BONUS!! Repurpose your Pod with Cassondra Collins
In this week's episode, I talk to Cassondra Collins from Creatively Cassondra.
We talk about :
- What Cassondra does [1.16 min]
- The process behind the repurposing [3.47 min]
- Getting as much out of the content as possible! [8.44 min]
- Evergreen Content [12.16 min]
- Cassondra's Recommended Tools [18.50 min]
Cassondra helps coaches and healers remove overwhelm around creating content by creating Done-For-You authentic content that helps you share your story and connect with your ideal audience.
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Transcript
Welcome to podcasting one on one with me your host
Unknown:Rachel. This podcast is for female business owners and
Unknown:solopreneurs that are looking to start a podcast that add to your
Unknown:own already awesome offering. I'll give you helpful advice
Unknown:that you can take away and use in your podcasting journey. I
Unknown:hope to answer those tricky questions that just keep you
Unknown:from starting. Once a month, I'll be joined by other female
Unknown:podcasters. They'll share their journey with you and offer tips
Unknown:and advice they discovered along the way. Let's get started.
Unknown:Hi, and welcome to this bonus episode. We are talking about
Unknown:repurposing your podcast and I have with me the lovely
Unknown:Cassandra Collins, who is an expert in repurposing. Hi,
Unknown:Cassandra, how are you?
Unknown:I'm good, Rachel. Thanks for having me on the show today.
Unknown:Brilliant. Thanks for coming on. And Jonas has a little bit about
Unknown:what you do.
Unknown:Sure. So I take content that people have already created and
Unknown:create new content from that content. So basically, you know,
Unknown:you don't have to create new content to create new content.
Unknown:And one of my favourite ways, or one of my favourite types of
Unknown:content to repurpose is podcasts because there is literally so
Unknown:much that can come from podcasts. So I actually started
Unknown:in the online space as a general VA about four years ago. And I
Unknown:kind of fell in love with podcasts and writing and the two
Unknown:intersect when it comes to content repurposing. So
Unknown:basically, with content repurposing, you take the
Unknown:podcast, and you can create social media posts, you can
Unknown:create emails, you can create a blog, of course, show notes for
Unknown:your show, there's really so many ways that you can repurpose
Unknown:a podcast, to create content to kind of take the pressure and
Unknown:overwhelm off of yourself. So I fell in love with the podcasts
Unknown:and the writing. And it just seemed like a natural
Unknown:progression, as I learned more and more and more about content
Unknown:repurposing, to kind of encompass all areas of content.
Unknown:So why videos and trainings, taking blogs and turning them
Unknown:into other forms of written content, social media posts, and
Unknown:turning them into emails, there's really so much that you
Unknown:can do, but out of all of the forms of content, I really feel
Unknown:like podcasts really do give you the opportunity to create the
Unknown:most new content.
Unknown:Absolutely. When I was a VA, myself, when I first started and
Unknown:came across repurposing, I just thought this is so brilliant is
Unknown:a really great way. And a lot of people do struggle with creating
Unknown:the content. And if you are creating a podcast, you are
Unknown:creating that piece of content. And it seems like criminal not
Unknown:to actually use that content and put it out for different
Unknown:purposes. So you mentioned a few things like blogs, social media
Unknown:post, do you want to talk a little bit more about how what's
Unknown:your kind of process if you're going to turn a series of
Unknown:podcast episodes into a blog or social media posts? What would
Unknown:you do to do that?
Unknown:So the first thing I would do is I would take the the podcast
Unknown:itself and run it through transcription software and get
Unknown:it in writing form. One of the main reasons that I tell people
Unknown:they should repurpose their podcast is because people learn
Unknown:and consume content in different ways. So you may consume concept
Unknown:content best by listening to it, and you can absorb it fine that
Unknown:way. Whereas I need to read it. I am somebody that has to read
Unknown:content to fully absorb it. So the first thing I personally do
Unknown:is run it through transcription software. Then once I have the
Unknown:transcript, it's really easy to go through it and highlight
Unknown:like, you know, a lot of times podcasts will be like, you know,
Unknown:three tips to do X, right. So, I will find like the summary, like
Unknown:an opening summary, highlight whatever those tips are
Unknown:throughout it, and then clean it all up at the end and tie it all
Unknown:together. And if you can do that you have a blog, right? It can
Unknown:also double A show notes or you can just take the the opening
Unknown:summary for your show notes, right because you're kind of
Unknown:giving it Have a quick synopsis of what it's going to be about.
