Join media entrepreneur and host Ben Aston on a journey to discover how to create better content and communities, promote it, monetize it, and build successful online media businesses. Publishers, content creators, community builders, marketers, investors and tools share their process, tools, tips and tricks for creating content and community. Our goal is to foster a community to develop and share best practice, tips and tricks to publish better content, and grow and develop thriving, engage ...
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How to Grow a Travel Audience In 2024
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Ever wondered how to turn your travel passion into a thriving online venture? Dive into this episode with Kyle Kroeger—Founder & CEO at ViaTravelers—as he shares the secrets behind transforming a personal blog into a global travel platform. Host Ben Aston explores Kyle's content strategy, audience engagement tactics, and innovative monetization met…
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How To Successfully Flip Niche Sites For Six-Figure Earnings (with Chelsea Clarke from HerPaperRoute Media)
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Learn from Chelsea Clarke—Founder of HerPaperRoute Media—how to successfully buy and flip niche sites for six-figure earnings.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Develop Ad Inventory That Sells & Performs (with Abby Mercado from Rescripted)
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Ben Aston is joined by Abby Mercado—Co-Founder & CEO at Rescripted. Listen to learn how to develop ad inventory that sells and performs.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Relaunch A Media Company (Stephen Regenold from AllGear Digital)
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Ben Aston is joined by Stephen Regenold—Vice President of Strategy at AllGear Digital. Listen to learn how to relaunch a media company.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Launch A World-Class Branded Podcast (with Steve Pratt from The Creativity Business)
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Ben Aston is joined by Steve Pratt—the Founder & Lead Content Strategist at The Creativity Business. Listen to learn how to launch a world-class branded podcast.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Scale Content And Links Like Billion Dollar Brands (with Brad Smith from Wordable, uSERP, and Codeless)
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Ben Aston is joined by Brad Smith, CEO of 3 content companies—Wordable, uSERP, and Codeless. Listen to learn how to scale content and links like billion-dollar brands.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build Your Own Ad Server (with Rob Janes from AdButler)
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Ben Aston is joined by Rob Janes, Head of Product at AdButler. Listen to learn how to build your own ad server, and that's gonna help you maximize revenue, save time, and reduce costs as well.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build The World's Largest Theme Park Fan Site (with Kurt Schmidt from Inside The Magic)
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Ben Aston is joined by Kurt Schmidt, Owner of Inside the Magic, an online media company covering theme parks, movies and more. Listen to learn how to build the world's largest theme park fan site.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Create Engaging Content That Users Really Love (with Todd Sarouhan from GoVisitSanDiego.com)
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Ben Aston is joined by Todd Sarouhan, Owner of GoVisitSanDiego.com. Todd has lived in San Diego for the last 25 years, and he has a deep passion for the area and everything it has to offer locals and tourists alike. Listen to learn how to create engaging content that users really love.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Create Value And Sell Your Content Sites (with Chris Yates from Rhodium Weekend)
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Ben Aston is joined by Chris Yates, Founder of Rhodium Weekend. He's also a partner with Centurica and has advised on hundreds of millions of deals for online businesses, acquisitions, and exits. Listen to learn how to create value and sell your content sites.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Leverage Influencer Marketing & Manage Influencer Relationships (with Bruno Bornsztein from InfluenceKit)
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Ben Aston is joined by Bruno Bornsztein, founder of InfluenceKit. It's a complete toolkit for digital influencers to help them plan, collaborate, and report on their content. Listen to learn how to leverage influencer marketing and manage influencer relationships.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Effectively Repurpose Content To Increase Value (with Sean McCabe from seanwes)
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Ben Aston is joined by Sean McCabe, owner of seanwes Media Agency. He spent 9,000 hours practicing a skill, got to the point where he was working with large clients, charging five-figure rates, and selling physical products with his own designs, and shipping out orders every single day. Listen to learn how to effectively repurpose content to increa…
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How To Grow And Scale A Successful Membership Site (with Matt Inglot from Tilted Pixel Inc.)
