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- 0:58Speaker 2: So how did you make the money? A couple of
- 1:00Speaker 2: different ways. How you make money on the podcast and
- 1:02Speaker 2: your your guys specifically. So first I want to talk
- 1:04Speaker 2: about Patreon. Yes, Patreon is something that once again to them,
- 1:09Speaker 2: we didn't know anything about Patreon un till we started
- 1:11Speaker 2: a podcast and somebody actually put in a comment on
- 1:14Speaker 2: Instagram like you guys have a Patreon and like what,
- 1:18Speaker 2: I'm like, yo.
- 1:18Speaker 3: You know what Patreon is? Like No, I'm like, all right,
- 1:22Speaker 3: let me just type it in. Let's see what this is.
- 1:23Speaker 4: And there's actually that's the one site that there's a
- 1:27Speaker 4: ton of Google about. Like, when you start podcasting, there
- 1:30Speaker 4: is no blueprint to what we're doing.
- 1:32Speaker 5: No, there's not.
- 1:32Speaker 4: So I can give you all of the steps that
- 1:34Speaker 4: I did exactly. That doesn't mean you're going to see
- 1:37Speaker 4: the success money I made. There's just really no blueprints
- 1:40Speaker 4: of this. But Patreon there is. And again, at this point,
- 1:43Speaker 4: when we first started the podcast, we were paying for studio,
- 1:45Speaker 4: we were paying for edits, we needed fires, we need
- 1:47Speaker 4: there was expenses coming out and we were like, okay,
- 1:51Speaker 4: let's find a way to bring money in, and so
- 1:53Speaker 4: we started our Patreon account.
- 1:55Speaker 2: So all right, so you guys really doing really well
- 1:57Speaker 2: with Patreon. So can you talk about that, Like what
- 1:59Speaker 2: what's your your model for Patreon?
- 2:01Speaker 4: So for Patreon, we wanted to you have to give
- 2:03Speaker 4: them more than what they're getting. So as podcasting, I
- 2:07Speaker 4: don't think people realize like the amount of information we
- 2:09Speaker 4: give out that's for free to a lot of people,
- 2:12Speaker 4: and we started growing.
- 2:13Speaker 5: We really have supporters. I like to think.
- 2:16Speaker 4: Of our audience as there are our sisters, they are
- 2:20Speaker 4: our best friends.
- 2:21Speaker 5: We're in their head as those things.
- 2:23Speaker 4: And so being as vulnerable as we have in transparent
- 2:26Speaker 4: with our lives, people wanted to support us, but we
- 2:30Speaker 4: were just giving them content for free.
- 2:31Speaker 5: So we were like, okay, what can we give them
- 2:34Speaker 5: for a subscription? That's what Patreon is. It's a subscription.
- 2:36Speaker 4: It's a subscription platform that you could add to your
- 2:39Speaker 4: already present platform.
- 2:40Speaker 2: For creatives quick and it doesn't have to be podcasting
- 2:43Speaker 2: any videos. Anybody can have a Patreon. You can have
- 2:46Speaker 2: a Patreon any account, and how much you make of Patreon.
- 2:50Speaker 5: So currently we're seeing close to nine grand.
- 2:52Speaker 2: A month, so what do you? What do you? What
- 2:54Speaker 2: do you have?
- 2:54Speaker 4: So right now we offer a two dollars tier, a
- 2:57Speaker 4: five dollars heier, and a fifteen dollars heier And for
- 3:01Speaker 4: our fifteen dollars patrons and five dollars patrons, they get
- 3:05Speaker 4: three bonus episodes a month.
- 3:06Speaker 5: So as a.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Creator, we are creating now seven to eight episodes a month,
- 3:12Speaker 4: and then for our fifteen dollars. Tier patrons, we send
- 3:15Speaker 4: them out merch, so every four months they are able
- 3:18Speaker 4: to receive merch from us, and it can be anything
- 3:21Speaker 4: from a crew neck, a sweatshirt, a T shirt, socks,
- 3:23Speaker 4: a mug, and so every four months they're now getting
- 3:27Speaker 4: merch that you can only get as being a top
- 3:29Speaker 4: tier patron, which is dope because now that we do
- 3:31Speaker 4: live shows and they come in with the merch, we
- 3:33Speaker 4: know that they're supporters and it's just a different connection
- 3:35Speaker 4: that we have with them. But also it allows them
- 3:39Speaker 4: to have their own community boards, they talk with each other.
- 3:42Speaker 4: We give information that we only give to our patrons
- 3:45Speaker 4: that we don't put on our public platforms. And then
- 3:48Speaker 4: now that we are also on tour, it's the only
- 3:50Speaker 4: place that you can be to get access to pre
- 3:52Speaker 4: sale tickets, which was a big thing because our Patreon
- 3:55Speaker 4: community sold out our VIP tickets for our New York
- 3:58Speaker 4: show before it was even open to the public. So
- 4:01Speaker 4: people feel like, you know, they're still getting value and
- 4:04Speaker 4: being a part of that community.
- 4:07Speaker 2: And how long did it take to grow? How many
- 4:08Speaker 2: patrons do you have?
- 4:09Speaker 5: We have about fourteen hundred.