Unknown:And that's your show notes. From there, you can cut it down even
Unknown:more into a similar format for social media posts. So you will
Unknown:create a headline, you know, for the post that's really, really
Unknown:eye catching, or you know, that kind of punch you in the gut,
Unknown:kind of get people's attention and kind of headline, and then
Unknown:build into it, then you highlight those tips or whatever
Unknown:your main points were in the in the podcast, and then you tie it
Unknown:up, you can use it as a value driven post where you're
Unknown:literally just giving your audience you know, information
Unknown:to consume. Or you can do it with a CTA at the end of it,
Unknown:whether that CTA is to listen to the episode itself, you know,
Unknown:you're promoting the episode itself. Or it is, you know, to
Unknown:book a call with you, you know, is this something that, you
Unknown:know, really resonated with you? If so, I'd love to talk to you
Unknown:book a call, here's my link. You know, there are different ways
Unknown:that you can use the social media post, whether it be as
Unknown:value and to build your authority more as an expert, or
Unknown:CTA. Let's talk about it.
Unknown:Yeah, I love that. That is what I try to do with mine, I run
Unknown:mine through transcription software as well. And then try
Unknown:because I like to put timestamps in my episodes in my show notes.
Unknown:So that if someone is maybe only listening for one part of that
Unknown:they can they can skip to it, I find that useful myself, I've
Unknown:listened to other podcasts. And you can really kind of get that
Unknown:pull that summary out. Because previously, I would be listening
Unknown:back to it. Just listening back and making notes. And it's quite
Unknown:hard because you have to keep re listening and everything. So the
Unknown:transcription really helps, really helps you to get those
Unknown:points. And I like that you can pick out certain parts of it to
Unknown:highlight like you say, in the social media posts, do you do?
Unknown:Do you make any audio grammes or the visual snippets at all?
Unknown:Yeah, so if somebody records in video, and they would like the
Unknown:video snippets, you know, I found I like to keep it no more
Unknown:than a minute, if possible, because, you know, a lot of
Unknown:times after a minute you lose people anyway. But, you know, if
Unknown:there's like a minute worth of something that's like, like I
Unknown:said, that really good punch you in the gut grabs people's
Unknown:attention, you know, part of the video that I definitely cut that
Unknown:down and make it into a video that you can use on social
Unknown:media. And or I can use the sound itself, you know, just the
Unknown:audio of that one part for the audio grammes. And those
Unknown:actually do really, really well in a lot of the social media
Unknown:space, especially on Instagram. And I really think that they
Unknown:bring something to the post itself. Now, that being said, I
Unknown:do still include the long form posts that I create with the
Unknown:audio gramme because the audio group itself is not going to
Unknown:tell everything that you know, the episode is about it's just
Unknown:that one, you know, piece that really catches your attention.
Unknown:So but I do like them, I think they're a wonderful tool when
Unknown:you're a podcaster.
Unknown:Yeah, I love audiograms when I first discovered them last year,
Unknown:I couldn't wait some make to make my first audiogram I was
Unknown:going to ask you about which content maybe for podcasts like
Unknown:say audiograms worked better? What really well on Instagram?
Unknown:Have you noticed any difference in what what kind of things
Unknown:work? Well, when you repurposing your podcast across any
Unknown:different platforms? Or is it just, it's best to try and get
Unknown:as much as you can out of that episode,
Unknown:I would get as much as you can out of the episode and utilise
Unknown:different parts in different places. So we all know that each
Unknown:social media platform has their different algorithms and what
Unknown:they favour LinkedIn actually, lately, I've noticed that text
Unknown:only posts do better on LinkedIn, then even one that has
Unknown:an image or one that has, you know, an audio grammar a video
Unknown:attached to it. So maybe you just use the posts that you
Unknown:created on LinkedIn. But on Facebook, your ad, you know the
Unknown:audio gramme or the photo because Facebook likes photos
Unknown:and videos and audio Graham's say with Instagram, you know,
Unknown:with Instagram, you have to at least have a photo unless it's
Unknown:in your story. So yeah, I mean, there there are different things
Unknown:that that different platforms like as far as content, so it's
Unknown:really just like a trial and error to see what works for you.
