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If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’ve probably produces one, or two, or maybe even a hundred webinars in the past few years. Webinars are excellent tools for attracting prospective clients and building your email list. They also offer a low-stakes way of delivering value, immediately, to anyone watching. But webinars take a lot of time to produce, and a fair bit of marketing to be successful.

There are tons of reasons why your camp should be podcast, especially during the summer. But what about when summer’s over? How can you continue to make use of your podcast as a platform for engagement, marketing, and staff recruitment? The bottom line is that while podcasting makes an awesome summer program, it can serve your camp best during the off-season.

Thinking about bringing a podcast to your summer camp? Here are 5 reasons, driven by the latest data on how kids interact with podcasts, why you absolutely should be podcasting at camp in Summer 2023.

A limited series podcast provides new and existing members with a fresh way into synagogue life. Across 4-6 short episodes, your synagogue’s podcast can tell the oddities of your congregation’s history that no one remembers, keeping the lore alive for a new generation.

Podcasting is a great tool for faith-based communities looking to serve the diverse emotional needs of their congregation. The nature of podcasting serves to create intimate relationships with listeners, cultivating and deepening direct congregational engagement with clergy, educators, and other leaders.

You’re probably aware that if we’re having a conversation, the voice I hear in my head when I talk isn’t the same as the voice you hear when I talk, and vice versa. That’s because each of us is physically hearing ourselves differently than we’re hearing each other. It all has to do with the way sound vibrates and travels to our ear drums.

A private podcast, one available just for your members, offers another way to engage your synagogue members, offering them relevant programming they can enjoy at home, or on the go, at their convenience. Leveraging the immersive power of audio, podcasts offer a way to engage personally, and intimately with individual members, and groups of members.

Whether you’re a camp professional, summer staff member, parent, or lay leader you’ve probably heard people talk about the “camp bubble” before. It’s the idea that we’re creating an isolated atmosphere at summer camp. One where campers and staff alike can feel safe to explore themselves and their place in the world. To have new experiences, test new skills, and build relationships. For Jewish summer camps, this often means creating intentional Jewish communities based on love, learning, and growth.

Podcasting is best known as an open-ended, non-stop, publish til you drop endeavor. Successful podcasters often have hundreds of shows under their belts, and often multiple shows to their credit too. For nonprofit organizations looking to engage their community, attract donors, or provide thought leadership in their sector, starting a podcast with no end in sight is too intimidating to even consider.

If you’re a non-profit, not for profit, or charitable organization then chances are you’re hyper focused on the bottom line. Every penny counts in nonprofit budgeting, and podcasting is no exception. The costs of podcasting can add up quickly, with physical equipment, software service subscriptions and editing fees. Of course, that’s all before you upload your content to a hosting service, and send it out to podcast land! Affectionately known as Podland.