Substack Podcast Strategy: 5 Decisions That Turn Listeners Into Clients | #24

You sit down to plan your next episode. Forty minutes later, you’re studying someone else’s podcast, reconsidering your offers, and wondering whether you should go live instead.

You haven’t recorded a word. But somehow you’ve given yourself three more jobs.

When you have a business to run, those decisions cost more than recording time. They keep you busy creating things you’re still not sure how to sell from.

Today I’m answering five questions entrepreneurs brought into the Substack Podcast Sprint. Questions that sound like podcasting questions until we get underneath them and find the business decisions underneath them.

And if you never plan to host a show? Stay with me. Knowing how hosts think can change how you show up as a guest.

In this episode, I get into:

· Why a neat solo-versus-interview percentage could be completely wrong for your business

· What deserves a place in your podcast feed after a Substack Live

· How to choose which offer to talk about when you have several

· The five buyer conversations that impact how you sell your offers

· What your natural strengths reveal about hosting, guesting, and using your voice

· Why another round of research won’t solve the gap between understanding and doing

Plus, why I cannot be trusted around an eight-year-old’s lemonade stand. Apparently, floaties and a fourth-quarter strategy are an unusual combination.

Still deciding what to record, what to sell, or whether podcasting fits your business?

Come work through those decisions inside the Substack Podcast Studio. Join right now - paid subscribers have access to more than 10 hours of Sprint teaching and coaching, plus the accompanying profit books, through September 20.

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Inside this episode:

We went much deeper into all of this during The Substack Podcast Sprint, Replays up now through 9/20/26 for paid subscribers.

If podcasting has been sitting on your someday list because you cannot see how to add it without adding another full-time job, this episode is your first place to start.

If you are not inside the Studio yet, start with a free subscription and come peek around.

Fair warning: you may not stay free for long.

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