setting goals. The Real Brian and John Lee Dumas team up to talk about John's upcoming Freedom Journal release (see links below) and how we can ALL rock a goal in 100 days. Read more... The post PC 82 | ROCK Your #1 Goal in 100 Days with John Lee Dumas appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! We’re excited to share this installment of the podcast with you because it features Profitcast’s very first sponsor, Jodey Smith! Since we leave no rocks unturned here at Profitcast, Brian decided than rather just announcing a new, and a first, sponsor, that he’d actually bring Jodey on to discuss the how and why and what for prompting him to come alongside Brian financially. We get inside the mind of a sponsor this week and hope it will encourage you on both sides of the coin, to both consider supporting a podcast financially and also to think about partnership in a different way. Read more... The post PC 81 | Inside the Mind of a Sponsor with Jodey Smith appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Mastering a craft is a lifelong journey, a journey we welcome here at Profitcast with open arms! While most professions and career paths have varying degrees of mastery, entrepreneurs and creative types often have a more difficult time qualifying mastery due to the often subjective nature of our skills and the impact society has on the value of those skills. Trades like operating a switchboard or doing data entry or door-to-door sales are outdated, but the core concepts of those trades are not. Skills like thinking on your feet, attention to detail, and interpersonal communication are prevalent in these outdated jobs that can be honed and applied elsewhere once a trade becomes irrelevant. But when we’ve managed to convince ourselves that the trade we once thrived in, and is now deprecated, was our only means of maintaining a livelihood, we've fallen into a poverty mindset. Read more... The post PC 80 | 3 CRITICAL things to MASTER with Dave Jackson appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

As podcasters, keeping our mouths closed seems counterintuitive. How can keeping silent help me when my hobby/livelihood/passion revolves around people listening to what I have to say? I think Brian gets it right in this episode! Sometimes an episode just isn’t worth releasing. And it’s not because you are worthless or you never have something worthwhile to say, but that sometimes... one day, one recording, or one moment moment, whatever intention you had just didn’t come together as expected. Read more... The post PC 79 | Sometimes An Episode Just Isn’t Worth Releasing appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Holy plugin toy box, Batman! According to WordPress.org, right now there are 42,080 plugins. Sometimes, numbers like that can be intimidating, but I like to think of it similar to online dating. There is a very large pool of individuals who are all registered at a specific service, and yet only a few at any […] The post PC 78 | Essential WordPress Plugins for Your Podcast with John Overall appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

"Nothing says Christmas like Die Hard." Hashtag Overhead on Profitcast. It's appropriate, as this is the week of Christmas. A very Merry Christmas from Brian and myself, and to whichever holiday you observe this time of year: [insert celebratory salutation]! Thank you for joining us this week on Profitcast as The Real Brian chats up Paul Sating, of The Q and Atheist Apocalypse, who offers up advice to leverage your community, talks about his process in re-branding, and what a good old mirror-check did for him! Read more... The post PC 77 | How To Leverage Your Community with Paul Sating appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

It is mid-December, here in real time as I write this blog post. I live and work in Minneapolis, MN, and I have for most of my nearly three decades of life. I have seen winters with the absolute worst snowstorms, I have been stuck in countless traffic jams originating from inadequate plowing and heavy […] The post PC 76 | Breaking all the “Rules” to SUCCESS with Glenn the Geek appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

In the couple weeks since attending Heroes & Villains Fan Fest (HVFF) in San Jose, CA, I've shared a couple small stories about our experience at this con, but Brian made my job super easy this week because now I have the chance to share pictures and tell even more stories about that weekend. Half of what makes conventions so much fun for me, a modestly well-adjusted introvert, are the people I get to share the experience with. Being able to share this experience with Brian, and his wife Sarah, was so much fun; plus we got to hang out with a listener of Arrow Squad and Jason Cabassi, so I hardly thought about the fact that I was sharing air with tens of thousands of people. Read more... The post PC 75 | How Passion Met Profit appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Tom Woods, of the appropriately titled The Tom Woods Show, is an Ivy League educated political analyst, author and podcaster. In Tom’s situation, the podcast was not his original brainchild as we are most often accustomed to hearing about on Profitcast. The podcast came after Tom worked his butt off to build up his reputation as a leader in free-market thought and libertarian philosophy, politics and economics. The podcast came after he’d authored 11 books. But it did come, and for the last two plus years he’s put out 5 shows a week, every week, interviewing a vast array of political faces and analysts. Read more... The post PC 74 | How to Grow and Monetize Your Podcast with Tom Woods appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

