Podcasting is becoming mainstream with over 22,000 actively hosted podcasts. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center podcasting has been steadily growing its audience over the past two years. This is largely driven by advances in technology, particularly, the rapid growth in use of smartphones and mobile devices in addition to the increased ease of in-car listening.
Even more important, the percentage of Americans who listen to a podcast in a month has doubled since 2008, from 9% to 17% by January of 2015. This increased acceptance of podcasting is great news for entrepreneurs, especially crowd funders, who want to maximize their sources for generating media publicity.
BUT WHAT ARE SMART ENTREPRENEURS LISTENING TO?
Well, according to a recent top ten ranking from Sujan Patel and Inc Magazine, one of the industry's longest running business journal, the smartest entrepreneurs are listening to the following ten (10) podcasts. They are order in from 1 to 10: "The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life", "Entrepreneurs on Fire", "The Tim Ferriss Show", "Smart Passive Income", "Online Marketing Made Easy With Amy Porterfield", "ProBlogger Podcast", "The James Altucher Show", "Mixergy", "The #AskGaryVee Show" and "Perpetual Traffic".
Therefore, if you "want to become a better entrepreneur? Start listening to one or all of these 10 podcasts." And don't forget to follow Sujan Patel at https://twitter.com/sujanpatel
The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life, Hosted By Nathan Latka
Hosted by Nathan Latka, a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenues, the “The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life” Podcast features a variety of cutting edge business topics. Listen to the podcast to hear from the world’s TOP entrepreneurs. Learn how much they sold last month, how they sold it and what they are selling. If you are interested in being the subject of a future episode e-mail JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING.
If you wish to learn more about Nathan Latka visit http://www.NathanLatka.com
Follow Nathan Latka on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NathanLatka
Listen to the Podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-185-blab-goal-is-7-week/id1023761733?i=361322272&mt=2
Entrepreneurs on Fire, Hosted By John Lee Dumas
Seven days per week, John Lee Dumas, the host of EOFire interviews today's most successful Entrepreneurs. To date he has interviewed over 1,300 entrepreneurs including Pat Flynn, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss and Gary Vaynerchuk. Listen to EOFire to access actionable advice during your daily commute, workout, or ‘me’ time, JLD. Each episode details the journey of a successful Entrepreneur who shares his or her worse Entrepreneurial moment and lessons learned. After each episode you will learn how the entrepreneur turned his idea into success and how you can apply similar principles.
To be considered for a future episode of EOFire it is best to begin by connecting with John Lee Dumas of Twitter at https://twitter.com/johnleedumas
Listen to EOFire Podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/entrepreneuronfire.com-inspiring/id564001633
Learn more about EOFire at http://www.eofire.com
The Tim Ferriss Show, Hosted By Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris has been listed as of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People”, Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know,” and is the 7th “most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012. He is an angel investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and 20+ more) and author of the "The 4-Hour Workweek", "The 4-Hour Body" and the "The 4-Hour Chef".
Tim's podcast, the Tim Ferris Show, focuses on deconstructing world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use. The Time Ferris show is often ranked #1 across all of iTunes (also iTunes’ “Best of 2014” and “Best of 2015”) and has exceeded 50,000,000 downloads. His episode with Jamie Foxx was voted “Podcast Episode of the Year” in 2015.
His blog is one of Inc. Magazine’s “19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now“, and it has been ranked #1 on the Top 150 Management and Leadership Blogs list, based on Google PageRank, Alexa traffic ranking, Bing results, Technorati authority, Feedburner subscribers, and PostRank.
Tim’s Twitter account was selected by Mashable as one of “5 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Entrepreneurs,” a list including Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, Marissa Mayer, and Jack Dorsey.
Follow Tim Ferris on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tferriss
Listen to the Tim Ferris Show at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sam-harris-on-daily-routines/id863897795?i=346655362&mt=2
Learn more about Tim Ferris at http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/
Smart Passive Income, Hosted By Pat Flynn
Smart Passive Income is a podcast is hosted by Pat Flynn. Each week, Pat shares online business and blogging strategies, income sources and killer marketing tips and tricks with individuals that wish to get ahead of the curve with their online business or blog. As a listener you will discover how to create multiple passive income streams that work just for you. Automation, outsourcing, crowdsourcing, search engine optimization, building authority and trust, niche sites, social media, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Podcasting, eBooks, online courses, and affiliate marketing are a few of the topics discussed on the podcast.
If you are an entrepreneur with a question and wish to appear on air, please visit http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ask-pat/#question for instructions on how to submit your questions. You can listen to Smart Passive Income at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/spi-174-how-to-invest-passive/id383084001?i=349470301&mt=2
Learn more about Pat Flynn at http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PatFlynn
Online Marketing Made Easy, Hosted By Amy Porterfield
Amy is a social media strategist and co-author of "Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies". Through the "Online Marketing Made Easy" podcast and related mediums Amy helps entrepreneurs across industries establish strategies to maximize the power of social media and increase the success of their online marketing efforts. Amy shows you exactly how to monetize your online marketing and blogging efforts using her own tested, ACTIONABLE lead generation strategies. Each episode of
Each episode of "Online Marketing Made Easy" will introduce new secrets you can implement to successfully launch and promote a new program, grow your email list, get more leads, build your authority, turn your customers into raving advocates OR simply find the time (and mindset!) to rock your social media and content marketing. From creating an online course to video marketing, webinar recording, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, new content creation (including eBooks, guides and cheat sheets) and email marketing, Amy reveals what works (and what does not).
