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Sadaf Beynon:Whether you're on a morning jog, driving to work, whipping up a meal,
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Sadaf Beynon:So whether you're a podcasting newbie or seasoned podcaster,
Sadaf Beynon:grab your notebooks and get ready.
Matt Edmundson:Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of the Podjunction
Matt Edmundson:podcast where we talk about how to use podcasting to grow your business.
Matt Edmundson:Oh yes, it's the business of podcasting.
Matt Edmundson:We're getting into that.
Matt Edmundson:Me and the amazing Sadaf sat next to me who's just made some very rude hand
Matt Edmundson:gestures, but let's just not go there.
Matt Edmundson:Welcome to the show.
Matt Edmundson:If it's your first time with us, we're a fairly new show.
Matt Edmundson:So if it's your first time with us, a big warm welcome to you.
Matt Edmundson:Make sure you hit the subscribe button and all that sort of good stuff.
Matt Edmundson:Stay connected with us because we're just, we just love talking about how we use
Matt Edmundson:podcasting to grow business and we do it.
Matt Edmundson:We're practitioners of the sacred arts And we also interview people who are also
Matt Edmundson:practitioners of the sacred arts and we get to listen to what they've got to say
Matt Edmundson:and we get to chat about what they've got to say, which is always a beautiful thing.
Matt Edmundson:And in today's show we have Rich
Sadaf Beynon:Brooks
Matt Edmundson:It's almost like we've rehearsed that, we genuinely did.
Matt Edmundson:I'm just gonna sort that microphone out for you, there you go.
Matt Edmundson:So yeah, we've got Rich Brooks
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah, so he's the host of Agents of Change.
Sadaf Beynon:His business is Flyte New Media, and he had a conversation
Sadaf Beynon:with Matt some time ago.
Sadaf Beynon:This is a segment from that conversation, and in this segment, he's talking
Sadaf Beynon:about how you can leverage your podcast to grow your business or get
Sadaf Beynon:more clients, very similar to the.
Sadaf Beynon:The one we had with
Matt Edmundson:Dan Boudet.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:Just do you remember who we talked to?
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, just take your time.
Matt Edmundson:That's great.
Matt Edmundson:So we've got Rich Brooks.
Matt Edmundson:That's awesome.
Matt Edmundson:Rich is such a legend too.
Matt Edmundson:So do check out his podcast, Agents of Change, especially it's all about
Matt Edmundson:marketing and all kinds of cool stuff.
Matt Edmundson:So you do want to listen to it.
Matt Edmundson:He's a really cool guy.
Matt Edmundson:Rich, really like him.
Matt Edmundson:We keep threatening to grab a beer.
Matt Edmundson:Whenever he's over in the UK, whenever I'm in the States yeah, so we might just
Matt Edmundson:get a chance to do that at some point, which I'm very much looking forward to.
Matt Edmundson:So yeah, what's the name of his company again?
Matt Edmundson:Flyte New Media.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:So also check out his company, but yes, very good.
Matt Edmundson:Cool.
Matt Edmundson:So shall we start the clip?
Matt Edmundson:I've got a question.
Sadaf Beynon:Oh, is it?
Sadaf Beynon:I've got a question.
Sadaf Beynon:So in all of your years of podcasting, what was the most, I
Sadaf Beynon:can't believe this is happening
Matt Edmundson:moment?
Matt Edmundson:When we were waiting to get on the show and you doing rude
Matt Edmundson:hand gestures, swearing at me.
Matt Edmundson:I think actually it was in a lot of ways, it was last year we have a
Matt Edmundson:podcast, if you're a regular to the show, I run a podcast called the
Matt Edmundson:eCommerce Podcast amongst other podcasts.
Matt Edmundson:We have quite a few now and we have a podcast called the eCommerce Podcast,
Matt Edmundson:which has been around since 2019.
Matt Edmundson:It's got, it's fairly good established podcast now.
Matt Edmundson:And as a result, some interesting doors have opened.
Matt Edmundson:One of which was last year, I got to fly out to Subsummit,
Matt Edmundson:a big event in Dallas, Texas.
Matt Edmundson:I'm going again this year, 2024.
Matt Edmundson:If you're in the subscription eCommerce business.
Matt Edmundson:You should definitely go there.
Matt Edmundson:Come see me.
Matt Edmundson:It'd be great actually to have a little meet up in Dallas.
