Once you have started recording your a course in miracles podcast and learned how to edit and publish them, you then need to promote them. You may already have a small subscriber list or a group of friends that will listen to your episodes, and that’s good. But in order to grow your audience and actually make it worthwhile, it requires some promoting. Here are some different ways to promote your podcast.
Publish it on iTunes (Apple Podcasts)
There are a lot of people who listen to Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), including other podcasters, so this should really be one of the first things you do. Even if you are not an iPhone user, millions of people are. Just having your podcast Apple Podcasts in the marketplace can help get you noticed.
Many people do not know what podcast they are looking for and will just search for a topic or browse the most recently published episodes on their topic of choice. If they find yours podcast, they might listen to it and then subscribe to through Apple Podcasts for them to send your new episodes to them automatically. If people find it this way, they might also let others know about it. This is why it is important to have it in multiple marketplaces.
Using Social Media
It goes without saying that the majority of people who listen to podcasts are also using social media. If you learn how to share your episodes on social media, this will help you to grow your listener base as well.
Start talking about your podcast on different social media sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, even YouTube. Share the link on Reddit and use your Snapchat account to discuss what your latest episode is talking about. When promoting it on social media, use tags related to the theme of the podcast, your name, title of the podcast, and the various topics you are covering. This will help more people to find you and your podcast!
Have Your Own Website and Blog
You need to have a place where you can upload the podcast immediately and have others listen to it right away. If you have a time-sensitive topic you want to cover, it might not get all the attention you want on Apple Podcasts.
When you first start out on Apple Podcasts, it can take up to 2 weeks for your podcast to be approved. They usually have about a 7 day turn around, but it could take longer.
For time-sensitive topics, have a website where you can upload it, then share the links on social media. This is also a good place to have a blog where you put text in for your podcast topics, which can then get targeted and get you some more listeners through social media searches.
I also use links that take people to my website from my podcast. And links that take people from my podcast to my website. In SEO circles, this is called a back-link and it helps the search engines to find you better.
Include a Link in Your Google Profile
All of Google’s different social media areas, formats, and properties are linked together and the search for those back-links all over the Internet. So you need to link all of your profiles to each other. This will allow you be seen every time someone looks you up using any type of Google methods, whether they are on YouTube or Google. You want to have that link in as many places as online as you can get it in order to start branding yourself and get the attention of more listeners.