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Welcome everybody to podcast answers. That's right. We are a show that helps people start

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and grow their podcasts answering any podcasting questions along the way. So welcome back guys.

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It's been there's so much going on in podcasting right now. It's incredible. You know, there's

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lots of people starting video shows because the here that YouTube is going to be doing

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podcasting. That's not what we're talking about today though. We're going to be talking

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about how often should you produce an episode? How often should you put that episode out?

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So how often should you release a podcast episode?

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There's no rules in podcasting.

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You don't have to have a weekly show.

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You don't have to have a monthly show.

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You don't even need to have a yearly show.

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You could do an episode as often as you want or as little as you want.

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Now, depending on what you do is going to have an effect on how many listeners you have

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and how effective your podcast is.

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But with that being said, though, there are a few things that you should be considering

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when you are considering doing a podcast.

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So how long are your episodes?

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If they're three minutes in length, it's probably going to be okay if you want to do it really

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often.

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If you want to do it daily.

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daily shows are quick, dirty tips, just something that can get in and out within a few minutes.

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People can consume them on their drive to work really easily or when they're doing whatever

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because it literally takes 30 seconds or a minute or three minutes, however long your

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show is.

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But those short bite-sized shows are going to be a lot easier to produce if your shows

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are short.

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If you've got long shows, it may take a long time to produce and it take up a lot of your

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time.

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So you may want to consider doing those shows like weekly or bi-weekly.

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So the other thing you can consider too is what topics are you going to be covering?

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Is there enough of that topic to talk about an episode every week, every two weeks, every

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day?

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There may not be enough topics to talk about.

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Now in podcasting, there are a lot of things to talk about.

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So I'm doing this show about podcasting and there are lots of podcasting topics to talk

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about.

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I don't know that I could do a show daily, but there are people who do shows daily, but

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they're more talking about the podcasting news.

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So you need to decide if there's enough topics to talk about.

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I don't think I could do this show daily for several reasons, but mainly because there's

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There's not enough necessarily to talk about every day to put an episode out.

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And I don't think I could condense this down into 30 seconds.

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My shows, this episode, these shows are not very long.

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They know 10 minutes, 14 minutes, 20 minutes, but they're not, they're not super long.

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But I don't know that, I don't know that there's enough topics to cover every day to

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do a full episode about it for me.

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So I chose to do mine weekly because I want to do it weekly.

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Lots of shows come out weekly because people build you into their schedule.

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But another thing to consider is how long does it take you to produce the show?

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If it's going to take you a long time to produce the show, you're going to probably burn out

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because you're doing it too often.

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So one of the things to consider is how long does it take you to produce that show?

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If you have a show that's two hours long and you're just talking and talking and talking,

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but then you can immediately put it out because you're not doing any episode, you're not doing

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any artwork, you're not doing any editing like that, those can be easier to produce,

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but you have to kind of decide how you want your show to produce.

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And if you can produce your show with the quality that you want, with little time to

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produce it. So for some people, like Adam Curry, for instance, he literally, I mean,

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he does a lot of free prep work as far as collecting the data he wants to talk

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about, but he gets on and he talks for a podcast, an hour and a half, two hours,

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three hours. That's a long time to talk, but he's also used to doing radio shows.

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Those guys talk a lot. Those guys are able to carry on topics from A to B to C,

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and people and they can do it, but he doesn't do a lot of post-production on it either.

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He gets it, gets it out.

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It's, you know, it literally hits his feed within, you know, 30 seconds or a minute after

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he's done recording.

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And so it's available right there, right then.

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So not only how long does it take you to produce, but can you get away for that amount of time

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too?

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So for my other podcast that I do, a podcast called Dudes and Dads Podcast, we do it every

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other week because it's a show that we actually, I have to leave the house. I go to a studio,

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a different studio to produce, to record it. And so for me, I've got to be away from my

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family. And so I didn't want to take a weekly time away from my family every week. So it's

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every other week recording for me because that's the way that it fits into my schedule.

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So for this show, I do it right in my house. I do it right at my desk. But my other show,

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Again, I do it in a different studio.

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I do it in front of, you know, I have to go away for that.

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And so I don't want to get that that affects my family time and I don't want it to affect

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my family time.

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So how long can you can you get away for the time that it takes to actually produce the

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show?

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And then again, if you do something too much, it can cause burnout, especially if you end

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up doing more and more things with it.

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You create episode art.

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You have to do more editing, you have to do more post production.

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Those things can cause you to burn out.

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If you don't want to burn out, don't produce an episode too quickly.

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Writing the content for podcast episodes can take a while.

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Those things can burn you out.

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You don't want to do that.

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Get yourself in a rhythm and make it so it works for you so that way it's not going to

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cause you burnout for that.

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You can continue doing your show for the long haul.

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One last thing to consider is too much content can be hard for your listeners to handle.

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I say that because you don't know how many things that they may have to be subscribed

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to.

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They may be subscribed to Joe Rogan and No Agenda and some shows that are going to be

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longer in length and they may not have the time to listen to two three hour

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shows or one three hour show. They just may not be able to get that down. I know

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I can't. I don't have the time to listen to a three hour podcast episode produced

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twice a week. But so you again you don't know what your listeners are gonna be

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listening to. You don't know what else they're listening to but just have to

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kind of keep that in consideration that too much content can be hard for your

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listeners and they may end up every time they see your episode just deleting the episode

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because they don't have time for it this week. They don't have time for it this week. They

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slide. They slide and delete your episode. But then the next thing you know, they're

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unsubscribing because they've slid to delete your episode four times now. They've not listened

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to it four times because you're producing content too much. So again, that's something

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just to consider when you're deciding how often you should do your episodes. But the

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The main important thing is, no matter what you decide, be consistent with it.

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You don't want to one week put out three episodes, the next week you skip, and then you do one

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episode, and then you skip three weeks, and then you do another episode.

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It is okay to take a break.

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Let me say that right now.

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It is okay to take a break when podcasting, but you need to let your audience know that

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first and you need to have a defined time when you're coming back. So one, you need

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to let your audience know. Two, you need to have a predefined time that you're going

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to be coming back, that you're going to tell them that you're coming back. There are plenty

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of podcasters that I know that take breaks and some of them unexpectedly. And that's

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okay. But they usually let their audience know that they're going to be out for a while.

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And so their audience knows that there's not going to be an episode and the podcaster

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is coming back. So with that, there is just one more thing for me to tell you. What do

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