A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Start your Podcasting Journey!" (hosted by Mark Simpson) where Mark and another speaker encourage listeners to begin podcasting, noting how easy it was around 2018 (five-dollar mics, Anchor) and addressing common fears about metrics and monetization. They stress just starting, having fun, and being an early entrant.
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That's like, well, that's.
One thing saying to everybody, just do it, keep going, do it, start.
Yeah, yeah. That's the one thing you and I have gotten along with, especially when we got to talk to Nashville, which we can easily ease into now, is we're just talking about like, dude, it's so easy to start a podcast. I feel like 2018 was like, when I. That's when I started was right then and there. Gary Vee, Tony Robbins, get a five dollar mic, go on anchor, create a podcast. It's free, it's cheap, whatever. Now there is a little bit of barrier to entry, but there's so many people that just are so afraid of, like, is it gonna hit the metric numbers and are we gonna be able to monetize and are we gonna be able to do this? And it's like, just do it. Have fun, get creative.
So early. You're still so early in it.
Like, compared to.
You know, if you compare podcasting to blogging, there's like 1 million, maybe 1 to 2 million, like, podcasts. With blogging, there's billions of blogs. Like, people will still start a blog today, but they won't do a podcast, whatever reason. It's like, the main thing is for me is you got to make sure that you are visible on every market and channel.