Matt Edmundson:But last year I remember sitting on their stage doing a live
Matt Edmundson:recording, the first ever live recording of the eCommerce podcast.
Matt Edmundson:And what I mean by live recording was there was me and there was Alex chatting
Matt Edmundson:away in front of a studio audience.
Matt Edmundson:And I'd never recorded a podcast in front of a studio audience
Matt Edmundson:before, and that was crazy.
Matt Edmundson:I love that.
Matt Edmundson:If I thought for one minute we could get an audience big enough every
Matt Edmundson:time, it'd be like having people sat in front of us as we record this
Matt Edmundson:podcast either laughing or throwing things at you, both, yeah, or asking
Matt Edmundson:questions and all that sort of stuff.
Matt Edmundson:But it was really great actually.
Matt Edmundson:And I had a big time doing a podcast event like that where you recorded
Matt Edmundson:it live on stage with an audience and we're going to do it again this year.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, that's cool.
Matt Edmundson:At SubSummit.
Matt Edmundson:So yeah, psyched about that was pretty awesome.
Matt Edmundson:Cool.
Matt Edmundson:Pretty awesome.
Matt Edmundson:Does that answer your question?
Matt Edmundson:Yes,
Sadaf Beynon:it does.
Sadaf Beynon:Thank you.
Sadaf Beynon:Should we go into the segment?
Sadaf Beynon:Oh,
Matt Edmundson:you're the Yes, let's go into the segment.
Matt Edmundson:You're in charge.
Matt Edmundson:Okay.
Matt Edmundson:So here's the segment with Rich.
Matt Edmundson:Sadaf and I will back up to this.
Matt Edmundson:So I guess the most obvious question here, Rich, for you is From an ROI
Matt Edmundson:point of view, and I appreciate there's more to it than just this simple
Matt Edmundson:question, but from an ROI point of view, does the podcast make sense for you?
Rich Brooks:Yes, I've never run the numbers down to the last decimal on
Rich Brooks:this, but even if I just think of this one client that I have in mind who
Rich Brooks:came through the podcast, basically he was an avid podcast listener,
Rich Brooks:discovered the agents of change.
Rich Brooks:And this is like maybe six, seven years ago at this point.
Rich Brooks:And he just basically shared on Twitter.
Rich Brooks:Twitter was for that kind of stuff.
Rich Brooks:An episode of mine and said, Oh, I really need help with this.
Rich Brooks:I was on lead generation or conversion rate optimization.
Rich Brooks:And so I tweeted back at him and we exchanged a couple of tweets, then
Rich Brooks:DMs and ultimately a phone call.
Rich Brooks:And we ended up getting his business.
Rich Brooks:And he ended up spending three to 4, 000 a month with us over,
Rich Brooks:sometimes it was more than that.
Rich Brooks:Sometimes it was less than that, it was well into the six figures.
Rich Brooks:Over all these years.
Rich Brooks:So from that standpoint, it, that pays for all my expenses and more.
Rich Brooks:And like I said, there's been a few of other clients that we've gotten as
Rich Brooks:well, but that's really been probably the biggest and most longstanding.
Rich Brooks:So I think that.
Rich Brooks:Yes it has paid for itself and the other thing to keep in mind
Rich Brooks:is, there's also the content play.
Rich Brooks:So there's also that visibility factor, sometimes it's, we talked about some
Rich Brooks:people are just like drawn to, Oh, you're a content creator, you're a
Rich Brooks:podcaster that raises the level of interest, the level of intrigue as well.
Rich Brooks:So all of a sudden you start to be positioned as a thought
Rich Brooks:leader, even if you didn't see yourself as a thought leader.
Rich Brooks:So from that standpoint, I definitely think that there is an ROI in there.
Rich Brooks:But what I would caution anybody who's listening to this and Oh
Rich Brooks:yeah, maybe I'll get a podcast.
Rich Brooks:It's about putting in the time.
Rich Brooks:No one ever got rich on their first tweet or their first YouTube
Rich Brooks:video or their first blog post.
Rich Brooks:It's about, or I should say almost no one, right?
Rich Brooks:But for most of us, mere mortals, it's about putting in the time in
Rich Brooks:the lab, getting better at the craft and so find something that you enjoy.
Rich Brooks:If you absolutely hate podcasting, then please do not do it because
Rich Brooks:you will make yourself miserable.
