Welcome to Help Me podcast, a show designed to help you launch and grow your podcast. I am your host Gino, and twice a week, I will release a new episode with different tips and tricks for launching and growing your podcast, from audio engineering, to planning intentionally, to growth tactics, each episode will be a bite sized tip to help you podcast. Welcome back. Thank you everybody for tuning back in to help me podcast. Today, I have a little tip for you that I
heard recently. So I've been doing, I've been attending this, podcast summit virtually, which happened a while ago, and It's a summit that, CAP Show has put on, and they've put this on this is the 2nd year in a row that they've done this, and it's called the grow my podcast summit. And You know, if you get the extra package or whatever, you're allowed to keep the content forever and to kinda watch it at your own time. And
this happened probably a couple months ago already. but I'm kinda now starting to go through the content and really just take it at at my own time. And what it's really been helpful for is actually feeder for this podcast is, like, I'm taking all the things that I like from it and, like, hearing these new ideas and being like, oh, this is great. This is this would make a perfect podcast episode. And, oh, I really like this idea, and
just all kinds of great content. And it's put on by CAPT Show, which is an AI tool for podcasters. They help create show notes and AI generated content for your podcast, just using a simple mp3 file. And there's there's a couple of people out there that do that But what I really like about cap show, I I really like that they're always making podcast content and just helping podcasters out there and Didre is somebody who I've talked about
before. She's, one of the founders of CAPT Show. She's just really, like, this podcast summit, I think, is, like, the best thing that they do because they basically just have, like, you know, 20 or 30 different interviews with people in the podcasting space, just bringing new ideas, and you know, cross pollinating ideas and just like, I don't know. It's it's really inspiring for me to be able to, like, watch all of
that. So if you haven't heard about it, you can definitely go to CAP Show or just Google CAP Show grow my podcast thumbnail. And I think you couldn't even still buy, like, this past year's because it's available, you know, it's still available. So I think you can still buy a ticket for it and get all the awesome content that they have. But anyways, today's episode is gonna be something that I learned in one of these sessions. And what it's called is
the start here page. And I was just listening to somebody talk about they were talking about something else, but they kinda, like, briefly brought up the idea of, like, a start here page for your podcast and and I really liked that idea of it and never really thought about it before, but it's basically like a page on your website that says, like, you know, it's a start here page. So if you have a new person coming to your podcast or maybe you're sharing your podcast to somebody
new. It's a list of maybe the top 10 episodes and it's kinda like the introduction to your podcast. Like, hey. Here's my most popular episodes or, you know, a curated list of my episodes. and these are the ones you should you should start listening to. I just thought that, like, that was genius because a lot of times, you know, you find a new podcast and they have hundreds of episodes and It just becomes, like, so overwhelming, and it's, like,
I don't even know where to start. I don't wanna get in here, like, midway through a season or, like, know, I don't wanna start an episode a 199. It just seems like too much. And it also, for me, feels a lot like you know, when somebody introduces you to a new band or a new musician or artist, and they have, like, a catalog of of albums out. And it's like, Where do you start? You
know, like, it's it's sometimes overwhelming. And I think why I connected to this is because, you know, using the music example, I think it's helpful when somebody comes to you, not just with a new artist, but they come to you with a new artist and they say, like, hey. You should really start with this record because this was their best work, or this was the thing that was most relatable to me or I think you'll
like this one the best. It's always helpful. to, like, hap because to me, that's way more approachable than being, like, go listen to this artist that has 10 records. It's like, no. Go listen to this one record and see if you like it, and then you can listen to whatever else they have after that. And if people don't give you that recommendation, it becomes hard to choose an album on yourself because you know, they have 10 albums. You don't
know which one to pick. You could pick a bad one, and then you don't like them. Right? so I think it's always, for me, relating to music, it's always super helpful when somebody says, hey. Go check out this artist. Listen to this record. it just feels way more approachable. And that's kinda what this start here page is for your podcast. It's not like, Hey, go listen to this podcast that has hundreds of episodes. It's, hey, go listen to
these 10 episodes first or maybe these 5 episodes. you know, that could be something that that you decide on your own, but It just it makes it an easier step into your podcast for a new listener. So now let's talk about some, like, specifics and how we go about making this list you know, the way that the person brought it up that I was listening to was on your podcast website. And maybe all of you don't have a podcast website, and that's totally fine. But if you have your own website, I think it
is helpful to maybe create, like, a whole new tab. And then you can use an in bed player if your podcast host allows for it. and just be like, hey. Here's here's the list of episodes that I'm curating. And and these are the ones that you should go into first because then what that allows you to do is you have a now
you have a custom link that you could send people. So, you know, let's say you're on another pod cast and, you know, you're doing an interview for somebody else, you can say like, hey, go listen to my podcast, go to help me podcast.com/start here, and that'll help you get started into my podcast because, you know, that's my curated list of newcomers to listen to the show. Right? So it it gives you that kinda that
kinda link, which is super helpful for people. But, you know, maybe you don't have a website for your podcast, or maybe you have, like, only a host page, and they don't really allow you to, like, customize anything, and you can't have a specific web page. Another thing you can do is you could just simply make, like, a Spotify playlist. Right? Like, I think that's something that maybe some people don't really utilize very often is just utilizing a Spotify playlist because
you can do that with podcasts. Right? So it's helpful to just create a playlist of maybe 10 or so episodes And now you got a link, and you can send that link, the play the Spotify playlist link to people. And you could probably even figure a way out to put that on, like, your transistor kinda flow website, you know, maybe put it in your show notes or or somewhere. It's, again, it's an easy accessible link that you could send people who wanna listen to your podcast who are newer
listeners. So the last thing I wanna talk about is, like, what should you be putting on this list? Right? Like, I I guess the first thing that I would think of is like, alright. We'll just go to your analytics and look at the top most 10 downloaded episodes or 8 most downloaded episodes. whatever number that you wanna pick, and then just add those. Right? And maybe that makes the most sense because it's the most popular episodes, but you know, maybe there's an
exception to that. Maybe there's an episode that you want people to listen to that isn't the most popular I'm thinking of my other podcast working towards our purpose, for example, like, that podcast is me interviewing other people, but the first episode of that podcast is me kinda introducing myself and telling my story,
and it's not the most downloaded episode. but I think maybe that would be helpful for people to give context to my podcast is, like, you know, where did I get the idea for this and where did where coming from what's my past story and then getting into the stories of others because I think it helps to define the show more or even just like give, you know, more
context to the interviews. So I would intentionally think about you know, what this list is and maybe not just doing the most downloaded ones, but which ones make the most sense from somebody who's coming
into your podcast from a fresh perspective. So I hope this was helpful and, you know, I hope it helps inspire you to maybe think of your greatest hits of your podcast to be able to show people to easily transition them into liking and loving your podcast instead of just telling them, you know, to go off on your own, I think it's a a much more approachable way to get new listeners And, you know, I kinda got excited about this idea, which is why I created
this episode for it, and I hope that it inspires you to do the same. And I'm probably gonna be having much more ideas and, content from this, grow my podcast summit that I'm currently listening to. and currently going through. So, you know, I'm I'm excited for the next couple weeks or maybe even months of this this podcast because I think I'm gonna be really excited about creating these because, like I said, the the girl on my podcast on me, at least last year for me
was so awesome and was very inspiring. And I think now I'm gonna be able to expand upon those ideas and give my own thoughts on those ideas and bring them to you and, you know, hopefully help you with your podcast. So Stay tuned for some some more great episodes, and thank you so much for listening. As always, I appreciate you spending your time with me, and I will see you on another episode.
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