Content Inc. - The Podcast

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Content Inc. is for entrepreneurs and startups who want to be big - not by creating and selling more products and services - but by developing a loyal audience through remarkable content. Podcast creator Joe Pulizzi, known as the "godfather of content marketing," believes that most small businesses and startups are going to market in the wrong way. Instead of leading first with product, Joe believes entrepreneurs should be building audiences...then they can sell whatever they want. Each podcast contains one inspirational idea that can change your business - all in less than 10 minutes per episode.

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Joe Pulizzi, known as the 'godfather of content marketing,' is a renowned entrepreneur and author who specializes in content strategy and marketing.

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Total Videos: 407

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Joe Pulizzi is the Amazon bestselling author of Content Inc., Killing Marketing and Epic Content Marketing, which was named a “Must-Read Business Book” by Fortune Magazine. His novel, The Will to Die, was awarded “Best Suspense Book” of 2020 by the National Indie Excellence Awards. Joe’s latest version of Content Inc. is now available.

He has founded four companies including content creation news site The Tilt as well as Content Marketing Institute. In 2014, he received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Content Council. His podcast series, This Old Marketing with Robert Rose, has millions of downloads from over 150 countries. His Foundation, The Orange Effect, delivers speech therapy and technology services to children in over 35 states.

Learn more at: http://www.joepulizzi.com/
And at: https://www.thetilt.com/

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0:00 2:32

The Most Powerful Creator Strategy: Silence (501)

Keywords
content strategy audience building monetization creator economy digital wellness mindfulness creativity unplugging focus personal development

When we talk about creator content strategy, we usually cover audience building, monetization, consistency. But today, I want to talk about something rarely discussed in the creator world: silence.

Not the dramatic kind. Not the “quitting social media forever” kind, although that has merits for sure. I mean intentional, strategic silence. Creative whitespace if you will.

Here’s a question for you: when was the last time you sat in a room without a screen, a podcast, or a notification... and just let your brain drift?

In a noisy world, clarity belongs to the ones who dare to unplug.

Silence isn’t the opposite of content—it’s part of the process.

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0:00 15:18

The 500 - Takeaways from 499 Episodes [Special Episode]

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Joe Pulizzi
Keywords
content marketing audience building content creation podcast origin story content entrepreneur

A very special episode of Content Inc. - #500.

In this episode Joe discusses the Content Inc. podcast origin story from 2014, why he stopped in 2017, and how he restarted in 2020.

Joe goes into detail about two key issues:

  1. Four key thoughts from the previous 499 episodes. What went right and what went wrong.
  2. Four additional areas about content creation that changed Joe's thinking.

This is an important listen for any podcaster or content creator.

You don't want to miss this very special episode.

Key Links:

The Content Inc. Book - Second Edition

Content Entrepreneur Expo (CEX) - August 24-26, 2025

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0:00 9:38

If I Had to Start Over, Here's the Plan (499)

Keywords
content marketing audience building entrepreneurship start over niching down success visualization

If I lost everything – the audience, the money, the reputation – and had to start over, here’s what I’d do.

Step 0: Take Inventory

What do I still have? My skills. My story. My scars. Just because the list is gone doesn’t mean the asset is. This helps frame that even starting from “nothing” isn’t truly nothing.

Step 1: Cry

I’d spend at least a week screaming into the void. “Why me Oh Lord, why me?” Then I would get down to business. I’d remind myself:

“There’s never been a better time to start over. The tools are free. The gatekeepers are gone. The only thing missing is your plan.”

Step 2: Pick a weirdly specific niche

I’d need to spend time to really find my purpose…my Tilt.

As Warren Buffett and Simon Sinek discuss, every successful person is really good at one thing. What am I really good at or know something about to truly differentiate?

And it’s not about being louder or flashier. It’s about being more specific, more real, and more essential to a group of people who need exactly what I have.

I’d need to work on it, but things like:

·         Helping laid-off corporate marketers build a business around one weekly email.

·         Guiding former agency owners to repurpose their network into a publishing-driven business.

·         Helping Midwest Gen Xers who want to escape the job ladder and own something by 50.

·         Coaching marketers over 40 to build businesses that don’t require social media.

·         Teaching people with 1,000 email subscribers how to make a full-time income.

·         Helping podcast hosts averaging over 10,000 downloads per month turn their show into a live event, a book, and a revenue flywheel.

I’d obsess over a tiny group of people with a burning problem.

I’d need to remind myself that you can’t be too niche. The more specific the better. I’m already thinking that a number of the ones I listed are not specific enough.

Step 3: Define Success

What will success look like? I’d spend some time visualizing what that could be. Family life? Money needs? Living situation? Career goals?

Basically, what do I really want here? What’s the dream?

Then, I would write that statement down in my journal and review it every day. Something like:

We are the leading event education resource for podcast hosts and sell the company for two million dollars in 2028.

Something like that.

Step 4: Start an email newsletter. Twice Per Week. Non-negotiable.

I’d write one useful, entertaining email two times per week. No fluff. No templates. Just my honest take.

This would be the home base for everything. The email list is the new land. Social is just rented space.

Even though I really like using Kit (how you received this email), I probably would opt for Substack, where you get the benefit of the direct connection (email) with a little more help from a network (social media).

Step 5: Spread the Word

I would create a list of 15-20 places where I believe my audience is hanging out, mostly other newsletters and podcasts. I would reach out and form relationships with these people to do guest articles and serve as podcast guests.

I would also prepare a few sample speeches and start submitting to relevant in-person events.

Step 6: Write the Book

As I create my newsletter I would start thinking about how I can take these newsletters and put it into a print, ebook and audiobook for sale. This will, ultimately, become my greatest marketing vehicle…the business card everyone wishes they had. Of course, I would use Tilt Publishing.

Step 7: Launch a product before I feel ready

By month 2, I’d offer something—a digital guide, a paid workshop, a 1-hour consult. Not to make money at first. But to get skin in the game and test what people will pay for.

Revenue doesn’t come from a viral moment. It comes from consistent service to a small, loyal group.

Step 8: Build in public

I’d document every win, fail, and lesson. Why? Because people don’t follow perfection. They follow momentum.

I’d most likely include my own creation strategies in every newsletter.

Step 9: Stack assets

By month 6, I’d package my best content into a course I could sell forever. Not for viral growth. For long-term leverage.

Step 10: Diversify into second channel

By six to nine months, I should have a small but growing email newsletter following, a newly published book, a speaking event here or there, some podcast appearances, a couple small consulting clients and a newly launched course.

If the small wins are there, I’d diversify into a second channel, most likely a podcast, which could also be a YouTube show. More than anything, this would be marketing for the main channel, the email newsletter.

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0:00 5:06

You Can Be Greater: Belief As a Strategy (498)

Keywords
belief decision-making personal agency motivation Napoleon Hill

As difficult as it is, you must believe you are where you are because of the decisions you have made. You will get to where you are going based upon the decisions you will make.

If we blame someone or something for our lot in life, then we make it true. If we do that, we lose our agency. If we lose our agency, we lose our souls.

What you are about to undertake is hard. This is good news. If it was easy, everyone would do it. And it’s the journey you’ll remember in the end.

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

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0:00 4:15

Become a Great Creator with These Five Types of Mentors (497)

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mentors content creation business growth support network

You don’t build a business alone.

You can try. And for a while, it might work.
But the moment things get hard—and they always do—you’ll either have people to lean on… or you’ll collapse under the weight of your own ambition.

Who you surround yourself with is one of the biggest factors in whether you grow, or burn out.

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4.9 rating 120 reviews

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4.9 ratings 90 reviews

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