John Lee Dumas is one of Maine’s most remarkable entrepreneurs.  Just over 365 days ago, John launched Entrepreneur on Fire, a daily podcast for entrepreneurs.  That show now has more than 400,000 listeners per month.  If you are a podcaster like me, it’s hard to get your arms around his success – it’s in a different league.  He has listeners like Breaking Bad has viewers.

I actually did my first podcast in 2007, for CorrectDeck.  I just found those episodes the other day – about 7 minutes long, recorded by putting my mp3 player on the desk and just talking about composite decking for a few minutes, and posted on our company website.  Not horrible, really  (I specifically remember recording one in my room at a La Quinta – I used to stay in cheap hotels).  But those old recordings sure don’t give you the idea that 6 years later, John Lee Dumas will have shown the true potential of podcasting.  John is a military man and a systems guy, and behind his success is a precision and execution that the podcasting world hasn’t seen before.   And he has done it in a niche the experts told him didn’t exist, producing quality content at a rate practically unmatched by anyone by building a system around producing daily interviews with a set roster of questions that has him on top of the podcasting world in just one short year,  .

I kept this episode short because were in a borrowed conference room at a busy trade show.  But we cover a lot of ground – hope you enjoy it.  And if you have a Maine resource that people absolutely should know about, like Propel or the Social Media Breakfasts that John mentions, please get that to me!