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Free one-page post-mortem for an empty email list: https://podknows.co.uk/list You're 40 episodes in, and your email list would fit inside a Fiat Panda. Mine would. 19,300 downloads in 90 days. Signups from this show's freebies in the same 90 days? Two. This was supposed to be a victory lap. Every freebie I built for the show this year, what each one was for, and which ones worked. Then I opened my Kit account, and the 'which ones worked' section got a lot shorter. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm reading out the receipts on a whole season of lead magnets, Top 40 countdown style, and working out why a B2B podcast with real downloads can still leave you with nobody to talk to. We look at why a website address said out loud at the end of an episode is a message in a bottle, why a freebie built around a topic attracts other people in your trade rather than buyers (buying triggers, not topics), why an email address with no follow-up isn't a lead, and how Kit's own recommendations feature outsold my lovingly designed PDFs by more than three to one. There's also a simple sum you can run on your own show: signups per thousand downloads. It's a horrible number the first time you see it. But it tells you whether listening is turning into people you can actually talk to, which a download never will. Plus a Founder FAQ from Lorna in Inverness, whose podcast name has just been pinched by a competitor, and a quick tip on why every comma in your script is a suspect. Useful links Empty List Post-Mortem (one sum, four checks, my own numbers as the worked example) https://podknows.co.uk/list B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email [email protected] 00:00.000 Your email list would fit inside a Fiat Panda 01:35.000 The receipts: a whole season of freebies, Top 40 style 04:44.000 Why nobody signed up: no tap, wrong people, no follow-up 08:17.500 What I'm changing, and signups per thousand downloads 10:21.300 Founder FAQ: a competitor has pinched my podcast's name 12:55.000 Quick tip: if a sentence needs a comma, cut it in half 14:04.000 Final thoughts and the Empty List Post-Mortem

If you've got a budget review coming up and someone with a spreadsheet is about to ask what your B2B podcast actually does for the business, downloads won't answer it. Downloads tell you people are listening. That does matter. But a download doesn't sit next to a cost. And that's the only kind of number a CFO can do anything with. I'm Neal Veglio, and this week on B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm showing founders, CMOs and business owners exactly what to bring into that room instead: a fully loaded cost number of your own, and the three counts that show what your podcast has changed in the business, not just what it produced. We look at why bringing your download chart turns your podcast into a media buy judged on cost per thousand, why founders either overclaim or shrug and say "brand awareness", why your own hours belong on the cost sheet, and the three counts that work as genuine buying-trigger evidence: deals where a prospect mentioned an episode unprompted, episodes your sales team sent instead of booking a call, and inbound that names the show. There's also a simple rule for when you go looking and find nothing at all: say zero, then say how you'll measure it next quarter. Plus a Founder FAQ from Tamsin in London, who wants to re-record her cringe-worthy episode six, and a quick tip on checking your show at 1.5x speed. Useful links Podcast Value Scorecard (where you stand out of five, plus the three numbers on one page) https://podknows.co.uk/number B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk Is Your Podcast Doing Its Job? (the one this picks up from) [LINK] Leave a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email [email protected] Timestamped summary 00:27 The question someone with a spreadsheet is about to ask 00:55 Why downloads are the one number a CFO can't use 01:43 How downloads turn your podcast into a media buy 02:12 Overclaiming, underclaiming and Janet the CMO 02:49 First: bring your own fully loaded cost number 04:30 Yes, your own hours go on the sheet 05:06 Second: a number your podcast changed, not produced 05:44 Count one: deals where a prospect mentioned an episode 06:11 Count two: episodes sales sent instead of booking a call 06:52 Count three: inbound that names the show 07:11 Why you don't need an attribution model for this 07:52 Third: if the number is zero, say zero 08:29 What to measure next quarter 09:04 Why a CFO trusts a zero with a method 09:46 Would your sales conversations get longer without it? 10:25 Founder FAQ: should Tamsin re-record episode six? 12:48 Quick tip: check your show at 1.5x speed 13:49 Final thoughts: line item or asset? 14:12 The scorecard and the Podcast Growth Diagnostic

