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Parker Olson

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278 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

Paying attention to that over time and setting up tiers where it's like, okay, you can kind of get more coverage on your customer base while providing specifically to their needs, I think is sort of that next step.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

But it's super trial and error off the bat and understanding, okay, what's scalable?

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

What actually builds a good business model?

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

So that's pricing.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

It's a huge challenge for everyone.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

There is no magic bullet.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

The second component is pricing.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

How do you actually grow?

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

How do you actually reach the audience?

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

And for us, it's just like, okay, where does our audience hang out?

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

And a lot of it, again, is trial and error.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

But what we found early on is we tried kind of advertising, we tried doing different outreach methods.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

And then we partnered with a Substack newsletter that was to PR agencies.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

It was pretty small.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

They have like 900 followers, maybe not even, like 500 followers.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

And we placed one advertisement in there and we booked like 75 demos in three days.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

And we were like, Holy shit.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

Like, okay.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

Like clearly the messaging is hitting on like a real pain point.

Founder's Story
He Built a Startup That Books 5% of All Podcast Interviews—With No Code. | Ep. 275 with Parker Olson Co-Founder of Podpitch

Right.