- 4:10Speaker 2: How long did it take to grow down?
- 4:12Speaker 4: We started our Patreon account December of twenty seventeen, and
- 4:17Speaker 4: I can remember shit, sorry, I think we started with
- 4:24Speaker 4: maybe getting eighty dollars a month and then that grew
- 4:28Speaker 4: to two and three hundred and it's a slow climb.
- 4:31Speaker 4: But then that's when we went from giving them one
- 4:33Speaker 4: episode to two episodes to now three episodes. So we've
- 4:36Speaker 4: grown to let them know that they're getting you know,
- 4:39Speaker 4: their money is right now.
- 4:40Speaker 3: I was crazy the first month we started Patreon, Like
- 4:42Speaker 3: I said, we had no idea, like even creating the tiers.
- 4:45Speaker 3: It was like how do we even price it? We
- 4:46Speaker 3: tried to figure out what would make sense. And then
- 4:48Speaker 3: like the first month we had like two people.
- 4:50Speaker 5: Oh, we were happy because we were like.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Going, we covered our studio.
- 4:54Speaker 4: Like now we weren't having to pay for the studio
- 4:57Speaker 4: because these five people who you know, I wanted to
- 5:00Speaker 4: support us was now it was covering our costs.
- 5:03Speaker 2: No, Patreon has a great idea, and like I said,
- 5:04Speaker 2: not just for podcasts, any creative that's looking to grow organically,
- 5:08Speaker 2: because what it allows is for your your natural supporters,
- 5:11Speaker 2: people that really really supports you to support you financially.
- 5:14Speaker 2: And it's not just charity they're getting something for it
- 5:16Speaker 2: as well. So, like what we've done with our Patreon
- 5:19Speaker 2: is that we've given like the top tier, top two tiers,
- 5:22Speaker 2: access to our online university, which caught Eyo University. They
- 5:26Speaker 2: also get access to live stream events all of our events.
- 5:29Speaker 2: They get discounts to our events, I think.
- 5:32Speaker 3: To the events and to the and to our merch
- 5:34Speaker 3: But when they go to Lesia dot com they about emerging.
- 5:36Speaker 2: They get FaceTime at the highest level.
- 5:38Speaker 6: Right, yeah, we're going to so like now, yeah, we
- 5:40Speaker 6: started to Call Girl.
- 5:41Speaker 3: We're in the process of revamping it because it's like, yeah,
- 5:44Speaker 3: we we've added so much content now that we can maybe.
- 5:47Speaker 6: Offer like another episode. So we're gonna start doing things.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Like that too, right, maybe even transcripts, transcripts epis. People
- 5:54Speaker 2: want to like they take note, they want to open above.
- 5:56Speaker 2: So I really like when you told me that you
- 5:58Speaker 2: was making nine thousand a month off for Patreon. I
- 6:00Speaker 2: really like that because it's a way to because like
- 6:03Speaker 2: you said, the podcasts are free, right, So it's like
- 6:06Speaker 2: it's hard for podcasters to provide so people don't understand
- 6:10Speaker 2: how much work it takes to take to a podcast.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Oh oh, it's a full time work.
- 6:13Speaker 6: It is a full time time and the time too,
- 6:15Speaker 6: the time too, it's like it's crazy.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Yeah, but even so and then travel.
- 6:19Speaker 5: Oh and that's what I was going to say.
- 6:21Speaker 4: So with those funds, we were able to, like I
- 6:25Speaker 4: told you, our merch for our tour, this go around
- 6:27Speaker 4: cost us damn near eight grand, Like it's expensive to
- 6:32Speaker 4: buy merch, to sell merch to go on the road.
- 6:35Speaker 4: And so our very first tour that we did. Mind
- 6:38Speaker 4: you again, just being on a network, we still own
- 6:40Speaker 4: a lot of our content and so our first tour
- 6:44Speaker 4: we had no agent.
- 6:45Speaker 5: So Patreon funded our first tour.
- 6:48Speaker 4: We spent about twenty thousand dollars getting the venues, and
- 6:51Speaker 4: this was throughout eight cities. We did thirteen shows and
- 6:56Speaker 4: we literally were like, okay, let's look at our analytics.
- 6:59Speaker 5: What city are we going to.
- 7:01Speaker 4: We looked at our SoundCloud analytics and was like, okay,
- 7:04Speaker 4: we have audiences here. We picked what we would feel
- 7:07Speaker 4: comfortable as far as venue size, and literally when people
- 7:12Speaker 4: ask we were like, okay, we're going to Atlanta. Google
- 7:19Speaker 4: Atlanta theater. That's what we did. We googled the city
- 7:24Speaker 4: followed by the word theater. A list came up and
- 7:27Speaker 4: we started emailing and calling those places asking for availability
- 7:31Speaker 4: and rental costs, and so we went through all of
- 7:35Speaker 4: these cities. We picked the venues, we got the rental costs.
- 7:38Speaker 4: We knew what we wanted to stay between as far
- 7:41Speaker 4: as money, So I think our most expensive venue, of course,
- 7:44Speaker 4: was Caroline's.
- 7:46Speaker 5: New York City. That one was about.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Five five thousand.
- 7:49Speaker 4: Yeah, and for a matine show.
