Hey, what's going on?

Welcome to the Podcast Accelerator back from hiatus.

I am your host, Mr.

Mark Asquith, co-founder of Captivate.fm.

And in this short episode, I just want to give you a bit of a bonus look at

what is coming up here on the podcast accelerator as we ramp up to the first.

Proper episode dropping very, very shortly.

So if you've tuned into the, the, the episode that I previously put out

about why I took the hiatus and, and, and I think what Motivate motivated

me for, for coming back, you'll know that I wanted to do two things.

I wanted to stay focused on your podcast growth.

You know, what, what can we do collectively as Captivate, but

also collectively as an industry to help you to grow your podcast

because that's why we are here.

And in particular, it's why I.

I've brought this content back.

The podcast accelerator is one of the OG shows now, believe it or not,

it's one of the OG shows helping you with your podcast growth.

We've seen a lot of gurus pop up over the last year or two, um, who have got, you

know, um, varying experience in podcasting and, uh, looking to capitalize on, on

the booming industry that is podcasting by bringing out shows, uh, that, that

purport to help you to grow your podcast.

And I'm not saying they're good.

I'm not saying they're bad.

They're all subjective.

Of course, that is entirely up to you.

However, my focus is on action.

It's on about basically getting you to do things.

It's all about making sure that you know what you can do within

the boundaries of your timeframes.

And not feeling bad about not doing certain things.

I think that's a bit of a problem in the industry.

You know, if you don't adopt certain things, if you don't jump on certain

trends, if you don't do certain things, a lot of people will frankly make

you feel bad and, you know, make you feel like you're not a quote unquote.

Proper podcaster, which is of course absolute rubbish.

So I never wanna make you feel like that.

You know me, if you've listened to this show for the, for the hundreds of episodes

and all the thousands of episodes that I've done in the past, across the very

shows that I've done, you know, that I am very much about being honest with you.

I'm very much about being straight, talking.

I'm very, very, very much about cutting down on the hyperbole and

making sure that you know that.

It's all right not to do everything.

It's quite all right not to do everything.

So what does this mean for this podcast?

How does that manifest into content?

Well, as I mentioned on the previous coming out of hiatus episode, I'm,

I'm mixing things up a little bit.

I'm still gonna keep that red thread running through, which

is, of course actionable Straight talking podcast growth education.

And a lot of that will come from me.

You know, I'm still gonna do solo shows, I'm still gonna do solo episodes cuz

everything's changing and there's a lot of education to give and I'm still being

a marketer, I'm still being a podcaster.

So I've still got things to say.

I've still got things to, to, to discuss with you and to educate

you on and to help you with.

And obviously people ask me questions all the time, so of course

I wanna address those as well.

However, I am gonna bring on some fantastic guests to talk about some.

Particular topics that they might be a little bit closer to or they've got

more of a dedicated interest in, or, you know, they're just, they focus

on a lot more specifically than I do.

So I'm looking forward to, to bringing those guests to the,

they're all people that I know.

They're all people that are experts at what they do.

They're all people that if you're in the podcasting industry or if you are

even around the podcasting industry, then you're probably gonna know 'em.

So, Here's what's coming up.

All right, we're gonna talk to start about, we're gonna do actually

three episodes on monetization.

I'm really interested in helping you to monetize your podcast,

so we're gonna talk about.

Um, really how to use things like subscriptions and tipping and all

sorts of things like that, you know, the, the kinda listener support model.

Cause we get a lot of questions about that.

I'm gonna talk first and foremost from my perspective.

I'm gonna do an episode on, on, on, on, on my views on that and how to design

that kind of listener support experience.

Then I'm gonna talk to an expert, someone that's done this.

Well, alright, I'm gonna talk to an expert, someone that has done

this well about how to really harness that on a separate episode.

And then I'm gonna dig deep into really kind of scaling that and, and, and

going a bit deeper on, on the kind of how that model works and how you might

be able to help yourself to monetize fairly early on in your podcasting

journey using things like tipping and subscriptions and so on and so forth.

So I'm really looking forward.

To that bunch of episodes.

We've also got an episode coming up, uh, about YouTube.

We're actually gonna talk about YouTube's free to podcasting.

What that means for you that that landscape.

Um, when it comes to, you know, what does this mean for podcasting, the

medium, but what does it also mean for you, the day-to-day podcaster?

And joining me on that episode is gonna be a good friend of mine and

someone that is, uh, is basically close to every part of podcasting.

Right now is of course, Mr.

James Cridland, the founder and the editor of POD News.

So I'm looking forward to exploring YouTube's new podcasting toolkit with Mr.

Cridland, which is gonna be fascinating.

We are also gonna talk about.

About community and in particular, The state of community in podcasting.

And what I mean by that is like you creating a community for your podcast.

Cuz it used to be that you, you know, you'd have a podcast and you'd fire up a

Facebook group and that was it, you know?

But there are a lot of technical tools out there that will help with community and.

The attention spans that people have a very, very low in comparison

to what you might expect.

So how do you actually get people to engage?

What does community around your podcast look like, look like today?

What does it look like in 2023?

Because it is different to last year, the year before, and it's

probably gonna be different again over the next couple of years.

So that's a really important topic because I think without an audience

that is engaged, as you know, if you've listened to this show, You know you're

gonna struggle to do anything else.

Alright.

So that's really quite fascinating and I've also got what is quite

interesting for me that I'm looking forward to getting out.

Then an interview with me on my own show, reflecting on 10 years of podcasting.

An interview by my good friend, the founder of Pod Chat and Captivates.

Fantastic support and experience lead.

Mr.

Danny Brown, someone that loves podcasting just as much as I do,

and has got his finger firmly on the pulse of the podcasting industry,

very much from a creator perspective.

So he's actually interviewed me and he's, you know, we've talked about

the last 10 years in podcasting.

What I think about a few things, what I think of a few things that might happen

in the future, and just generally the industry, it's quite a nice opportunity.

Um, to be interviewed on my own podcast.

It's been a while since I've done this on my show, so I'm really looking

forward to getting that out to you.

It was a fantastic chat with Danny and I thank you my friend

Danny, for doing that as well.

So we've got a packed schedule.

I'm looking forward to getting just back into the swing of things with you

and I'm excited to get this content out to you, but I wanted to give you

a heads up on what was coming because I didn't want you just thinking

well, I'll wait till it comes out.

Marko.

You know, you've waited, you've been patient with me with the hiatus, and

I'm very, very grateful for that.

So I wanted to do my part just to let you know what you can expect

of the coming weeks and months.

So thank you so much for joining me.

I appreciate you.

I want you to look after yourself.

Keep on podcasting, keep sharing your voice.

Keep doing what you do.

Much love as ever.

Take it easy and just keep doing what you do.

All right?

Get your voice out there and keep on building that audience because it

matters to the people who follow you.