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Welcome back to Profitcast! This week Brian goes solo, talking about a recent breakthrough he had that was long overdue. Since returning from Heroes & Villains Fan Fest in Chicago a couple weekends ago, Brian's been having some vocal chord issues. For a guy who's voice is strained he does a great job delivering his episode, but send him some happy thoughts anyway! We're all podcasters, we all can envision the panic that might come from losing our voice when our livelihood depends on it. Feel better, Brian! Read more... The post PC 90 | Unlocking Profit That’s Right in Front of You appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week, Profitcast is excited to welcome Erica Duran, of The Erica Duran Show (Freedom Based Luxury Lifestyle Design Radio)! The Real Brian and Erica talk about strategies to employ when taking your business completely online and how to seek a balance amongst your assets and your resources. We want you to see that there is so much waiting to be profited from and give you some parameters on how to achieve it. Read more... The post PC 89 | SO Much Profit and How to Achieve it with Erica Duran appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Our guest this week is no stranger to Profitcast! The Real Brian is joined by Profitcast's first official dedicated sponsor, Jodey Smith, to return to the theme from episode 84 - How To Connect With an Influencer. The topic of discussion this week is What's Holding You Back? The guys drill into the practical and psychological blockages we experience that hold us back from acting on what we know we need to do. Read more... The post PC 88 | What’s Holding You Back? appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week on Profitcast, The Real Brian recruites Rich from the Armchair Ninja Podcast to learn how his extreme hustle turned into fast profit. Careful research helped Rich target a niche that lacked a podcast community and fill a need. Through an intense anthropological immersion into that culture, Rich has found untapped potential nearly everywhere he looks. Read more... The post PC 87 | Extreme Hustle and Fast Profit with Rich, The Armchair Ninja appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week on Profitcast, The Real Brian reconnects with Jason Bryant whom we first spoke with in episode 33 - A Different Way to Monetize Your Podcast. Jason gives us an update on how his business of hosting podcasts for other organizations is going! Jason has seen much success in the last year and graciously offers up many of his observations from what he believes has made him successful. Read more... The post PC 86 | Podcast Hosting Business Update with Jason Bryant appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

So it's not really a math formula, per se, but it IS something I've been researching, observing, formulating, and then LIGHT-BULBING once I realized a commonality across all successful podcasters and entrepreneurs! Read more... The post PC 85 | THE Formula for Profit appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

People skills are one of the most vital aspects to any business. Unless you are an assassin who receives targets via encrypted codes and payments via automatic transfers, dealing with people is just part of the way the world goes round. However, there are people skills, and then there are influencer skills, and this week's Profitcast topic is cenetered around finding and engaging influencers. Read more... The post PC 84 | How to Connect with an Influencer appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

This week on Profitcast we welcome Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness! In spite of the fact Steve does not utilize the audio medium in his business, he is the perfect example of how to find success by following a passion, niching down, and going hard after something you believe in. Nerd Fitness was conceived in 2009 after Steve made every training mistake known to man and saw zero return for his efforts. As both a guy who wanted to be healthy and a self-proclaimed uber nerd, he wanted a means for others like him to achieve their fitness goals without being intimidated by the culture common to many gyms and fitness centers. Read more... The post PC 83 | Level Up Your Life and Podcast with Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

We are nearly 1/12th of the way through the Year of Profit, still well inside Q1 of 2016, but it's never too late to set goals. And that's what we're focusing on this week... setting goals. The Real Brian and John Lee Dumas team up to talk about John's upcoming Freedom Journal release (see links below) and how we can ALL rock a goal in 100 days. Read more... The post PC 82 | ROCK Your #1 Goal in 100 Days with John Lee Dumas appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! We’re excited to share this installment of the podcast with you because it features Profitcast’s very first sponsor, Jodey Smith! Since we leave no rocks unturned here at Profitcast, Brian decided than rather just announcing a new, and a first, sponsor, that he’d actually bring Jodey on to discuss the how and why and what for prompting him to come alongside Brian financially. We get inside the mind of a sponsor this week and hope it will encourage you on both sides of the coin, to both consider supporting a podcast financially and also to think about partnership in a different way. Read more... The post PC 81 | Inside the Mind of a Sponsor with Jodey Smith appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Mastering a craft is a lifelong journey, a journey we welcome here at Profitcast with open arms! While most professions and career paths have varying degrees of mastery, entrepreneurs and creative types often have a more difficult time qualifying mastery due to the often subjective nature of our skills and the impact society has on the value of those skills. Trades like operating a switchboard or doing data entry or door-to-door sales are outdated, but the core concepts of those trades are not. Skills like thinking on your feet, attention to detail, and interpersonal communication are prevalent in these outdated jobs that can be honed and applied elsewhere once a trade becomes irrelevant. But when we’ve managed to convince ourselves that the trade we once thrived in, and is now deprecated, was our only means of maintaining a livelihood, we've fallen into a poverty mindset. Read more... The post PC 80 | 3 CRITICAL things to MASTER with Dave Jackson appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

