B2B Podcasting Insights is for founders, CMOs, consultants, and solo operators who want their podcast to shorten their B2B sales cycle and improve their audience engagement, leading to a better quality of inbound conversations. Most branded podcasts, designed by businesses, are content wallpaper — polite, vague, interchangeable, and strategically pointless. This show is the opposite. Because podcasting isn’t about brand awareness. It’s about belief — specifically, the kind that makes a prospect say “Yeah, I already trust you.” We talk positioning, message clarity, buying triggers, narrative leverage, and how to use your voice as a strategic asset. Straight talk. No fluff. No “10 tips”. Just how to make your branded B2B podcast actually move deals.
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Episode #47
Is Spotify Stealing Your B2B Podcast's Search Traffic?
Sep 11, 202616 min
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: neal@podknows.co.uk 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: neal@podknows.co.uk 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
Nine Podcast Strategies That ACTUALLY Work. The Last One Will Shock You!
Aug 28, 202610 min
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 → neal@podknows.co.uk 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
B2B Podcasting: The Only Listener You Actually Need
Aug 14, 202617 min
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: neal@podknows.co.uk
These are your branded podcast's next four episodes
Aug 7, 202621 min
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: neal@podknows.co.uk 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
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