Unknown:On LinkedIn, I found as well the posts tend to work better
Unknown:without an image. Somebody I know that does a lot of work on
Unknown:LinkedIn actually told me that once that unless your image has
Unknown:a purpose On LinkedIn is to try and keep it to text only. So I
Unknown:tend to I do put my order grammes on LinkedIn. And but
Unknown:they're like that's a case it's classed as a video because it's
Unknown:an mp4 file. So they do quite like some video content on
Unknown:LinkedIn. But as for still images I do on Facebook and
Unknown:Instagram, but I don't say much on LinkedIn. I did hear. It was
Unknown:Michelle that said, it was on I have to link the post in the
Unknown:show notes talking about the impressions for videos, that can
Unknown:be quite, they look quite low. And say somebody like 25 people
Unknown:watched it for three seconds that could count for your like
Unknown:your audio listening to your audio gramme. But actually,
Unknown:that's quite good laughter. I'm not explaining myself very well.
Unknown:But I will find the posts that Michelle, then this guy called
Unknown:Evan, were talking about, it was really interesting. And that was
Unknown:just because I was quite disappointed in the amount of
Unknown:people that were looking at my audiogram. And I was thinking,
Unknown:are they not working? What should I do, but actually, for
Unknown:that, for that type of content, it was quite good. So I think
Unknown:like I say, trial and error is a really good way to, to go
Unknown:forward. When you're Yeah, yeah, as much content
Unknown:as possible. Take your podcast, you should take your podcasts
Unknown:and get as much content as you can out of that podcast. And
Unknown:then kind of like divide and conquer, use what works best on
Unknown:each platform. Of course, if you write a blog, that's gonna go on
Unknown:your website, but you could also take that blog, change some
Unknown:formatting around in it, as far as you know how you've written
Unknown:it. And you also have a really solid email to go out to your
Unknown:email list as a value add. Because, you know, we don't want
Unknown:to just pop into people's inboxes. When we want to sell
Unknown:them something, right, we want to build the relationship, we
Unknown:want to, we want to nurture that connection with the people that
Unknown:are especially on our email list, right? Because they've
Unknown:signed up for something to get on it. So they trust us, we want
Unknown:to keep that trust, we want to build that trust. So it's really
Unknown:easy to take content that you created from a podcast, and then
Unknown:repurpose that same message into an email as a value add to those
Unknown:subscribers.
Unknown:That's really good. I really liked that. Your because
Unknown:different, like you say different people consume their
Unknown:content in different ways. And it is easy to forget. And I
Unknown:think that sometimes we put a piece of content out there. And
Unknown:we think, Oh, everybody must have seen it. And they haven't.
Unknown:And we think that we're just repeating ourselves by putting
Unknown:your podcasts in a blog or repurposing those. But actually,
Unknown:sometimes it's a scary small percentage of people that
Unknown:actually get to see that content. So it is so great to
Unknown:reframe it and reuse it and see what works well. And then look
Unknown:at it again for the future as well, I guess so that, like when
Unknown:they always say about your social media kind of look back
Unknown:and work, what works? Well, what has worked well. And
Unknown:exactly. And furthermore, you can recast an episode. You know,
Unknown:if you've created all of this content already, and you've
Unknown:saved it, you know, your audience changes probably on
Unknown:average, every six ish months, it changes a little bit. So you
Unknown:can actually recast old episodes, especially if you're
Unknown:running short on time. Maybe it's summer and, and you want to
Unknown:travel or you have kids at home, and it's a lot harder to create
Unknown:that content, you can recast old episodes, and you've already got
Unknown:a treasure trove of content that's created for it. It's
Unknown:really a time saver. It's very efficient.
Unknown:A lady that I work with called Hannah, and she uses Meet Edgar.
Unknown:And that's a really great platform for plugging in
Unknown:evergreen content. And I'm working with her and this lady
Unknown:called Nicole Hiller as well. And they've got the showing up
Unknown:solo podcast, and they have it as a video podcast on YouTube.
Unknown:And then it goes out on all the audio podcast platforms as well.
Unknown:And then she does she repurpose is I mean they're they're all
Unknown:about digital marketing. But she I've noticed having the episodes
Unknown:coming up the previous ones that have come on and gas episodes.
Unknown:And that's something that I haven't done yet. But using like
Unknown:almost it is your evergreen content, you can still put
Unknown:those, they're still really great just because you've put
Unknown:them out once and told about it once we kind of like it's easily
Unknown:to forget about those ones that have gone. But actually you're
Unknown:right we have a new audience coming in that have never
Unknown:they're not going to go back that far, potentially through
Unknown:your social media or through your website or something like
Unknown:that, then actually reminding them that this information is
Unknown:there is really valuable.