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Ben Aston is joined by Matt Inglot, founder of Tilted Pixel, an agency dedicated to helping 6 and 7 figure membership site owners to grow their business. Listen to learn how to grow and scale a successful membership site.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Optimize Your Old Content To Drive More Traffic To Your Site (with Bjork Ostrom from TinyBit)
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Ben Aston is joined by Bjork Ostrom, co-founder of TinyBit. TinyBit’s focus has always been organic growth, mostly through content. They do some limited advertising, mostly retargeting and occasionally paid Facebook campaigns. Listen to learn how to optimize your old content to drive more traffic to your site.…
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How To Monetize Your Media Business Effectively And Sustainably (with Brian Morrissey, former Editor-in-Chief at Digiday)
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Ben Aston is joined by Brian Morrissey, former president, and editor-in-chief of Digiday Media and founder of The Rebooting. He is focused on the audience side of the business that included editorial memberships, product development design, multimedia, and events programming. Listen to learn how to monetize your media business effectively and susta…
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How To Effectively Scale Your Content Production (with Chris Fernandez from Women's Health Interactive)
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Ben Aston is joined by Chris Fernandez, founder of Women's Health Interactive. Listen to learn how to effectively scale your content production.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Create Compelling Content That Connects With Your Community (with Oliver Lindberg of Pixel Pioneers)
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Ben Aston is joined by Oliver Lindberg, former editor of Net Magazine turned independent editor, content consultant & conference curator with brands including Google, Adobe, and Shopify. In 2017, Oliver founded a community conference for front-end developers and UX/UI designers with a focus on actionable takeaways called Pixel Pioneers. Tune in to …
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How To Build The World's Biggest Digital Technology Publication (with Ian Bell from Digital Trends)
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Ben Aston chats with Ian Bell, founder of the successful bootstrap media company, Digital Trends Media Group. Digital Trends Media Group serves more than 125 million unique visitors each month across partners and platforms. It's an award-winning publishing company with a number of Millennial-focused media brands including Digital Trends, The Manual…
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How To Make Beautiful, Shareable And Engaging Content (With Nick Routley from Visual Capitalist)
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Ben Aston is joined by Nick Routley, designer and creative director turned managing editor at Visual Capitalist. With close to a quarter of a million subscribers Visual Capitalist one of the fastest growing online publishers globally focused on topics including markets, technology, energy, and the global economy. Tune in to learn how to make beauti…
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How To Create A Successful Virtual Summit (with Stephen Ladek of LMS Pulse)
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In this podcast episode, Ben Aston is joined by international development expert and online entrepreneur Stephen Ladek. Stephen's focus is on ed tech and eLearning with a bunch of projects on the go such as BKK Kids, LMS Pulse, and Social Enterprise Association. Listen to learn about the eLearning Success Summit and how to create your own successfu…
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How To Build A Community Strategy That Attracts, Engages And Retains Your Tribe (with Noele Flowers from Teachable)
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Ben Aston chats with Noele Flowers, Community Manager at Teachable, a platform that helps online entrepreneurs create and sell online courses. At Teachable, Noele created and now runs their community program which includes a private tiered forum, virtual events, product betas, and exclusive custom content. Tune in to this podcast to learn how to bu…
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How To Prepare For Your Big Exit And Build A Media Company Worth Selling (With Stephen Regenold From GearJunkie)
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Ben Aston is joined by Stephen Regenold, founder of GearJunkie, an outdoors and active-lifestyle publication with millions of monthly readers. Listen to learn how to prepare for your big exit and build a media company worth selling.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build And Scale Successful Revenue Generating Online Magazines (with Jon Dykstra of JDG Media Group)
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Ben Aston chats with Jon Dykstra, internet media publishing sensation and founder of JGD Media Group about building and scaling successful revenue-generating websitesOleh Ben Aston
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How To Build A Successful Online Side Hustle (with Robert Farrington, Founder of College Investor)
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Ben Aston chats with Robert Farrington, the Millenial Money Expert and Founder of College Investor about how to build and scale a successful online side hustle so you can quit your day job.Oleh Ben Aston
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How to Diversify Revenue and Monetization Models (with Deacon Hayes from Well Kept Wallet)
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Ben chats with Deacon Hayes about models for monetizing websites, diversifying revenue streams, and scaling content production. Listen to the episode here!Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Profitably Build & Scale 50 Content Based Websites (with Ewen Finser from Venture 4th Media)
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Ben chats with Ewen Finser of Venture 4th Media about building, scaling, iterating on, and monetizing content-based websites. Listen to the episode here!
