How Gary Arndt Engineered a Meteoric Rise to Podcasting Dominance

How Gary Arndt Engineered a Meteoric Rise to Podcasting Dominance Jason Falls 36:23

This is episode 178 of Winfluence. I don’t typically count or even add the episode number to the shows because I’ve always thought episode numbers were more of an internal cataloging system for the podcaster and listeners don’t care.

I keep track, but it’s easier to just search for the guest or topic on my website or even the podcast apps than have to remember numbers. Thanks to mobile phones, who has brain capacity to remember numbers anymore.

But I call out episode 178 today because this episode is the first with a repeat guest. Gary Arndt joined us in January of 2021 to talk about becoming influential via a podcast. He’s the host of Everything Everywhere Daily. That daily dose of history and trivia launched when the pandemic wiped out Gary’s other business. He was a travel and tourism blogger, photographer and podcaster. His industry shut down thanks to COVID.

Gary was out of a job and out of income. He didn’t have anything to do so he threw himself into starting a podcast, but running it like a business. He very quickly went from in the red to in the black.

When we last spoke, Gary was hitting around 60,000 downloads per month. That was about six or eight months into his new venture. He is now more than 10 times that in terms of monthly downloads. By the end of this year, he’ll likely hit one million monthly downloads.

And Gary is one man researching and writing one show per day from his basement. He’s an independent podcaster. Us indy folks don’t typically hit one million downloads in a year, much less a month.

In this episode we revisit Gary Arndt, who tells us the lessons he’s learned from trying everything, testing, iterating and climbing his way from zero to hero in the podcasting space. He shares the best methods to grow and a little of where his show has taken him, that he didn’t expect.

A lot of the advice Gary has for us correlates to growing your influence on social networks. But if you’re keenly interested in podcasting and getting specific advice on how to go big or go home, get ready to take some notes.

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