Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
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Kind: captions Language: en I won’t give you feedback that I got from from listeners Sean you ready am I prepared for this is this harsh critical whew that’s good - okay great no okay so what I’m noticing with this podcast is we have a similar amount of views each week and I think it’s the same people over and over I think we’re like part of people’s routine which is cool and the I think that one of the secrets to growing a podcast is do you have to have guests so when we had Andrew he shared it I saw people who like him came and listened and I hope we’ve got him hooked and they’re gonna listen from now on and so the way that we’re gonna do this is we’re just gonna get more guests but here’s what people keep telling me and this they weren’t saying this about Andrew but they like it when it’s just you and I rip in it and just making up on the fly yeah yeah I felt that and I think it’s even more on these zoom calls because the zoom called pace a little slower when we’re in person it’s a little bit better I think to have that third guest on the seat and it definitely depends their guests got to bring the bring to energy you can’t just be successful in smart that is not enough you have to bring energy you got to know what people want to hear about and get to the point and so you know that’s the the rubric for guest which is hard when you’re also trying to find famous guests because they help to show grow and just for the record Sean and I have recorded with I think we’ve done a bunch of times I personally have done it a bunch of times and it was wonderful people who I like and it just turned out to be bad and we just don’t publish yeah we throw it away and we don’t even talk we just throw it away yeah and I’ve done it like four throughout the years for whatever I don’t even remember what I was recording stuff for I’ve interviewed someone who was like an amazing operator and the content was wack and I’m like well trash it so anyway the feedback that we’re getting so is that people like us because they say that I’m more optimist and you’re more like down-to-earth and that we’re if and they love that and that they can’t get that anywhere but you and I are like let’s go get more guests and people don’t like to guess unfortunately that helps us grow yeah well we’ll keep mixing it in dude I had a call yesterday that I was like if I had just recorded this this would have been like one of the dopest podcasts ever it was just me and for a con we have a call every once a week now that’s just called cool and he lives in like the edge of like technology he’s like in the dark web basically that not in a legal way but sort of like he’s on the forefront of what’s interest like an he’s just a nerd he’s just like a very typical Silicon Valley engineer just yeah he knows reality a good way he knows me well enough and also he loves money enough where he knows how to take that stuff and bubble up the bits that are interesting the bits that are relevant and not just get lost in the weeds of technology so that cover was amazing but unfortunately didn’t record the other thing was gonna say about the guest is being guest on other people’s podcast is the other way to grow so I had a Shawn let yesterday reach out to like 50 podcasts and just be like hey I’ll go on and talk about it right like I’ll go on I just sold my company I can go on and talk about that hey we built a podcast that did a million downloads in the first six months we could talk about how we did that and so I think guesting on other people’s podcast might be a good way you did this with Gary Vee with pomp so yeah I probably so there’s a caveat there I’ve I’ve probably been a guest a hundred times and there was a period like over the trailing six months I have it set on my calendar from three o’clock to five o’clock that’s only guessing on podcast and I would do it and some of the small ones just drove nothing right like it was total hit or miss and so I would spend like three weeks doing it and it’s almost like and you probably like this it’s like being the comedian you just say this same over and over and you kind of figure out what hits and it’s fun it’s almost like therapy you just talk about yourself it’s cool but it definitely gets a little repetitive and it the results are not always there but they are sometimes yeah and you know the thing you said at the beginning which is for podcasting you get this base and it’s the sticky sticky base of people who want to listen to it all the time it becomes a part of the routine they start to really love you that sort of thing it’s very different than other products I built where I’m like alright I want to get millions of users to just visit this page or like just use this once a week or subscribe to this and kind of like that’s been a lot of the products I built this is the opposite it’s like an army of a hundred thousand people who will like go to war for you I think there’s people in this group that would if I said hey I need you to beat this person up they would go beat that person up like there’s people who really have your back and when I started this I remember I was talking to su Lee who’s the very first guest on the pod and he was like you know what do you think it makes you just sold the company and I was like you know I really like this podcast thing it was okay like is that a business like in some ways it’s a step down right it’s like I’m gonna wait way less doing this than I did my last business or any other business I want to do and I was like look I want to just be in like a million people’s ear balls every morning if I did that I just know that that’s a good thing and I don’t know how to get there but I’m gonna do that I’m gonna get into a million people’s ear balls every morning on their way to work and the way to work I think that’s powerful yeah I mean it may or may not be a business but it definitely will lead to way more opportunity yeah I’ve had a lot of I mean I’ve been doing the content thing a little bit like before the podcast so I kind of understand it but the podcast definitely is different I remember I went to New York salon and I just tweeted I was like I’m we’re gonna be over I’m gonna be over here because I was there for a hustle advertising crap and I just tweeted as like yeah I want to be here I had 200 people want to come and so we only let maybe 20 come and because we’re in people’s ears dude like these people this kid Ryan said something to me and he’s like yeah you know cuz you said how much you liked this thing and I was like I don’t remember what you’re talking about and like they think they know you and you know the other thing I like is that people or the people who is this are actually pretty really really smart and successful you know I think a lot of podcasts that are about business they cater to kind of lowest common denominator so it’s like oh the waltrip renewer is their core market and you know in our facebook group for this podcast I posted something saying hey I’m doing something cool for people who have a business that does over a million dollars a year and there’s like a hundred plus replies just in that Facebook group of people who have businesses doing over a million dollars a year right so these are not like kind of like the want reproduce you know they’re not job or a college kid or something like that like of course there are people like that but the audience also is mixed with a lot of interesting successful people there’s a bunch of VCS that listen to this it’s crazy so anyways enough about the podcast let’s give people some some other topics or ideas [Music]