Content Inc. - The Podcast

When you look at the most successful content creators on the planet, they generally have at least one, sometimes more, books that they published.  How important is it?  Let's discuss. ----- Today's episode is brought to you by Memberful. Whether your passion is journalism, cooking, fitness coaching, teaching, or traveling — you can monetize your content with Memberful. Visit memberful.com/contentinc to get started building your membership business with a free trial.  ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.  

Regardless of what happened to you in the past week, there are quite a few people in your life who are hurting right now. The decisions we make in the next few weeks to few months can change our lives and the lives of the people around us for the better. Know that this opportunity exists and is in front of you. ----- Today's episode is brought to you by Memberful. Whether your passion is journalism, cooking, fitness coaching, teaching, or traveling — you can monetize your content with Memberful. Visit memberful.com/contentinc to get started building your membership business with a free trial.  ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.  

Most content creators are selling their newsletter, podcast and website inventory the wrong way. By taking a limited-inventory approach, you can sell all your open inventory in a very short period of time.  ----- Today's episode is brought to you by Memberful. Whether your passion is journalism, cooking, fitness coaching, teaching, or traveling — you can monetize your content with Memberful. Visit memberful.com/contentinc to get started building your membership business with a free trial.  ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

Resistance is all around us, stopping us from creating great things. But one thing can stop the resistance. It's called habit...and creating habits is actually easier than you think. Let's find out more in this episode. ----- Today's episode is brought to you by Memberful. Whether your passion is journalism, cooking, fitness coaching, teaching, or traveling — you can monetize your content with Memberful. Visit memberful.com/contentinc to get started building your membership business with a free trial.  ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.  

If you’ve been following my updates, you know how I feel about TikTok. What we feared was true is actually true. TikTok is significantly harming us and our children. And they knew about it the whole time. In this episode we go indepth as to what TikTok knew and when, and what TikTok actually does to those addicted to the application. Here's the NPR article on the TikTok findings. ----- Today's episode is brought to you by Memberful. Whether your passion is journalism, cooking, fitness coaching, teaching, or traveling — you can monetize your content with Memberful. Visit memberful.com/contentinc to get started building your membership business with a free trial.  ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

Unfortunately, most content creators don't make it as content entrepreneurs. Sometimes it takes a different perspective and a minute to look around. And...it takes less than you think to follow the road less traveled. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

I’m sure you are creating and distributing content everywhere. But is that the right move? Maybe your strategy should be more about no, than yes.  In this episode we dive into the research to see what is really working in content creation and audience building. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

Have you taken the time to go back and think about why you started the thing you are doing now? If not, or at least you haven’t for a while, this episode might help. Maybe John Lennon can show us how. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

The most successful content creators I know, the real, real content entrepreneurs, make it a point to get to events on a regular basis, speaking or not.  Now is the perfect time to get your 2025 in-person events schedule in order. It will make all the difference. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.  

You can have the best product in the world, but if it's wrapped in horrible content or worse yet, nothing memorable, what's the point?  My friend and I toured Graceland, the home of the King, and learned an incredibly valuable lesson. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

If you want to be financially independent, the formula is actually quite easy. It's just that 99 percent of Americans don't follow the plan. Make sure you do. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

You might be doing all the right things with your content creation...but do you have your goals in order? Let's take a page from Jim Collins and review our BHAGs. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.  

NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" is blowing up the Top 100 charts again...and this after 25 years. You might not think so, but their little content play with Deadpool and Wolverine can work for you too. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

Writing a crime novel was the most challenging creative and content event of my career. In this special episode, True Crime Reporter's Robert Riggs interviews me about my writing process for "The Will to Die" and how it was different from business writing. Subscribe to Robert's True Crime Reporter here. Get more information about Orange Effect Foundation here.  ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

There are three key strategies you need to employ if you want a successful book launch, and each one happens WAY before you ever publish the book itself. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

James Patterson is one of the most successful novelists of all time. I had the opportunity to spend an hour with him and Mike Lupica this week and received a number of takeaways and writing tips. Here they are. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

Entrepreneur and content creator Marcus Sheridan says the most important thing we can do with our content businesses (and our lives) is to find the simple purpose behind what we do. Connect with Marcus Sheridan on LinkedIn here. Get the audiobook for The Content Entrepreneur here. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

In this more personal episode, Joe talks about organizing his family renunion and how it took a change of behavior to make it happen. He thinks you'll relate. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

Most of us aren't taking our newsletter seriously enough. Here are four things that can take your newsletter to the next level. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.

As content entrepreneurs (and human beings) we need to take "supposed to" out of our vocabulary. ------- Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE on Apple, Spotify or Google. See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get my personal newsletter today and receive my free goal-setting guide today.