- 7:53Speaker 5: The comedy clubs weren't dealing with us at all. They
- 7:55Speaker 5: didn't know who we were.
- 7:55Speaker 4: They didn't really We had a four four pm on
- 7:59Speaker 4: a Sunday, So for you know, for the comedy clubs,
- 8:04Speaker 4: they were a little bit more pricey. But our venues
- 8:07Speaker 4: ranged anywhere from you know, our venue in Chicago was
- 8:10Speaker 4: our least expensive. That one was, I don't know. I
- 8:12Speaker 4: think we got for like one hundred and fifteen hour
- 8:15Speaker 4: and it's at one hundred and thirty people. We did
- 8:17Speaker 4: the numbers, we priced our tickets. We had our friends
- 8:20Speaker 4: check people and we said, here's an extra phone, scan
- 8:23Speaker 4: them on event bright. We put all of our tickets
- 8:24Speaker 4: on e vent Bride had our friends at the door.
- 8:28Speaker 4: We were like, we're not popular, we don't need security.
- 8:30Speaker 4: We had no security for the first tour, and we
- 8:33Speaker 4: knew we had to be out at a certain time
- 8:34Speaker 4: because we weren't paying no over fees, so we runted
- 8:37Speaker 4: the venues, kept one hundred percent of the door, and
- 8:39Speaker 4: we covered our own hotel and transportation expenses. So for
- 8:43Speaker 4: some of the cities, I was like, girl, I'm staying
- 8:45Speaker 4: with you even though we had even though I'm on tour,
- 8:47Speaker 4: I'm staying with my homegirls.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Yeah, how many c did how many cit did you
- 8:51Speaker 2: do your first one?
- 8:52Speaker 5: Our first tour?
- 8:53Speaker 4: We did eight cities and in about three or four
- 8:56Speaker 4: of the cities we had to add an extra show
- 8:58Speaker 4: because we sold.
- 8:59Speaker 5: Out the first show.
- 9:00Speaker 2: How much money you make on your first tour?
- 9:01Speaker 4: Our first, our first tour, we made about one hundred
- 9:04Speaker 4: and ten thousand profit. If you take out the venue calls,
- 9:07Speaker 4: we saw almost one hundred grand.
- 9:09Speaker 2: And but now you've got an agent's changed changed the
- 9:13Speaker 2: game for you.
- 9:14Speaker 4: Yes, we are now signed to W and Me and
- 9:17Speaker 4: they are now doing our second tour. And we went
- 9:21Speaker 4: from doing eight cities to seventeen cities.
- 9:24Speaker 2: And how has that helped you as far as like
- 9:25Speaker 2: boost up the amount of cities.
- 9:27Speaker 4: It's been amazing because we don't have to we don't
- 9:30Speaker 4: have to call the venues and be like, hey, so
- 9:33Speaker 4: we want to do a show. Like that was the thing.
- 9:35Speaker 4: We're walking into these venues. We're doing tech, we're doing sound,
- 9:40Speaker 4: we're making sure the green room is cool, we're handling
- 9:42Speaker 4: the guest list. They're like, y'all don't have anyone. And
- 9:44Speaker 4: it was literally me and my co host with our
- 9:47Speaker 4: friends that wanted to help. And so we're going into
- 9:49Speaker 4: these venues as the booker, the talent, the management, the
- 9:54Speaker 4: producers of everything.
- 9:57Speaker 6: Now the agent takes cut.
- 9:58Speaker 4: No, the agent takes care of booking the venues, and
- 10:01Speaker 4: we now have a tour manager and a tour assistant
- 10:03Speaker 4: that deal with the writer's production to where we can
- 10:06Speaker 4: now show up and put on a.
- 10:07Speaker 2: Show and they get paid.
- 10:09Speaker 5: Yes, our assistant we pay salary.
- 10:12Speaker 4: Our tour manager we pay salary, and the agent takes
- 10:15Speaker 4: a percentage.
- 10:15Speaker 6: Said writers, writers.
- 10:17Speaker 4: So like the things the hospitality writer, but we asked
- 10:22Speaker 4: for in our green room. So I want it to
- 10:24Speaker 4: be like I want Skittles with the purple ones taking out.
- 10:29Speaker 5: But I was like, no, let me stop.
- 10:30Speaker 4: But I was like, oh, we talent now, Like we
- 10:32Speaker 4: went to Howard Theater, which was one of our biggest
- 10:35Speaker 4: venues in my name was on the room.
- 10:36Speaker 5: I was like, I need all.
- 10:37Speaker 4: The but no, I'm o writer. It's Tito's, which I
- 10:41Speaker 4: might have to up that because it'd be going before
- 10:42Speaker 4: the show starts.
- 10:44Speaker 5: So I got Tito's.
- 10:45Speaker 4: My co host has like red Bull like it's simple.
- 10:48Speaker 4: That's our hospitality writer. And then we have our production writer.
- 10:50Speaker 4: So what we need on stage, the music that we're
- 10:53Speaker 4: going to play, the host, what time we want them
- 10:55Speaker 4: and come out. So we still are very much in
- 10:58Speaker 4: charge with the production of our show.
