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Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis
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Growing an audience, making difficult decisions and launching screencasting.com - Aaron Francis
FromIndie Bites
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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Aaron Francis is currently an Educator at Planet Scale, but you would have seen him all around the internet doing courses, YouTube videos, podcasts and more. Notably he was a founding member of the Hammerstone team, which he’s recently left, to focus his energy on doing something he loves. Most recently, Aaron has launched Screencasting.com, a course teaching you how to make better screencasts.Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:25 Aaron's Background
02:10 Learning Software Engineering through books
03:24 Audience Building
05:51 Benefits of each content medium
08:07 Making time for everything
09:27 Having a full time job
10:23 Leaving Hammerstone
12:36 Launching Screencasting.com
14:33 How has the launch gone?
15:25 Recommendations
Recommendations
Book - Any textbook in your field
Podcast - No Plans to Merge
Indie Hacker - Jordan O’Connor
My links
Twitter
Indie Bites Twitter
Indie Bites YouTube
Join the membership
Personal Website
2 Hour Podcast Course
PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
This Indie Life Podcast
Sponsor - EmailOctopus ?EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.
00:00 Intro
01:25 Aaron's Background
02:10 Learning Software Engineering through books
03:24 Audience Building
05:51 Benefits of each content medium
08:07 Making time for everything
09:27 Having a full time job
10:23 Leaving Hammerstone
12:36 Launching Screencasting.com
14:33 How has the launch gone?
15:25 Recommendations
Recommendations
Book - Any textbook in your field
Podcast - No Plans to Merge
Indie Hacker - Jordan O’Connor
My links
Indie Bites Twitter
Indie Bites YouTube
Join the membership
Personal Website
2 Hour Podcast Course
PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
This Indie Life Podcast
Sponsor - EmailOctopus ?EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing businesses. With a focus on affordability and ease of use, EmailOctopus contains all of the features you need to reach and grow your audience. You can start today, with their industry leading free plan where you can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny.
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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