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Hello Gary Brecher / John Dolan. Locking most episodes is financially unwise because it will decrease the amount of new customers you get. Having a 50/50 split is more wise because then people can check it out and see what you are about. The 50/50 split allows people who are searching for topical new events to find you and have a listen to some but not all new things. So by locking up most episodes you are shrinking you potential growth. I recommend keeping an even 50/50 split of all episodes, or even just locking 2 episodes per month if you do more than 4. It should be an even split between episodes so every other episode is free every other is not, again if you do 5 or more per month then lock only 2. Avoid falling in the trap of only having low quality episodes for free because then new people will listen to those and think you are bad. Also you are making 4500 dollars per episode now which is 9000 a month, that must be enough to cover your expenses and even allow you to move back to New Zealand where your wife knows the system and how things work. Don't let short term greed get in the way of long term GREED! :D You will make more money by having a 2 locked episodes per month and the rest free, instead of what you are doing now with locking most episodes.
this is what I am doing now: <a href="http://thesweetsetup.com/quick-tip-create-a-personal-podcast-feed-from-dropbox-with-justcast/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://thesweetsetup.com/quick-tip-create-a-personal-podcast-feed-from-dropbox-with-justcast/</a> I have to download the files manually into dropbox but they do end up in my podcast app of choice. This is a bad workaround but it is the best I can do
and no you cannot subscribe to my feed you must make your own
Any chance we get get this synced up with iTunes so that I can listen to it like my other podcasts?
old comment, but sign up for the newsletter and they give you an RSS link
As a subscriber I think this is a bad idea, and is contrary to the standard Patreon model. I'd much rather fund the war nerd to spread his message as far as it can go, rather than have it only available to those who can pay.
I agree, but locking their podcasts got me to commit to sign up. mind you, reading war nerd articles got me to sign up to NSFW Corp and Pando, and now that he's not posting on Pando anymore I've cancelled my subscription to them. I think they'd do better having an open podcast and encouraging people to support them, then he could have a large audience and even if each average member didn't pay much the total could end up a lot. This way, it's not likely to grow very much because we won't be able to share and promote the podcast cos there's no free material. I just want to be able to listen to radio war nerd on my ipod with all my other podcasts, right now I have to download them and copy across manually, it's a pain :-(