Unknown:It is and if you think about it when it already when you've
Unknown:already created it, you know different conversations come up,
Unknown:especially in the online space concerning different subjects,
Unknown:right. Whether you know It might be algorithms it might be the
Unknown:way coaches are structuring their packages. Now, whatever.
Unknown:If you have a podcast episode on that already, you already have a
Unknown:relevant social media post on that topic that you can then use
Unknown:to drive people back to that episode that you've already
Unknown:created. You know, just by changing the CTA, you already
Unknown:have all this relevant content if you've already created the
Unknown:podcast on it. So it allows you to be prepared when some of
Unknown:those you know hot ticket, you know, conversations come up in
Unknown:the online space. And it gives you the ability to establish
Unknown:yourself as an expert that much more.
Unknown:Yeah, absolutely. What is your favourite type of content to
Unknown:repurpose to do like, do you prefer, what your favourite
Unknown:thing is to repurpose them into blogs? Or do you just like doing
Unknown:everything across the board or if you got favourite,
Unknown:I do love to do everything across the board. Because it's
Unknown:just, it's fascinating to me how the same piece of original
Unknown:content can become so many different things. And each one
Unknown:of them is a little different. You know, if you're a writer,
Unknown:then you know that blog formatting. And writing is
Unknown:different than the way you write for social media or the right
Unknown:way you write for emails, they're all very different. But
Unknown:it's all derived from the same piece of content. And, you know,
Unknown:I geek out about it, I'm not gonna lie, I get a really,
Unknown:really, really good podcast in my hands. And I'm like, Oh, my
Unknown:gosh,
Unknown:it feels like it'd be really satisfying to look at the
Unknown:episode, do the blogs in the post, see, like everything like
Unknown:that and see the difference between and to show really, how
Unknown:much you've got from that one from that one episode.
Unknown:It is very satisfying. Yeah, no, no, like, progression to so you
Unknown:have the you know, the podcasts and you have the blog, then you
Unknown:have social media posts and an email. I mean, you can take it
Unknown:all the way down to engagement style questions that you can
Unknown:post, you know, just the question on your Facebook and
Unknown:your group wherever to drive that engagement in that
Unknown:conversation with your audience. And there are times that I've
Unknown:had, you know, a podcast episode that's maybe 10 or 12 minutes
Unknown:long. And I'll get a list of engagement questions out of that
Unknown:one podcast. And so it's incredibly satisfying to see how
Unknown:it progresses from the episode down to, you know, the very,
Unknown:very bottom, like one liner type. Yeah.
Unknown:So when you work with your clients, who have their own
Unknown:podcast, will they tend to get you to do the whole range to
Unknown:repurpose for the whole range? Or do you get some that you just
Unknown:do just blogs, or just specific pieces of content?
Unknown:With podcasters, they typically want the whole range, the people
Unknown:that come to me do not enjoy writing, plain and simple, you
Unknown:know, writing is not for everyone, not everybody enjoys
Unknown:it the way that I do. And I understand that that's what
Unknown:keeps me in business, right. So most of the time that people
Unknown:that come to me, they enjoy creating the podcast, because
Unknown:they show up best when they're talking to someone they show up
Unknown:best on video or podcast. And they don't quite know how to
Unknown:translate that into writing. So I typically end up doing, you
Unknown:know, the whole shebang.
Unknown:That's great. So they have that continuity and consistency as
Unknown:well. For each podcast episode, they have the consistent
Unknown:repurposing of that in the form of all the things we've just
Unknown:been talking about. That must be extremely powerful for them.
Unknown:Have you got any tools that you'd recommend anybody to use?
Unknown:If they were going to be doing this repurposing themselves?
Unknown:Sure. So the first tool that I would recommend is otter.ai.
Unknown:There's a free version and there's a paid version, you can
Unknown:use the free, especially if you're doing it yourself and
Unknown:just transcribe it by you know, letting it play back and letting
Unknown:be, you know, transcription run on your phone or something like
Unknown:that. I have the paid version because I do a lot of
Unknown:repurposing so it saves me time to be able to just, you know,
Unknown:upload the file and let it do its thing. So that was what I
Unknown:would recommend for transcription. I like headliner
Unknown:dot app for the audio brands. I feel like it's a really user
Unknown:friendly software to use when you're creating audiograms
Unknown:especially in the beginning, and I think it'll let you do up to
Unknown:10 minutes if you really, really want to. Yeah, like I said, I
Unknown:like to keep them you know, at about a minute, no more than
Unknown:that if possible.