- 10:59Speaker 2: And that's dope because that's important to us. It's so
- 11:03Speaker 2: the podcast game is becoming like a real, real crazy
- 11:07Speaker 2: thing where it's like, as a podcast, you can go
- 11:09Speaker 2: on tour just like a musician can go on tour,
- 11:12Speaker 2: and you get the same benefits, and it's like what
- 11:14Speaker 2: you described for your first ship. That's like where we're
- 11:16Speaker 2: at right now because we're on our tour right now
- 11:19Speaker 2: where we do everything ourselves.
- 11:20Speaker 4: So that's the thing that I will say a lot
- 11:22Speaker 4: of people see a lot of podcasts going on tours
- 11:25Speaker 4: or doing live shows and they automatically think they have
- 11:28Speaker 4: to do it.
- 11:29Speaker 5: I would go against that.
- 11:32Speaker 4: I think a lot of people think that, you know,
- 11:33Speaker 4: if they're not doing live shows, then they're not successful.
- 11:36Speaker 4: And I think they need to focus on maybe reaching
- 11:38Speaker 4: their audience more before just okay, we're going to do
- 11:41Speaker 4: a live show. Because I do know a lot of
- 11:43Speaker 4: podcasters that are like, Okay, it's time for me to
- 11:45Speaker 4: do a live show, and then they get the venue,
- 11:47Speaker 4: they start selling tickets and no tickets to me, what's.
- 11:49Speaker 6: The number though? Like when do you know?
- 11:50Speaker 2: Is what our blueprint was. We did networking events. We
- 11:53Speaker 2: did free networking events in six cities in America. We
- 11:56Speaker 2: did La Chicago, Houston, New York, Atlanta, anywhere else you
- 12:03Speaker 2: got them. Five we did five free and no, we're
- 12:06Speaker 2: not a networking event. We did five free networking events
- 12:10Speaker 2: last year free, completely free come and we just made
- 12:14Speaker 2: money off of merch and the bar. We split contents
- 12:17Speaker 2: on the bar right. We did that for a few
- 12:19Speaker 2: different reasons. A. We wanted to just get out and
- 12:21Speaker 2: touch the cities we like and interact with the people.
- 12:24Speaker 2: And we used it as a real time gauge to
- 12:27Speaker 2: see how hot we was in those.
- 12:30Speaker 4: I really liked that it's like a pop up show,
- 12:32Speaker 4: our first live show again, like I was, I was
- 12:35Speaker 4: telling you guys before, as an accountant, I'm looking at
- 12:38Speaker 4: margins and break even and all of the things necessary
- 12:41Speaker 4: and looking at what we had to put.
- 12:43Speaker 5: Out and.
- 12:46Speaker 4: So what we needed to sell tickets at. We did
- 12:49Speaker 4: have our studio that we recorded at the time. He
- 12:53Speaker 4: put up the money and then we paid him back
- 12:55Speaker 4: with the ticket sales. But we literally our first show,
- 12:57Speaker 4: we saw no money at all, and we did We
- 13:00Speaker 4: weren't doing it for money, but we were doing it
- 13:02Speaker 4: to reach our audience. So I would say that would
- 13:04Speaker 4: maybe be another tip. It's to make sure you price
- 13:07Speaker 4: the tickets as something where you could at least break even,
- 13:10Speaker 4: and not to look at your first live show as
- 13:12Speaker 4: something to make a ton of money off of. So
- 13:14Speaker 4: maybe sizing your venue down with something that's not going.
- 13:18Speaker 2: To cost a lot. Yeah and yeah, So it's just
- 13:20Speaker 2: dope because it's all learned experience. It's it's like so
- 13:23Speaker 2: for us now, like I said, we're in the stage
- 13:25Speaker 2: where we're not signing to anybody and we don't have
- 13:27Speaker 2: any booking ages or anything, so we're doing all this stuff.
- 13:29Speaker 2: It's a lot of work. That's why we kind of
- 13:31Speaker 2: like spread it out like six weeks in between shows,
- 13:34Speaker 2: and we do two so we do like a live
- 13:35Speaker 2: podcast and we do a workshop too, so it's like
- 13:38Speaker 2: a two day event. But when we got invited, like
- 13:42Speaker 2: I said, shout out eighty five South and we got
- 13:44Speaker 2: invited to they were guests on lip Service, on the
- 13:48Speaker 2: Lip Service Angela Yee's podcast. So we went to the
- 13:52Speaker 2: show that they had in New York City. No at
- 13:55Speaker 2: where was it at?
- 13:56Speaker 6: Uh, Lincoln Hole?
- 13:58Speaker 2: Was Lincolnhole? I think was, yeah, but it was so
- 14:02Speaker 2: they were guests on lip Service. Yes, So we got
- 14:04Speaker 2: there before eighty five South got there. So they they
- 14:07Speaker 2: brought us to their like room, the green room, and
- 14:10Speaker 2: like they had the liquor bottles and it was like
- 14:12Speaker 2: a real like backstage for for former but as.
- 14:17Speaker 4: A podcaster, especially if you're doing the lot like you're
- 14:19Speaker 4: an artist like and so yeah, it's great.
- 14:22Speaker 6: These are entertainment me being on tour, like.