To our American listeners, Happy Thanksgiving! To our non-American listeners, we are so thankful for you and the support you provide simply by listening and participating in the Profitcast community. Thankfulness is a hot topic this week in the States, and even though Brian has been reminding us to be thankful on a daily basis, because it’s a good and healthy practice, it’s always incredibly meaningful to me when everyone in this country takes an entire day to celebrate being thankful. Many American movies centered around the holidays like to almost glorify the troubled or comedic nature of family gatherings over Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s represented as the only times of the year when all the family gets together; when the mom and dad with the five homeschooled kids drive to the East Coast where their kids are subsequently exposed to the wild and unbridled nature of the unsupervised public school children of the 80-hour work week brother and sister-in-law. Chaos ensues, but somehow they manage to come full circle so that a moral conclusion can be had by the 90 minute mark, leaving enough time for non-ironic hilarity to ensue. Read more... The post PC 73 | How to Work for $5,000 Per Hour with Rob Slee appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Just start. Do not give up. It's a long journey, you can't give up so easily. These are just a few wise words from Nick Seuberling of the Cincy Jungle Podcast! Nick has been podcasting about football, and sports, since 2005. He's going to talk to us about the power of podcasting live and tell us his unique story of trial and error. Trial and error might not be quite the right way to state the journey Nick has been on, as "error" carries a much harsher connotation than I'd prefer to attribute to his experiences. But through the Profitcast lens I think it works for one big reason: we each have in our own minds this idea of what profiting with our podcast means, so we try one thing and when it doesn't pan out we try another, and another. Nick started broad and gradually narrowed his niche down to what he now considers success and profit. Read more... The post PC 72 | The Power of Podcasting LIVE with Nick Seuberling appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! If this is your first time with us: Welcome! This is a weekly podcast dedicated to the multidimensional study of profiting through podcasting. Whether it’s learning from other podcasters who have come before us, chatting with podcasters possessing certain expertise, or diving into some of the grainier details, we look at it all as vital to truly profiting through podcasting. As a community, and as individuals, we consider ourselves to be passion podcasters, because we love what we do and we do what we love. This week we’re in some of the grainier details of a very large picture. To demonstrate the importance of taking the time to review and study this aspect of podcasting, I would like to use the example of Georges Seurat. You may best know this artist by his famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884). Click on the photograph to see the larger image, because this is one of those paintings where getting up close is just as important as taking a step back. Read more... The post PC 71 | 5 Tips to Grow Your Audience appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

One of the most overused phrases from classic film is from Field of Dreams (1989): "If you build it, he will come." It is whispered to Kevin Costner's character Ray at the beginning of the film when he's walking through the cornfield on his farm. In a way similar to Noah of the Bible, Ray acts on the instruction from this mysterious voice in spite of the ridicule he receives and the outcome is unlike anything anyone has ever seen. Have you ever met someone who just seems made to do what they do? I'm sure many of you believe that podcasting is your "calling". Maybe you heard a mysterious voice that said, "If you talk about this and publish it on the internet, they will come." I'm not here to judge that! What I am here to do is tell you that building something is only half the story. Read more... The post PC 70 | Go To Where Your Listeners Are with Danny Pena appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome to Profitcast! Whether this is your first time trolling the site or you are a regular listener, we are so happy you found us and hope to provide some valuable and entertaining material for you to chew on. This week, The Real Brian is joined by Jessica Kupferman of She Podcasts and of the more recent Moneycast, which, as it might sound, is a venture dedicated to helping people understand methods of making money through podcasting. To hear the full story of how Moneycast came about, and Jessica’s discovery shortly thereafter of Profitcast, you’re going to have to listen to the episode. Brian and Jessica have their own takeaways, and they are good takeaways, having to do with looking beyond the numbers and selling your podcast as a product. Several weeks ago, Brian reported some findings he compiled after speaking with a range of potential sponsors and essentially came away believing that in order to make anything work out, he would need 100,000 downloads per episode or more! Jessica challenges this in a very unique way and re-opens the door to an avenue that seemed to have no traction. Read more... The post PC 69 | Make Money with a Podcast PLATFORM with Jessica Kupferman appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

