So where do you promote your show?
Like, how do you, how do you go about telling people, Hey, these new
episodes are out, come listen to me.
I really don't do a whole lot of that.
And I'm, I guess that was part of the a hundred episodes in a year.
There wasn't much time to promote them.
It was just about doing them.
Uh, but I, I've, I've slowly started to build out the Instagram page.
Uh, so it's North Bank media podcast on Instagram.
Uh, so I'm starting to post reels clips, episode notes there.
Um, beyond that, that's about it.
Like I want to get onto LinkedIn eventually, but, uh, there's not
a whole lot of promotion going on.
Do you have any regrets with your podcast?
Oh boy.
Well, I don't know if I have any regrets.
I mean, there's definitely things that I've said that probably weren't,
weren't, uh, the smartest things, but that's part, but that's also part
of the thing is like, you commit to doing it, you say that you put it
out there now you have to stand by it or else do you have to apologize for it?
Um, I don't think I have any regrets.
I think I wish maybe I could have kept it rolling.
Like, as I said, I've only done the three EPS since, since March, since
January, uh, but I don't have any regrets.
I mean, it's, it's, to me, it's a lifetime pursuit, right?
Right now things are busy, so I'm not doing it.
If things slow down in the summer, then I'll start doing it more regularly.
Well, so speaking of which, um, it sounds like, you know, your
podcast is, is almost more of a hobby.
Are you doing anything to monetize it or are you, do you have like a day job
and then the podcast is just for fun?
I think that's more accurate.
It's, it's just a hobby in some ways.
It's, it's, it's like an education.
You know, you learn how to talk to people, you learn how social media
works and what it likes, you learn what people will, will do and not do.
Um, to me, it could, and what I'm trying to get it to is a place where, you know,
it gets me in the door with somebody, let's say an entrepreneur, and then we,
we talk for an hour, I provide them this content and, and then
there's maybe a soft sell at the end where I say, you know, my
business is video production.
Do you require that sort of thing?
And that has actually worked a handful of times in the past with certain
guests where they say, oh, I need an ad.
I need a, I need to do some video.
So, uh, it's not directly monetized, but it's sort of like, uh, I don't know,
like, uh, I don't know what you'd say.
It gets me in the door with people that make decisions.
Yes.
And a lot of, so you're starting to like build the relationships and network
with people and as you kind of just chat with them and get to know them, it's
that, like you said, a soft sell.
I like that.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
That's, I would recommend that more than, I mean, I don't know, do you
monetize your podcast?
Because to me it's like no one, no Bluetooth or whoever is not going
to sell ads on my podcast.
I only get 12 views on some episodes, but.
But at present with my personal podcast, no, I don't have any monetization,
but I do mention several times, you know, that I'm, that I'm a blogger and
that I'm a ghost blogger and I tell people about my website and things like
that, but for my personal podcast, no, right now there's, there's no monetization.
I have hopes that maybe one day I'll come up with something, but I think for
right now it's kind of like what you're doing is, is just still like trying to
have the conversation and still learn.
And that's why I'm so excited to be, to, to be hosting this podcast for rss.com
is as I'm learning, I'm getting to teach others what I'm learning.
And I think that's what's so awesome about this is it's, it's where we're
teaching others what we're learning and continuing the conversations,
continuing to evolve.
And it's just, it's a whole lot of fun.