As podcasters, keeping our mouths closed seems counterintuitive. How can keeping silent help me when my hobby/livelihood/passion revolves around people listening to what I have to say? I think Brian gets it right in this episode! Sometimes an episode just isn’t worth releasing. And it’s not because you are worthless or you never have something worthwhile to say, but that sometimes... one day, one recording, or one moment moment, whatever intention you had just didn’t come together as expected. Read more... The post PC 79 | Sometimes An Episode Just Isn’t Worth Releasing appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Holy plugin toy box, Batman! According to WordPress.org, right now there are 42,080 plugins. Sometimes, numbers like that can be intimidating, but I like to think of it similar to online dating. There is a very large pool of individuals who are all registered at a specific service, and yet only a few at any […] The post PC 78 | Essential WordPress Plugins for Your Podcast with John Overall appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

"Nothing says Christmas like Die Hard." Hashtag Overhead on Profitcast. It's appropriate, as this is the week of Christmas. A very Merry Christmas from Brian and myself, and to whichever holiday you observe this time of year: [insert celebratory salutation]! Thank you for joining us this week on Profitcast as The Real Brian chats up Paul Sating, of The Q and Atheist Apocalypse, who offers up advice to leverage your community, talks about his process in re-branding, and what a good old mirror-check did for him! Read more... The post PC 77 | How To Leverage Your Community with Paul Sating appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

It is mid-December, here in real time as I write this blog post. I live and work in Minneapolis, MN, and I have for most of my nearly three decades of life. I have seen winters with the absolute worst snowstorms, I have been stuck in countless traffic jams originating from inadequate plowing and heavy […] The post PC 76 | Breaking all the “Rules” to SUCCESS with Glenn the Geek appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

In the couple weeks since attending Heroes & Villains Fan Fest (HVFF) in San Jose, CA, I've shared a couple small stories about our experience at this con, but Brian made my job super easy this week because now I have the chance to share pictures and tell even more stories about that weekend. Half of what makes conventions so much fun for me, a modestly well-adjusted introvert, are the people I get to share the experience with. Being able to share this experience with Brian, and his wife Sarah, was so much fun; plus we got to hang out with a listener of Arrow Squad and Jason Cabassi, so I hardly thought about the fact that I was sharing air with tens of thousands of people. Read more... The post PC 75 | How Passion Met Profit appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Tom Woods, of the appropriately titled The Tom Woods Show, is an Ivy League educated political analyst, author and podcaster. In Tom’s situation, the podcast was not his original brainchild as we are most often accustomed to hearing about on Profitcast. The podcast came after Tom worked his butt off to build up his reputation as a leader in free-market thought and libertarian philosophy, politics and economics. The podcast came after he’d authored 11 books. But it did come, and for the last two plus years he’s put out 5 shows a week, every week, interviewing a vast array of political faces and analysts. Read more... The post PC 74 | How to Grow and Monetize Your Podcast with Tom Woods appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

To our American listeners, Happy Thanksgiving! To our non-American listeners, we are so thankful for you and the support you provide simply by listening and participating in the Profitcast community. Thankfulness is a hot topic this week in the States, and even though Brian has been reminding us to be thankful on a daily basis, because it’s a good and healthy practice, it’s always incredibly meaningful to me when everyone in this country takes an entire day to celebrate being thankful. Many American movies centered around the holidays like to almost glorify the troubled or comedic nature of family gatherings over Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s represented as the only times of the year when all the family gets together; when the mom and dad with the five homeschooled kids drive to the East Coast where their kids are subsequently exposed to the wild and unbridled nature of the unsupervised public school children of the 80-hour work week brother and sister-in-law. Chaos ensues, but somehow they manage to come

Just start. Do not give up. It's a long journey, you can't give up so easily. These are just a few wise words from Nick Seuberling of the Cincy Jungle Podcast! Nick has been podcasting about football, and sports, since 2005. He's going to talk to us about the power of podcasting live and tell us his unique story of trial and error. Trial and error might not be quite the right way to state the journey Nick has been on, as "error" carries a much harsher connotation than I'd prefer to attribute to his experiences. But through the Profitcast lens I think it works for one big reason: we each have in our own minds this idea of what profiting with our podcast means, so we try one thing and when it doesn't pan out we try another, and another. Nick started broad and gradually narrowed his niche down to what he now considers success and profit. Read more... The post PC 72 | The Power of Podcasting LIVE with Nick Seuberling appeared first on Profitcast: Profit with Your Podcast.

Welcome back to Profitcast! If this is your first time with us: Welcome! This is a weekly podcast dedicated to the multidimensional study of profiting through podcasting. Whether it’s learning from other podcasters who have come before us, chatting with podcasters possessing certain expertise, or diving into some of the grainier details, we look at it all as vital to truly profiting through podcasting. As a community, and as individuals, we consider ourselves to be passion podcasters, because we love what we do and we do what we love. This week we’re in some of the grainier details of a very large picture. To demonstrate the importance of taking the time to review and study this aspect of podcasting, I would like to use the example of Georges Seurat. You may best know this artist by his famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884). Click on the photograph to see the larger image, because this is one of those paintings where getting up close is just as important as taking a step b