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Make money with podcast subscriptions with ShowTaxi!

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ShowTaxi: simple subscription management for premium podcasters

You love doing your podcast - but trying to figure out how to make money with it? You're stumped and frustrated.

Wouldn't you love to podcast...and make it your living? There are lots of ways to make money with subscription podcasts. Do it today, with ShowTaxi.com, the easy, fast, free way to sign up listeners as ongoing, monthly subscribers to your premium podcasts.

Advertising and sponsorships aren't easy - subscriptions are a snap

With some audiences, and smaller audience sizes, it's hard to drum up advertiser interest. Contributions and virtual tip jars might work, but aren't very professional. So, consider the tried and true model that cable television, and magazines, and premium websites have been using for years: subscriptions.

Up until now, subscription podcasts have been hard to create and even harder to manage, because the delivery system for podcasts, RSS, has no authentication built in. No record of listeners, or payment or usage - and that makes it tough to manage a subscription base. ShowTaxi makes all that simple, and at no ongoing surcharge to the podcaster: just a simple set up fee and a revenue share after that.

How does ShowTaxi work?

You set up your account with ShowTaxi, and then place links on your site that allow new listeners to subscribe, via PayPal, to your podcast. Once a month, you get paid your share of the subscription fees ShowTaxi collects for you. Couldn't be simpler.

ShowTaxi ensures that when the listener subscribes, they get a personalized URL that gets them the podcast. And, they are only able to share their personalized URL as you see fit. One person, one URL and no more? No problem. Want your listener to be able to share your podcast with up to three other people in the office or at home? Easily done.

ShowTaxi manages the listener base for you, with support, help, FAQ's and more that help relieve the burden of shepherding your listeners - so you can do what you want to do: podcast.

And ShowTaxi is not some faceless Web behemoth: it's run by David Lawrence, one of the world's most prolific and listened-to podcasters. He's there for you, to advise you on how to market your podcast, gain listeners, and employ the strategies he's used to make podcasting his living.

How much does it cost?

After a nominal setup fee, it's absolutely free. ShowTaxi handles all of the billing, management and support for you and your listeners. After you're set up, you really don't have to do anything, and you keep 70% of the subscription fees. ShowTaxi handles all the heavy lifting for the remainder, and automatically sends you your money via PayPal. It really is a hands-free way to handle your premium podcast subscription base.

What do I need?

All you really need is a great podcast, a PayPal account (we'll show you how to get the right kind), a server that you can place a small PHP script on (we help you with that as part of the setup, too), and 75 bucks. That's it!