- 14:24Speaker 4: We're going through riders, we have day calls, we have like,
- 14:27Speaker 4: we have sound checks, we have it's really crazy, like
- 14:30Speaker 4: and when I'm talking to my friends who are in
- 14:32Speaker 4: the music industry, they're like, you know, dang, you have
- 14:37Speaker 4: like a real tour, like a real schedule, like and
- 14:39Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, it's kind of like I'm a music artist.
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- 17:05Speaker 2: It's always a progression in the business. So it's like,
- 17:09Speaker 2: as you so, now you have staff that handles your
- 17:13Speaker 2: touring for you, that helps it out. Now you can
- 17:15Speaker 2: add more shows and it makes it, you know, easier transition.
- 17:19Speaker 2: And that's something that a lot of times people don't
- 17:21Speaker 2: really think about as far as like, especially like when
- 17:23Speaker 2: a podcast or any type of creative it is like
- 17:26Speaker 2: there's more to it than just the content.
- 17:28Speaker 4: But I think and it's one of the things that
- 17:30Speaker 4: we're trying to get now. I don't think people realize
- 17:33Speaker 4: the importance of a team. And so for a lot
- 17:38Speaker 4: of the beginning of us, it was just me and
- 17:40Speaker 4: her and we did we thought we could do it all.
- 17:43Speaker 4: Like like I said, we were every position imaginable, and
- 17:46Speaker 4: it's there's only so far that you could take yourself
- 17:49Speaker 4: before you create a team.
- 17:50Speaker 5: So you guys, having someone behind the camera, that's hope.
- 17:53Speaker 4: You guys now don't have to deal with the video
- 17:55Speaker 4: element of something and you have him doing that us
- 17:57Speaker 4: now having an engineer helps without me have to do
- 18:00Speaker 4: the editing. When we're dealing with a tour, we're looking
- 18:03Speaker 4: for an assistant social media person like you. It takes
- 18:06Speaker 4: a team, which I think is why you have these
- 18:09Speaker 4: people like Angela Yee and Brilliant Idiots and Joe Budden
- 18:13Speaker 4: who has been able to go so far because they
- 18:16Speaker 4: have people.
- 18:17Speaker 5: That have their roles.
- 18:18Speaker 2: That's the fact. Eighty five South show So they are
- 18:19Speaker 2: nineteen people. Yeah, and they said they started with they
- 18:23Speaker 2: was doing I think like one hundred to two hundred people.
- 18:26Speaker 2: Now they do like three three thousand, three thousand people.
- 18:28Speaker 2: They started out with a wood table and three microphones. Yeah,
- 18:31Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
- 18:32Speaker 4: So, I mean they get anyone, anyone looking to get
- 18:34Speaker 4: into the space, if they're looking for it to be
- 18:37Speaker 4: a business. This definitely is something that you can grow
- 18:40Speaker 4: to be like very you know, profitable.
- 18:43Speaker 2: So hosting you get paid on hosting tour.
- 18:45Speaker 4: Yes, I do panels, hostings. That just goes with bookings.
- 18:48Speaker 5: And I love it because it's literally like bro, I'm
- 18:51Speaker 5: getting paid to talk.
- 18:52Speaker 4: It's like like this is still it's a nuance that
- 18:56Speaker 4: I can't even explain, Like I'm the one that had
- 18:59Speaker 4: to be told to shut up in the.
- 19:00Speaker 5: Classroom, like talking too much. Engagements, you know, so they're
- 19:03Speaker 5: speaking engagements right now.
- 19:06Speaker 4: We're trying to do after parties just again, just to
- 19:08Speaker 4: be more after our live shows.
- 19:13Speaker 5: Again.
- 19:13Speaker 4: You have to realize that the booking of hostings and clubs,
- 19:17Speaker 4: that whole scene has changed. They realize that certain people
- 19:20Speaker 4: aren't bringing it out. Just because you have a million
- 19:22Speaker 4: followers doesn't mean you're even going to bring a crowd
- 19:25Speaker 4: so right now, because promoters don't do that as much anymore,
- 19:28Speaker 4: it's us trying to.
- 19:29Speaker 5: Y'all don't understand though our reach is here.
- 19:31Speaker 4: So as far as club hostings, that's not really a thing,
- 19:35Speaker 4: but it's more so, yeah, speaking engagements and and we're
- 19:39Speaker 4: doing Mocha Fest in Jamaica, so that's a booking where
- 19:42Speaker 4: it's not really talking, but we're going to be doing
- 19:43Speaker 4: a live show in Jamaica.
- 19:44Speaker 2: The agent handles that stuff, you know.
- 19:46Speaker 5: We got booked on that by ourselves.
- 19:48Speaker 2: Yeah, so you another major portion of your money comes
- 19:53Speaker 2: from ads, right.
- 19:54Speaker 4: Yes, And that's probably one of the hardest things for podcasters,
- 20:01Speaker 4: and it's probably the one thing that they look to
- 20:03Speaker 4: start to get is ads, and that's the toughest thing
- 20:07Speaker 4: I think to get as as a podcaster.
- 20:11Speaker 5: You don't know who to reach out to.
