Helping Creators Monetize and Grow Their Audience | Sachit Gupta | Passion In Progress
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Sachit Gupta amplifies creators - specifically podcasters, influencers, and authors - and helps them grow revenue and audience. In this episode we talk about obtaining the right sponsorships, networking, and monetizing your content.
Sachit's Podcast Conscious Creators - https://apple.co/2QYbynN
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SHOWNOTES
03:34 - Catalyst to entrepreneur journey after corporate job
04:07 - A year of cold e-mailing people
04:27 - Getting his first marketing client
05:18 - Sachit gets in an accident out of country with no insurance, intro into negotiating with his medical expenses
08:29 - Working with Andrew Warner Founder of Mixergy
08:57 - work for free so people can see your skill set
10:04 - Working with Tim Ferris
11:32 - Recommends reading "Recession Proof Graduate" because of the e-mail script
12:24 - working with Tim ferris
14:25 - working with Seth Godin
15:30 - Does working for free ever a bad idea?
17:10 - "It takes a lifetime to build a reputation and it takes 5 minutes to ruin it” - Warren Buffett
17:43 - How do you get better at selling if all you want to do is create
18:55 - Breaking down my streams of revenue
22:14 - Marketing to people with an audience do you want to have a few clients and charge them a lot or have a lot of clients and charge them less?
26:52 - Describing how a podcast syndication service works
28:01 - How do you get sponsorships for you podcast?
28:18 - How Sachit does sponsorships pricing for bigger podcasts like Mixergy
30:23 - How to price sponsorships for small podcast
33:57 - How to find a good sponsor for your specific show
35:46 - Book Recommendation "Social Proof the Psychology of Persuasion"
36:55 - How do you say no to people
37:55 - How to focus on the actual thing that is going to drive money
39:12 - How has the transition been from behind the scenes to being in front of the camera
40:38 - How have your first couple podcasts been?
41:35 - Interview process and not using bullet points on a guest
43:48 - How reading books and listening to other podcasts helps you in being a better podcaster
45:11 - Curiosity is important
46:06 - Meeting Mark Cuban
47:30 - Is Responding to every E-mail important?
48:09 - Focus on meeting the people who help famous people, that will lead you to working with the famous person
49:22 - Marketing boils down to really understanding who you are talking to
50:07 - Call people in your audience and actually talk to them
51:27 - Talking in person vs dm
53:06 - How cultivating relationships has paid off
53:28 - How to get into conferences that you can't afford