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Make A Custom Page for Traffic Coming From iTunes

There is a link in your iTunes tags that point at your website. As this link will be displayed (more or less) only in iTunes. With this in mind, why not make a special page on your website specifically designed as a “Landing page” for those people that instructs them on how to subscribe via iTunes on your website.

Show Lengths – How Short is Too Short?

Anthony had not created a podcast because he thought it should be at least an hour. The truth is your podcast can be any length you want it to be (I used to listen to one that was 1 minute long). As YOU are the producer, YOU decide how long or short each episode can be.

The only time this is a burden is if you want to keep your show under a certain time frame, and still want to cover topics in depth. This can be tricky as you have to decide what topics are covered, and what parts are essential.

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Today we get a phone call from Rich Palmer of Audio Gumshoe who chimes in our discussion from last week about how far podcasting has come since it began. Its much easier to consume podcasts, there are more and more devices that are building directories for podcasts.

Greg Fitzsimmons Finding Loyal Audience with Podcasting

Greg Fitzsimmons is a comedian. You’ve probably seen him on Vh1′s I love the 70′s (or 80′sor 90′s or best week ever). He has been on Howard Stern, David Letterman, etc. He just released a new book

While listening to the Greg’s podcast (www.fitzdog.com) he was talking with Chris Hardwick (who I remember from hosting Singled Out on MTV) about stand up comedy and growing their audience. What seems to bring out a loyal audience? You guessed it: Podcasting.

Grow Your Podcas Audience with a Call To Action

Today I have a quick tip. As much as podcasting is a great tool to build relationships, one communication tool that is still super important is an email list. I have a tool that not only can be used to build an email list, you could use it to increase your subscribers and comments in itunes, increase comments, and just about anything else you want.

The tools is called the Call To Action Plugin for WordPress. It’s very customizable, and you can use it without being a geek or knowing html. Right now you can get this plugin for $27. Check out a video demonstration at the Call To Action Worpdress Plugin Website www.ctaplugin.com

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In this podcast we throw out some podcast promotion tips, why “hard sell” podcasts are stupid, and some new free services for podcasters.

TIMELINE:

1:30 Feedback from Taylor Marek about a promtion that was being run by Dancing With Elephants (www.dwithe.com ) full details about promotion can be found HERE 

4:48 Giving away an ipod Shuffle.

will cost you about 80 bucks.

5:50 Feedback on the “Graffitti tip” from Mark Anderson

9:50 Other Podcast Promotion Ideas.
Book Mentioned: Tricks of the Podcasting Masters 

10:25 Find your podcast in the iTune directory and play with “also subscribe to this podcast.”

12:19 www.trypersony.com a great way to collaborate online and NO SOFTWARE TO LOAD, NO monthly fees, NO huge sticker price. Try it for free at www.trypersony.com

13:55 Free Services For Podcasters
Podcastlcicks.com www.podcastclicks.com
Learntosubscribe.com www.learntosubscribe.com (link to this site)

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