How to Grow a Top 10 Podcast + Impatience with Action, Patience with Results [Sam Parr, Shaan Puri]

<p>Listen to MFM (1hr in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIgYNAI9Fk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIgYNAI9Fk</a>)</p><p><strong>how to grow podcasts</strong></p><ul> <li>big guest</li> <li>"how to" episode</li> <li>buy ads on niche audience - eg podcast junkie types - castbox, overcast</li> <li>be consistent and at least ok</li> <li>treat side hustle like a job -&gt; grind at it</li> <li>maintain and improve an existing winner instead of constantly jumping around "there are no silver bullets, only lead bullets"</li> <li>impatience with action, patience with results</li> </ul><p><br><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p>uh in 3-1 so what was that march march <br>we did 338 <br>000 downloads in april we did 436 000 <br>downloads so <br>uh that's a 30 game about in may <br>it's tracking towards around 520 000 <br>which is another <br>20 20 increase i think we can keep going <br>and i want to tell you what i think is <br>is causing all this <br>the first is <br>the biology episode so guests <br>typically we have found don't work that <br>well but a really <br>big name guest or someone that has a <br>cult following <br>like a tie or biology um that works <br>who's ty lopez oh tai lopez okay gotcha <br>uh when we did that one because he's <br>like cult following <br>and a cult unfollowing he's got both <br>yeah <br>yeah so that that worked so the <br>biology's episode is probably gonna be <br>the most listened <br>one ever um so that worked out <br>how much more is it than the usual is <br>like 20 more 50 <br>more than a typical episode it got to 30 <br>000 <br>like in the first week typically our <br>episodes get to 30 000 over like <br>two months gotcha okay so it it did that <br>in like a week or whenever it was when <br>did it get released a week <br>days five days wednesday i talked to him <br>on the phone and he said yeah <br>a good episode i shared it so hopefully <br>that helps <br>and then uh he's down to share more but <br>we only tweeted out i think one clip <br>from it so he's down to sha