Rich Brooks:But if this sounds interesting to you, I think that this could be
Rich Brooks:an opportunity, but I would say, you want to get to episode 50.
Rich Brooks:Before you decide if you're going to quit, because you're going to need to
Rich Brooks:build up your podcasting skills, your interview skills, your editing skills.
Rich Brooks:And yes, you can outsource a lot of that post production stuff, that's it.
Rich Brooks:Like people need to know that you're going to show up every single
Rich Brooks:day or week or month for them.
Rich Brooks:That's when they start getting really invested in what you're doing.
Matt Edmundson:That's really interesting.
Matt Edmundson:So do you do yours every week?
Matt Edmundson:Is yours a weekly podcast?
Matt Edmundson:We
Rich Brooks:try to.
Rich Brooks:Sometimes I'll get 10 weeks ahead and then other times I'm like, okay, this
Rich Brooks:is going live in about four minutes.
Rich Brooks:So just be prepared for that.
Rich Brooks:Sometimes it is a little hand to mouth and I've gotten better at when
Rich Brooks:I have lost track of how many episodes we have ahead of us and suddenly I
Rich Brooks:find that it's really short and then invariably somebody gets sick and they
Rich Brooks:can't make that call and so now I'm.
Rich Brooks:I've been okay with just letting it go.
Rich Brooks:There have definitely been weeks for one reason or another where I just didn't have
Rich Brooks:a show and I didn't want to rush something and I didn't have anything to talk about.
Rich Brooks:on my own, so I just let it go and life moves on.
Sadaf Beynon:If you're intrigued and want to dive deeper into this
Sadaf Beynon:conversation, check out Podjunction Cohort where you can listen to the
Sadaf Beynon:complete interview and much more.
Sadaf Beynon:Simply visit thepodjunction.
Sadaf Beynon:com for more information about how to join.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, welcome back.
Matt Edmundson:Do check out Podcast Junction.
Matt Edmundson:Check out the podjunction cohorts for more information to watch Richard's interview
Matt Edmundson:in full, which was a great interview.
Matt Edmundson:I'm just going to hold my hand up to the camera in case you're watching, just
Matt Edmundson:put your hand in front of your face.
Matt Edmundson:The reason I want you to do this is because then hopefully the camera
Matt Edmundson:will actually get into focus.
Matt Edmundson:It seems to be out of focus right now, so sorry if you're watching on video,
Matt Edmundson:it will figure itself out, I'm sure.
Matt Edmundson:I'm just going to hide my eyes like this, maybe it will focus.
Matt Edmundson:. There we go.
Matt Edmundson:. Maybe it won't.
Matt Edmundson:The cameras has gone.
Matt Edmundson:I'm just not gonna work right now.
Matt Edmundson:. But welcome back.
Matt Edmundson:Rich, what do you think?
Sadaf Beynon:I thought that was really good.
Sadaf Beynon:I thought he had some great things to say.
Sadaf Beynon:What I really appreciated him saying was that actually the pod
Sadaf Beynon:podcasting isn't for everyone.
Sadaf Beynon:And 'cause a lot of people jumping on the bandwagon, which is.
Sadaf Beynon:It's great, but also if it's not something that if, if it's not something that you
Sadaf Beynon:love and you're not able to, are willing to spend the time building and honing
Sadaf Beynon:your skills, then it's going to fall
Matt Edmundson:flat.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, it is.
Matt Edmundson:It is.
Matt Edmundson:It really is.
Matt Edmundson:It's interesting in the sense that he talked about all the other stuff that
Matt Edmundson:you have to do with podcasting as well.
Matt Edmundson:So not only have you got to be committed to podcasting and on the
Matt Edmundson:whole, that was a weekly show for Rich.
Matt Edmundson:Not only have you got to be committed to that, you have to
Matt Edmundson:be committed to following up people on Twitter, for example.
Matt Edmundson:He talked about, didn't he?
Matt Edmundson:And there's the, so there's all that stuff that goes along
Matt Edmundson:with it that you have to do.
Matt Edmundson:And if you don't enjoy it and if you can't be committed to it, then definitely
Matt Edmundson:don't get involved with it because it is a fair bit of, a fair bit of work.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:Connecting with your listeners.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:Is good, isn't it?
Sadaf Beynon:And also because one, you get feedback and two, you maybe can get some clients
Matt Edmundson:out of it.
Matt Edmundson:Which is always a beautiful thing.
