Hello again, well this is becoming like meeting up with an old friend every day for twenty minutes or so. I keep on coming back here based on no more real motivation than some kind of faith that it’s doing me good. Interesting. Linda said she admired my persistence in keeping it going, I think the word she used was stubborn. And that’s the same with the weekly Andy Roberts podcast show, which I’ve been doing as a broadcast for 12 months and now as a podcast for 7 weeks. It’s interesting to try and relate this to the market leadership concept that The Challenge is teaching, and which Ed was going on about last year as well, so it’s nothing new. Keep doing something every day for a year and you can dominate the micro niche market. So that’s my lesson for becoming an ICT tutor or a guitar tutor for today. Persistence, slowly slowly catchee monkey.
So what have I achieved with the podcast so far? Well it’s only 7 weeks so that’s early days. What did I achieve with the previous year? Better question. I achieved a large number of videos on the andyrobertsmusic youTube, a following of 50 subscribers, a handful of people who have turned up to my broadcasts from time to time, I’ve probably improved my own playing and singing technique through performing live for half an hour once a week, and improved my confidence at singing my own songs. The shortcomings are quite big though. I’m still not number one for my own name, I failed to build a growing audience for the live shows, and I still don’t have a CD or paid download page that earns a little bit of money.
That was an informal reflection on the milestone of getting to seven episodes, and we have a larger one now with the 12th podcast being published yesterday. What’s needed now though, from an Action Research perspective, is a proper guided and formal reflection using a well established and carefully chosen model of reflection.
