Podcasting Observations Newsletter

School of Podcasting Episodes

May 23, 2016

Compressor, Noise Gates, De Essers in Plain English

Because of his Podcast: He Discovered a Niche Who Needed A Product Got a note from Corey Fineran I just handed my boss my resignation letter! This podcasting journey started 7 1/2 years ago and it's now allowed me to leave my...

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May 16, 2016

Podcasting Brings More Customers, Better Students, and More Traffic

Today on the School of Podcasting we talk content marketing, why podcasting is a perfect tool for this strategy, and how to overcome one of the biggest hurdles for those needing interaction on their website. Podcast Rewind 2:...

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May 9, 2016

Keeping Your Podcast Legal - Gordon Firemark

In this episode we are joined by Lawyer Gordon Firemark who produces multiple podcasts that include, Entertainment Industry Insights , Entertainment Law Update , and The Law Podcasting as well as his own course that teachers...

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May 2, 2016

What If Podcasting Was A Sport? Have You Been To Training Camp?

Because of My Podcast: A Veteran Got a Home Robert Kerns produces the Living the Vet life. He had a mortgage specialist on his show. He was contacted by someone in another state (again, podcasting is global) and the mortgage ...

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April 25, 2016

You Can't Change - What You Won't Start

Because of My Podcast: I'm Getting Married Today Matthew Cox from Brunch with the Brits explains how he went to a podcast event who eventually became his wife. Why I Turned Down My First Podcast Sponsor I had been contacted b...

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April 18, 2016

The Two Most Important Parts Of Your Podcast

The Podcast Award Are Open If you've ever benefitted from this podcast, do please take the time and nominate the show (school of podcasting) in the EDUCATION category. The Two Most Important Parts of Your Podcast I was watchi...

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April 10, 2016

Create a Podcast Website For Free - Are You Making a $200 WordPess Mi…

Feedback from Last Week's Show About Video Podcasting Hey there! I checked out your podcast today where you spoke about video podcasting. I think the way you explained it makes perfect sense. I was actually looking for a way...

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April 4, 2016

DBS 286 Vs Aphex Channel Master - Video Podcast Settings - Advertisin…

Because of My Podcast: My Audience Fixed My Website Cale from Fotimepodcast.com was having a problem with his website (using Wordpress) when an audience member offered to help out. It turns out the audience member works for t...

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March 28, 2016

Podcast Interview Wizard: Brainstorm With Yourself and Create Better …

Today I look at tools available for podcasters to help them produce a better show. Podcast Interview Wizard and Who is Jim Edwards Jim Edwards is a guy I've known online for years. I loved his "I Gotta Tell you" email list. W...

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March 21, 2016

Commitment to Community: How Danny Peña Grew His Podcast Audience

Danny Peña got his first video game console from his Grandmother and his life was forever changed. Little did Danny know (who goes by the name of Godfree on his show) that he would someday be getting paid to fly around the wo...

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March 14, 2016

Are Review Swaps Hurting Podcasting?

I went to Podfest.us a couple of weeks ago and I saw a person do a presentation that offered to help people launch their podcast for $8999. Just for that weekend there was a sale and they would only charge you $3990. This is ...

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March 7, 2016

Jim Harold Makes A Living Talking about Ghosts

You will notice that I am in pursuit of people who have been able to make a living with their podcast. Today we interview Jim Harold who does the Paranormal Podcast t and the Campfire Podcast. Podcasting News In a nutshell, u...

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Feb. 29, 2016

Creating Compelling Podcasts - Podfest 2016 Reflections

Podfest hapned this weekend in tamp Florida. Wow was it fun. I got to hang out with Hall of Fame podcasters like Danny Pena, and meet some people who are trying to get their podcast off the ground. I love, love, love, the pod...

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Feb. 22, 2016

5 Voice Related Tools for Engagement and Podcast Promotion

Because of my Podcast: I'm Working For Libsyn - Dave Jackson A couple of weeks ago I let you know that my "Day job" had gone away. A little update on the story, I reached out to the head of HR only to find she no longer works...

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Feb. 15, 2016

Book Guest Spots On Other Podcasts: Are You Making These Mistakes?

With so many people focusing on New and Noteworthy, I wanted to see how many people use New and Noteworthy. So I asked people how they found new podcasts and here is what they said. The number one way was hearing the podcaste...

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Feb. 8, 2016

Episode 500: Groundhog Birthday - A Podcast Launch Story

If you're new to the School of Podcasting, when Dave hits a milestone like 100, 200, 300, 400, he breaks format and tries to do something that is educational, entertaining, and slightly weird. Today being that it is both my 5...

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Feb. 1, 2016

Monetizing with Membership Sites: Ravi Jayagopal of Digital Access Pa…

Last week we talk about being a "hobby podcast" and that you can be a hero to someone. We mentioned that you do NOT have to make money with your podcast. Today we are going the other way and looking at making money with your ...

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Jan. 25, 2016

Unleash the Hero in You and Positively Impact Your Audience

Because of my Podcast Darren Dake Darren Dake from the Coroner talk podcast has told us (about a year ago) where he was asked to do some state wide training in Missouri). Well Darren is back because now - because of his podca...

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Jan. 18, 2016

Avoiding Burnout on the Road to Being an InFluencer with Tarun Steven…

There are a number of things you need to be successful in podcasting. Great Content Great Sound Great Promotion Great Attitude No matter how great your show sound, and how much you promote it, without great content, it won't ...

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Jan. 11, 2016

3 Things You Need To Make Money With Your Podcast

Today's episode is a special "Dual Episode" as Dave and "The Real Brian" from Profitcast take on the subject of what is needed to make money with your podcast. We got together to talk about three bullet points: Abundant vs Po...

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Jan. 4, 2016

Getting the Other Side of the Story: $57 Dollar Guy & Glycast.com

I recently was very concerned when I saw a video from a company call Glycast.com It stated, "“ It’s a new approach to podcast advertising. This is how it works. You give us your podcast feed, and we give you a new one to dist...

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Dec. 28, 2015

My Favorite Podcast 2015: A Listener Loyalty Study

in no particular order) 01:25 Exponent - the nuances of tech strategy - Submitted by Max Flight of AirplaneGeeks.com , TheUAVDigest .com, and PaxExPodcast.com 2:48 Up In Your Business - brings in inspiration to help you to cr...

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Dec. 21, 2015

Evaluating Your Podcast Year

Because of My Podcast the Creator From the Blacklist Gets Interviewed on Podcast Troy produces numerous podcast, but today he is talking about the Blacklist Exposed podcast he had the creator of the hit NBC show contact Troy ...

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Dec. 14, 2015

You Don't Need Thousands of Downloads To Sell Ads - The Return of Gle…

Creative Ways to Get Your Advertisers to Promote Your Podcast Glenn made quite a splash when he was on the show earlier this year (it's the most shared episode on the site). 7:02 "Glenn the Geek" is America's Horse Husband an...

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