This is the show for creative entrepreneurs who have a message to share and want to live a life of freedom. Learn how to grow your network and net worth. Hear from exciting guests, and more. My name is Dylan Schmidt and Welcome to Digital Podcaster. There are three places that I look for podcasting topics, and I'm going to break down how to use each one in this episode. One of my most asked questions is what should I talk about on my podcast? And that's a really great question you can ask yourself when you're just starting, because if you don't have a clear idea of what your podcast is going to be about, it's going to be hard to attract listeners, it's also going to be hard to keep going. So you need to utilize at least one of the sources I'm going to be sharing with you here. The first place I look for podcasting topics always starts with my community, there's nowhere else I can go, that's going to give me such great feedback and ideas for my show. I've tried and failed at guessing what topics someone might want to hear about. And this is going to be a weird example. But it's kind of like if you're in a relationship with someone, and instead of learning what they liked, and listening to them, you just made it about yourself and made all the decisions for the other person, your community directly is the first place you should be getting any ideas. The better you refine your listening skills, the easier it will be to give them what they want on your show. Now naturally, you're probably saying to yourself, I don't have a community yet, especially if you're just getting started. Or I'm not getting enough comments or messages to get an idea of what my community would want. That's where the comments section comes in handy on other people's content. This is totally ethical. As long as you keep it ethical, you don't do anything weird. But if you're stuck for ideas, go on your favorite social media app, go to a few of your favorite accounts in your niche and see what people are asking in the comments. You can also look on YouTube and find popular channels in your niche and see what people are asking on there as well. If you want to take a more advanced approach to this, there's a service called vid IQ. And vid IQ gives you a ton of ideas, what people are searching for on YouTube, also how to optimize your videos, a lot of other things that I'm not going to talk about it here. But one of the things that vid IQ does in reference to what we're talking about, is that you can filter the comments under the YouTube videos by people asking a question. So instead of scrolling through and manually looking for questions that people are asking, you can just let vid IQ do it for you, it'll automatically sort them and then boom, you have a list of questions that people want to have answered. And they're in your niche. So the first suggestion is you look within your community. The second suggestion is you look in other communities through the Common section. And then the third and final suggestion is this, go on Amazon and look up books that are in your niche, look at the most popular books, find books with a lot of reviews, and then go to the review section, sort through reviews. So you're looking at the most negative reviews first, and then start reading through those reviews, people are going to be leaving feedback about what they didn't like, and what they wish was different in that book. And a lot of times those negative reviews can be turned into podcast episodes. An example would be this. And this is a fictitious example. But let's say you're in the self help niche. You go on Amazon and you find a book called How to be a better you. You go to the review section and somebody left a review that says this book was complete garbage. It didn't help me at all. I'm still the same person I was before I read it, I'm stuck. If you had the strategies that would help someone, you could turn that review into a podcast episode, you could talk about how to become a new version of yourself. get unstuck and get the help you need to move forward in your life. These are three different ways you can start using real world examples now and find great topics that your audience and future audience want to hear about guessing what your audience wants to hear is not a solid strategy. You need to be constantly listening to them and getting ideas from them so you can give them the content that they're looking for. If you do that you're going to be miles ahead of your competition. If you enjoyed today's episode, please leave a review on Apple podcasts or Spotify. It only takes 30 seconds and it's the best way to help the show. Thanks so much for listening and I will talk to you next time.