Unknown:If you're on the free plan, they won't. It won't do the subtitle
Unknown:part if you do more than 10 the only gives you like 10 minutes
Unknown:free, the free version. I love headliner as well, I thought
Unknown:that's that's I've tried a few and that's the most I think
Unknown:that's
Unknown:I've tried And I've tried a few and that's definitely my
Unknown:favourite one. As far as graphics. Of course, everybody
Unknown:has their own, you know, preference, I think Canvas the
Unknown:easiest to use so that you can create your multiple graphics
Unknown:and just have the templates stored. And just go through and
Unknown:change your episode numbers and titles, I think that makes it
Unknown:really, really, really easy to think I mean, those are really
Unknown:the main ones that I use other than, you know, whatever you're
Unknown:using to write it, whether it's Google Docs, or Microsoft Word
Unknown:or pages, whatever it is. But definitely otter and definitely
Unknown:headliner.
Unknown:On Java seven, I'm there exactly what I use, I think they are the
Unknown:best ones as well to use, I think they're all easy to use,
Unknown:they're all accessible, they've all got a free version as well,
Unknown:if that's where you want to start. And obviously go to the
Unknown:paid version, if that's what you want to if you need more
Unknown:functionality out of it. And everything, I managed to get a
Unknown:deal on my otter at Christmas, it had like, by like, a year's
Unknown:worth, and it was reduced by 40%. So I paid for a year. So I
Unknown:get like 6000 minutes, a month. So that's quite. And you also
Unknown:get now the free option to toggle the otter person to come
Unknown:in on Zoom meetings and transcribe why you're doing it.
Unknown:Yeah, yeah. Do you know why? I should have done it for this
Unknown:meeting? Because I could have done it. Well, I can run it
Unknown:through afterwards. But it was it would it does it and I've
Unknown:used that a lot of my meetings now. To save me kind of like
Unknown:doing it afterwards. But I think I love that feature. I think
Unknown:it's really great.
Unknown:Yeah, because how many times have how many times have you
Unknown:been on a coffee chat and said something like so awesome. And
Unknown:you're like, Man, I wish I would have wrote that down. Right. And
Unknown:so when you can use the, you know, the paid version, and it's
Unknown:transcribing all your meetings, you already have it.
Unknown:You can repurpose yourself to your heart's content.
Unknown:Exactly. You know, my grandfather, he is 91 now, and
Unknown:when I was a very young girl, he told me, you know, this is a man
Unknown:who he was a blue collar, you know, guy, he worked in the coal
Unknown:mines until he got injured. And he told me at a young age to
Unknown:work smart, not hard. And so efficiency is something that has
Unknown:been like, ingrained in the you know, since a young age. And
Unknown:repurposing content is one of the most efficient ways that you
Unknown:can save yourself, you know, some overwhelm, because you take
Unknown:one piece of content and create multiple pieces out of it,
Unknown:that's efficient, you're not sitting at your desk for hours
Unknown:on end, trying to think up all this new content that you feel
Unknown:like you have to have, right, you're taking one piece and
Unknown:creating multiple pieces from that one piece. And it's just
Unknown:efficient. It takes away the overwhelm. It takes away the you
Unknown:know, the fuss and the frustration that you get when
Unknown:you know you're sitting there and you're trying to create and
Unknown:you just have no clue what to do.
Unknown:Absolutely 100% with you there. So if for all those people
Unknown:listening out there that have a podcast and would love to start
Unknown:repurposing theirs. Can you tell us how they can get in touch
Unknown:with you and work with you?
Unknown:Absolutely. So I have a website. It's creatively cassandra.com.
Unknown:And I'm sure you can put that in the show notes. Yeah. You can
Unknown:also reach out to me through my Facebook business page or on
Unknown:Instagram and my email is Hello at creatively cassandra.com
Unknown:Wonderful. Yeah, I will link all of that information in the show
Unknown:notes. So if you'd like somebody to repurpose your podcast for
Unknown:you, because Sondra is a lady and you can get in touch with
Unknown:her there. Thank you so much for coming on and giving us so much
Unknown:more detail into how to repurpose your podcast.
Unknown:Thanks, Rachel. It was pleasure.
Unknown:Thanks so much for listening. If you've enjoyed today's episode,
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