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Generalist podcasts, that's really broad topics like I'm doing a podcast about business.

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They don't do well because they're trying to appeal to everyone, super wide audience, and it's not really

clear what you're offering.

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A podcast that's about business is not really clear to the listener about what topics are actually going to

be covered, if it's relevant, or if it's going to be like so high level,

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big picture that I'm not going to be able to apply what I learned from that to the thing that I'm doing today.

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And when we niche down, like it really granular, I'm pointing to myself because I do an improv how-to

podcast that's related to cognitive brain stuff.

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The people like us that do really niche down topics, we're worried about excluding too many people from our

potential audience.

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In both cases, we're wondering how are we going to compete with all the other podcasts? What's the better

way to go? Now, the problem is if you go to that really pretty wide topic, like I'm doing a podcast about

business, or say if I went really wide with my improv podcast and I made it about anything to do with comedy

from movies to stand up, your actual competitors are going to be a huge number in that wide category.

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is not being found at all. So if your podcast is about something very specific, people have a chance of

finding you and then you have a chance at gaining an audience. Like when somebody has a specific problem,

they're going to search for a specific solution. Like you want to think about these kind of keywords,

basically, if you're developing your show or a content plan. And whatever those keywords are can

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the content pillars for you to focus on for your series or your show.

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And then you have the opportunity to become like just the obvious choice to help somebody with a specific

problem.

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Building an audience this way means that they're going to care a lot more about the things that you say.

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You're not going to have this wide appeal to everybody for sure,

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But you're going to appeal to that smaller number of people who actually care about what you're putting out

there. And you can always branch out a bit down the road. I'm Jen DeHaan, and this is the Credibility Minute.

Find more episodes and get in touch with me at stereoforest.com slash minute.