Matt Edmundson:So yeah I thought it was great what Rich was saying and interested in
Matt Edmundson:terms of ROI as well and not just.
Matt Edmundson:He gave an example of, a client that's bought in six figures worth
Matt Edmundson:of income as a result of the podcast.
Matt Edmundson:And I think every podcaster that's been around a while has got probably
Matt Edmundson:one or two of those stories.
Matt Edmundson:But like he says, it doesn't, you don't make a fortune off your first tweet or
Matt Edmundson:your first YouTube video, at least usually you don't you've got to be consistent.
Matt Edmundson:You've got to put in the time which I thought was a super valuable statement.
Matt Edmundson:So I think podcasting makes sense if you can put in the time and
Matt Edmundson:if you enjoy what you're doing.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:And building that.
Sadaf Beynon:And I guess as a result of that, you build your your loyalty with your listeners.
Sadaf Beynon:Yep.
Sadaf Beynon:Oh,
Matt Edmundson:you fixed it.
Matt Edmundson:I did.
Matt Edmundson:I just fixed the camera.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:Sorry.
Matt Edmundson:If you're watching the video, I apologize for the last few minutes.
Matt Edmundson:Sometimes it just goes here.
Matt Edmundson:I just don't want to focus on anything.
Matt Edmundson:And now it's back.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:Sorry.
Sadaf Beynon:What were you saying?
Sadaf Beynon:I was just saying that building your loyalty, building loyalty with
Sadaf Beynon:your listeners and you're putting consistent quality content out there.
Sadaf Beynon:And also I liked he's realistic too, that sometimes you just don't have.
Sadaf Beynon:I guess for whatever reason last minute and you've got to go at a
Sadaf Beynon:sustainable pace, but if there's nothing there, then there's
Matt Edmundson:nothing there.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:It's interesting, actually, because if you do the, so he does
Matt Edmundson:the interview show format, right?
Matt Edmundson:I've been on his show, actually.
Matt Edmundson:He's been on ours as well.
Matt Edmundson:That's how we connected.
Matt Edmundson:So I've been on his podcast and it's a lot like ours in
Matt Edmundson:the sense of it's an interview.
Matt Edmundson:So like I was, that clip with Rich was me interviewing him
Matt Edmundson:and having that conversation.
Matt Edmundson:So if you do have those episodes set up, you do have those recordings set up, I'm
Matt Edmundson:going to say probably one in 20 people from my experience, maybe one in 15
Matt Edmundson:people for whatever reason will cancel that appointment, usually a few hours or
Matt Edmundson:the day before something comes up, the sick, the cat threw up in the slippers or
Matt Edmundson:whatever it is, something has happened to cause them not to be able to get there.
Matt Edmundson:And so if your strategy is live streaming, which is what we did
Matt Edmundson:in the early days, didn't we?
Matt Edmundson:We did the live stream thing.
Matt Edmundson:So we would have a guest scheduled in, we would live stream that recording
Matt Edmundson:out and that would be our podcast.
Matt Edmundson:And as soon as that guest didn't turn up, you're like, Oh
Matt Edmundson:man, what are we going to do?
Matt Edmundson:It was complicated.
Matt Edmundson:And so if you're doing the interview format, that is one of the downsides
Matt Edmundson:of that is when guests don't show up, and how are you going to fix that?
Matt Edmundson:But one of the things that, one of the reasons we've done Podjunction
Matt Edmundson:the way we've done it is because it's a lot easier when there's two of you.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:So when it's you and me just chatting to the camera like
Matt Edmundson:this, that's gone furry again.
Matt Edmundson:There we go.
Matt Edmundson:Just need to reach my hands out to it.
Matt Edmundson:When it's two of you like this, if we were relying on a guest and a guest didn't turn
Matt Edmundson:up, we could probably quite easily just create a podcast without too much drama.
Matt Edmundson:And so there's a benefit of co hosting, of course, there's
Matt Edmundson:dramas with co hosting as well.
Matt Edmundson:They make rude gestures.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:Just saying, I'm going to let it go at some point.
Sadaf Beynon:Episode 50.
Matt Edmundson:Question that you've taken to this, I'm going to ask you a question
Matt Edmundson:before we get into the video thing.
Matt Edmundson:So episode 50, have you forgiven me?
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah,
Matt Edmundson:I should make a note of that.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:What episode are we on now?
Matt Edmundson:We are on 12.
