Episode 19

bonus
Published on:

30th Jun 2022

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.

Cassondra's Links - Website | FB Page | IG | Email

If you have any questions or would like some help with your podcast, book a podcast enquiry call.

Can I ask a favour?

If you enjoyed the episode, I'd love it if you could leave me a review.

You can leave one here

Thanks so much!

I'd love to connect with you on social!

You can find me on:

LinkedIn | Website

Want to start a podcast, but not sure where to start? Download my free Podcast Playbook Get clear on your ideas!

Need some extra support? Book a 90-minute Podcast Strategy Session

Struggling with your podcast promotion? Grab my Easy-Peasy Podcast Promotion Checklist here!

Transcript
Unknown:

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,

Unknown:

please like share and subscribe. Your support means so much to

Unknown:

me. If there's a question or topic you'd like covering then

Unknown:

I'd love to hear from you. Find the podcast on Instagram at

Unknown:

Reggie Botfield and drop me a DM till next time bye

Show artwork for Podcasting 101 with Rachael

About the Podcast

Podcasting 101 with Rachael
Insight, Tips and Advice to Launch your Podcast
This podcast is for female business owners and solopreneurs who are looking to start a podcast to add to your already awesome offering.

I’ll give you helpful advice that you can take away and use in your podcasting journey.

As well as sharing solo episodes that will give you the kick start you need, I’ll be joined by women who have a podcast for their business as well as experts who will offer insights, tips and advice to move your podcast forward.

About your host

Profile picture for Rachael Botfield

Rachael Botfield

Hi, I’m Rachael, a Podcast Manager from the UK.
I started my business in 2021 bringing skills like event management, Marketing and a degree in Media & Communications with me.
I help busy female business owners and entrepreneurs launch and manage their podcasts by doing all the things!