The person you most want as a client is going to ignore your next three emails. Ask that same person onto your podcast, and they'll give you 45 minutes of undivided attention, on the record, and thank you for it afterwards. There's a version of that which isn't a trap. Back in January I put out an episode called "Why Guest Interview Based B2B Podcasts Don't Work." I'm not taking a word of it back. But I did leave a door open. Interviews should support your strategy rather than be your strategy and there is exactly one use of a guest that genuinely does that. Almost nobody does it, because a load of people tried it in 2020 and did it so appallingly that the whole idea now smells. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I take the Trojan Horse apart — the move from Stephen Woessner's Profitable Podcasting that B2B LinkedIn spent five years ruining — and show you what's left when you remove the one thing that made it rot. We look at the three questions that decide who to ask, why most people approach the wrong stakeholder, the five rules that stop a recording turning into a sales ambush, and where the deal actually gets raised. Because it isn't where you think, and it isn't by you. There's also a simple test you can run on any name on your guest list right now. Plus a Founder FAQ from Yusuf in Sheffield on whether transcripts are actually worth publishing, and a quick tip about the dead logo sitting in your email signature. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk The invitation email + the three questions, on one page https://podknows.co.uk/invite B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email me directly: [email protected] Timestamped summary 00:00 The prospect who ignores your emails 01:02 The January episode — why guest interviews don't work 02:07 All of that still stands, but I left a door open 02:52 Profitable Podcasting and the Trojan Horse 03:29 The bit everybody skipped 04:20 How the Dream 25 became the Dream 2,500 05:09 A flat-pack horse from IKEA 05:31 It isn't the invitation, it's the deception 06:06 The three questions before anybody gets an invite 07:18 Don't book Janet, book Janet's head of content 08:33 Three or four a quarter, chosen deliberately 09:41 The case study I haven't got 10:03 Three hosts who invited me on, and became clients 11:28 The five rules, starting with disclosure 13:30 Publish it like it actually matters 14:35 If a deal comes, it comes from them 15:11 Open the door and tell them what's inside 15:57 Founder FAQ: is a transcript actually worth it? 17:52 Quick tip: the podcast badge in your email signature 18:40 The invitation email link.

That's Spotify's page for my podcast. And that's my company's website, sitting underneath it. Not Spotify's page for the show, either. One episode. A single episode of mine, on somebody else's platform, ranking above the website I actually pay for. I run a podcast agency. This is my own show. And in more than 45 episodes of telling founders to go and look at their own numbers, I had never once typed my own show name into a search bar. It took 45 seconds. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I walk down the whole results page top to bottom — what Google has already answered before anyone can click anything, who's bidding against your show's name, and why the thing representing your podcast to complete strangers is almost certainly a page you've never opened. I'm also going to be honest about which bits of this I actually understand, and that matters more than it sounds like it does. There's a point in here where I stop, because I can feel myself about to become a man with opinions about Google — and the reason most podcast advice is useless is that nobody will say the words "I don't know that." What I can talk about is the podcast bit. So there are five things you can go and fix today, none of which require an SEO expert, and one of which takes 45 seconds. Plus a Founder FAQ from Struan in Glasgow whose guest wants to hear the edit before it goes out, and a quick tip about the one-click button in your editing software that's quietly turning your guests into robots. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Nikki Pilkington — SEO (mentioned in this episode) https://seofuckingwhatpodcast.co.uk/ Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email me directly: [email protected] Timestamped summary 00:00 Spotify is outranking my own website 00:37 45 episodes of "go and check your numbers" — and I never had 00:57 Conversion needs supply: episodes don't bring strangers in 01:57 Result one: Google answered before anyone can click 02:26 Credited like a photographer on a stock image 02:46 Result two: who's bidding against your show's name 03:10 Result three: the first thing a human can actually click 03:59 Results four and five: Spotify's episode above my company site 04:11 Don't get cross with Spotify — this is an ownership problem 04:45 The dates: stamped June versus published every Friday 05:04 Where I stop, and why "I don't know" matters 05:59 What producing an SEO podcast taught me 06:22 My theory: freshness is doing something 06:53 What's Nikki's department and what's mine 07:23 Five things you can actually fix 09:03 These results won't change on their own 10:00 Founder FAQ: a guest wants to hear the edit first 12:21 Quick tip: stop deleting every breath 14:44 How to send me a question

