
Billboards vs Podcasts
A billboard might be seen by thousands each day, but that does not mean anyone is engaged. Most people look for only a second or less. There is no sound, no context, no story, and no way to know if the message got through.
A podcast is one of the most powerful tools for businesses to establish themselves as industry leaders. Yet, even with exceptional content, reaching the right audience is challenging. How you share your podcast with the world is critical. Let’s tackle this challenge head-on by exploring strategies to maximize your podcast’s reach.
First, consider these five concepts on why ideas (and links to podcasts) are shared to start with:
People need to portray an air of being informed, competent, and credible.
People experience some external trigger that makes it easy to ride on or share something right before them.
The idea makes them angry, sad, or excited or provides some emotional charge that pushes the individual to share it.
Some practical tool or helpful device that will transform or elevate the user into a better state.
Humans love stories. It becomes the Trojan horse for learning and decoding complex ideas.
CREATE AS MANY HANDLES AS POSSIBLE AND SHARE THEM EVERYWHERE!
CREATE AS MANY HANDLES AS POSSIBLE AND SHARE YOUR PODCAST EVERYWHERE!
It’s not uncommon to see 50 posts across various platforms to drive traffic to one podcast episode. Take care when preparing these, make various promo’s. Reels, Story images, posts, short promo cuts, anything you can do to get more eyes on the universal link – make it so.
WHAT THE AUDIENCE DEEMS VALUABLE, MIGHT DIFFER FROM WHAT THE BRAND/CREATOR THINKS.
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A billboard might be seen by thousands each day, but that does not mean anyone is engaged. Most people look for only a second or less. There is no sound, no context, no story, and no way to know if the message got through.
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People will share content because of:
Social Currency: The content allows someone to seem informed, intelligent, progressive or anything that could resonate with their identity.
Triggers: What keeps people talking about things after the fact,
Emotion: Ideas that spark happiness, anger, sadness, whimsy will be shared more than ideas that don’t.
Practical value: It’s built into our DNA, help them survive, and it will thrive.
Story: Information can travel under the guise of what seems to be a story.
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