The Journey to 100k Downloads Begins with Simple Prep with Startup Junkie

Rogue Creators

Are you looking to grow your podcast’s listener base? Check out this episode of Rogue Creators! Caleb Talley and Jeff Amerine joined Bryan and Loren to celebrate reaching 100,000 downloads on the Startup Junkies Podcast. Caleb and Jeff co-host the show each week and talk with founders about the stories behind the businesses we love. On this episode, they chat with Bryan and Loren about creating the Startup Junkies Podcast, preparing for interviews, maintaining relationships with guests, and much more!

Shownotes

(2:11) What are you obsessed with?

(8:07) The Creating Startup Junkies Book

(9:31) The Inception of Startup Junkie

(13:26) The Startup Junkies Podcast Origin Story

(20:30) Tips for Growing Your Podcast

(24:28) Using Your Podcast to Build Relationships and Make Connections

(30:23) 1 Million Cups

(34:51) What’s Next for Startup Junkie?

(40:24) Wrap Up

(42:00) Rapid Fire

Links

Bryan Fittin

Loren Lewis

Caleb Talley

Jeff Amerine

Startup Junkies Podcast

The Grand Biocentric Design

The Place We Find Ourselves Podcast

Creating Startup Junkies

Quotes

“One thing led to another because there was a need in the market for the mentoring, counseling, training, the kind of start up support stuff that we do. And now, we probably touch 1,200 entrepreneurs a year through one-on-one counseling. And in normal times we put on 250 events, and all that stuff, thanks to the hard work of Caleb and the whole crew, is now virtual.” (10:46)

“We decided, let’s give the Zoom platform a shot, as far as recording the podcast. I think that really opened it up for us where we weren’t just having local entrepreneur guests on. It gave us an opportunity to expand out and invite people that we otherwise would not have been able to invite on.” (16:26)

“You can be more conversational if you get a sense for the types of things that people are going to want to hear about. How’d you get started? How did you raise money? How do you deal with building the team? What kind of challenges do you face? That sort of stuff.” (24:53)

“[Matthew has] kind of streamlined the process for bringing [guests] on and getting them scheduled. Part of that is getting some seeds of fun facts. He’s got a questionnaire of some things to kind of pull from them that we can throw out during the podcast.” (25:32)