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Mark: Hey, what's going on? Welcome to the Podcast Accelerator back from hiatus.

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I am your host, Mr. Mark Asquith, co-founder of Captivate.fm.

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

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

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Proper episode dropping very, very shortly.

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

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

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

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I wanted to stay focused on your podcast growth. You know, what, what can we do collectively as Captivate, but

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

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because that's why we are here. And in particular, it's why I.

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I've brought this content back. The podcast accelerator is one of the OG shows now, believe it or not,

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

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

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

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

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purport to help you to grow your podcast. And I'm not saying they're good.

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I'm not saying they're bad. They're all subjective.

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Of course, that is entirely up to you. However, my focus is on action.

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

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

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the boundaries of your timeframes. And not feeling bad about not doing certain things.

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

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

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

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

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Proper podcaster, which is of course absolute rubbish.

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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

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

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

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I'm very much about being straight, talking. I'm very, very, very much about cutting down on the hyperbole and

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making sure that you know that. It's all right not to do everything.

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It's quite all right not to do everything.

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So what does this mean for this podcast?

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How does that manifest into content?

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

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I'm mixing things up a little bit. I'm still gonna keep that red thread running through, which

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is, of course actionable Straight talking podcast growth education.

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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

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

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a marketer, I'm still being a podcaster.

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

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you on and to help you with. And obviously people ask me questions all the time, so of course

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I wanna address those as well. However, I am gonna bring on some fantastic guests to talk about some.

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

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

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on a lot more specifically than I do.

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

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

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

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

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So, Here's what's coming up. All right, we're gonna talk to start about, we're gonna do actually

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three episodes on monetization.

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

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so we're gonna talk about. Um, really how to use things like subscriptions and tipping and all

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

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Cause we get a lot of questions about that. I'm gonna talk first and foremost from my perspective.

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

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that kind of listener support experience. Then I'm gonna talk to an expert, someone that's done this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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So I'm really looking forward. To that bunch of episodes.

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

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

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What that means for you that that landscape.

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

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

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

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

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Right now is of course, Mr. James Cridland, the founder and the editor of POD News.

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

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Cridland, which is gonna be fascinating.

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We are also gonna talk about. About community and in particular, The state of community in podcasting.

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

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

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Facebook group and that was it, you know? But there are a lot of technical tools out there that will help with community and.

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

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to what you might expect. So how do you actually get people to engage?

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

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What does it look like in 2023? Because it is different to last year, the year before, and it's

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

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

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

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gonna struggle to do anything else. Alright. So that's really quite fascinating and I've also got what is quite

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

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

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

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Fantastic support and experience lead.

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

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

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very much from a creator perspective. So he's actually interviewed me and he's, you know, we've talked about

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the last 10 years in podcasting. What I think about a few things, what I think of a few things that might happen

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

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Um, to be interviewed on my own podcast.

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

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forward to getting that out to you. It was a fantastic chat with Danny and I thank you my friend

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Danny, for doing that as well.

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So we've got a packed schedule. I'm looking forward to getting just back into the swing of things with you

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

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

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well, I'll wait till it comes out. Marko.

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

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I'm very, very grateful for that. So I wanted to do my part just to let you know what you can expect

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of the coming weeks and months. So thank you so much for joining me.

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I appreciate you. I want you to look after yourself.

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Keep on podcasting, keep sharing your voice.

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Keep doing what you do. Much love as ever.

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Take it easy and just keep doing what you do.

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

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matters to the people who follow you.

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Until next time, bye-bye for now.