If you've been told to niche down your B2B podcast, you've probably never been told what it costs — or who exactly you'd be saying goodbye to. Pick a lane. Speak to one audience. If you're speaking to everybody, you're speaking to nobody. Nobody disagrees with that in the abstract. Almost nobody does it. And the reason is simple: the advice arrives without a price tag attached, which makes it a sacrifice with no stated return. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm putting an actual price tag on niching down — naming the four groups of listeners you genuinely lose, and then asking the only question that matters about each one: were they ever going to become a client? We look at why a tighter focus means being closer to 10,000 listeners than 100,000 and why that's the right outcome, what happened when I compared my own two shows side by side (one gets more downloads and makes almost nothing), why the subscriber count in your dashboard has never paid an invoice, and why conversion goes up precisely because reach went down. There's also the homework: sort your audience into two piles and work out which one you're actually protecting. Plus a Founder FAQ from Denny in Manchester, who has been staring at his show description for three weeks wondering whether he's allowed to call himself a visionary. And a quick tip that will make you delete a line from your outro today. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email me directly: [email protected] Timestamped summary 00:41 "Pick a lane" — and why almost nobody does 01:32 Putting a price tag on your ignored customers 02:07 Cost one: the adjacent industry listener 02:33 Cost two: the browser 03:14 Cost three: the network you built on breadth 03:45 Cost four: the numbers, and this one stings 04:59 Say it out loud: 10,000, not 100,000 05:28 My two shows compared, honestly 06:47 Names in a CRM beat numbers in a dashboard 07:16 One question to ask about every name on the list 08:22 The loss is real. It was never a client list 08:56 What's left: people who recognise themselves 09:58 Conversion goes up because reach went down 10:25 Your homework: two piles 11:37 The only version of niching that genuinely hurts 12:29 Yes, downloads will drop. Here's why that's fine 13:00 Founder FAQ: Denny in Manchester on the "visionary" problem 14:43 Quick tip: "rate and review" needs to die 15:52 Final thoughts and next steps

For the first five minutes of this episode, it's not me. Jase is a B2B podcast growth guru. Jase has never listened to a single episode of this show. And Jase has nine strategies for scaling yours that he's giving away free, because that's the kind of guy he is. Useful links Podknows Podcasting → https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic → https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits → https://podknows.co.uk/audits Free Guide → https://podknows.co.uk/free-guide Email me directly → [email protected] Chapters 00:00 Meet Jase 00:27 Volume, guests, and never niching down 01:35 Consistency at all costs 01:49 Forty clips an episode 02:06 Downloads as the north star 02:28 Up 411%, and the cash it earned 03:07 Reviews, runtime and recycled trends 03:38 The engagement game 05:30 None of it was made up

Everybody puts their energy into the open. By the time you reach the end, the interview's done, the narration's delivered, the energy's gone, and somebody has to say something to close it out. Low vibe. Not going to convert. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm breaking down the three mistakes that turn a perfectly good episode into a dead end — and the two tests that tell you within seconds whether your ask is real or just polite noise. We look at why asking a 20-minute listener for a 30-minute call is the equivalent of proposing marriage in a LinkedIn comment, why "follow, rate and review" is a favour to you dressed up as help for them, and why the reason your call to action isn't landing probably isn't the offer at all — it's that you're asking for a rung four action on the end of a rung one episode. There's also the placement point almost nobody gets right: the strongest moment for your ask is roughly two-thirds in, not in an outro most listeners never reach. Plus a Founder FAQ from Tom in Norwich, who can hear himself rambling and wants to know how to tighten it up — and a quick tip that will turn an hour of hunting for good takes into about ten minutes of clicking. Useful links 90 Seconds Test - https://podknows.co.uk/cta-test/ Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email me directly: [email protected] Timestamped summary 00:00 Is this how your podcast episodes end? 00:12 "Wherever you get your podcasts" is not a call to action 01:10 Welcome, and what we've built over the last few episodes 01:36 Mistake one: the availability announcement 02:52 Mistake two: the size mismatch 03:25 Mistake three: the favour dressed up as an ask 04:21 Fifty episodes in? Stop asking for vanity metrics 05:18 What a call to action actually is 05:45 The 90-second test 06:10 The better off test 06:58 The ladder of loyalty: four rungs, four different asks 08:51 Why your call to action isn't landing 09:05 One ask per episode, and where to put it 10:12 Say it twice and spell it 11:18 Recap, and my own email ask 12:05 Founder FAQ: Tom in Norwich on rambling 14:54 Quick tip: the three-second pause that saves your edit 16:42 Final thoughts and your homework 17:37 Next time: how you'll know if any of it worked

