💡Idea of the Day: Podcast Manager / Virtual Assistant🔥

Virtual assistance is one of those businesses that comes up a lot when people are looking for a flexible side hustle. And for good reason, the demand is real, the barrier to entry is low, and you can do it from anywhere.

But I want to be honest with you about something.

Someone asked me about virtual assistance recently and I told them straight, general VA work is saturated. And a lot of that competition is coming from countries where people can afford to charge much less than you can. So if you go in as just "a VA who does admin tasks" you're going to find it hard to stand out and even harder to charge what you're worth.

The fix is positioning.

Instead of offering everything to everyone, you pick a lane. And one of the most exciting lanes right now is podcast management.

Podcasting has exploded and most podcast hosts are drowning. They're great at recording and having conversations but everything that happens after the recording; the editing, the show notes, the audiograms, the scheduling, the guest outreach, that's where they need help.

That's where you come in.

As a podcast manager you're not just a VA. You're a specialist. And specialists charge more, get referred more, and are much harder to replace.

Here's what the numbers can look like:

One podcast client on a monthly retainer at $500 to $800 a month.

Five clients, that's $2,500 to $4,000 a month.

Add a couple of higher-touch clients who need full management and you're crossing $5,000.

You don't need to know everything before you start. There is so much free training on YouTube and platforms like Alitu and Descript make podcast editing much more accessible than it used to be.

The goal isn't to be a generalist who does a bit of everything. It's to become the person that podcasters can't imagine doing the show without.

Do you listen to podcasts regularly? Which ones and what do you love about them?

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