#5. Everyone Has a Podcast So Turn Beats Into Bitcoin
Making a podcast is about much more than recording a conversation with an interesting person. Help your fellow podcaster and make some Bitcoin.
Thanksgiving week here in America so I’m coming at your fast with a quick way to make Bitcoin.
There are more than 100 active cryptocurrency-themed podcasts and most likely another 100 that had a decent run but have not been active in the past year or so.
I’m comfortable assuming that for many of these podcasters one of the main reasons they’re not active is that besides the recording - which is relatively easy and pleasant - there is an enormous amount of work to do before and after the podcast, including but not limited to:
researching guests
booking guests
preparing social media posts before and after the recordings
editing the podcast
cleaning/filtering audio
filming and editing video (if you want to publish on You Tube)
preparing graphics
marketing the podcast
writing show notes
transcription
selling ads/finding sponsors
etc.
Because there’s so much work involved in putting out a one hour long podcast, often 10-15 hours of adjacent work, a lot of podcasts simply peter out.
While this is an example for the natural life cycle of a blog post, I believe it holds true for podcasts:
On top of this, I believe it’s safe to assume, in my mind, that there are dozens if not hundreds of people in the Bitcoin, blockchains and digital assets space that would like to have a podcast but are just not ready to commit the 15-20 hours needed to put out a single episode.
This is where you come in.
If you can do social media, or edit sound, or edit video, or do marketing, or graphics or the myriad of other things you might have yourself a side hustle that makes you Bitcoin.
You can do this remotely for clients across the world and be paid in Bitcoin or other digital assets. You are selling services to people in our space after all.
Some podcasts have a producer such as Blockworks Group, or a dedicated person or team, who will take care of many of these things, but most do not and it’s up to the podcaster to either do all of this or to find folks who can help.
How to find the work: Reach out to the podcasters directly. You can find them on Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn and through their websites.
How much can I earn: This various radically between podcast, so shop around, but it’s completely possible to earn several BTC in the course of a year while working a day job and helping podcasters out as a side hustle. Of course graphics design, sound editing and video editing pay more than some other parts of the puzzle.
If you’d like to reach out to me you can do that on Twitter or via email.
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