Matt Edmundson:Episode.
Matt Edmundson:Okay.
Matt Edmundson:So I've got a little while.
Matt Edmundson:I'm okay.
Matt Edmundson:I'm safe.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, like I say, the downside of the interview format is
Matt Edmundson:when guests don't show up.
Matt Edmundson:And I love what Rich said.
Matt Edmundson:I'm just okay if I've not, if I can't put out something of quality, I'm just
Matt Edmundson:okay with letting it go that week.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:I love, love, love that way of thinking because I've, there are so
Matt Edmundson:many times, and I've done this we've done it ourselves where it was like,
Matt Edmundson:no, we have to get an episode out.
Matt Edmundson:It's our commitment is to get an episode out every week that sometimes
Matt Edmundson:you just put stuff and it causes you a lot of grief, but actually to have
Matt Edmundson:the ability to go, we'll be fine.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:The world's not going to end.
Matt Edmundson:I'm not going to lose all my rankings.
Matt Edmundson:People will understand, it's that kind of just being a bit more chill about it.
Matt Edmundson:I think if it, if I did it occasionally, which is maybe how
Matt Edmundson:Rich does it, I think that's fine.
Matt Edmundson:If I'm doing it on a regular basis, I need to maybe rethink my life a little bit.
Matt Edmundson:But I think every now and again, I just love that.
Matt Edmundson:It'll be fine.
Matt Edmundson:We were a lot like that in the early days when we started EP, weren't we?
Matt Edmundson:Because we did seasons.
Matt Edmundson:We did.
Matt Edmundson:So we got around it.
Matt Edmundson:It's let's just record 10 episodes.
Matt Edmundson:We'll call that a season.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:And then we'll just have an indiscriminate break.
Matt Edmundson:So we felt
Sadaf Beynon:like it was time to
Matt Edmundson:start again now, and we've got enough episodes for the
Matt Edmundson:next season and that's how we did it.
Sadaf Beynon:But I also remember you had to fly solo a few times at the beginning
Sadaf Beynon:just cause we were still building the podcast and looking for guests and it
Sadaf Beynon:wasn't as easy at the beginning to get the
Matt Edmundson:guests.
Matt Edmundson:Finding guests, we've talked about this before, finding guests at the
Matt Edmundson:start is not always straightforward.
Matt Edmundson:It's not, I think I could have made it easier on myself at the point that
Matt Edmundson:when we started eCommerce Podcast, like when we started Push, we have
Matt Edmundson:something called the first 10.
Matt Edmundson:So if you ever do one of our courses, we talk about this
Matt Edmundson:shameless plug for the course.
Matt Edmundson:But on the course, we talk about the first 10, who your first
Matt Edmundson:10 guests are for the show.
Matt Edmundson:And this is one of the things that we figured out over the years
Matt Edmundson:with podcasting, actually just go and get 10 people that you know.
Matt Edmundson:You don't have to know them super well, but there has to be some,
Matt Edmundson:so if you look at the first 10 episodes of the Push Podcast.
Matt Edmundson:First episode, I think it was Ian Finch, good mate of mine, having
Matt Edmundson:breakfast with him on Friday.
Matt Edmundson:Had Ram Giddemal, somebody I work with, a friend, I love that guy.
Matt Edmundson:He's such a legend.
Matt Edmundson:Ram, if you've not heard his episode, go listen to it because it was so cool.
Matt Edmundson:We had Chandra on from Pharmaco in New Zealand.
Matt Edmundson:We had Chris Ivers on from New Zealand, I've had Simon on from New Zealand.
Matt Edmundson:So these are friends, these are acquaintances, these are people that
Matt Edmundson:I know in industry that I thought would make an interesting podcast.
Matt Edmundson:Set of guess.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:Just to get me going.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:And I didn't do that with ep I think mainly because when we
Matt Edmundson:started EP didn't really have a clue what format we were doing.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:We just started Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:And figured it out.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:But so something nice about that.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:It's quite raw.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:And we, like we were, we kept pivoting, didn't we?
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:There was lots, we were learning so much as we went.
Matt Edmundson:It was very much touch and fear.
Matt Edmundson:It was like we figured it out and actually.
Matt Edmundson:I think if you're going to, if you're like that now, be okay with that.
Matt Edmundson:I love what Rich said actually about episode 50, do 50 episodes
Matt Edmundson:before you decide to quit at it.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:Which is in effect, do it for a year if you're doing a weekly episode.