If you've got a B2B podcast and you're waiting for the feed to do the work, this episode reframes the whole thing. Publishing gets the episode into the world. It doesn't get it into the one pair of ears that matters. Because your podcast's most valuable listen this year won't come from someone discovering you. It'll come from one prospect, three or four weeks into a decision, who gets sent one specific episode on a Tuesday morning because of something they said on Monday afternoon. That person doesn't follow your show. They're not on your YouTube channel. They've never seen a single one of your clips. And their one listen is worth more to your business than a thousand downloads. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I'm finally explaining the secret sauce I hinted at back in episode 44 — why a branded podcast is a joint venture asset between sales and marketing, and why almost every B2B show is quietly stranded between two teams who each think it belongs to the other. We look at the one document that fixes it (and why it has to live in the CRM, not a marketing folder), why "here's our episodes, help yourself" is a buffet nobody's hungry for, the three-part message that actually gets an episode listened to, why you should timestamp every single send, and why it has to come from sales rather than marketing to work at all. There's also the loop this creates: sales conversations produce the episodes, the episodes go back into the sales conversations, and the replies tell you which arguments are landing. Which is a far better signal than any dashboard is ever going to give you. Plus a Founder FAQ from Fiona in Dundee on hating the sound of your own voice, and a quick tip that fixes the flattest thirty seconds of most podcasts. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email me directly: [email protected]

If you're planning your next few B2B podcast episodes off a content calendar, you're commissioning content that nobody asked for. That list isn't a commissioning list. It's a list of things that exist. Listicles. Generic advice aimed at nobody in particular. Ideas that came from a brainstorm rather than from a buyer. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm handing you the exact framework I use with corporate clients to generate their next four episodes — and I can guarantee not one of them is on your content calendar, even in draft. Because they don't come from topics. They come from your ideal buyers and what they're actually trying to find out. We cover the two questions to ask your three most recent clients, why twenty minutes of back-and-forth is worth more than a quarter of planning, and the four-episode sequence that mirrors the order a belief actually changes in — name the problem, kill the cheaper alternative, kill the objection that kills the deals, and make moving forward feel safe. There's also a worked example using a real listener's business, three more places your next episodes are already hiding, and the reason you'll end up with six episodes rather than four. Plus a Founder FAQ from Dawn in Stockport on batch recording twelve episodes ahead, and a quick tip that will change the order you do everything in. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Ideal Client One-Pager (free download) https://podknows.co.uk/ideal-client Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email me directly: [email protected] Timestamped summary 00:45 Have you written your one winning sentence yet? 01:27 Why generic advice gets generic results 02:46 The framework: start with your three most recent clients 03:08 The two questions that hand you four episodes 04:10 Two spare episodes, and the most undervalued move in B2B podcasting 05:15 Your email inbox is a data goldmine 05:54 The thing you explain every single week is an episode 06:12 "Oh, I hadn't thought about it like that" 06:43 Listen for sentences, not subjects 07:11 They're not content, they're a sequence 07:36 Episode one: name the problem in their own words 08:19 Episode two: kill the cheaper alternative 09:06 Episode three: the objection nobody says out loud 10:17 Episode four: make moving forward feel safe 10:49 Worked example: Jeremy's four episodes 12:34 Publish in order, then gather the feedback 13:18 Where episodes five and six come from 14:02 Your Monday morning action 14:37 Founder FAQ: Dawn in Stockport on batch recording 17:25 Quick tip: write the description before you record