To the loyal listeners of the Audiobooks.com Podcast, we get an extra dose this week as Brian brings his co-host, Addy Saucedo, in on this episode of Profitcast! I’m a huge fan of these two together and you are definitely in for a treat. We get a great conversation that covers what Addy is up to and what her passion is, the limitations of imitation, and a tease into what Addy and Brian are working on together. Read more... The post PC 68 | Leave Your Listeners Wanting MORE with Addy Saucedo appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! In this week's podcast, Brian drops some observations he's been making about the top podcasters and performers. It is his mission, after all, to discern what it is that sets them apart from everyone else. What are the people at the top doing to succeed? We've established by now that it's difficult to replicate the success of other podcasters. We can follow the same steps and make the same choices, but the chance of seeing the same return is very slim. That said, it is still worth knowing what they've done to put it into context and glean insight in that way. Brian brings up the important fact that many successful podcasters managed to become the first in their topic or niche, and frankly that is hard to do still at this point in the industry. However, the great fact about life is that we all, as individuals, are unique! Even if we can't be first, it is still possible to find that niche that gives us the same opportunities as being first did for others before us. That is largely the theme that Brian follows in this podcast: how to think about your approach, how to think about your style, your uniqueness, and catering to those elements by being the youest you!Read more... The post PC 67 | What Top Podcasters and Performers Do To Succeed appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

What time is it? Tool time! Fans of the classic television show, Home Improvement, still say this when asked what time it is. I still say it. Sometimes people who never have seen the show say it. Tool Time with Tim the Toolman Taylor was the alliteration of my childhood. The premise of Tim's reality show, Tool Time, is a great parallel for the vast array of information Brian and Harry discuss on this week's Profitcast. Having abundance with your podcast harkens back to weeks past when we've discussed similar topics, such as the good-cheap-quick ideal, the you've-got-to-give-to-receive mentality, and in general, the focus on community and building relationships. This discussion is very important because it covers an area that we don't touch on a lot, and that is the establishment of your tool bench. Read more... The post PC 66 | Having ABUNDANCE With Your Podcast With Harry Duran appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

I read The Alchemist for the first time only a couple weeks ago. The premise of this novel, originally published in 1988, is astounding and has one of those perpetually relevant themes about pursuing dreams (or treasures, depending on your interpretation). I’ll try to briefly describe plot without either giving anything away or failing to do it justice. Santiago, the protagonist, attended seminary as a boy but chose instead to become a shepherd so that he could travel. One night he has a dream about seeking treasure and it initiates his journey to Egypt, to see the pyramids, in search of this treasure. He demonstrates a healthy balance of curiosity and caution, but soon realizes that caution is a bigger threat to his happiness than taking a risk. Read more... The post PC 65 | Is This Holding You Back From Success? appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Last week Brian got nerdy about DragonCon so that he could relate the importance of building a community. This week, Brian gets nerdy about business with very special guest Tom Schwab. It's not purely about business, mind you, but as starting, growing, and maintaining a podcast is very much a business venture, many of the same principles can be applied as we consider the various options available to us in marketing. One of the most disheartening facts to hear about is how little time people spend reading in lieu of audio or visual resources. It's not an exclusive fact, as I am likely one of few people my age who prefer holding a local newspaper in my hands over a global, glowing newspaper in the palm of my hand, but it’s foolish to ignore the fact that listening is the preferred method of information consumption. This isn’t to say blogging isn’t useful, but everything does have its place. Read more... The post PC 64 | How to Double Your Growth By Becoming a Podcast Guest appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Nerd alert! No, not you. Well, maybe not you. Brian let's his nerd flag fly in this episode as he recaps some of his experiences at DragonCon 2015, but there is undoubtedly something for everyone. Whether you're a nerd of the DragonCon variety, or simply a nerd, or maybe you don't consider yourself a nerd at all (in which case, I must ask, why not? It's all the rage), Brian touches on some very critical points that have to do with every podcaster, regardless of your affiliation with nerdery. I've been podcasting for only a couple years. For any who are unaware, I was actually mentored in a pretty remarkable way (the story of that journey can be found here) and I've grown and expanded my experience with several different co-hosts since my debut with Darrell Darnell on the TV Talk network. I never did, and still really don't, consider speaking to be my forte. I like the written word, there is something about sitting with a pen in my hand or a keyboard beneath my fingers that finds words quicker and easier than trying to speak them aloud. Because of this, I didn't really think of myself as a "passion podcaster". As I listen to the stories of the guests Brian has on the show and hear the successes of fellow listeners of Profitcast, I point at them and go: there is a passion podcaster. Read more... The post PC 63 | What My Co-Host and Listeners Taught ME About Profiting appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

