Krystals Test Show

Today we have no guest, so we talk about how you can review your own show: 1. Listen where your audience listens 2. Listen for half ideas (tangents) 3. What is the goal of your podcast? Make sure you have one before pressing record. 4.

The Happiness Podcast is from Dr. Robert Puff who is a happiness expert, author, international speaker, clinical psychologist and TV Show host. You can find his show at www.happinesspodcast.org Here are our thoughts: - - Dave on content

Kathy Fettke produces the Real Wealth Show to help people looking to invest in real estate by sharing tips and interviewing experts. Today Dave and Erik take a look at her show. Dave on Content Good intro - quick and good intro/tease Good job interrupting the guest to explain 100+ words in show notes Nice call to action that is inline with your goals Erik on Content Good, focused questions - You know your listener Nice job interrupting the guest for clarification Good examples of the numbers Nice job with international elements You know a lot … lead the guest Guest audio was a little louder than host How do you get more people in the tribe? Explain Call to action not bad … only 2 Dave and Erik on Website and Technology Nice website. I've heard great things about the Avada theme Nice clean look to it. Easy navigation to contact you. Potentially explain the different between the network and the academy. Need a real hosting company (libsyn.com or blubrry.com - get a free month using the code sopfree) Feedburner - not my favorite choice, but the link to iTunes is pointing toward feedburner. Only ten episodes in feed. General Reading settings and adjust that to 25 or 50 so people can consume your back catalog. Check into Levelator or Auphonic to level audio http://youtu.be/CazxQV4GShc Get Your Show Reviewed Take advantage of our 30+ years of content and podcast creation. buy

Today we take a peak at Dan Hansen's Coffee Couch a dedicated to "Creating Positive Social Change through Connectedness and Persistence". IN this episode Dan explains what inspired him to get into podcasting and what his show is about. Here are some of the notes from the show: Things That Are Going Well Seems well planned and to the point. Nice quote & story Easily digestible piece & short form Good job of putting book links in the show notes Nice clean look at the website. Things That Need Tweaked The three points were a little confusing. Maybe making it more obvious when one ended and the next began. The show setup seemed like buzzwords instead of really telling me what is coming.  Maybe just a touch more energy The website needs an about page about the podcast & you . Be sure to put subscription links There is no album artwork in the ID3 tags. see mp3tag software Find the Coffee Couch at: Danhansen.com

The Special Mouse podcast is about going to Disney Parks with someone who has special needs. It is a great example of a podcast that embraces its community, and how a small niche can be just as powerful as a giant audience on a broad topic. Full disclosure, Dave edit's Kathy's podcast so asking Dave to rate the audio is not going to get an unbiased response. Stuff Kathy is Doing Right Intro: nice & clean.  Love the warmth with no big voice guy The sponsor fits well with the content. RN gives Kathy credibility Love the mouse theme with “mouse-keeping” and “anony-mouse”. Great Mickey tip of the week - be careful about copyright Enjoyed the knowledge and stories. Nice takeaway at the end - wrapped it up nicely Good job of enforcing that you know what it’s like - real stories Who doesnt’ love behind the scenes stuff? Soon to be ex-cast member for compalining. Loved the flow, ttransitions Loved the “down homeyness” I’m too busy to spam you. The about page is outward focused - nicely done Things You Might Consider Tweaking It was kind of hard to find areas that needed improvement. Add a contact page to your website (including social icons) Avoid asking yes/no and one word answer questions  “Where do you hail from? Are you a Florida local or do you travel to be a cast member?” Finish questions with the question - try not to answer it for them or give multiple choices “How did this all come about? Have you been wanting to be a cast member for a long, long time? Is this relatively new? Were you in the college program? Tell us.” “What got you interested in that, because you’re a relatively new cast member.  How long have you been working at Disney World?”  Have confidence in your content.  “Of course” assumes everyone knows & that is dangerous. “You went through training, of course.  And their training is famous, of course.” Felt like we spent a lot of time on people trying to gaming the system - looking for more special insights from the inside instead Special Mouse Podcast Find the Special Mouse Podcast on iTunes Special Mouse

The Short Time Wrestling Podcast covers the world of Wrestling (not the TV type). Jason Bryant comes on the show to see what he's doing great, and identify items that may need some tweaking.

