I have said that one of the easiest ways to grow your audience is to do interviews. Why? Because the person being interviewed (in theory) has people who follow them. So if you interview someone who writes a book about getting more traffic to your website through Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and your website is ...…
Today we have a quick show with some podcasting news. First we hear that Radio Industry blog Radio Survivor has named podcasting one of the most important radio trends of the last ten years. They state that RSS podcasts feeds made it much easier to index podcasts and create easily searchable online directories organized by ...…
I have always been (and still am) a fan of libsyn.com For $12 a month, I get unlimited storage of my back catalog, and unlimited bandwidth (meaning 1 million people can download my podcasts and it doesn’t cost me any more. It’s still $12). I also use them for their stats. I can login to ...…
Well this is my 200th episode of this podcast. Let me say up front, just becuase there are 200 episodes does not mean that these are great episodes or I am better than any other podcaster. It is a fun to listen back on some of the old episodes. I play some clips from my ...…
On today’s brief show, I explain how I took the name “Podcast Fast Pass” (say that out loud) from the “Fast Pass” idea at Disney Land (where you can legally cut in line). Well after a year or so, I finally changed the name as I had to over pronounce the name every time I ...…
This show originates from www.schoolofpodcasting.com This is show number 195. Defining Podcast Success My last episode had 515 downloads in two weeks. If I compare myself to Leo Laporte who has THOUSANDS of listeners I will feel awful. However, if I got in a room of 515 people that would be a lot of people. ...…
Today I talk about an episode in a popular Podcast of “No Agenda” which features Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. This podcasts gets thousands of dollars in donations, but calculates to .01 a listener. On the episode for 8/13 John makes a great point that we spend up to 50 dollars for a 2 ...…
As a podcast consultant, I recently had someone send me a file that was exported at 190 kbps. What is a kbps (kilobit per second)? We don’t care (and not its bit, not bytes). Think of it like this: The more paint (bits) you use, the more accurate a picture you can paint. With this ...…
There are times when us podcast consultants use words that we feel everyone understands, but it crosses the line of geek speak and leave people asking, “What?” I take great strides trying to avoid doing this, so I found an example of some geek speak. To get a decent sounding recording the first step is ...…
You can research similar podcasts when starting your own podcast. You can go to www.itunes.com and download the software (click on podcast, then podcast directory in the bottom right hand corner, then search in the upper right hand corner). You can also check out sites like www.podcastalley.com and www.podcastpickle.com I started a new podcast at ...…
