Comments on: 130 Podcast Answer Man – Leo Laporte Makes 1.5 Million From Podcasting http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/130-podcast-answer-man-leo-laporte-makes-1-5-million-from-podcasting/ Learn How To Podcast! A Podcast Consultant With Hundreds of Hours of Free Content! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mike http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/130-podcast-answer-man-leo-laporte-makes-1-5-million-from-podcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Mike Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:03:17 +0000 http://podcastanswerman.com/?p=1138#comment-286 Good show, Cliff, as always. I think Leo is a smart businessman and a generally likable person. But I wouldn't call him a tech visionary as (I think) he so often tries to be. He's been wrong time and again when it comes to predicting what will or won't be successful (twitter is just one example). So I am not worried about his assertion that podcasting is dead. Live content may be good for him because it is a competitive advantage to what most of us are able to do. But as you said about people with DVRs, I'll take time-shifted content on MY schedule any day. For TWiT, I usually have to skip the first five minutes each episode while he banters with all of his guests before he gets to the stories. I'm just thankful that the technology exists, and gets more affordable all the time, so that the average folks like us can produce and share our own content with people that are as passionate about tech (or whatever) as so many of us are. Keep up the good work. Mike Good show, Cliff, as always.

I think Leo is a smart businessman and a generally likable person. But I wouldn’t call him a tech visionary as (I think) he so often tries to be. He’s been wrong time and again when it comes to predicting what will or won’t be successful (twitter is just one example). So I am not worried about his assertion that podcasting is dead. Live content may be good for him because it is a competitive advantage to what most of us are able to do. But as you said about people with DVRs, I’ll take time-shifted content on MY schedule any day. For TWiT, I usually have to skip the first five minutes each episode while he banters with all of his guests before he gets to the stories.

I’m just thankful that the technology exists, and gets more affordable all the time, so that the average folks like us can produce and share our own content with people that are as passionate about tech (or whatever) as so many of us are.

Keep up the good work.
Mike

]]> By: Mike http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/130-podcast-answer-man-leo-laporte-makes-1-5-million-from-podcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 Mike Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:03:00 +0000 http://podcastanswerman.com/?p=1138#comment-1012 Good show, Cliff, as always. I think Leo is a smart businessman and a generally likable person. But I wouldn't call him a tech visionary as (I think) he so often tries to be. He's been wrong time and again when it comes to predicting what will or won't be successful (twitter is just one example). So I am not worried about his assertion that podcasting is dead. Live content may be good for him because it is a competitive advantage to what most of us are able to do. But as you said about people with DVRs, I'll take time-shifted content on MY schedule any day. For TWiT, I usually have to skip the first five minutes each episode while he banters with all of his guests before he gets to the stories. I'm just thankful that the technology exists, and gets more affordable all the time, so that the average folks like us can produce and share our own content with people that are as passionate about tech (or whatever) as so many of us are. Keep up the good work. Mike Good show, Cliff, as always.

I think Leo is a smart businessman and a generally likable person. But I wouldn’t call him a tech visionary as (I think) he so often tries to be. He’s been wrong time and again when it comes to predicting what will or won’t be successful (twitter is just one example). So I am not worried about his assertion that podcasting is dead. Live content may be good for him because it is a competitive advantage to what most of us are able to do. But as you said about people with DVRs, I’ll take time-shifted content on MY schedule any day. For TWiT, I usually have to skip the first five minutes each episode while he banters with all of his guests before he gets to the stories.

I’m just thankful that the technology exists, and gets more affordable all the time, so that the average folks like us can produce and share our own content with people that are as passionate about tech (or whatever) as so many of us are.

Keep up the good work.
Mike

]]> By: Jonathan Nation http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/130-podcast-answer-man-leo-laporte-makes-1-5-million-from-podcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Jonathan Nation Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:03:21 +0000 http://podcastanswerman.com/?p=1138#comment-285 I have heard that same quotation about the costs of twit ... and heard Leo comment on it. I don't think it is a total of $350k, it's those 7 employees get paid a total of $350k, so an average of $50k per year. In addition to that there are more costs, like he pays the hosts, guests, etc ... then he purchases a bunch of equipment, marketing, accounting, and other business expenses. It's a nice sound byte to claim that the costs are only $350k, but in a twit (or one of the twit shows) he basically said his costs are really higher then that. I have heard that same quotation about the costs of twit … and heard Leo comment on it. I don’t think it is a total of $350k, it’s those 7 employees get paid a total of $350k, so an average of $50k per year. In addition to that there are more costs, like he pays the hosts, guests, etc … then he purchases a bunch of equipment, marketing, accounting, and other business expenses.

It’s a nice sound byte to claim that the costs are only $350k, but in a twit (or one of the twit shows) he basically said his costs are really higher then that.

]]> By: Jonathan Nation http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/130-podcast-answer-man-leo-laporte-makes-1-5-million-from-podcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 Jonathan Nation Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:03:00 +0000 http://podcastanswerman.com/?p=1138#comment-1011 I have heard that same quotation about the costs of twit ... and heard Leo comment on it. I don't think it is a total of $350k, it's those 7 employees get paid a total of $350k, so an average of $50k per year. In addition to that there are more costs, like he pays the hosts, guests, etc ... then he purchases a bunch of equipment, marketing, accounting, and other business expenses. It's a nice sound byte to claim that the costs are only $350k, but in a twit (or one of the twit shows) he basically said his costs are really higher then that. I have heard that same quotation about the costs of twit … and heard Leo comment on it. I don’t think it is a total of $350k, it’s those 7 employees get paid a total of $350k, so an average of $50k per year. In addition to that there are more costs, like he pays the hosts, guests, etc … then he purchases a bunch of equipment, marketing, accounting, and other business expenses.

It’s a nice sound byte to claim that the costs are only $350k, but in a twit (or one of the twit shows) he basically said his costs are really higher then that.

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