Podcast Graveyard

SUMMARY

Enjoy the second, bone-chilling installment of Podcast Graveyard's Halloween Special! This time, James crosses paths with John Welch from Humans of LinkedIn.

In this eerie episode, James and John venture into the ghostly origins of his show—why he conjured it into existence—and its spectral essence. John reveals the ominous warning against hasty podcasting decisions, cautioning against recklessly 'just doing it.' James and John also delve into the mysterious superpower of podcasting, while John shares his most bewitching piece of advice for all fledgling podcasters.

So, grab your headphones and prepare for a spine-tingling and thought-provoking journey through the haunted podcast graveyard.

This spectral podcast is brought to you by OneFinePlay, your one-stop source for all your unearthly entertainment needs.

TIMESTAMPS

00:05 Intro

04:28 Interested in podcasting; loves long-form stories.

07:09 Podcasts popularity is growing

11:36 Investing time wisely in podcast production

15:29 I may have been too open and unfiltered.

19:30 Get on the phone!

26:49 Make a show for the intended audience, not yourself.

30:24 Find your passion or abandon your endeavour.

34:34 Appreciate good ideas, plan segments, and grow.

37:47 Outro

QUOTES

"Between me and my partner, my business partner, we probably put 3 or 4 hours in each episode, and we did, like, maybe 2 a month. Now both of us, like I said, very specifically engineered what we were doing so that we could do it as quickly as possible.”

— John Welch

"I don't really give a **** about a lot of the marketing stuff that people talk about, and I think most of it's terrible advice...most of the time when people get stuff to work, they either stumbled into something that somebody else was already doing that was a good idea, or they just got super lucky. So, like, a lot of that advice just doesn't even resonate really because there's just the fundamentals.”

— John Welch

"Just know why you care. And if it's something that you're gonna be able to do because you enjoy it, then do it. If you're just doing it, like, people can sniff out it, like, the they can sniff out the inauthenticity thing.”

— John Welch

ABOUT THE GUEST

John is a sales consultant and top-of-funnel strategist/practitioner who spends his days making calls for clients, testing email scripts, writing LinkedIn content, etc. The point is that he takes your potential customers from "do I know you?" to "let's talk.”

WATCH ON YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/@podcastgraveyard/videos

SPONSORS

• Check out our FREE creator economy directory here: https://www.onefineplay.com/directory/all
• Get access to the OneFinePlaybook here: https://www.onefineplay.com/#features
• Visit Aila https://meetaila.com/ and use the code GRAVEYARD at checkout
• Use Podder https://www.podderapp.com/ for better podcast analytics

FAVOURITE PODCASTING TOOLS

• Notion [how we plan our podcasts] Click here
• Captivate - [for podcast hosting] https://www.captivate.fm/signup?ref=jamesbishop
• PodPage - [for your podcast website] https://www.podpage.com/?via=OneFinePlay

CONTACT

Email [email protected] or head to www.podcastgraveyard.com

Feel free to share your feedback, ideas, or insights from the episodes by tweeting @onefineplay. Thank you for tuning in!

ABOUT THE HOST

James Bishop (40), is the founder of OneFinePlay and one of the leading voices in podcasting.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbishopio/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesbishopio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesbishopio

Website: https://www.jamesbishop.io/

SUMMARY & LINKS

Welcome to the spooktacular debut of Podcast Graveyard's Halloween Edition! Join James as he summons Greg Rutherford MBE and Andrew Steele to discuss their creation, The Life & Performance Podcast.

In this spine-chilling episode, James and our spectral guests delve into the thrilling and chilling world of podcasting. Greg and Andrew recount the terrifying trials of co-hosting and their decision to avoid the haunting podcast analytics. The ghostly team also reveals their most haunting regrets & ghastly mistakes from producing the show, and Greg and Andrew ponder if they'd ever consider resurrecting the show from the dead!