If you've got a B2B podcast and you're 30, 40, 60 episodes in without much to show for it, the problem probably isn't your microphone, your cadence or your cover art. It's that nobody ever wrote the sentence. Most branded podcasts get built like a content marketing task with tickable boxes. Format, length, weekly or fortnightly, video or not video. All of those are construction details, and construction details are only right or wrong in accordance with a wider plan. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm walking you through the one winning sentence — the single line that everything else in your podcast should be downstream of, and the reason most B2B shows quietly never get anywhere. We cover why a mission statement is worse than useless for your buyers, the three-part test that tells you whether your sentence actually works, why "build brand awareness" is a horoscope prediction rather than a job, and why your sales team should be hearing every episode before your feed does. There's also the bit nobody expects: you don't need to relaunch, and you don't need to bin the back catalogue. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk Ideal Client One-Pager (free download) https://podknows.co.uk/ideal-client B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Leave me a voicemail question https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Or email me directly: [email protected] Timestamped summary 01:04 Cadence, length and format are only construction details 02:58 The one winning sentence framework 03:29 What it sounds like in the real world 03:51 The podcast test: can your team say it back? 04:12 Could your podcast ever be proven a failure? 05:02 Name one real buyer 06:19 Where your next episodes actually come from 09:11 Why cadence stops being the issue 10:35 Your sales team should hear it before the feed does 11:27 You don't need to relaunch 12:29 How you'll know it's working 14:02 Founder FAQ: the fear of niching down 17:37 Quick tip: the worst speaker you own

Everyone hands you the same B2B podcast checklist: publish weekly, grow your audience, keep it short, hook them in the first 15 seconds, book big-name guests, repurpose everything. Follow all of it and you'll build a podcast that's technically excellent, sounds exactly like everyone else's — and sells nothing. Hi, I'm Neal Veglio, founder of Podknows Podcasting and in this episode I'm making the case that "best practice" is the satnav voice of the entire podcasting industry: the average of what worked on the average podcast, read aloud with total certainty by people who've rarely worked on a show that isn't their own. It'll make you brilliant at being average. And a brilliantly average podcast doesn't pay your mortgage. So what do we do instead? Ah, well, that's what this episode is for. Chapters 00:00 Cold open: the moral of the story - a satnav that drove a man into a lake 02:37 Best practice is the satnav voice of the whole industry 03:02 You don't want an average podcast 03:55 That confident "2.5 million downloads" voice online 04:25 The real problem: optimising for the wrong thing 04:43 Your podcast's job — move the buyers you already have 04:53 A dashboard number is not a payment-link click 05:01 How best practice homogenises your show into noise 05:32 Technically excellent, but ultimately forgettable 05:51 Content pillars are the illusion of strategy 06:10 Why "best practice as wisdom" is slightly lethal 06:57 "Publish weekly": cadence is a production metric 07:11 "Grow your audience": 12,000 wrong listeners vs 12 buyers 07:41 "Keep it short": B2B buying is high consideration 08:11 "Hook them in 15 seconds": imported from retention farming 09:09 "Book big-name guests": their audience isn't your buyer 10:03 "Repurpose everything": thinner effort, decontextualised noise 10:41 Best practice isn't wrong — it's premature 11:01 The only question that matters: what's your podcast's job? 11:49 Define the job and best practice writes itself 13:09 How the Podknows Diagnostic sets your destination 13:40 Founder FAQ: "No video means it's not a real podcast?" 16:28 Quick tip: check Apple & Spotify - here's why Take the next step B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic → https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits → https://podknows.co.uk/audits Podknows Website → https://podknows.co.uk Watch more episodes of B2B Podcasting Insights → https://podknows.co.uk/b2bpi

