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starvethedoubts.com

podcastmovement.com

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Podcast Movement Kickstarter

Jared got his start in the podcasting world by launching his first podcast, Starve The Doubts. He was so determined to find someone else to accomplish outside of his 9 to 5 sales job. Jared felt the need to do something else with his life even though he was crushing it at his job.

Jared decided he wanted to start podcasting as a way to fulfill his creative needs. He couldn’t afford formal classes from Cliff Ravenscraft, but decided to email Cliff and find out if he could work with him on a payment plan. Cliff graciously agreed to work with him on the $800 fee by hashing out a payment plan.

While attending a conference that incorporated some aspects of podcasting, he overheard some people talking about how they wish there was a conference dedicated to podcasting. That’s when he got the idea to take the initiative and start his own conference, but he didn’t know what he was going to do next.

Eventually Jared contacted Gary from Podcamp Dallas about joining forces and starting up a podcast conference in Dallas, Texas. Together they started recruiting both volunteers and podcast friends to speak at the event. Jared also shows how just asking for something can turn into a great opportunity. He contacted Phillip Taylor and got an hour long phone call together, where Gary and Jared could ask lots of questions to get them on their conference starting way!

As a proof of concept, Jared reached out to his podcast friends to reach out to their listeners with their email lists. This allowed Podcast Movement to really start moving forward. Podcast Movement got it’s biggest boost when in the first 9 hours of posting to KickStarter, they raised the $11,000 that they were asking for to rent a conference center in Dallas. At the end of the 30 days on Kickerstarter, they had found themselves with over $30,000!

To date, they have sold more than 550 tickets for the conference, being held on August 16 and 17th in Dallas, Texas. If you can’t make it to Dallas, they are selling virtual tickets that will offer up HD video recordings of every speaker and panel!

I recommend everyone go and check out Podcast Movement even if you are only a little bit interested in Podcasting!

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