So, don your headphones and prepare for a spine-tingling and thought-provoking journey through the haunted podcast graveyard.This paranormal podcast is brought to you by OneFinePlay, your one-stop shop for all your otherworldly entertainment needs.

This podcast has been brought to you by OneFinePlay

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Welcome to Podcast Graveyard and the tragic tale of "The Life and Performance."

01:20 - Unveiling the friendship between Greg Rutherford and Andrew Steele

03:45 - The birth of "The Life and Performance" podcast

08:10 - Lessons learned from poor planning and lack of audience engagement

12:30 - Can this podcast be resurrected?

16:15 - The hosts discuss the impact of podcasting on their lives and restlessness as athletes

19:00 - The chemistry, challenges, and spooky moments of co-hosting a podcast

QUOTES

"And it was a case of we we we genuinely believed in it, but we just couldn't give it the time, I don't think either. And it was just marrying things. And, of course, then we decided after the first one that we wanted to get guests in. We sort of thought we'll have so much just us talking about a topic again, but we'll try and get some guests in. And it just trying to arrange any of it? It just became impossible, didn't it?"

— Greg Rutherford

"Surprising Friendship: I always thought you just found me annoying, basically, like an annoying little brother in a way."

— Greg Rutherford

ABOUT THE GUEST

Greg Rutherford MBE is a retired British track and field athlete who specialised in the long jump. He represented Great Britain at the Olympics, World and European Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games

Andrew Steele is a British 400 metres and 4x400 m relay runner. In 2008, Steele competed in his first Olympic Games – Beijing 2008

WATCH ON YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/@podcastgraveyard/videos

SPONSORS

• Check our FREE creator economy directory: https://www.onefineplay.com/directory/all
• Get access to the OneFinePlaybook here: https://www.onefineplay.com/#features
• Visit Aila https://meetaila.com/ and use the code GRAVEYARD at checkout
• Use Podder https://www.podderapp.com/ for better podcast analytics

FAVOURITE PODCASTING TOOLS

• Notion [how we plan our podcasts] Click here
• Captivate - [for podcast hosting] https://www.captivate.fm/signup?ref=jamesbishop
• PodPage - [for your podcast website] https://www.podpage.com/?via=OneFinePlay

CONTACT

• Email [email protected] or head to www.podcastgraveyard.com
• Feel free to share your feedback, ideas, or insights from the episodes by tweeting @onefineplay. Thank you for tuning in!

ABOUT THE HOST

James Bishop (40), is the founder of OneFinePlay and one of the leading voices in podcasting.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbishopio/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesbishopio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesbishopio

Website: https://www.jamesbishop.io/

Mentioned in this episode:

Creator Economy Directory from OneFinePlay

OFP Directory

Thanks to our sponsor, Aila.

Use code GRAVEYARD at checkout for 20% off.

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Welcome to the official Podcast Graveyard Trailer!

Podcasting has never been bigger. With more revenue, download numbers and shows being produced now than ever before. But competition for attention has never been fiercer. Did you know that over 93% of podcasts never make more than just 7 episodes?

Have you ever wondered what happens to these podcasts and creators?

Why did they start?

What led them to stop?

And what lessons can aspiring creators learn from their untimely demise so that they don’t meet the same grizzly fate?

Join James Bishop, founder of OneFinePlay, as he embarks on an insightful and fascinating journey - delving into the Podcast Graveyard to unearth the untold tales of shows that are now longer with us.

About James Bishop & OneFinePlay

James Bishop is the founder of OneFinePlay - one of the leading production companies in ‘conscious’ podcasting. Over the last five years, James and OneFinePlay has made hundreds of podcasts with creators big and small - totalling millions of downloads, no.1 shows in the Apple Podcast Charts, tens of millions of views on social media and award winning podcasts. OneFinePlay has recently launched the world’s most comprehensive and user friendly directory designed to have all of the best products, people & perspectives across the creator economy.

If you have a podcast in the graveyard you want to talk about - reach out to us at [email protected]