What? What is essential to podcasting? That's why you're here, right? You want to know how to profit with your podcast. Let me share a secret with you: even magic potions have recipes. That's right! Love Potion No. 9 is a recipe. It might smell like turpentine and look like Indian ink, but Madame Ruth mixed it up right there in the sink. The road to profiting is a recipe, and everybody's recipe is a little bit different. Luckily, creatively combining the various ingredients of a podcast is far less worrisome than creative cooking. In fact, it's much less stressful, in my own opinion. Following recipes can be difficult; maybe you don't have all the ingredients and have to hunt down substitutes, maybe you don't have a utensil required, maybe you don't understand what the recipe means exactly. Take, for example, this recipe from my mother (to the right). I was looking for my Nana's incredibly yummy roll recipe in my mom's recipe box and found this. I quickly took a picture of this notecard with my phone, put the box back where I found it, and left my parents' house without actually reading it. Read more... The post PC 62 | This is ESSENTIAL to Profiting! appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

"I deep early, man!" The soon to be immortalized words of Andrew Alliance, this week's Profitcast spotlight and all around excellent human being. What an episode! Andrew and The Real Brian get real in this week's episode, talking about building relationships as the key to growing a meaningful audience. The correlation between building relationships and growing a podcast audience has come up a few times on Profitcast. The concept itself certainly isn't anything new, but the lessons and insight we get from the various perspectives each time it does come up is incredibly humbling and grounding. Numbers aren't everything, slowly sponsors will begin to see that, but sometimes, in our podcasting heads, we still don't fully understand what that means. When we look at our numbers and see them dip, or see them plateau, or compare them with podcast audience numbers similar to our own, we don't think of the individuals who make up those numbers. We only see the number. And that's dangerous. Read more... The post PC 61 | The Importance of Asking and Building a Relationship with Andrew Alliance appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Every season of life presents knew challenges which require us to assess and recalibrate our lives to accommodate for its changes. In the midst of a few things that remain consistent, like nourishing ourselves and getting sleep, the activities of various sizes that fill the rest of our 24 hour days are almost never consistent. As a person who loves consistency, the minute changes in scheduling can often drive me nuts. I'm the kind of person who will give someone several days notice when I want to make plans. My flaw, in this regard at least, is that I expect the same out of other people as well. I don't like last minute changes to plans and it's hard for me to adjust when something new is sprung on me. This has been something I've acknowledged, however, and am working on because, more than anything, I get this distinct feeling of selfishness every time I get frustrated by spontaneous changes in plans. In my head, I see that the other person didn't care enough about me and my time to give me more notice; very rarely do I stop to think about what might be going on in that person's life to force them to change plans on me. Read more... The post PC 60 | If You Want to Profit, Do This! appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.