Erin Trafford (she/her)

@SarahGunnStyle @hfxfire @SarahGunnStyle do you know Thalita Murray? @LearnerObserver lives in stillwater and they had to leave

@hfxfire Is it safe to stay in Stillwater Lake? My uncle lives there and we can’t reach him.

Update: the fire has now spread, and an evacuation order is now also issued for Yankeetown (Highland Park) subdivision, Hammonds Plains, in addition to evacuation ordered for Westwood Hills subdivision, Upper Tantallon.

Want to understand how to put this into practice? Register for Story Studio Network’s Kickstart your Brand Podcast Workshop Series. Two 90-minute workshops over two weeks. Tickets and more info at storystudionetwork.com/workshop and at the link in my bio.

You need to break the thinking that your audience is faceless (as it can feel on social media) and visualize that every single listener has a relationship with you. The only thing you should be aiming to do is bring those new listeners in the door at an increasingly rapid rate.

🛎️The ONE thing you need to do to GROW a PODCAST AUDIENCE … Read on for the explanation …

This is so so hard to comprehend.

@Tim_Bousquet Yep. Happened to me two months ago. I got a bill for $22,000 that was 💯 a result of the payment I made being EARLY. And they sent collections after me and threatened to seize assets 🙄

CRA sicced its collections agency on us because we paid payroll taxes *early*, and it got lost in their system. This took 45 minutes of my time this morning, plus a ton of stress.

Wow! @mulaney killed it in Halifax tonight! Shout out to @NS_Museum was beyond funny #halifax

So if you're a small business owner, choose option 3) for your podcast strategy. If you want help with this, I'm in the DMs.

If you guessed that most business owner-turned-podcasters attempt 2), then you'd be right. The result is burn-out and the podcast becomes an expensive hobby.

Most business owners are enticed into podcasting to build authority and share their brand values, BUT the truth is it's the idea of generating long-tail, high impact revenue that's the real golden egg of podcasting.

@arithisandthat Thanks!

@ErinTrafford Here ya go: discord.gg/gpcgq7fd

Ok not to be all like “I’m growing a community without you, Twitter” but the Podcasting Community Discord just reached 500 members in less than 4 days! That’s the fastest I’ve ever grown a community🤯