Your voice Matters

Published: July 10, 2022, 11:38 a.m.


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We are all time poor, but we\u2019re rich in expertise and compelling service offerings, so why not use your time smartly by installing your voice where your market plays?

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Yes, podcasts are anything but new, but they are a mature content type every business should consider as part of their overall marketing and PR strategy.

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Why? Well, for one thing, today, the barrier to entry, cost-wise, makes podcast production affordable if carefully managed.

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Where to start

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Seek out a trustworthy full-service podcast agency to create successful programming based on a concept that\u2019s steered by a content plan and podcast strategy.

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The amount of information (products, services, topical industry-related themes etc.) you wish to share over time will determine the frequency at which you post. What\u2019s a non-negotiable, however, is frequency consistency.

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Whether that\u2019s once a week, twice a month, once a month or once a quarter, stay true to your content calendar. If content is king, then consistency is right alongside it as queen. Do that, and you have a perfect podcast marriage.

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Next, decide on what content you are comfortable with (interview-based, narrative or story-driven, or a mixture of the two). I can even take existing written case studies and white papers and turn them into synthetic voice narratives.

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Having worked in the content marketing space for over two decades, I have acquired the expertise and experience to create, host and help amplify your work and interrogate, improve and evolve it.

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My bottom line is that I love nothing more than helping unlock and promote people, products, businesses and innovation. What I love equally is producing and publishing podcasts.

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Besides offering data-rich feedback, podcasts are a content type that, at minimal cost, can deliver impressive engagement.

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With little or no exposure and the opportunity to start building a legacy archive that can be shared across all of your owned media platforms, why not run a short trial with me? Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?

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One size does not fit all

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Diving in and establishing a profile can be daunting and expensive, but it needn\u2019t be.

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If you already have a hosting platform, great. If not, I can help set these up for you.

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These are the hosting platforms I use:

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YouTube Studio account set-up cost to you: R1 500 \u2013 once-off
\nYouTube Studio hosting \u2013 monthly cost to you \u2013 none

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Spotify and Apple Music account set-up  cost to you: R1 500\u2013 once-off
\nSpotify hosting \u2013 Monthly cost to you \u2013 none

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Base fee per podcast recording, pre and post-production (including capturing, editing, 2 x reverts and uploading to YouTube Studio, Spotify and Apple Music \u2013 R2 500 per episode *

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*This fee may change once the scope of work has been assessed, and based on frequency, tiered discounts may apply.

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If you\u2019d like to know more and chat through the options available, drop me an email: jason@matters.co.za