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How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by NotSammyHagar »

kranner wrote: post #30
ggm wrote: post #24

A hidden threat in this, is that podcasting can look like journalism to many economies. If you "report" on current affairs in any way, you can fall into the trap. Mainstream broadcasters are always super-careful when staff are sent to the USA, to get the right visa. If the staffer just goes to the USA, they have to make damn sure they don't return to work, even if they take that call about some story, there is a risk…

This is true in general for digital nomads, whether they blog/podcast or even just freelance, a lot of whom continue to work a few months at a time in foreign locales on tourist visas. I've seen their blogs refer to visas as a gray area. I'm pretty sure this is a mistake.

I've looked at a few of the digital nomad guidence sites and none I've seen do much more than say its vague. If Steven King goes to the UK and writes a few news about his book, is he working? If I visit the Uk from the US on vacation and I answer a work email using my phone am I working? Probably these countries don't care, but where is the line between answering an email and "working" while living in the uk in a hotel room for a month?

I've never worked anywhere but the us, but as a dev I could work remotely anywhere in the world if I was certain it wasn't illegal.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by ggm »

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #41
kranner wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is true in general for digital nomads, whether they blog/podcast or even just freelance, a lot of whom continue to work a few months at a time in foreign locales on tourist visas. I've seen their blogs refer to visas as a gray area. I'm pretty sure this is a mistake.

I've looked at a few of the digital nomad guidence sites and none I've seen do much more than say its vague. If Steven King goes to the UK and writes a few news about his book, is he working? If I visit the Uk from the US on vacation and I answer a work email using my phone am I working? Probably these countries don't care, but where is the line between answering an email and "working" while living in the uk in a hot…

I got permanent re-entry work permitted for Uruguay at very low marginal effort. It's not bali-cheap but it's developed, different, gateway to all of south America, and high tech friendly.

There are economies which would welcome you as a digital nomad.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by quickthrower2 »

alexis_fr wrote: post #27
quickthrower2 wrote: post #14

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If I understand correctly Medium charges both readers and publishers for a service that you can get free elsewhere? Does that sum it up?

Let’s say the service is to get the audience to the content... and it’s not a very simple problem to solve. HN does it very well, btw.

I only find Medium articles linked from elsewhere or via search. In both cases having those articles hosted on another platform or on private blogs would work.

What I don't do, which is where Medium might add value is go on Medium to search for content. I don't reckon I'd find good stuff by going down that route.

So really they are piggy backing off search and links that would otherwise go to "free" blogging software, or at least something like Ghost that isn't in your face and actually hosts just the content.

In short they are a parasite.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by michaelt »

diN0bot wrote: post #22
personlurking wrote: post #18

Great post Is there a general ratio for how much audio you record per session vs how long your average podcast episode is? Do you cut, say, 25% or something like that? They seem to run 40-50 minutes, from checking your site. Would going the Patreon route (since your podcast is ad-free now) be viable?

I'm interested in this, too. Also, it seems like there are still ways to receive some revenue from creating useful content that thousands of people are interested in. Not because the money is so important, but because there are parts of community engagement that are fun to do and feel rewarding, and there are other parts that can be contracted. I didn't understand the "make a media company" or nothing aspect consider…

  I didn't understand the "make a
  media company" or nothing aspect
If I quit my BigCo job to bootstrap a business from my savings, I'd want to recognise if the business was failing well before it lead me to personal bankruptcy. So I'd have a deadline and success criteria.

Presumably his success criteria for the become-a-pro-podcaster experiment wasn't being met selling his ad inventory alone, and selling extra inventory to his existing sales prospects got him closer.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by C1sc0cat »

timoth3y wrote: post #13
lacampbell wrote: post #4

It's behind a sign in wall for me because I've read too many medium articles, apparently. Bring back blogspot!

Here is a link to the original. I posted on Medium because it seems more people will visit Medium than a blog they've never heard of before. https://www.disruptingjapan.com/how-i-made-8000-per-month-po... I wish it weren't so.

Interesting BTW The listener in the Vatican is probably Robert Ballecer

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by majewsky »

personlurking wrote: post #18

Great post Is there a general ratio for how much audio you record per session vs how long your average podcast episode is? Do you cut, say, 25% or something like that? They seem to run 40-50 minutes, from checking your site. Would going the Patreon route (since your podcast is ad-free now) be viable?

Not OP, but it wildly depends on the format. I do two different shows. One is live radio where the podcast version is a verbatim copy of the livestream (except for postprocessing and metadata), so 0% gets cut. The November episode has a fun 2-minute interlude where I fumble with the studio software trying to get music to play.

My other podcast is scripted and pre-produced. An episode usually comes in at 8 minutes, and I usually record around double that. For some sentences, I do 4-5 takes until I get it right. (That said, recording is really the smallest part. The biggest timesink on that podcast is research and writing the script, which takes around 3-4 hours per episode. Partly because of my perfectionist attitude.)

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by trqx »

asimilator wrote: post #34
Causality1 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That much? I only see the first two lines, and that's with a 16:10 monitor. From the "use a bookmarking system that only works on our website" to the astonishingly poorly-framed author photo to the "clap for this story" social media button which is a term I've never heard before in my life, the poor page layout choices are really dragging down an excellent article.

https://i.imgur.com/Kz5JHuJ.png I get only 2/3rds of the headline on mobile. I guess it’s nice that the Medium app is made for readers, cause their website sure as heck isn’t ...

Is it recursive day? This is what I get when I click on your link.

https://tmp.shroom.party/joy.jpg

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by andy_ppp »

blunte wrote: post #11
prklmn wrote: post #5

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https://outline.com/J6Du4y

Outline is awesome for as long as it works. It's only a matter of time before it is effectively blocked by the content capturing sites. I know it's a bit of a rant, but we shouldn't need Outline to make the web useful. Thankfully it exists as an option, but that's like needing antibiotics because every time we go shopping we get cut 1,000 times by the doorways to the stores we try to shop at...

Reader mode is available in Safari and can't be disabled like that.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by Igelau »

ggm wrote: post #37
austhrow743 wrote: post #32

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Or why it being journalism matters. Podcasting = working. Journalism = working. They should run in to the same problems with tourism visas.

Somehow journalists make headlines when this happens. Lots of people enter on a tourism visa and do not earn income but are in the us for a mixture of reasons -what gets reported, is journalists being caught and expelled. I have an APEC card. I only ever enter for work. I think it's considered ok to recreate, having entered for work related reasons.

> Somehow journalists make headlines when this happens.

Journalists make the headlines because journalists make the headlines.

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