Doing Well

Doing a great job pulling stories out of guests

Obvious show prep and really knowing your guest

Great forum with lots of activity

Content moves quickly

Well produced

Nice information on website

Could Improve

A bit of a band confusion with URLs, names and website (who is TOM).

Could use a bit of white space on the website

Be careful with yes no questions

Avoid the obvious question, and find a new slant on those.

When I am on TheOpenMat.com, the podcast is hard to find (under features)

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Today we talk about the Under ten Fitness (itunes link). This is a short podcast (under ten minutes – get it?) that has a little bit of news and the talks about something in the health and fitness area.

Things They Are Doing Right:

Nice job wrapping up the tip & delivering it to one person rather than a group of listeners

Nice job of focusing on a key take away

Things They Could Tweak

Be sure to drive traffic back to their your website, and mention the website in your show.

Work on a website. The classic podcast system is

1. A Self-hosted wordpress website

2. Using Libsyn, or blubrry.com for your media host (and yes you need a media host).

3. Have great looking custom artwork

4. Have an easy to navigate website.

They using podomatic for a media host (one of the worst), and their website is confusing. The website does not match the level of the podcast. You have good content, but your website needs lots of work.

You also want to make it easy to contact you.

Check out their website at undertenfitness.com

Dave and Erik talk with Rem from the Sci-Fi Movie podcast. This is a podcast for someone who is looking to Dig deeper into sci-fi movies.

Here is What They Are Doing Right

In this episode they talked about Aliens the sequel to the movie Alien. They do a good job of comparing all the movies in this series.

Great story about seeing the movie in the theater and the feelings it created

They did a good of referring to each other by name (good for first time listeners).

They get their audience involved with show via facebook.

Their website is clean and easy to use.

Good sounding audio.

Really interesting trivia

Really nice pace at the beginning/opening of the show

Things They Might Want to Tweak

Keep in mind Dave is no a sci-fi fan…

There is cool trivia, and then there is nit picking. Dave does not care who would win in a fight between Han Solo and Superman.

This episode included a segment where they acted out the movie (this has been retired).

You might think of adding a generic amazon button in addition to the specific buttons

While you do a good job of keeping the show moving, there are a LOT of segments (the episode about Aliens was actually longer than the movie).

No clear contact page.

More information About Sci-Fi Movie Podcast

www.sci-fimoviepdcast.com

Sci-fi Movie Podcast in iTunes

The contractor's secret weapon is a podcast to help contractors get more business. It is hosted by Dave Negri and Justin Jones. Today we have Dave on the show who explains how they record, and why they got into podcasting.

Here are some of our thoughts:

Good Stuff:

Great use of personal stories to amplify your points. It really helps show that you know what you're talking about.

Great job on the introduction explaining what the podcast is about.

Stuff to Tweak:

The website needs a bit of tweaking. I would use the Powerpress player to give more options to your visitors.

Add an RSS button on the site.

There are a couple of areas that leas to the same pages that is a bit confusing.

Find them at contractorssecretweapon.com

Here is the video of our coaching session

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The Ministry Encouragement podcast is to help encourage Christ Followers. It is hosted by Jim Hollis. Here is what we thought.

The intro was nice. You might consider explaining a bit more what the podcast will be about.

You need a pop filter

You seemed a bit stiff (it almost sounded like you were reading the contents)

When you talk about personal stories it is more engaging. The story about witnessing on a plane really grabbed our attention. That was great. You could take it one step further and use descriptive words to really pain that picture in the theater of the mind.

Come up with a call to action, and don't be afraid to mention your service.

Use bullet points for your show notes, and just talk into the microphone as if you are talking to a friend.

Your website is clean. It needs an "about" page.

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(leave them below).