Matt Edmundson:And you might be listening to that going, that's a lot of episodes.
Matt Edmundson:What's interesting, I can't remember what the stat is, but is it like
Matt Edmundson:80 or 90 percent of podcasts?
Matt Edmundson:It's a horrendous amount.
Matt Edmundson:Don't make it past episode 10 or episode 20.
Matt Edmundson:And so one of the ways to win at podcasting is just get, is
Matt Edmundson:just do more than 20 episodes.
Matt Edmundson:You've done more than 90 percent of people, right?
Matt Edmundson:It's just one of those things.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:And I don't think, I think we were well into episode like a hundred
Matt Edmundson:really before we started to get proper downloads on EP on the eCommerce podcast.
Matt Edmundson:I can't remember.
Matt Edmundson:I think that was, it was a high number.
Matt Edmundson:I can't remember the number either.
Matt Edmundson:I should probably go and have a look at the stats, but yeah,
Matt Edmundson:episode 50, the 50 episode challenge would be a really interesting.
Matt Edmundson:Can you do 50 podcast episodes?
Matt Edmundson:Can you do this for at least 50 episodes before you make a
Matt Edmundson:decision not to carry on with it?
Matt Edmundson:I thought that was really good call from Rich there.
Matt Edmundson:I can't
Sadaf Beynon:recall.
Sadaf Beynon:Do you know if COVID around that time, did we get more listeners?
Sadaf Beynon:Yes.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:There
Matt Edmundson:was something about COVID.
Matt Edmundson:I remember.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:COVID was great for podcasters.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:There was a lot of things it wasn't great for, but we did really well in COVID.
Matt Edmundson:I've got eCommerce businesses.
Matt Edmundson:We sold stuff.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:And the podcast listenership went up, the YouTube channel
Matt Edmundson:subscribers, everything went up a little bit, which was really good.
Matt Edmundson:But yeah, I think you're right, probably something.
Matt Edmundson:Not that
Sadaf Beynon:we're advocating for COVID again.
Matt Edmundson:Let's call the government.
Matt Edmundson:I need to get my podcast numbers up.
Matt Edmundson:Could you do me a favor?
Matt Edmundson:Shut the country down?
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, just do a lockdown, please.
Matt Edmundson:And that would be really helpful.
Matt Edmundson:I'd really appreciate that.
Matt Edmundson:Not necessarily a strategy that I would advocate on any kind of mechanism.
Matt Edmundson:Now, where else did you get out of Rich's?
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah, so the whole networking side and the client
Sadaf Beynon:engagement, like with that Yeah, you've got to get on Twitter.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:I to be fair, I don't really use Twitter.
Matt Edmundson:I should do.
Matt Edmundson:I've got 40, 000 followers on Twitter.
Matt Edmundson:But it's one of those where I think wherever your listeners are,
Matt Edmundson:they're going to be commenting somewhere and having a mechanism to
Matt Edmundson:monitor those comments is critical.
Matt Edmundson:And just a quick plug, actually, not that we've got massive experience, but
Matt Edmundson:we've just started with Social Vista, or Vista Social, whatever they're called.
Matt Edmundson:We've got all our social media accounts on that.
Matt Edmundson:So not only does that help us post stuff, but it helps us monitor comments
Matt Edmundson:and direct messages all in one place.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, we can see the
Sadaf Beynon:engagement and reach out to people easier.
Matt Edmundson:Which is super important.
Matt Edmundson:You might not get anybody commenting on anything on social media for
Matt Edmundson:the longest time, but somebody somewhere at some point will comment.
Matt Edmundson:For me, it's always been LinkedIn, which I thought was interesting.
Matt Edmundson:LinkedIn and Instagram, maybe.
Matt Edmundson:I should probably log onto Twitter and find out I've got 4, 000
Matt Edmundson:unread messages and just go, Ooh, I should have totally had that.
Matt Edmundson:I should put that into Vista Social is what I should do.
Matt Edmundson:But yeah, do monitor your social media channels because Rich would
Matt Edmundson:have missed out on a big deal.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:And just start conversations with people.
Matt Edmundson:I think that's what he did on Twitter.
Matt Edmundson:Hey, how you doing?
Matt Edmundson:What did you like about the podcast kind of thing?
Matt Edmundson:How can we help you?
