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6. Podcasting Strategies For a Successful Launch: How I Made the Apple Podcasts Top 20

12/19/23 • 29 min

Podcasting for Solopreneurs | Podcasting Tips and Growth Strategies for Online Business

Are you curious about what goes into a successful podcast launch? In today's episode, I'm breaking down podcasting strategies for making the Apple Podcast Charts and achieving download number goals. Plus, I'll share the big mistake that I made during my launch...even though I should have known better!
Resources mentioned:
Buzzsprout Global Stats
Apple Podcasts Charts
Chartable - ***UPDATE*** Chartable has closed its doors. I now recommend PodStatus instead: https://podstatus.com/juliathepodcastteacher (affiliate link)
Thinking about starting a podcast? Grab my free Podcast Roadmap: 10 Simple Steps to Launch Your Own Podcast (No Fancy Tech Required!) at www.ThePodcastTeacher.com/roadmap
This episode was produced by me, The Podcast Teacher! Contact me at [email protected].

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Mentioned resource:
Mel Robbins' podcast Episode 105.
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Podcasting for Solopreneurs | Podcasting Tips and Growth Strategies for Online Business - 6. Podcasting Strategies For a Successful Launch: How I Made the Apple Podcasts Top 20

Transcript

Hey. Hey, and welcome back. In today's episode, I'm going to share about the successful launch of this podcast, which at the time of this episode's release occurred exactly 2 weeks ago today on December 5, 2023. I'm going to be breaking down the podcasting strategies that I used and that you can too as well as sharing some of the mistakes that I made along the way. But first, I want to very clearly state that Success is a subjective term that can mean different things to different people. For

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