How to Grow Your Business with a Podcast + Building a Culture that Moves Quickly
Jan 20, 2023
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Brian Landau, Co-founder and CEO of Vennly, shares his insights on leveraging podcasts to drive business growth and engage customers. He discusses the podcast execution cycle and best practices for creating impactful audio content. Aaron Dignan, Founder of Murmur, introduces the concept of a 'culture of agreements' to enhance decision-making in startups. He contrasts this with a culture of permission and emphasizes strategies for effective communication and collaboration, ensuring teams move swiftly and efficiently.
Utilizing audio content strategically can enhance business growth by fostering authentic relationships with key stakeholders and driving customer engagement.
Establishing a culture of agreements within teams streamlines decision-making processes, enabling startups to innovate and progress swiftly without bureaucratic obstacles.
Deep dives
Leveraging Audio Content for Business Growth
Audio content serves as a strategic tool for businesses to engage their target audiences and drive customer acquisition. Utilizing audio enables brands to communicate authentically and maintain conversations with key stakeholders, resulting in business value. Unlike rapidly saturated podcast platforms, businesses can strategically create audio content that integrates with broader marketing approaches to support brand visibility. By understanding the unique listening behaviors that emerged during the pandemic, companies can optimize the timing and platforms for their audio delivery, ensuring they capture attention during various everyday activities.
The Importance of Pre-Production in Podcaster Success
Focusing on pre-production significantly enhances the effectiveness of podcasting by ensuring each episode is aligned with specific business goals. Businesses should define clear objectives for each episode, outline its purpose, and determine the value both the audience and the business derive from it. This approach facilitates consistency and allows businesses to build authentic relationships with listeners, ultimately fostering loyalty and expanding their reach. By transitioning from a reactive to a proactive mindset, businesses can leverage audio assets as a content driver rather than just a standalone initiative.
Establishing a Culture of Agreements in Startups
Creating a culture of agreements empowers teams to make decisions more effectively, especially as startups rapidly expand. This culture allows for the flexibility of action without needing specific permission, thus enabling faster progress and creativity. By clearly documenting decisions and agreements, organizations can maintain clarity amidst growing chaos, preventing bureaucracy from stifling innovative work. Effective agreements involve collaborative input, ensuring all team members understand the rationale behind decisions and are committed to the organization's vision.
Implementing the Murmur Method for Decision-Making
The Murmur method is a structured approach to decision-making that optimizes participation and efficiency within teams. It consists of a three-round process where proposals are created, shared for understanding and feedback, and then consented to or objected. This method encourages teams to propose constructive changes when objections arise, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. By embedding this iterative decision-making process, organizations can smoothly navigate the complexities of teamwork and scale their operations effectively without unnecessary disruptions.
First, we hear from Brian Landau (Vennly), who walks us through his formula for creating podcasts that grow your business. You'll learn how to get customers and build relationships with your key stakeholders, and more!
After that, we have a presentation from Aaron Dignan (Murmur) who talks about how startups can move quickly by creating a culture of agreements. You'll learn how to clarify team norms, processes, and policies. You'll also learn how to create an efficient decision-making process inside your company.
Visit https://murmur.com/founderu for a free 30-day trial to start making better decisions inside your organization.
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How to Grow Your Business with a Podcast - Brian Landau (Vennly)
1:33 Where does your business podcast fit?
4:10 Podcast execution cycle
5:30 Why you should create audio content
7:44 how to set up your podcast for business growth (getting customers)
10:05 Examples of business podcasts that you can create today
12:15 Use your audio content as a content engine
12:45 Pre-production framework
14:07 Podcast best practices
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Building a Culture that Moves Quickly - Aaron Dignan (Murmur)
19:17: Culture of Permission vs Culture of Agreements
22:23: What is a culture of agreements and how to implement it
25:29: Four core principles of a culture of agreements
31:03: How to make decisions that are optimized for progress
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