- 20:12Speaker 4: You know, Okay, we talk about sex, Okay, Blue Choo,
- 20:17Speaker 4: Adam and Eve, Like there's certain brands that we know would.
- 20:19Speaker 5: Align well with us. But who do you get in
- 20:21Speaker 5: touch with to say, hey.
- 20:23Speaker 4: Give me money so that I can say your name.
- 20:25Speaker 4: It's like it's hard to come about. So Loudspeaker plays
- 20:28Speaker 4: the middle man in that they bring in majority of
- 20:30Speaker 4: our ads outside of any ad agency. Is that just
- 20:33Speaker 4: reach out to us personally?
- 20:34Speaker 3: Prior to now Speaker, were you guys when you were
- 20:36Speaker 3: doing independently, how did you get those people or.
- 20:39Speaker 6: Did we did?
- 20:40Speaker 4: I remember this guy hit us up and was like
- 20:42Speaker 4: I got a song, and I think we charged them,
- 20:45Speaker 4: like I come on for one fifty. We got other
- 20:48Speaker 4: people that would send us stuff and we were doing ads,
- 20:51Speaker 4: but we were doing for like fifty dollars, like just
- 20:53Speaker 4: so that we can, well, this.
- 20:54Speaker 5: Will cover our studio time.
- 20:56Speaker 4: So you know, when we first started, we we literally
- 20:58Speaker 4: were getting We thought it was anything that mattered.
- 21:02Speaker 5: Oh we're making money.
- 21:04Speaker 4: But then as we got further, and we saw that
- 21:07Speaker 4: our audience really bought into the things that we said. Again,
- 21:10Speaker 4: our relationship with our audience was most important. So we
- 21:12Speaker 4: had sex toy companies that hit us up. We were like,
- 21:15Speaker 4: we're not giving an ad until we tried the product.
- 21:18Speaker 4: So there's been companies that have set us.
- 21:22Speaker 7: Try it out.
- 21:24Speaker 4: So there would be companies that would hit us up,
- 21:25Speaker 4: and I was like, girl, my vibrator died the first time, Like,
- 21:29Speaker 4: we're not doing that ad on the show. So I know,
- 21:34Speaker 4: but seriously, so I think it's important that you're not
- 21:39Speaker 4: just accepting any money that comes in because it's being
- 21:42Speaker 4: thrown at you.
- 21:42Speaker 6: At first, just in general, at first, we.
- 21:45Speaker 4: Were like listen, Like we were talking about how much
- 21:48Speaker 4: we liked our vacation in Thailand. We would get d
- 21:52Speaker 4: MS because you said you're going to Thailand. I'm going,
- 21:55Speaker 4: Now where did you stay? And we noticed just how
- 21:57Speaker 4: much like people were following what we were saying. Yeah,
- 22:00Speaker 4: we had a strong impact, and I was like, well,
- 22:02Speaker 4: if we're going to have our people spend their hard
- 22:04Speaker 4: earned dollars not only at our shows but in products
- 22:06Speaker 4: that were endorsing, I want it to be worth endorsing.
- 22:11Speaker 4: So that became important. I know, like just recently, a
- 22:14Speaker 4: tobacco company hit us up. I said, are we not
- 22:16Speaker 4: doing that? I don't care how much to pay us.
- 22:18Speaker 4: I'm not endorsing tobacco. So it's also just really having
- 22:23Speaker 4: that you know that all money isn't worth it.
- 22:25Speaker 2: That's a fact. Yeah, And we told all that before
- 22:28Speaker 2: in another episode, like CPM got engage that can you
- 22:31Speaker 2: just talk about that?
- 22:31Speaker 4: Like so, CPM, if you google it, this is how
- 22:34Speaker 4: you can determine how much maybe an AD would be
- 22:36Speaker 4: worth on your podcast. So twenty five dollars is the
- 22:40Speaker 4: basic CPM rate. You multiply that by every thousand.
- 22:47Speaker 5: Listens that you get.
- 22:48Speaker 4: So if you're getting ten thousand listens multiplied by twenty
- 22:54Speaker 4: five dollars per thousand, that's two hundred and fifty dollars.
- 22:57Speaker 4: And you can get that per ad. And of course
- 23:00Speaker 4: it's the number of ads that you approve on your
- 23:02Speaker 4: shows up to you. We don't really like to go
- 23:05Speaker 4: over four, and that's maybe two mid rolls and two
- 23:08Speaker 4: pre rolls. Most end rolls don't really count as anything. No,
- 23:12Speaker 4: nobody's buying an end roll. A lot of people don't
- 23:15Speaker 4: listen to a full podcast. So those are normally thrown
- 23:18Speaker 4: in for free, but you can decide how many you
- 23:21Speaker 4: want to take. But again, if you're seeing ten thousand,
- 23:24Speaker 4: ten thousand listens and you take on four ads, that's
- 23:27Speaker 4: a thousand dollars for that one episode. And if you're
- 23:29Speaker 4: someone who maybe records out of your house and doesn't
- 23:32Speaker 4: have much overhead, you're seeing that as profit because now
- 23:35Speaker 4: you're not putting that into your production. So for us,
- 23:39Speaker 4: and sometimes you can give a discount. You can be like, okay,
- 23:41Speaker 4: I know the standard is twenty five. I'll give it
- 23:43Speaker 4: to you for twenty two. And so you can gauge
- 23:46Speaker 4: it off that. Right now, we base it off of
- 23:48Speaker 4: about seventy thousand listens, and that fluctuates. You also normally
- 23:52Speaker 4: go based off of your numbers for about the six
- 23:55Speaker 4: sixth week mark.
