2 Podcasting Hacks Proven to Increase Engagement

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Let’s have a conversation about two podcasting hacks that are proven to increase engagement. These will help your listeners stay super excited and stay on the podcast app through your episode.

Desiree’s Testimony – From No Podcast to Great Engagement!

My name is Dr. Desiree Cassell and I’m the host of The Balanced Momtality Women’s Health and Wellness podcast which is insane to say! If you had asked me a couple of months ago if I would ever launch a podcast, the answer would be a big fat no. But for some reason, Stef kept showing up in my world and I suddenly felt this strong urge to start a podcast.

So I took a leap of faith, purchased Podcast Pro University and binged through it. I was able to launch a podcast in just a little over thirty days. Not only was I able to launch a podcast but I had a successful launch with the help of Stef and her team. I had over two hundred downloads and over thirty written reviews. And I even made it in the top fifty in fitness in the US at number thirty-five.

Thanks, Stef, for all you do and for showing up for all of us and helping us in our own journey.

Create a Show Where You Increase Engagement to Make an Impact

World, watch out for Dr. Desiree! I love this so much. In thirty days, being able to come out with a bang, have this podcast in the world, know exactly what your show is going to be about, know how to do the tech, how to press record, how to edit, how to launch in a way that’s going to get you ranked. I mean, the top thirty-five in the fitness category. That is insanity!

If you want to launch your podcast the right way so that you can cut out confusion, eliminate frustration, and follow a step-by-step framework, I invite you to follow Dr. Desiree into Podcast Pro University. This is my twelve-step course that is going to teach you how to get your podcast started. And that means all the way from planning, editing, recording and launching into the world. I can’t wait to see you inside the course! For now, let’s look at the two hacks I have for you to help you increase engagement on your podcast.

Increase Engagement Hack #1: Tell People What They Are About to Get Without Telling Them What It Is

The first hack I have for you to really increase your podcast engagement is to tell people what they are going to get without telling them what it is. 

We can use this episode as an example. Today we are going to learn two hacks to increase your podcast engagement.  As a listener or reader, you know that two things are coming. There are two things that I am going to tell you. But I don’t actually tell you what they are. This is going to get you to stay until you hear the second hack. Nobody is leaving once they have got the first hack. They need to know the second one.

This also works if you say something like ‘We are going to go through a formula right now to teach you how to create an extra hour of work time each week.’ You have just told them that they are going to learn a formula, which means that you have different steps available for them. You have something that you are going to walk them through and so they will stay until the end to know the outcome.

Use Your Titles or Your Introduction to Get Them Hooked

How do we tactically implement this? You can implement this in your podcast titles, for example, ‘Three Tips to Get Your Kids To Listen’. Or this can look like ‘Steps to Start Your Online Business When You Are Completely Stuck’. It’s that teaser effect for your listener. They are now thinking that they are about to learn something with subsequent steps A, B, C, and D and they need to know what they all are.

This can happen in the titles of your show and it can also happen in the introduction section of your podcast episode. There you go! Have fun running with hack number one!

Increase Engagement Hack #2: Ask Questions

Moving on to the second hack, this is: ask questions. And not just any questions. Ask insightful, thought-provoking questions.

I participate in two different masterminds. In my personal mastermind, this is a space where I grow and stretch and get better. And then I have my peer-led mastermind where we work a lot on accountability, implementation, etc. This tip around asking questions really landed for me when I was recounting an experience I had had in my personal mastermind to my peer-led mastermind.

I was bringing to my peer-led mastermind what I had learned from the personal one and I recounted for them the questions that I had been asked. These questions included:

• How much is enough?
• How much are you allowed to work? Or How much are you allowing yourself to work?
• Can you define what the next level of success looks like for you?

I posed these questions back to my own mastermind and one of them said to me ‘Man, I do love a good, insightful question’ and she actually sat down, answered all the questions and had a breakthrough as a result.

The Power of Deep, Insightful Questions to Increase Engagement

Because of this experience, I thought, ‘ How come I am not asking more deep, insightful questions right here on the podcast?’ If I were to do that, what an incredible way it would be to boost engagement. So I have tested it on a few different episodes. And it works! It gets people to take action. It gets them to think, to do the work, and then ultimately to come and discuss it or share it over in our Facebook community which is such a fantastic outcome.

(By the way, if you are not part of our Facebook community, it’s free so come on over and join us!)

A Question for You Today

On the back of that second hack, the question I want to pose for you today is if you have not started a podcast, what is truly holding you back? Place your hand over your heart and I want you to go inward and upward. I want you to sit with God on this one.

If you feel like Dr. Desiree and think that you wouldn’t be caught dead with a podcast or that there is no way that you are ever going to start a podcast, but there is something that is nudging you towards it, on paper during your quiet time, I want you to journal around the question ‘Why haven’t I started?’

If you have started a podcast but you haven’t taken it to the next level or you haven’t taken it seriously or you haven’t invested in the next step to grow your show into something that can truly be a means of producing income and impact for your family, why not?

Asking Myself Questions Took Me Higher Than I Imagined

I had to go to this uncomfortable place in my own life where I had to stretch. And I had to get willing to invest in me while also being willing to do the hard things like traveling alone and being in a room full of strangers. I had to put my ego aside and get into a posture of learning and growth this year. It has truly been a catalyst to so many next levels that I didn’t even know were possible for me. And I think that may be the same for you.

So I pose those questions to you to prove a point that you will engage with me right now. And also to maybe help you reach that mental shift that you need in order to go to that place that God is really calling you to go.

Then I want you to come and share it in our community. Post whatever it was that came through for you and let’s have a conversation around it. I want to really help you to mitigate whatever it is that might be holding you back because it is your time.

Get Your Podcast Started and Increase Engagement

If you are ready to come and take a leap of faith with me in the Stef Gass School, we have three great courses to help you get to where you want to go. We have got Clarify Your Calling to help you get unstuck. The second course is Podcast Pro University which helps you to launch a podcast like Dr. Desiree did.

Overwhelmed by How to Increase Engagement

If you have a podcast and you are struggling to increase engagement, come and join us in my six-month mastermind program Podcast to Profit where we teach you all the different strategies to make sure you increase engagement and keep people actively listening through your episodes, have them clicking on your CTAs as well as joining your Facebook communities.

We look at how to title your episodes, how your content should look inside the episodes for mass conversion, how to create a paid offer, how to structure this offer so that it sells, building a sales page and website, email marketing and all the pieces that go into creating an actual scalable online business from your show. 

Freebies Until You Are Ready to Leap!

Of course, there are always free resources available to you, like the Facebook group and a lot of freebies on my website, if this doesn’t find you at a time when you can move into those steps I have outlined above.

I pray that you continue learning, growing and staying connected in our community. I love you. May God bless you and keep you safe, shine His face upon you and be gracious to you.

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