I have spent a few years struggling on and off to find good music for the intros of the podcasts on my podcast network. I’ve tried a bunch of different options an want to share my favorite sites for podsafe music here. Where to Find Music for a Podcast Intro I have tried over a…
I launched my first podcast in 2008, way before podcasting was even remotely cool. I’ve had some very successful podcasts and some podcasts that were failures. In this post I want to share some numbers with you that may help you to know what to expect in terms of download numbers for a new podcast….
You put all you’ve got into it, and yet you just can’t seem to get your podcast to take off. You wonder, what’s it going to take to improve my podcast?! It used to be that we’d see new podcasts getting 2,000 downloads per episode easily just by having a decent show and putting it…
I have put a tremendous amount of time writing this article so that it is truly helpful for you. I want all of the information in this article to be practical and actionable. Enjoy the tips–they have helped me to generate over half a million dollars in revenue during the first year of my…
For me, podcasting is an investment in the community behind my website and not a direct revenue stream. I have always resisted podcast advertising because I don’t want it to cheapen the community-oriented nature of the podcasting medium. But lately I have been softening that view. Podcasting can be huge money. Networks such as Twit…
Right from the get-go, we need to distinguish between soundproofing a room for recording a podcast, and improving the acoustics of the room. In this article, I will discuss only sound-proofing a room, but if you want to improve the acoustics of your room, check out this article. Soundproofing is the practice of reducing the…
In this article I want to show you how to improve the acoustics of a room. This will help you reduce the echo in a room, and eliminate any ring to the voice. If you are looking for information on preventing outside sounds from entering the room where you record, that information is found in…
I have spent a tremendous amount of time on iTunes (probably too much) figuring out how to improve my rankings. One thing I’ve noticed is how incredibly important a name is on iTunes. What I recommend is that you think about the name of your podcast like you think about a google search. Let’s suppose…
I cannot tell you how many podcasts I have unsubscribed from because the audio quality was not up to snuff. Like many podcast listeners, I listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed. This helps me to get through a lot more podcasts each week, and it’s actually very easy to understand what people are saying as…
Internet marketers spend so much time discussing Google search SEO that I think we often overlook some of the other large and valuable search engines. Podcasting is the core of my brand, so I care very much about how my podcast ranks in iTunes. Over the course of the last year, I have watched my…