1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,480 Hello everyone. 2 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,550 And welcome back to the Oren Cohen podcast. 3 00:00:02,610 --> 00:00:06,300 This is day 14 in my 30 day challenge. 4 00:00:06,989 --> 00:00:10,710 And today I wanted to take the moment as we are. 5 00:00:11,130 --> 00:00:13,280 Crossing two weeks into the challenge. 6 00:00:13,790 --> 00:00:16,990 To reflect on how it's been in the last two weeks. 7 00:00:16,990 --> 00:00:19,680 And share what I think going forward. 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,270 So let's get right into it. 9 00:00:21,580 --> 00:00:26,620 So over the past two weeks, I've been publishing one podcast episode a day. 10 00:00:27,230 --> 00:00:32,540 The one thing I noticed the most was my ability to form sentences and 11 00:00:32,780 --> 00:00:36,440 talk smoother with less ums and AHS. 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,220 These were the bane of my existence in the early days. 13 00:00:40,610 --> 00:00:46,010 And I didn't really improve them that much when I was just interviewing other people. 14 00:00:46,010 --> 00:00:51,290 Because as an interviewer, you say very little and you prompt the other person to 15 00:00:51,290 --> 00:00:54,019 say, All the things that they want to say. 16 00:00:54,630 --> 00:00:57,840 But now that I've been doing this, I realized I was 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,250 becoming a little bit better. 18 00:00:59,370 --> 00:01:01,380 There's still a lot of improvements to make. 19 00:01:01,650 --> 00:01:05,160 And if that is something that I take from this challenge, then that's 20 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:07,240 a good reward for this challenge. 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,670 In terms of views and an audience and all that. 22 00:01:10,060 --> 00:01:11,260 I didn't expect. 23 00:01:11,620 --> 00:01:14,470 Anything to really blow up. 24 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:17,430 And I can tell you two things. 25 00:01:17,580 --> 00:01:18,120 One. 26 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,500 On my podcast host. 27 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:21,690 Transistor. 28 00:01:22,210 --> 00:01:25,470 The last time I checked, I had 36 views of all of the 29 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:27,660 episodes so far on this podcast. 30 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,380 So not really that many. 31 00:01:32,070 --> 00:01:37,500 But still more than zero, which what I was going to think would happen. 32 00:01:38,090 --> 00:01:38,960 On YouTube. 33 00:01:38,990 --> 00:01:40,340 A similar thing happened. 34 00:01:40,430 --> 00:01:43,040 I published those episodes on my YouTube channel. 35 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,100 As a podcast with the RSS feed. 36 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,770 From my actual podcast host. 37 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,570 And YouTube imported and published all of the episodes already. 38 00:01:54,260 --> 00:02:00,320 And I noticed that whenever I do publish an episode, I get very little views, but 39 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,080 I do get views that repeat themselves. 40 00:02:03,110 --> 00:02:10,220 So I have for the last few days, at least about six or seven views on each episode. 41 00:02:10,820 --> 00:02:14,480 And I'm not sure what is the human connection there? 42 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,000 I'm not sure how many people resonate with what I say, 43 00:02:17,270 --> 00:02:19,340 because I don't get any comments. 44 00:02:20,020 --> 00:02:23,680 If you are watching this on YouTube now, then do, please tell 45 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,400 me that you're watching these and if they are giving you value. 46 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,640 it would mean the world, to me to know that I'm helping someone. 47 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,000 I do get a little bit of likes. 48 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:34,980 Like one here, one there. 49 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,100 But other than that, I don't really feel. 50 00:02:38,820 --> 00:02:40,560 Connection that much. 51 00:02:40,990 --> 00:02:43,780 But I do feel that this could change going forward. 52 00:02:44,060 --> 00:02:47,420 I do have to say in terms of YouTube, I'm just publishing. 53 00:02:47,660 --> 00:02:49,820 These videos as is, I'm not doing. 54 00:02:50,450 --> 00:02:54,440 Any thumbnail work, just choosing a frame from the video. 55 00:02:54,950 --> 00:02:57,440 I'm just going with the title that I gave my recording. 56 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,320 Which is what the episode is about. 57 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:01,370 It's not click baity. 58 00:03:01,650 --> 00:03:04,200 And it's not like a draft or something. 59 00:03:04,230 --> 00:03:06,960 It is a title that represents. 60 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,740 What the episode is going to be about because I'm still a writer 61 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:12,510 and I'm not going to let myself. 62 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,310 Upload an episode titled episode one without saying anything else. 63 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,550 So you do still get titles. 64 00:03:19,610 --> 00:03:23,450 If you've been watching the videos, you've seen that I titled my videos, but 65 00:03:23,450 --> 00:03:25,580 I'm not doing any optimizations around. 66 00:03:25,850 --> 00:03:27,200 Keywords and stuff like that. 67 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,520 Also each episode has a link to my newsletter. 68 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:37,250 And so far, I don't think I've got any new subscribers from these 69 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:39,710 episodes but that's not really. 70 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:46,070 a thing, like I'm not really hoping that zero views or zero to 10 71 00:03:46,070 --> 00:03:50,930 views would actually convert to newsletter subscribers just yet. 72 00:03:51,410 --> 00:03:56,030 So I think that's all I want to say about this challenge so far. 73 00:03:56,510 --> 00:03:59,720 I am excited for next week for next Friday. 74 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,340 There is a little achievement. 75 00:04:01,420 --> 00:04:03,670 When you get to 21 episodes. 76 00:04:04,270 --> 00:04:09,040 Once you publish your 21st episode, would we be next Saturday? 77 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,230 Like a week and a day from now? 78 00:04:11,890 --> 00:04:13,360 Then you are entering. 79 00:04:13,829 --> 00:04:16,380 The 1% of podcasts around the world. 80 00:04:16,769 --> 00:04:18,060 And that means that. 81 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,540 A lot of people start a podcast, but never reach. 82 00:04:22,050 --> 00:04:23,220 Episode 21. 83 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,830 So once I reach episode 21, I'm still in that group of 99%. 84 00:04:28,860 --> 00:04:34,320 But once I publish my 22nd episode, I am going to be in the 1% of podcast. 85 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:35,820 Across the globe. 86 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:40,860 So, yeah, you just need to be persistent enough to publish 22 episodes. 87 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:43,270 We are on track to get there. 88 00:04:43,570 --> 00:04:45,730 We are on episode 14 right now. 89 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,750 And it's just eight more episodes and I can do that. 90 00:04:49,780 --> 00:04:50,980 I know I can. 91 00:04:51,580 --> 00:04:52,240 And. 92 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:53,320 Yeah. 93 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,060 So that's all I wanted to share today. 94 00:04:55,060 --> 00:04:59,200 Just share a little bit of a reflection piece about the journey itself. 95 00:04:59,770 --> 00:05:03,990 And if you have any questions, or want to join my newsletter, you can find 96 00:05:03,990 --> 00:05:05,640 it in the description of the episode. 97 00:05:06,150 --> 00:05:09,669 Comment below if you have any questions or feedback. 98 00:05:10,509 --> 00:05:12,009 And I'll see you in the next one. 99 00:05:12,549 --> 00:05:13,030 Bye for now.