The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 14

Episodes - 25

What We're Talking About: 

• TTD Revenue - $118,241
• What happened in January
• Business transition to LLC
• Updated our welcome offer and launch strategy
• We're 90 days into Growth U
• Other fun numbers for January
• Upcoming launch/product updates

Links & Resources:

Tracking & Learning Episode

Ready to kickstart your podcast production business? There are two days left in our winter enrollment! Learn more here. 

The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 13

Podcast episodes - 24

What We're Talking About:

• What's an MVP? 
  • Creating something small enough to validate the idea, proof of concept before putting money and energy into a bigger, full version
• How we do it
  • Us: There are people who want to receive PP education + reach their biz goals
  • Students: People will pay for PP services
• Why don’t people have the MVP mindset? 
  • Procrastination
  • Fear/unknown
  • Not knowing better (not being in the biz world) 
  • Imposter syndrome
  • Growth vs fixed mindset (inflexible)
• What’s great about it
  • Saving resources in the long run
  • It’s fun!!!
• What’s hard about it
  • Problem-solving can be challenging
  • If you’re betting everything on this one thing work - then it’s easy to become defeated

Links & Resources:

Podcast Production School course

The Becoming Internet Famous Podcast is BTYB Podcast Production School: an online course designed to help you master the skills + strategies needed to launch, manage, and grow podcasts for small businesses. 

The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 13

Episodes - 23

What We're Talking About:

• $114,542 TTD Revenue
• Not a huge revenue month, but we had low expenses.
• Keeping recurring revenue consistent over time.
• Encouraging our students to utilize their newfound skillsets to serve good-paying clients.
• We've served 181 students in our course and added 163 students to our private community to date.
• We provided 41 leads to our community in 2020.
• You don't need a huge audience to sell a product or service successfully.

Links & Resources:

Talking about money in business episode

2020 in review episode

Learn more about our course

The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 13 

Podcast episodes - 22

What We're Talking About:

• The value of being transparent about money. 
• Sharing income reports allows the opportunity for bigger conversations around hope and representation.
• Re-investing back into your business. 
• Creating money and creating value.
• Making more money = the ability to help more people.
• Not being ashamed of lofty money goals.
• There is no traditional education path anymore.
• The idea that money purchases options + choices.
• Work with what you have until you have more to work with.
• We each had a goal to buy a house this year and we all did. BAM!

Links & Resources:

Gina's Income Report from 12/2016

Arrange the pieces that come to you podcast episode (The Alison Show)

You're a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero

BIF: Learning to Make Better Biz Decisions

BIF: Must Have Skills for Online Biz Owners

The Becoming Internet Famous Podcast is BTYB Podcast Production School: an online course designed to help you master the skills + strategies needed to launch, manage, and grow podcasts for small businesses. 

The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 12

Episodes - 21

What We're Talking About: 

• $111,191 TTD Revenue as of 11/29/20.
• Building our business as our students build theirs.
• We're averaging a profit of about 6K per month.
• Background work for 2021 with Growth University.
• For 2o21, we're taking our payment plan option off the table and why we're going with one pay in full option.
• Next launch - February 2021!

The Becoming Internet Famous Podcast is BTYB Podcast Production School: An online course designed to help you master the skills + strategies needed to launch, manage, and grow podcasts for small businesses. 

What We're Talking About: 

• Launched in November 2019.
• Staring the year with a payment plan option for the course.
• Going to Podfest in Orlando in March and learning a ton.
• The introduction of the COVID pandemic.
• Rebranding from Podcast Assist to Podcast Production School.
• The book we wrote - Make Money as a Podcast Producer. 
• Hiring Neville Medhora.
• We reached our 100K goal by October.
• Working with Growth U.
• Transitioning PPS into its own business entity.

Links & Resources Mentioned: 

Make Money as a Podcast Producer

Working with Neville episode

Reaching our 100K goal episode

The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 11

Podcast episodes - 19

What We're Talking About:

• $106,724 TTD Revenue as of 10/31/20.
• Hitting our $100K goal in 10 months and 8 days on 10/8 (the ladies make fun of me, but it's totally fate!)
• Slow month, small launch. 
• Started working with Growth U.
• The expectation of this brand is that it's part-time for all three of us.
• Adding substantial new content to the course that answers gaps in students' learning.
• Quickstart in November.

The Becoming Internet Famous Podcast is BTYB Podcast Production School: master the skills + strategies needed to launch, manage, and grow podcasts for small businesses.

The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 11 months

Podcast episodes - 18 episodes

What We're Talking About:

• The value in the energy Zack brings to the Horkey Handbook team.
• How Zack started with ZERO podcast production experience.
• Found the course so comprehensive that he had to do very little outside research.
• How he utilized his previous skill sets and brought them into podcast production.
• Starting with ZERO confidence and building it up over time.
• When you put yourself out there you never know who you'll inspire.
• 'Doing' is more important than 'perfect.'

Links & Resources Mentioned:

Podcast Production School

The Becoming Internet Famous Podcast is BTYB Podcast Production School: Learn how to master the hard skills & strategies needed to launch, manage, and grow podcasts for small business owners or yourself!

The Journey So Far:

Months in operation - 11

Podcast episodes - 17

What We're Talking About:

• We have almost hit our 100K goal for this year!
• Other goals:
  • Increase recurring revenue.
  • Maximize the lifetime value of each student/customer.
• September's pricing & packaging community challenge.
• Hiring Growth U for PPS brand.
• PPS Quickstart. 

Links & Resources Mentioned:

Learn more about our bonuses (including Quickstart!)

Growth University

Have something you'd like us to talk about in our income report episodes? Send us an email at [email protected]. 

The Journey So Far

Months in Operation: 11

Episodes: 16

What We're Talking About: 

•  Being a podcast guest as an entry point.
• The podcasting space continued to boom despite a pandemic!
• Experiencing and dealing with 'imposter syndrome.'
• Working with what you have until you have more to work with.
• Why not you? Why not now?

Links & Resources Mentioned:

Behind the Scenes of our Personal Podcasts

The Becoming Internet Famous Podcast is BTYB Podcast Production School: Learn how to master the hard skills & strategies needed to launch, manage, and grow podcasts for small business owners.