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How To Build A Successful Subscription Based Membership Business (with Seth Rosen from CustomMade)
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Ben chats with Seth Rosen about building membership and subscription-based businesses and finding members you are uniquely positioned to serve.
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How To Build Thriving Online Communities (with Richard Millington from FeverBee)
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Ben catches up with Richard Millington from FeverBee on all the do's and don'ts for creating successful online communities. Listen to the episode here!Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Develop A Content Strategy That Actually Works (with Jeff Coyle from MarketMuse)
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The Co-Founder of Market Muse shares what he's learned over two decades of researching and implementing successful content strategies.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build A Successful Social Learning Community (with Drumeo's Jared Falk)
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The CEO of Musora Media—the company behind Drumeo, Guitareo, Pianote, and Recordeo—shares his ideas learned from building a successful social learning community.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build The World's Biggest Cycling Tech Blog (with Tyler Benedict from Bike Rumor)
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Tyler's the founder of the world's largest cycling tech blog and the Peak Content Summit. In this episode, he tells the story of his entrepreneurial journey and what it took to get there.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build A Successful Travel Blog (with Sofie Couwenbergh from Wonderful Wonderings)
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Sofie's a content entrepreneur who turned her travel blog into a business. Hear her pointers on quitting your day job, monetization, strategy, and outsourcing to build a successful blog.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Acquire Websites & Build A Successful Paid Newsletter Subscription Model (with Richard Patey from Website Investing)
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Learn about website investing from Richard Patey, who is pioneering new digital media monetization models and helping people find, vet and acquire profitable content websites.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build Niche Affiliate Websites (with Doug Cunnington from Niche Site Project)
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Doug is a massively successful internet marketer and course creator—learn how he builds niche sites, does Amazon affiliate marketing and stays productive.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build Hyper-Local News Websites (with Farhann Mohamed from Daily Hive)
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Learn about hyper-local news sites from Farhan Mohamed, Editor-in-Chief and Partner of Daily Hive, an award-winning, homegrown startup that has become one of Canada’s fastest growing news, current affairs, and lifestyle publications online.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build Evergreen Information Based Websites (with Ruairi Spillane from Moving2Canada)
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Ruairi's the founder of 3 successful web businesses with millions of annual unique visitors. Here's how he builds and scales evergreen information based websites and communities.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build A Sustainable Business Through Content (with Benjamin Ilfeld from VentureBeat)
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Dive into the mindset of ad tech entrepreneur and revenue strategist Benjamin Ilfeld—look at models for healthy media ecosystems and how to build content-based businesses that can survive the long-term.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Build Niche Online Communities (with Andrew Guttormsen from Circle.so)
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Andrew Guttormsen, Co-Founder of the modern community platform Circle, shares his approach to creating and growing online niche communities through engagement and audience building.Oleh Ben Aston
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How To Drive More Organic Traffic To Your Website (with Bernard Huang from Clearscope)
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Bernard shares SEO techniques that you can master to create content that ranks—learn about content quality, topic clustering, and backlinking from an SEO entrepreneur.Oleh Ben Aston
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Welcome to the Indie Media Club
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Welcome to the first episode of the Indie Media Club Podcast, where we help independent, bootstrapped media entrepreneurs succeed.Oleh Ben Aston
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