- 23:56Speaker 5: So this is net six weeks.
- 23:59Speaker 6: Because some people look at it like what's your first week?
- 24:01Speaker 4: Right?
- 24:02Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 24:02Speaker 5: No, no, no, so yes so.
- 24:05Speaker 4: And also you have to realize when you're getting paid
- 24:07Speaker 4: for these sometimes you're not getting paid until net thirty
- 24:10Speaker 4: or net sixty. So even though you're getting this money,
- 24:12Speaker 4: you're not getting it up front. You're saying the ad
- 24:15Speaker 4: and you're not seeing that money till down the line,
- 24:17Speaker 4: so being kind of up.
- 24:19Speaker 5: On when you're owed when to sound invoices.
- 24:22Speaker 4: This becomes now a part of the business where you
- 24:24Speaker 4: need to keep track of what your money is coming
- 24:28Speaker 4: in and what's going out now.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Also it's important for podcasters to understand too, is that
- 24:31Speaker 2: they allot of the ad agencies they base your numbers
- 24:34Speaker 2: off of previews predata like data. So it's like where
- 24:38Speaker 2: we could be in January right now, and then they'll
- 24:41Speaker 2: base the numbers off of October. Yeah, and it's like
- 24:45Speaker 2: six thousand less listeners than what you currently have right
- 24:49Speaker 2: and then by the time you get paid it's not
- 24:51Speaker 2: till March. Now you got to hold so it's like
- 24:55Speaker 2: you're always chasing back.
- 24:57Speaker 4: But also knowing that you can include your numbers is
- 25:00Speaker 4: not only from your audio, but you could be like, yo, listen,
- 25:03Speaker 4: I also get another thirty thousand views on YouTube, so
- 25:06Speaker 4: you're allowed to kind of combine those.
- 25:08Speaker 2: You know, it's funny that you said, and I had
- 25:10Speaker 2: to cut you off with a lot of because I
- 25:11Speaker 2: was talking once again to one of our good friends
- 25:14Speaker 2: in the podcast space, and they were saying that another
- 25:16Speaker 2: ad agency that he used to use and that we
- 25:20Speaker 2: kind of use. Sometimes they don't. They didn't allow that.
- 25:23Speaker 2: A lot of ads don't allow YouTube. Yeah, but it
- 25:26Speaker 2: doesn't changing.
- 25:27Speaker 5: It's changing a little bit now.
- 25:29Speaker 4: But also, if you guys want to make money for
- 25:31Speaker 4: your visuals and your audio, you can just base your
- 25:33Speaker 4: audio numbers, which is what we do now because our
- 25:36Speaker 4: videos have been pretty inconsistent, so it's not fair to
- 25:40Speaker 4: the to the you know advertiser. But there's Google ad sets,
- 25:45Speaker 4: so you can still make money off of all of
- 25:46Speaker 4: the ads that YouTube is putting into your videos as
- 25:51Speaker 4: they still please, We're not able to be as monetized
- 25:54Speaker 4: because of our content. So if you have a business,
- 25:57Speaker 4: you know, podcast or something more hit friendly, which now
- 26:01Speaker 4: they even added.
- 26:02Speaker 6: If yeah, you have to y plus check out, but you.
- 26:05Speaker 4: Can log in, get your Google ad Sense and you
- 26:08Speaker 4: can monetize and get paid off of what YouTube ads are.
- 26:13Speaker 2: Another podcast hacked to get paid double is that you
- 26:17Speaker 2: can do an ad for audio because most most companies
- 26:19Speaker 2: just want to advertise audio. So you can do the
- 26:21Speaker 2: ad for audio, but then if somebody else wants to
- 26:24Speaker 2: do an ad, you might not have enough ad space.
- 26:25Speaker 2: You can do the ad for YouTube, and you can
- 26:28Speaker 2: outside of the ads that they already give you, like
- 26:31Speaker 2: you can place an AD in the episode just for YouTube.
- 26:33Speaker 5: So and I wanted to say that too.
- 26:35Speaker 4: So, because our podcast is not current event based, we
- 26:40Speaker 4: do pre record a ton of content, so we'll go
- 26:43Speaker 4: into the studio and bust out two or three episodes
- 26:45Speaker 4: in one sitting, and so we may get an AD
- 26:49Speaker 4: last minute and now I have to record it and
- 26:51Speaker 4: we're fitting it into audio. So that's also something for
- 26:54Speaker 4: people who pre record their content. Don't feel like you
- 26:56Speaker 4: have to miss out on an AD. You can always
- 26:59Speaker 4: record it at the audio and fit it inside, make
- 27:02Speaker 4: sure you transition it right and say hey, before we
- 27:04Speaker 4: get to that segment, this episode was brought to you
- 27:07Speaker 4: by and you could always feed it into it organically
- 27:11Speaker 4: because a lot of you know, advertisers do want an
- 27:13Speaker 4: organic sounding AD. They don't want it just placed in.