Forty-seven episodes. A tasteful logo, serif font, muted teal. Published like clockwork every Thursday at 6am. And in 18 months, not one listener ever became a customer. The host never noticed. Nobody did. Here's the uncomfortable bit: from the inside, a podcast that's doing absolutely nothing for your business and one that converts brilliantly look almost identical. Same download graphs. Same "great episode, mate" in the comments. Same warm, satisfying glow afterwards. I'm Neal Veglio, founder of Podknows, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I make an uncomfortable case: when it comes to judging whether your own podcast is working, you are the single worst-qualified person for the job. Not a discipline problem — a wiring problem. You hear everything you meant and everything you implied. Your buyer hears only the cold audio, half-listening for the doorbell. We get into why the download number is a pulse, not a business metric; why "that was a great one" is dopamine rather than data; the only question that actually matters (did one person who could genuinely buy from you move a single inch closer?); and what an honest, outside-your-own-ears assessment really looks like. Plus a Founder FAQ on whether you should start a podcast at all, and a quick tip on why dragging a second topic into your show quietly kills it — because a confused buyer never buys. Useful links Podknows website: https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic: https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits: https://podknows.co.uk/audits Timestamped summary 00:00 Cold open: the podcast that was already dead 02:22 Welcome — and why this one stings 02:50 Why you literally can't judge your own show 04:02 You hear what you meant, not what's there 06:03 Every author needs an editor 07:00 "But I go on numbers" — the download delusion 08:05 The LinkedIn debate + who's actually commenting 09:50 That's not data, that's dopamine 10:37 The only question that actually matters 13:02 What real assessment needs: fresh ears 14:00 The Podknows Podcasting Diagnostic 15:02 Founder FAQ: should I start a podcast at all? 17:26 The three conditions before you start 19:10 Quick tip: don't cram a second topic in

If your podcast is costing you more than it's returning and someone in your business has started asking hard questions about it, this episode is for you. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I tell you about Jane — a real founder, with a made-up name — who spent £20,000 on her podcast and got £6,000 back. Her financial advisor spotted the gap. She's now weeks away from shutting the show down. She shouldn't. Because the problem was never the podcast. We look at what actually goes wrong when ambitious founders build a content operation: hiring ten specialists before you've plotted the journey, letting each of them optimise a channel your ideal client has never once opened, and leaving the one channel that is right — the podcast — sitting there with no job to do. There's the uncomfortable truth about specialists (they're not scamming you; they're incentivised to believe their thing is your answer), the point at which finance starts looking at black-and-white numbers on a spreadsheet, and why the solution is almost never "kill the podcast" — it's kill the channels that are quietly burning the cash. Plus a listener question from Jordan in Dublin on the nerves that stop you hitting record, and a quick tip that will make you a better editor of your own show in three days flat. Free download Ideal Client Profile one-pager https://podknows.co.uk/ideal-client Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Ask a question on the show https://podknows.co.uk/voicemail Timestamped summary 00:00 Free download: the Ideal Client Profile one-pager 00:11 Let's talk about Jane 00:40 £20,000 spent. £6,000 back 01:09 Weeks away from killing the show 01:18 The problem isn't the numbers 01:22 What happens when you surround yourself with specialists 02:00 SEO, email, Pinterest, Reels — the channel pile-up 02:20 The podcast is the right channel. It just has no job 02:54 Welcome to B2B Podcasting Insights 03:11 Most founders start with the wrong question 03:33 They've got it ass about face 03:37 The right sequence: who, where, then which channels 03:49 Build the content map before you hire the crew 04:19 Why specialists genuinely believe their thing is the answer 05:11 The Pinterest problem 05:36 Ten people making your wrong channels excellent 06:04 Zero results, burnt cash and sleepless nights 06:17 When finance looks at the spreadsheet 06:40 It might be working — just not yet 06:44 It's not the podcast that's broken 07:04 The podcast as a content powerhouse 07:29 The solution: kill the other channels, not the show 07:50 What Jane should actually run 08:49 From seven channels down to four 08:55 Listener question: Jordan in Dublin on recording nerves 09:39 You don't get rid of the nerves. You stop letting them stop you 10:22 That nervousness isn't a flaw — it's a sign you care 11:06 Rehearse the script. Commit to one take 11:40 Perfection is a journey, not a destination 11:57 Quick tip: don't publish on the day you record 12:55 Distance creates perspective 13:06 Final thoughts and next steps

