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Sure. So podcastguest.com is a free platform that connects podcasters with guests for their

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shows. And the backstory is I'm a podcaster. I've been podcasting for many years. I recently

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published episode number 400 of my podcast. And after about a year of podcasting, I do

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the guest format like a lot of people. I was running out of guests. I kind of tapped my

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Rolodex and I invited all the people I know that were relevant. And then I was looking

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around like, how can I find someone new and interesting? And so I looked around to see

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if there would be a platform to help me find guests for my show. And at the time, the only

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alternatives were these agencies, which do a great job, but they're expensive. And I

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think most podcasters don't want to spend thousands of dollars a month finding guests

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for their show. So I decided to create my own platform. And that was podcastguest.com.

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Now when did it launch and how did it first like, whenever you rolled it out, what did

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it look like?

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Sure. So I started in 2016 and I modeled the service off of a popular tool that PR people

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use, which is called Help a Reporter Out or HARO. And people use that to find people to

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interview for usually for their written articles, right? Like I need someone who has a mortgage

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and they change jobs when they have mortgages, right? Someone's writing something for a Wall

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Street Journal, they'll send out their request. That's how they get a lot of those responses,

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right? You know, those kind of esoteric responses. So I decided to try the same thing for podcasts.

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And so it started just on email. So we'd send out an email every week that said, here's

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some podcasts looking for guests. And if you're a fit, pitch to them. So people click a link,

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they fill out a pitch form. So very much just like Help a Reporter Out. And then over time,

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the user started asking for more, right? They're like, hey, this is great, but it'd be wonderful

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as if there was a way for say, podcasters to come to me and invite me on their show

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because I'm looking through your lists and I might be a fit for some of them, but my

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story doesn't really fit into those categories, those neat categories. And so over time, we

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added our directory, which now has about a thousand people in it. And that allows podcasters

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to see who you are and what makes you interesting and invite you to be a guest on their show.