As you can see, today (like virtually EVERY day) T4P is ranked higher than the other catholic shows and our tag line is the 6th most popular tagline, while no other catholic show tag ranks at all, even the ones with 8 times as many shows as us in their history.
We are the Catholic Kings of blogtalkradio. It's not arguable.
They can lash out all they want but their constant fits of rage won't make them competitive with us.
I have made a promise to myself to not get personal, so I won't even name our so-called competitors who are actually not even remotely competitive with us. The fact that they constantly name us (me, in particular) is absolute proof of their pitiable envy of us.
What I will do is spell out what we are doing right and the pitfalls we avoid. One day, maybe they will follow this advice and come sit at the big kid's table.
It's all about God. Period.
The chief problem of so many would-be apostolates is irrational pride. They love themselves more than they love God. They hate us more than they love God. God, really becomes an afterthought after they exhaust themselves telling you how utterly wonderful they think they are and how utterly horrible they think we are. They come off looking petty and juvenile.
A Catholic apostolate is about how great God is and how great His church is. Noone cares about what you think of yourself or me. They spend 50% of their time playing the hero and the other 50% of the time playing the victim when neither is based on any actual reality.
Jesus is the only one entitled to present Himself as both hero and victim.
It's not 2009 anymore
A daily phone-in house party and 10 blog posts a day were novel 15 years ago but they just don't fly today. The majority of our listeners are not even listening to us directly on blogtalkradio because people are too busy and too tech savvy. The majority of the listens now don't show up as direct hits on the original platform but as streams and downloads on the secondary platforms like pod-o-matic, spotify, Itunes, Amazon and so forth. RSS Syndication is the outreach of every successful podcast in the world and it's the reason that we have grown to about 1200 listens per month as proven in statistical mapping. The era of people listening live to a 2 hour show is all but gone and they demand the sound quality that direct connections, mixers, portable studios and top end microphones bring. The sound quality of our competitors is often equivalent to a cat fight.
Social Media is an absolute must
With over 700 members on Twitter and another 1300 on Facebook, we are able to network and network, opening ourselves up to literally hundreds of thousands of viewers and listeners. For example, Our Youtube videos are placed on one Facebook group that literally has over a million members. We have had nearly 8,000 twitter hits in just the last 28 days. Our competitors are not getting a fraction of that and they know it. We have had almost another 1,000 in our Facebook group over the same span.
Quality of original content
People are sophisticated today. They know if you are using other people's music and images and words. Plagiarism is a really quick way to lose followers and that's why our former chief rivals have seen their traffic drop by 90% in the last year. They will soon vanish completely after the 10+ year old residual traffic dries up.
Our members have been on EWTN and other major platforms and have had as guests virtually every Catholic heavy hitter you can imagine from Scott Hahn to Mike Aquilina and everyone in between. We buy or create our own music, our own images, our own videos and our content is varied, fresh, innovative, educational and ours. We present content no one else has.
A recent listener Joanred R. was so thrilled by our expose on Medjugorje and our interview with whistleblower Mark Shawl that she personally wrote to thank us for helping to blow the lid off this fraud. We as Catholics are called to expose the wicked acts of these frauds and the wicked people who support them.
Just today, Richard Pettys and I covered the 26 approved apparitions of Mary so Catholics can be informed about demonic frauds like Medjugorje, Garabandal, San Damiano, Necedah, Amsterdam and others.
The ability to self correct
Never being able to admit a mistake, apologize and forgive are sure signs that the love of God is not in you and they are sure signs that your endeavor is doomed. The team of apologists at T4P- Hemsworth, Haskell, Litchfield, Benko and Pettys are far superior to any other group on Blogtalkradio but we are not satisfied. We constantly expose ourselves to the rigor of study and listening to the wisest among us. The best will continue getting better. We owe God and you nothing less. The very best apologists among our Catholic competitors would not be able to even enter our batting rotation. They just plain don't have the knowledge or ability.
We don't whore ourselves out to politicians
Do I have a candidate I will vote for in the Presidential election? Yes. However, the best that can be said is that it's the lesser of 2 evils. Both candidates are evil, corrupt narcissists. They are nothing a Catholic should be emulating or waving a flag for. Neither are pro-life, both favor the gay agenda and both got rich by shafting the tax payer. Both are evil, one just more so. Catholics should not be celebrating evil.
Tune out the noise
Haters gonna hate. Screechers gonna screech. We ignore them. Our response is simply to beat them which we are doing and will continue to do.
God's glory prevails.
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