- 27:16Speaker 4: So you can still find ways to transition it if
- 27:18Speaker 4: you're editing in a good, you know, a roundabout way,
- 27:21Speaker 4: especially if you have segments the way you guys do.
- 27:23Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's like I said, that's important. People don't know.
- 27:25Speaker 2: So it's like if you have a business that you
- 27:28Speaker 2: know you're promoting, you know, Teef straightening. You know, if
- 27:31Speaker 2: you're a dentist and somebody else wants to do the
- 27:33Speaker 2: exact same thing, you can't have two of the same
- 27:36Speaker 2: companies advertised on audio.
- 27:37Speaker 1: Right.
- 27:38Speaker 2: What you could do is say, okay, it's five hundred
- 27:39Speaker 2: dollars for audio for your teeth straightening company, so we
- 27:43Speaker 2: don't have space, but our YouTube numbers might be half
- 27:45Speaker 2: of that, so we can insert a short clip on
- 27:48Speaker 2: video just on YouTube. Charge you to fifty because it's less.
- 27:51Speaker 2: So now you get in seven fifty and the YouTube
- 27:55Speaker 2: listeners aren't hearing audio. Audio listeners aren't watching YouTube for
- 27:59Speaker 2: the most part, different audiences.
- 28:01Speaker 6: Audience and beauty.
- 28:02Speaker 3: The beauty of the YouTube is that literally you can
- 28:04Speaker 3: place it anywhere and as many as you want. Really,
- 28:07Speaker 3: it just has to be after I think ten minutes,
- 28:09Speaker 3: that's when you can start placing ads, so you could
- 28:11Speaker 3: just place them anywhere like, So that's what.
- 28:13Speaker 4: We right, And then I mean, if you are a
- 28:15Speaker 4: podcast that is going to start inserting all of these ads,
- 28:19Speaker 4: that's where Patreon becomes a great platform because now you
- 28:22Speaker 4: can say this is ad free content. So a lot
- 28:25Speaker 4: of people don't, like, they don't want to hear it.
- 28:27Speaker 4: They just don't want to hear it. And so now
- 28:29Speaker 4: that becomes a selling point to where okay, well you
- 28:32Speaker 4: can listen to the episode's ad.
- 28:34Speaker 2: Free, and our Patreon members listen to our episodes early
- 28:38Speaker 2: not only oh yeah, not only ad free, but early
- 28:42Speaker 2: as well.
- 28:43Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 28:44Speaker 3: We ran, we ran into a comment like we have
- 28:47Speaker 3: posted that we were about to put out the episode,
- 28:49Speaker 3: and somebody was like, yo, I loved it, was our favorite,
- 28:52Speaker 3: and we were like, yo, how do you hear it.
- 28:53Speaker 6: He's like ya, I'm a Patreon I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 28:56Speaker 6: shout out to you.
- 28:58Speaker 2: Shout outs. No, actually I made it co I'm like, yo,
- 29:01Speaker 2: it didn't come out yet, and everybody started laughing in
- 29:03Speaker 2: the comments section. He was like yo, he's bugging, and
- 29:05Speaker 2: he's like, now I'm on patient. I'm like, I apologize.
- 29:08Speaker 4: But I mean, outside of making the money, I think
- 29:12Speaker 4: one of the other things that is the most important
- 29:14Speaker 4: as a content creator is to literally just learn whatever
- 29:18Speaker 4: you think you're gonna have to pay somebody to do,
- 29:21Speaker 4: teach yourself. So, like I was saying, I got a
- 29:24Speaker 4: MacBook as a gift because I said I need a
- 29:26Speaker 4: MacBook because I need Premiere Pro to edit, because all
- 29:29Speaker 4: the people who edit stuff have.
- 29:31Speaker 5: MacBooks, so I need a MacBook.
- 29:33Speaker 4: And so I taught myself how to edit audio on Audacity,
- 29:37Speaker 4: Garage Band, and Premiere Pro.
- 29:39Speaker 5: I created our media kit.
- 29:41Speaker 4: I taught myself how to cut social media clips, how
- 29:46Speaker 4: to create social media content like audiograms and videos and
- 29:51Speaker 4: anything that I felt we needed as marketing material. And
- 29:54Speaker 4: those are things that sometimes you have to pay if
- 29:55Speaker 4: you don't know how to do it. So I literally
- 29:58Speaker 4: taught myself on YouTube. I would go in and be like, okay,
- 30:01Speaker 4: how do I split this track? And there's YouTube videos
- 30:04Speaker 4: for literally everything. So for people who maybe have a
- 30:07Speaker 4: job but don't have the money to invest in cameras
- 30:10Speaker 4: or equipment or studio time or outsourcing all of these jobs,
- 30:15Speaker 4: you can't teach yourself how to do it.
- 30:17Speaker 5: And it's editing audio is fairly simple. It is. It's
- 30:20Speaker 5: fairly simple.
- 30:20Speaker 2: There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the blueprint or
- 30:23Speaker 2: how to make money on the podcast. A lot of
- 30:25Speaker 2: jewelry in that segment. For sure.
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