Growing your audience through host-read ads works. But it takes time and effort. Time and effort that Jordan Harbinger has put in.
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Brands looking to advertise their podcasts are often told that host read ads. Aren't easy to scale, but sometimes the less easy paths provide the best results every month. Our guest Jordan harbinger of the Jordan harbinger show puts in considerable effort backed by tens of thousands of dollars to advertise his podcast.
On other podcasts. I wrote about this in my article, how to buy host, read ads at scale, which I'll link to in the description. Jordan has found amazing success with this strategy. And he was kind enough to share his knowledge on the subject with us, for the people who aren't familiar with you did you, you get into managing your ads, like the content creation.
You got a great idea. You you've made your show, but like, What made you decide to not just have somebody else handle your ads?
Jordan: Well, first I did want to have somebody else handle my ads and I called friends of mine at agencies. Well, actually that wasn't even my first stop. I first started talking to people that worked in marketing at networks, and I said, Hey, do you ever freelance, you know, a little side hustle, a little kind of moonlighting.
Is there anything that I can do to hire you? And. I got a lot of yeses. And then like five months later, they wer...