26. Ask Angie: Seasons Vs. Episodic, Which Is Better For My Podcast?

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Should you record your podcast in

seasons or should you do a long

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running episodes, episodic podcast?

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Let's talk about it.

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So in this episode, I'm answering

questions from people who

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are inside my Facebook group.

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And the question is, should I create

my podcast in seasons or should

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I do a running episodic podcast?

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So let's answer it.

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So stay tuned and I will

answer that question for you.

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So what's up?

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Welcome back to another Q and a episode

where people ask me questions inside my

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Facebook group launch grow explode your

podcast on Facebook if you want to come

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and join us, and I come on here on my

podcast and answer them and I love it.

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So.

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Let's answer today's question.

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It is from Lacey and Lacey says, Is

there a benefit or negative to doing

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seasons versus continued episodes?

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So let's talk about it.

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If you have been around here

long enough, you know that I talk

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about seasons and I like seasons.

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And maybe you have noticed that I also

switched my podcast to non seasons.

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So maybe you saw that and

you're like, what the heck?

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Or maybe you didn't notice

at all, which is fine.

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I probably wouldn't notice.

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So let's talk about it because

this is present in something that

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is currently going on for me.

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So the reason I love seasons is because

I am ADHD, I, my brain is all over

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the place and I do really, really,

really fucking well with closed

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circles with things that are completed.

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It makes my brain space cleared.

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So when I came up with seasons.

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It was for me, largely, and

how my brain works, okay?

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There's, there's also other reasons

why I like seasons, but that is one

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of the big reasons why I like it.

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So it's how my brain works.

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I like to come up with one idea,

and I like to say, Okay, what

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is the goal that we are trying

to accomplish with this season?

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Then I can use my framework, map that

out, map out my goal, map out the episodes

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that are going to help me accomplish that

goal, and then I can record them, and

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then it's this beautiful piece of work,

it's this beautiful body of work that

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is a season that I can refer back to, I

can, um, use as kind of like a library,

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I know that in season two I talked all

about how to edit your podcast, and so.

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Anytime anyone asks me the

question, I'm going to go say,

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Hey, in season two, I talked about

all about editing your podcast.

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So go listen to that episode, right?

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Go listen to that whole season.

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So I love how it wraps it

up in a pretty little bow.

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I also love with seasons, how

you can stop because you're

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like, season one is over with.

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You can stop and then you can start

again and re engage your audience.

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You can say, okay, now

it's time for season two.

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Let's re engage.

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Let's do like a little relaunch.

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Let's do a little giveaway or

something for my new season.

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So I love that about seasons.

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Now the reason I switched to doing

episodic is because I have a new strategy.

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It's because now I'm releasing episodes

twice a week and I'm releasing, and

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the other part of this is that, I've

shifted my business and I'm only selling

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my membership and I'm only selling

my digital products and digital shop.

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And that's it.

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So it's not like I'm doing seasons

to warm people up to something that

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I'm doing differently in my business.

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Cause I'm always doing the same thing now.

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This is all I'm forever going

to be doing in my business.

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I'm not even going to say forever because

that's ridiculous, but that's what

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I'm going to be doing in my business.

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And I wanted to switch and increase

the frequency at which I release them.

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And I wanted to try a new format,

which is release one episode and then

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release a Q and a episode every week.

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So there was several reasons

that I wanted to do it like this.

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Is one way better than the other way?

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No.

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I don't think one way is

better than the other way.

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I just think that they

serve different purposes.

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And you have to decide which one is

right for you and the way that you work.

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For a long time, I, I did not

create weekly episodes, I just

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created in seasons and I use

those episodes in a different way.

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And so right now I'm hyper focused

on increasing my listenership

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through the podcasting app.

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And I'm just doing things

differently versus.

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When I was doing Seasons, I would use that

same content over and over and over in

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my business to primarily sell my offers.

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Now I am shifting a little bit more

into, I'm not just using my podcast in

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my business, but I am growing my podcast.

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Not saying that you can't

grow your podcast in Seasons,

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but My focus is different.

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Okay.

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If that makes sense.

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So I'm focused in general in my

marketing on producing more and

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more content, just to be honest.

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And before I wasn't focused on

that, I was focused on let's take

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this group of episodes this season

and let's maximize it and use it.

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To help me sell my shit.

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Okay, so I hope that that makes

sense and the answer to your

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question Seasons versus episodic.

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I hope that I answered that but it's

really a preference It's really what feels

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good for you to create to really what?

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Makes sense for your business and

wherever you're at And I want to give

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you permission for whoever is listening.

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You can do this however you want

to do it and you can change it up.

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You can go from doing seasons if

you want and then switch it up

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or you can have been episodic and

then now you're going into seasons.

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Um, Instead of doing seasons, you

could do series if you want to, if

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you don't want to do big full seasons.

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Um, I may incorporate some of that into

the podcast, but for now I'm sticking

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to my format of two episodes a week,

one where I'm giving information,

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one where I'm doing a Q and a,

and that's what I'm doing for now.

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So.

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I hope that answers your question, Lacey.

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And again, if you have questions that

you want me to answer specifically

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for you, go over to my Facebook

group, LaunchPro Explode, your

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podcast, and come ask me anything.

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And so I can, uh, respond

to you here on the podcast.

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So I hope that helps and I will

see you in the next episode.