Successful Podcasting can mean so many things to so many different people, but I think we can all agree that having unique content, a strong and growing audience, and/or perhaps some income for your efforts are generally pillars of success. And don’t forget fun! You should love what you are doing ❤
We’d love to help you create your most successful and meaningful podcast experience in 2023! Here are some incredibly helpful resources to make sure that you meet next year’s podcasting goals.
Just starting a podcast? Not to worry, we have resources for you, too!
Planning your podcast
You need to plan a podcasting strategy — you cannot get away from it. Plan and create goals for yourself. To this end, we have taken the last quarter of 2022 to focus on providing you the step-by-step resources you need to be successful in 2023.
- Podcast Plan — Look Back to Move Forward in 2023
- Podcast Planning — What’s left to do in 2022?
- Podcast Planning 2023 — Phase 1, What If …
- Podcast Planning 2023 — Phase 2, Growth & Goals
- Podcast Planning 2023 — Phase 3, Podcast Campaigns
- Breakthroughs In Podcasting Success
Use these blogs and this video to put your plan to paper, so you can effectively evaluate and adjust as needed while progressing throughout the year.
You can use those blog posts during the year as well! You can do bi-yearly reviews or quarterly reviews to see your progress.
Marketing and promotion
Without an audience, most podcasting goals are untenable. Your listeners are what make your podcast. Making sure that in your podcast strategy you focus on audience growth tactics and/or general podcast awareness, will do wonders for cultivating steady growth of your show.
Here are a few select resources that will help you connect with your podcasting community and help to grow your audience by optimizing some tried and true podcasting best practices as well as thinking outside of the box to help you develop outreach practices that work for you.
- How to Get Featured on Apple Podcasts
- Tips for attending a podcast conference
- Use Tiktok To Grow Your Podcast!
Monetization
We know that creators are always actively looking for ways to make money with their content. There are many ways to monetize your content and tons of best practices to make sure that what you choose to do actually makes you money. Following are some blogs and videos we published this year to help you expand your thoughts around how to establish revenue from your podcast at all levels.
- Make Money with a Podcast Subscription
- Make Money Podcasting Today
- Podcasting as a Business Growth Strategy
- Sustaining Your Podcast
- Podcast Monetization — Niche Content with Kate Erickson
Tech Tips
We recognize that starting a podcast without any prior experience or support from a production team can be quite overwhelming. Not just learning the basics of recording and editing a podcast, but also unfamiliar tech bits.
Whether you are just beginning or have some podcasting experience under your belt, the Libsyn YouTube channel is a great place to get some hands-on learning or get help with a few inside tech tricks. Here are some of our favorites:
- Podcast Audio Editing Made Easy with Libsyn’s Brian Cottington
- Mic Basics — How To Make Your Voice Sound Amazing!
- How to Think about Your Podcast Cover Art Design
- Podcast Microphone Upgrades & Options
Just Getting Started?
Maybe 2023 is the year you earmarked for starting your podcast. We’ve got you. Check out these videos that not only make your launch successful but make the pre-launch way less expensive — less than $100! Note: the 2022 video is still timely and relevant!
- The New 2022 Podcast Launch — What You Need to Know
- Learn How to Start a Podcast for Under 100 Bucks Total!
Clearly, when it comes to successful podcasting, learning is the common facet in all areas. With technology constantly changing, it can’t hurt to stay up on the latest, and that’s what Libsyn brings to the party. Think of us as your resource for all things podcasting and the place where successful podcasting is a possibility for everyone.
Make sure that you follow us on:
We share some highly helpful and actionable easy tips and workflows to keep you up to date on how to do this podcasting thing better.
Follow and listen to The Feed: The Official Libsyn podcast! Rob and I have been podcasting since 2013 and pride ourselves on bringing the latest and greatest of the moment podcasting industry analysis, insight, and best practices – which includes podcasting stats!
And, subscribe to our YouTube channel! We have some powerful live events with top talent in the podcasting space to make sure that you get timely and relevant information you can apply to your podcast TODAY.
Here’s to a successful new year … Keep Podcasting!