If you're publishing your B2B podcast like clockwork and still wondering why it isn't moving anything, the problem probably isn't your consistency. Publishing weekly feels responsible. It looks good internally. It gives the team something to point at. But you can be extremely consistent at doing the wrong thing. I'm Neal Veglio, Founder and Director of the UK based podcast agency Podknows Podcasting and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I'm breaking down why "consistency is key" has become one of the most over-sold ideas in B2B podcasting — and why ramping up your output is usually the opposite of what a struggling show needs. We look at why a shop that can't sell its products doesn't fix things by extending its opening hours, why the podcasting industry keeps selling production fixes for what are really strategy problems, what Dan Carlin's Hardcore History reveals about publishing on your own terms, and why intent — not frequency — has always been the deciding variable. There's also a set of questions you can run on your own show to find out whether it's doing a real commercial job or just quietly building a bigger back catalogue that still doesn't sell. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Timestamped summary 00:00 The document every client already has (content pillars = the illusion of strategy)01:50 Welcome to B2B Podcasting Insights02:04 The common problem: your show isn't converting02:40 The shop that just extends its opening hours03:14 Why action feels better than uncertainty03:38 Production fixes for strategy problems (and why they're easier to sell)04:49 "Consistency is key" — and why it's the wrong answer05:07 You can be consistent at doing the wrong thing05:56 Why I've never seen a client get results from publishing more07:10 Permission to publish less07:19 What Dan Carlin's Hardcore History teaches B2B founders09:04 Frequency vs intent: the real deciding variable09:49 Question 1: what's the podcast's commercial job?10:23 Question 2: is what you're publishing doing that job?11:11 Once the job's confirmed, frequency answers itself11:59 Founder FAQ: Natasha's guests won't share their episodes16:52 Quick tip: your episode title is not a book title Mentioned in this episode: Learn More About Podknows Podcasting We're at https://podknows.co.uk/

If someone in your business has just told you that you need to do a video podcast and you're not sure whether to believe them, this episode is for you. I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I break down why "you must add video" has quickly become the default advice in B2B podcasting — and why following it without a reason often gives you a more expensive podcast that still doesn't have a job. We start with the home-office video makeover nobody needs: the relocated plant, the bookmarked gimbal, the colour calibration card in the post — on a show whose 24 episodes have never once come up in a sales conversation. Then we get to the part most "experts" skip: where your buyers actually are when they consume your content. Not at a desk, notepad ready. On a treadmill. At the side of a swimming pool, taking notes while their kid does lengths. You can't replicate that with video, and the intimacy of audio is doing commercial work long before any sales call happens. This isn't an argument against video in principle. It's an argument against adding it reactively. There's a simple test — strip every visual from your episode and ask whether the listener still gets 100% of the insight — plus the cases where video genuinely completes the show, the attribution problem nobody talks about, this week's Founder FAQ on podcast bios (CV vs. sales tool), and a quick tip that will change how you write every episode description from now on. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk Should Your B2B Podcast Add Video? (90-second decision tree) https://podknows.co.uk/video-decision B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits Timestamped summary 00:00 The Saturday-night home-office video makeover 00:52 Welcome to B2B Podcasting Insights 01:07 Where are your buyers actually consuming your content? 02:41 Why you can't replicate audio's intimacy with video 04:41 Making yourself watchable risks making yourself missable 04:47 "Our audience prefers video" — based on what? 06:30 This isn't anti-video — it's anti-video-without-a-reason 06:49 The test: strip every visual and see what's lost 07:47 When video completes the podcast instead of padding it 09:17 The fork in the road: add video or change the content 10:14 The attribution problem nobody talks about 11:50 A more expensive podcast that still has no job 12:11 The 90-second video decision tree 15:25 Founder FAQ: is your podcast bio a CV or a sales tool? 16:24 Quick tip: write for the "I'm not sure this is for me" buyer 17:54 Final thoughts Mentioned in this episode: Learn More About Podknows Podcasting We're at https://podknows.co.uk/