You can follow Amy Porterfield on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmyPorterfield and begin nurturing a relationship.
Review Amy Porterfield's biography at http://www.amyporterfield.com/
Listen to the "Online Marketing Made Easy" Podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/64-backstage-pass-to-my-most/id594703545?i=346194777&mt=2
ProBlogger Podcast, Hosted By Darren Rowse
Hosted by Darren Rowse, the ProBlogger Podcast aims to help individuals to build a better blog. With a mix of teaching, case studies and actionable challenges Darren Rowse will teach you how to create compelling content, find readers for your blog, deepen the engagement you have with readers and how to monetize your blog with multiple sources of income. Blogging since 2002 and earning a living from blogging since 2004, Darren and the ProBlogger Podcast is a must for anyone interested in blogging.
You can follow Darren Rowse on Twitter at https://twitter.com/problogger to begin a relationship.
Review his blogging credentials at http://problogger.com/podcast
Listen to the ProBlogger Podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pb032-can-you-really-make/id1012723880?i=348667937&mt=2
The James Altucher Show, Hosted By James Altucher
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books including the recent WSJ Bestseller, "Choose Yourself!" (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter).
As the host of the James Altucher Show, James interviews the leading business personalities including Mark Cuban, Tim Ferriss, Arianna Huffington, Seth Godin and Tucker Max and discusses Entrepreneurship, Investing and Health-related issues.
As a serial entrepreneur, James has founded and sold several companies for eight figure exits. He serves on the board of a billion revenue company, has written for the Financial Times, the New York Observer, and over a dozen popular websites for the past 15 years. He has managed several hedge funds, venture capital funds, and is a successful angel investor in technology, energy, and biotech. James's electic background mixes with the fact that he has also lost all his money, made it back, lost it, made it back several times and openly discusses how he did it in his columns and books.
The James Altucher Podcast is distributed by Stanberry Radio. You can listen to the Podcast at http://www.stansberryradio.com or https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/aa-ep-313-get-mit-education/id794030859?i=347968555&mt=2
You can follow James on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jaltucher
Mixergy, Hosted By Andrew Warner
Hosted by serial entrepreneur Andrew Warner, the Mixery "Learn from Proven Entrepreneurs" draws on interviews with over 1,000 entrepreneurs to determine what makes business founders and thought leaders.
Andrew leverages his own personal experience which included the founding of a business that reached $30+ million in annual sales to help listeners to avoid some of the mistakes he made in his career. He couples his own personal insights with tips from guests that include Drew Houston (Dropbox), Neil Patel (Quick Sprout), Jason Calacanis (This Week in Startups, Mahalo), Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Tim Ferriss (The Four Hour Work Week), Guy Kawasaki (Reality Check), Seth Godin (Best-selling author), Paul Graham (Y Combinator), Noah Kagan (AppSumo), Andrew Mason (Groupon), Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank), Gary Vaynerchuk (VaynerMedia), Derek Halpern (Social Triggers), Pat Flynn (Smart Passive Income), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Alexis Ohanian (Reddit) and more.
You can follow Andrew Warner on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Mixergy
Listen to the Mixergy Podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1188-how-to-use-media-to-grow/id348690336?i=349037763&mt=2 and learn more about Mixergy at https://mixergy.com/
The #AskGaryVee Show, Hosted By Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk builds businesses. Fresh out of college he took his family wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in just five years. Now he runs VaynerMedia, one of the world’s hottest digital agencies. Along the way he became a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist, investing in companies like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Uber, and Birchbox before eventually co-founding VaynerRSE, a $25M investment fund.
Today, Gary is the host of the #AskGaryVee Show. Each episode Gary allows anyone to ask questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. If you are interested in getting on the show simply tweet me your question with #AskGaryVee!
Follow Gary Vaynerchuck on Twitter at http://twitter.com/garyvee
Listen to the #AskGaryVee at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-balance-risk-reward/id928159684?i=348794958&mt=2
Learn more about Gary Vaynerchuk at http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/
Perpetual Traffic, Hosted By Keith Krance, Ralph Burns & Molly Pittman
Perpetual Traffic is a weekly podcast produced by DigitalMarketer and hosted by Keith Krance, Ralph Burns (Dominate Web Media) & Molly Pittman (Digital Marketer). The trio share cutting edge strategies on acquiring leads and sales through paid traffic.
In each episode you will discover actionable strategies that can be applied immediately. Listen to real stories from business owners. Find out how they overcame struggles with digital marketing and online advertising. Learn how to make Facebook advertising, YouTube advertising, Twitter Advertising, Google Adwords and LinkedIn Advertising work for your business.
Listen to the Perpetual Traffic podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ep03-facebook-video-ad-game/id1022441491?i=347915788&mt=2
You can follow the hosting trio on Twitter and Facebook at:
https://twitter.com/keith_krance
https://twitter.com/DigitalMktr
https://www.facebook.com/molly.pittman.1
Learn more about Digital Marketer at http://www.digitalmarketer.com/
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