Matt Edmundson:And just start the conversation.
Matt Edmundson:It's amazing.
Matt Edmundson:It's one of those things, and it sounds really weird when I say, I appreciate
Matt Edmundson:that what I'm about to say just sounds really weird, but when people listen
Matt Edmundson:to you on a podcast and you take the trouble to reach out to them.
Matt Edmundson:They can feel a little bit starstruck.
Matt Edmundson:Does that make sense?
Matt Edmundson:It's I don't know if you've ever done that thing where the first time I did
Matt Edmundson:it was a friend of mine wrote a book.
Matt Edmundson:He wasn't a friend at the time.
Matt Edmundson:I just read the book and thought it was a really good book.
Matt Edmundson:I thought the title of the book was not great, but I thought the book was
Matt Edmundson:phenomenal, the content of the book.
Matt Edmundson:And I put a note on, this was back when I was using Twitter, I put a
Matt Edmundson:thing on Twitter, or X should I say?
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:I put a thing out saying.
Matt Edmundson:Great book, love the content of the book.
Matt Edmundson:And I think I made some wisecrack about how Americans always use
Matt Edmundson:a middle initial everywhere.
Matt Edmundson:He wasn't Richard Rising.
Matt Edmundson:He was Richard L.
Matt Edmundson:Rising and I made some wisecrack about that on Twitter and he made
Matt Edmundson:some wisecrack back and we just got chatting back and forth and I was
Matt Edmundson:like, man, the author of this book has taken the time to connect with me and
Matt Edmundson:actually he's a really interesting guy.
Matt Edmundson:It turned out he was going to be in the UK.
Matt Edmundson:I had him speak in an event and then we've just become lifelong
Matt Edmundson:friends ever since really.
Matt Edmundson:So when I go to SubSummit in Dallas, 2024, I'll go and spend a week
Matt Edmundson:with him because that's where he lives, him and his family, beautiful
Sadaf Beynon:family.
Sadaf Beynon:I didn't know that's where your friendship started.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah, on Twitter.
Sadaf Beynon:I know you guys have been
Matt Edmundson:friends a long time.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, just interesting.
Matt Edmundson:So I think as a content creator, again, one of the things that Rich
Matt Edmundson:said is you are, your credibility.
Matt Edmundson:goes up in the eyes of people, you're seen as a thought leader in a lot of
Matt Edmundson:ways, just because you do a podcast.
Matt Edmundson:It obviously, we need maybe, we need better, maybe better mechanisms of grading
Matt Edmundson:how much of an expert we really are.
Matt Edmundson:But in essence, that's what happens.
Matt Edmundson:And being okay with that, and then talking to people that connect with
Matt Edmundson:you, is a really great way to start a relationship with your audience,
Matt Edmundson:with your listeners, because you take the time to listen to them.
Matt Edmundson:You always feel better if you're, if you watch a YouTube video and you write
Matt Edmundson:in the comments and they respond back.
Matt Edmundson:You're always like, that's really cool.
Matt Edmundson:If you, like I did I contact, I just tagged an author and they said, I
Matt Edmundson:appreciate that, rich, he got tagged and he just started a conversation.
Matt Edmundson:I just take the time to do it.
Matt Edmundson:I think it's such a powerful thing.
Matt Edmundson:It's one of the great things about social media nowadays.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:Yeah.
Sadaf Beynon:They're so much more accessible,
Matt Edmundson:aren't they?
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, they are.
Matt Edmundson:Just check on it.
Matt Edmundson:If you use Instagram like I do, I keep forgetting to check the, it's almost
Matt Edmundson:got like the Gmail feature, isn't it?
Matt Edmundson:Where you've got your primary inbox, and then there's these, the promotional,
Matt Edmundson:all this other stuff goes over there.
Matt Edmundson:Someone sent me a message six weeks ago, and I'm just like, I just had
Matt Edmundson:to respond, but I'm really sorry.
Matt Edmundson:I am really sorry.
Matt Edmundson:I'm so slack.
Matt Edmundson:I am interested in talking to you, obviously, but yeah, I think to do
Matt Edmundson:check that if you use Instagram.
Matt Edmundson:But yeah, it's one of the things actually thinking about it.
Matt Edmundson:What I don't do on the podcast, maybe what we should do is say,
Matt Edmundson:hey, be great to connect with you.
Matt Edmundson:Just follow me on Instagram.
