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Following 'Best Practice' is KILLING Your B2B Podcast!
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- Jul 24, 2026
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Summary
Everyone hands you the same B2B podcast checklist: publish weekly, grow your audience, keep it short, hook them in the first 15 seconds, book big-name guests, repurpose everything. Follow all of it and you'll build a podcast that's technically excellent, sounds exactly like everyone else's — and sells nothing. Hi, I'm Neal Veglio, founder of Podknows Podcasting and in this episode I'm making the case that "best practice" is the satnav voice of the entire podcasting industry: the average of what worked on the average podcast, read aloud with total certainty by people who've rarely worked on a show that isn't their own. It'll make you brilliant at being average. And a brilliantly average podcast doesn't pay your mortgage. So what do we do instead? Ah, well, that's what this episode is for. Chapters 00:00 Cold open: the moral of the story - a satnav that drove a man into a lake 02:37 Best practice is the satnav voice of the whole industry 03:02 You don't want an average podcast 03:55 That confident "2.5 million downloads" voice online 04:25 The real problem: optimising for the wrong thing 04:43 Your podcast's job — move the buyers you already have 04:53 A dashboard number is not a payment-link click 05:01 How best practice homogenises your show into noise 05:32 Technically excellent, but ultimately forgettable 05:51 Content pillars are the illusion of strategy 06:10 Why "best practice as wisdom" is slightly lethal 06:57 "Publish weekly": cadence is a production metric 07:11 "Grow your audience": 12,000 wrong listeners vs 12 buyers 07:41 "Keep it short": B2B buying is high consideration 08:11 "Hook them in 15 seconds": imported from retention farming 09:09 "Book big-name guests": their audience isn't your buyer 10:03 "Repurpose everything": thinner effort, decontextualised…