Comments on: Podfading Podcast

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:04:09 +0000

Podfading can also be sad for fans— Dailysonic became a huge favorite of mine… and then I accidentally erased my archive of shows before realizing that they were no longer producing anything new— as it stands the episodes I had burned to cd are things I can still enjoy listening to repeatedly.

By: Norbert Davis

Norbert Davis — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:54:48 +0000

Todd,

I can agree with you on this as I have been doing this for just over two years and my podcast is small but alive. I have had my dips in listenership and rises as well. I have stuck it out because it has not gotten to be an ego thing for me, but rather a love of the hobby. I still feel that I have not gotten to my full potential with my podcast, I am thinking of doing some major tweaks but keeping the flavor of the podcast the same. I do not intend to podfade, but if I do decide to go, I will at least bow out gracefully and let all my listeners know what and why I would be hanging up the mic.

Norbert Davis,
Host – Norbtek.info Podcast
http://www.norbtek.info

By: Tom Sybert

Tom Sybert — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:43:34 +0000

Todd, I think that many get into podcasting as a hobby and you're right have high expectations for a listener base that just isn't there. Thanks to you and your book I started my own podcast and have 77 shows under my belt. I'm having a great time doing the show each week and realize that I'll never have 10,000 listeners. While a disappointment at first realizing this I do strive each week to gain listeners through my existing audience of 100-200 by spicing it up, offering contests, asking to spread the word etc. I've come to realize that it's great to have 10,000 listeners, I love the size of my audience. When it comes to the number of hits a website gets the more the better right? Well in my opinion I feel that it's the quality of people listening and visiting that count not the number. Thanks Todd for the blog post and as well for writing such a good book. I never would have come as far as I have. I do the show on my own time and get a lot of great comments for doing it. Keep up the good work.