Start Podcasting to Promote Your Business

by DejanB on July 31, 2010

Podcasting is quickly becoming the go to place to market your business or product. Podcasting can do so many things for your online business to bolster your reputation and create a community of fans around your product.

Establishes You as an Expert

Starting and maintaining an engaging and informative podcast allows you to become known as an expert in your field. If you are marketing and creating a product on time management for example, you can create a podcast that gives tips and tricks for time management and use it as a promotional tool to get your viewers or listeners to sign up on your mailing list or to purchase your product.

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Becoming an expert in your field can be pretty tough, especially if you are in the medical field without a PhD. But using your podcast as leverage to motivate people to follow you in other places, such as Twitter and Facebook, grows your following and reach on each individual.

Search Engines Can Love You

Using your podcast as a marketing tool for listeners is great, but you can also use it as a means of generating search traffic to your site or blog. Hosting your podcasts on your website (as well as iTunes) will allow your blog to receive more Google love simply by being there. Using good, catchy, headlines as the titles of your blog posts featuring your Podcast will bring in more visitors to your site.

Another great thing you can do is to hire a transcriptionist to take your podcasts and make a blog post from them. This will give you a ton more content and create a truly unique experience for your fans, they can either listen to your podcast or read your podcast transcript if they would rather do that.

Reuse Old Content

Podcasting is a great way to use PLR (private label rights) content to create new, unique podcasts from it. You can simply read the PLR and create a podcast that way or you can use it as inspiration for new topics to explore.

Old content from your blog or product can be retrofitted to become great podcasting content. It is a great way to promote old content back into the forefront and to get your newer listeners information that they may have missed before they started to follow your site.

Podcasting can be a great way to promote your business or products through a new medium and to a new audience, it can also help you reuse old content, and rank better in Google and other search engines.

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