Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Max Feng asks, I don’t remember if this has already been asked, but do you have advice for running a podcast/researching for it? I have one called Musical Vitamins; I just started, and I think it’s really fun, but research can be a little hard, and so can social media/distribution. Any advice on this? Thanks so much. Oh, also, to add to that, how did you find good theme music?

First, I got the theme song from Stockmusic.net. It was very affordable. I just found something I liked, and that was that.

I did check out your podcast. Its a good idea, and there are other successful podcasts out there that have similar premises.

You have discovered the biggest thing with podcasting. Creating something that people want to listen to isn’t easy. There is no shortcut. The premise of this podcast was that if I covered topics I was interested in, others would probably be interested as well.

One thing I’d do is give some attention to the albums considered among the greatest of all time. You might get more traction on Spotify than on other platforms, since Spotify is a music platform and people searching for music might come across your episode.

Also, don’t limit yourself to one genre of music.