Implementing Elm

The first 50 were easy. They all signed up quickly upon announcing that the podcast was coming. Since then it has been a slow growth to 100 and this is how I have been doing it:

The podcast is going to be a seasonal podcast so I have been recording episodes, but I have not been releasing them to the feed. That being said I have several completed episodes. So, I have been releasing them to the email newsletter.

This gives me the perfect incentive for people to join my newsletter. Join the newsletter and get early access to the episodes until the launch.

So, I just send out a once a week reminder even if I do not have a new episode that I finished up saying people can listen now if they sign up for the newsletter. I post this on twitter, because of the developer community, and the Elm Slack, since that is where most elm developers hangout. Every time I send the reminder out I get a new influx of subscribers sometimes only 1-3, but sometimes 10+.

After sitting on the launch for a few days waiting for iTunes to approve the show I was able to launch today and within the first hour I had a Patreon.

You can check out the tiers here for the setup I went with. You will of course see the classic get your name on the podcast tier plus some others:

https://www.patreon.com/implementingelm

I shared the podcast on 4 channels:

• Twitter
• Email List
• Elm Slack
• Other Developer communities

All of these are very personal channels (if used correctly) and allow me to interact with anyone showing interest or gives them the ability to directly interact with me and I believe that will be the most important part early days for this podcast.

It has also lead to me getting great early feedback both on quality and direction interested listeners want.

I would love to hear your tips for sharing your podcast if you have one or marketing tips you feel apply across the podcast market from your!

I have been working on getting speakers lined up for a seasonal Elm podcast and last Friday I announced the"coming soon" podcast with the following landing page: https://www.implementingelm.com

I shared the page with the Elm Slack and Discourse. It is a great place for my podcast because the community is so focused in those locations. I also mentioned it on Twitter.