Matt Edmundson:Connect with me on Instagram.
Matt Edmundson:I'm Matt Edmundson on Instagram.
Matt Edmundson:Just go to at Matt Edmundson.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:And maybe we should start doing something like that on social or follow PodJunction.
Matt Edmundson:At PodJunction.
Matt Edmundson:On Took gram.
Matt Edmundson:On the gram.
Matt Edmundson:I think he's saying
Sadaf Beynon:Instagram.
Sadaf Beynon:Aunt
Matt Edmundson:Graham.
Sadaf Beynon:Or his aunt, I don't know.
Sadaf Beynon:Aunt
Matt Edmundson:Graham.
Matt Edmundson:Aunt.
Matt Edmundson:On the gram,
Sadaf Beynon:not even Instagram.
Sadaf Beynon:Okay, gotcha.
Matt Edmundson:Oh, if my dad hears this, he's going to punch me.
Matt Edmundson:He's what was that Yorkshire accent?
Matt Edmundson:That was just wrong on But yeah, no, reach out to us at Podjunction on Instagram.
Matt Edmundson:We are also, you can also catch a hold of me at Matt Edmundson on
Matt Edmundson:Instagram, we'd love to hear from you.
Matt Edmundson:Sadaf, check the Podjunction one.
Matt Edmundson:I do.
Matt Edmundson:And I check the Matt Edmundson you think.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, we'd love to hear from you.
Matt Edmundson:Connect with us, say, how's it?
Matt Edmundson:But don't be starstruck when Sadaf gets back into it, she's just a normal person,
Sadaf Beynon:which they know very well now,
Matt Edmundson:she's just a normal person that swears at you
Matt Edmundson:when you're starting to record the podcast because people can't see it.
Matt Edmundson:And then she's just a normal person.
Matt Edmundson:She does charge 25.
Matt Edmundson:99 for an autograph.
Matt Edmundson:But she's a normal person.
Matt Edmundson:By the way, if anyone does actually pay you 25.
Matt Edmundson:99, you're buying the beer.
Matt Edmundson:Oh, anything else?
Matt Edmundson:No, we're about out of time.
Matt Edmundson:When there were, we're getting there, aren't we?
Matt Edmundson:So listen, it's been great chatting to you this week.
Matt Edmundson:Love that.
Matt Edmundson:Thanks, Rich, for coming on the show.
Matt Edmundson:What a legend.
Matt Edmundson:Do check out his podcast and check out his company Flyte New Media.
Matt Edmundson:Check out the podcast, Agents of Change.
Matt Edmundson:I know actually he's got a conference coming up, so check
Matt Edmundson:out the Agents of Change Summit.
Matt Edmundson:I think that's what he's calling it.
Matt Edmundson:It's got a whole bunch of speakers lined up for that.
Matt Edmundson:I think I'm part of the speaking panel.
Matt Edmundson:Okay.
Matt Edmundson:Yeah.
Matt Edmundson:I filled out a piece of paper for him.
Matt Edmundson:I've not heard back from him.
Matt Edmundson:So who knows?
Matt Edmundson:We'll find out.
Matt Edmundson:If you're going to be in Subsummit or in Dallas in June 2024,
Matt Edmundson:definitely let's connect up.
Matt Edmundson:Be great to hear from you.
Matt Edmundson:Do reach out to us on social media.
Matt Edmundson:And start all those connection things, but yeah, hopefully you've
Matt Edmundson:learned something from this today.
Matt Edmundson:Go do what Rich said you should do.
Matt Edmundson:Do the 50 episodes.
Matt Edmundson:Do connect with people on social media.
Matt Edmundson:Don't worry too much if you can't measure ROI to the exact penny,
Matt Edmundson:but you will have some stories.
Matt Edmundson:Be consistent, do some good and don't be afraid just to take the
Matt Edmundson:average week off because why not?
Matt Edmundson:Yeah, I know.
Matt Edmundson:It'll be okay.
Matt Edmundson:We're not that dogmatic about it here.
Matt Edmundson:But no, I enjoyed that.
Matt Edmundson:Thanks Rich, you're a legend.
Matt Edmundson:Thanks, Beynon.
Matt Edmundson:Thanks, Matt.
Matt Edmundson:It's been great.
Matt Edmundson:All right, guys.
Matt Edmundson:We'll catch you next time.
Matt Edmundson:Bye.
Matt Edmundson:Bye.
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