How to Monetize Your Backlog: Mark Linsenmayer of The Partially Examined Life - BTP 008

Mark Linsenmayer is the host of The Partially Examind Life (https://partiallyexaminedlife.com), Nakedly Examined Music, and Pretty Much Pop.
Time Stamped Show Notes:
0:25 – DJ's introduction to today's show
1:10 – The background behind Mark's ten years of podcasting
3:35 – Why Mark left graduate school to start the podcast
5:55 – How graduate school did open Mark up to new philosophies
7:55 – Why podcasting has given him more impact than teaching ever could
10:25 – Why they had to switch to Libsyn early on
11:25 – How Partially Examined Life put some of their backlog behind a paywall
12:25 – How they record the show across different timezones
14:55 – Why they keep the integrity of podcast intact despite cosmetic edits
16:55 – How they've played around with live podcasts and events
19:55 – Why they only have guests during roughly half of the time on Partially Examined Life
20:55 – The theme behind Nakedly Examined Music
23:55 – How he's landed some bigger names on the show
25:55 – The story behind the launch of Pretty Much Pop
29:45 – How Mark has grown the audience for all these podcasts
31:25 – Why a feature on Apple's front page had a huge difference on their success
32:55 – How they came up with the idea for a paywall
34:10 – Why their Facebook group has "taken on a life of its own"
34:55 – How they unsuccessfully hired a social media manager
37:10 – Why they have been swapping ads with other podcasts
39:55 – Different growth tactics he's used for Nakedly Examined Music
45:25 – Why he is going against the grain with his newest podcasts
47:25 – Where Mark sees podcasting going in the future
53:25 – The Final Five

About Mark:
Mark Linsenmayer has lived in Madison, WI since 2000, has two kids, and works from home writing about transportation research. He's a musician who's been cranking out albums since 1992 under the name Mark Lint (listen to many tracks here and follow current doings on Facebook.) When in grad school for philosophy, he mostly studied continental philosophy and philosophy of mind, with interests in phenomenology and explanations of consciousness. He also taught an ethics course for several semesters at Lakeland College.

Featured song: 1984

Links:
The Partially Examined Life: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com
Nakedly Examined Music: http://www.nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/
Pretty Much Pop: http://prettymuchpop.com/
Mark's Music: marklint.com/samples.html
Mark's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marklintmusic/
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