How to start a podcast for free using spreaker – a complete guide to recording your podcast and getting it published in iTunes and Stitcher Radio absolutely free. Total cost = $0

Hi guys, Ryan here from podcastfast.com. A lot of people ask me this. So here it is my complete guide to how to start a podcast for free with absolutely no money.

The first thing that you’re going to need to do is actually record your audio. With phones these days this is really easy to do. Most phones like iPhone, Samsung phones, all these smartphones have decent microphones in them. Therefore simply download an app and you can record directly into your phone’s microphone. Alternatively, you can use headphones. I find that the iPhone headphones have a pretty great microphone in them. So you can do that through your phone or you can plug those headphones into a computer and record into an app onto your computer.

The app that I recommend to record on your computer is called Audacity which is also great for editing audio. This is absolutely free. It’s slightly intuitive to use. It’s not perfect but there are a lot of tutorials out there on YouTube on how to use or Audacity but it’s a really powerful program.

You can get really great sound with this and you can remove background noise and all that sort of stuff. Seeing as you’re probably using not an awesome microphone this is really going to help get you the good sound that you want for your podcast. Simply Google Audacity and you should be able to download it for free both on Windows and Mac.

Once you’re editing your podcast chances are you might want to get some free music or sound effects. YouTube has this great audio library where you can download a whole bunch of different songs and you can use them. Just go into Google and search YouTube audio library and it will come up. And you can see and you can preview all of the different songs that they have available. If something has a little person you can see you need to provide creative common attribution but if it doesn’t then generally it’s free for commercial use.

You can always look into that in more detail if you want. You can also sort by genre. Let’s say we want dance and electronic and want it to be dark and moody because that’s what we’re going for we can go through and look at these. If you choose the more popular ones chances are it’s going to be a better song but chances are that more people will be using it as well so you might want to go through the least popular ones because it’s less likely to be recognized. Or you might want to go through the more popular ones because they’re more likely to be good.

It’s up to you exactly what you do. You can use YouTube audio library to download both music and sound effects and then you can use Audacity to insert them into your podcast, adjust the levels, etc.

Once you’ve done that it becomes time to publishing your podcast so people need a way to play your podcast and to download your podcast. And for that you need a podcast host so someone who will host your audio files where other people all around the world can download from them. The one that I recommend if you want to create your podcast for free is Spreaker. You can go to spreaker.com or you can go through my affiliate link podcastfast.com/spreaker and through that link you do get discounts on your first month. But what we a’re looking at here is the free speech which is zero dollars always and you can see that you get up to five hours of audio storage.

Therefore if you have 20 minute episodes you’re going to get 15 episodes on there for free. There are no options to have an always free plan for podcast that gets big but when you’re starting out this is a great way to start. You also get basic analytics. You can embed the player on your website and share it through there. You can also have multiple shows.

There are 4 elements you need to start a podcast in 2016. Let’s talk about starting a podcast as easily as possible.

Podcasting continues to grow its listener base and podcasting is a great way to get your voice out there. A lot has changed since I started my first series on how to start a podcast fast back in 2000. I therefore want to do an updated series for you guys and show you step-by-step, how to go from nothing to having a podcast running and being available for download as quickly and as easily as possible.

Hi, I’m Ryan from podcastfast.com and I run a myriad of podcasts.  I think it is about five or six different ones now. I go through this process quite often, because whenever I have a passion project I’m working on, I generally want to start a podcast for it. So, what I’m going to do (let me first apologize for my very poor drawing skills) is I m just going to lay out the elements that you’re going to need for your podcast.

The first thing that you are going to need is some form of audio recording.  This is your mp3 file –  this is you talking – this is in essence your podcast. And everything else we do is getting people to be able to listen to or to download this audio recording.  In order for people to access this audio recording we need something that’s called an audio host. An audio host is a service where you put your file on there and people all over the world can now download your file.

What you do therefore is, you upload your audio recording to the audio host and then people all over the world will be able to download it. You could do it on your own computer and set up p2p file-sharing but that’s very difficult and you’re not going to reach a large audience. The way most people consume podcasts is on iTunes and Stitcher Radio.

For that reason, we need to be on those platforms and so we’re going to need an audio host. This is different from a web host. They specify in hosting audio.  It is a lot cheaper. If you try and do a web host you are likely going to bring down the service if you get decent numbers to your podcast.  Therefore, after an audio host, this next step is optional but highly recommended, that is, to have your own website. A website will be where you can post your podcast, you can post blog post, and you can do a whole bunch of different things.  What I advise and will show you is how to take the file that you’ve uploaded to your audio host and get it on your website.

The last step in the process is getting into places like iTunes and Stitcher Radio and other places like that.  This is the last step in the process and this works a bit different. What we’re doing is we’re actually telling iTunes to go ahead and look at our website to get our audio from there. So we are not uploading anything to iTunes. iTunes is pulling all of it from our website and just playing it through what’s called an RSS feed which is quite confusing but I’ll explain it and make it simple for you.

The reason you can skip this website path is you can actually get iTunes to pull the RSS feed directly from your audio host so we can have that as the RSS feed as well. However, if you do that there are going to be some limitations with the audio host. For example, show notes will be harder to do and also something that a lot of people don’t think about when they’re starting because they are trying to save money or something like that is what is called Redirection.

Let’s say that for one reason or another I want to leave this audio host and go to another audio host, you can’t just say in iTunes, “Okay I’ve moved my audio host somewhere else or my RSS feed somewhere else go and look there.” You actually have to do it at the audio host level in order to redirect this RSS to tell iTunes that actually we’re not going here anymore,

Do you need an audio interface or mixer for a USB microphone? Can you even use a USB microphone with a mixer or audio interface or can you only plug it into your computer?

Do you need an audio interface or a mixer for your USB microphone?

Hey! I am Ryan from PodcastFast.com and you hear a lot of the podcasters list in the equipment that they have either a mixer that they plug the microphone into or an audio interface that they plug their microphone into before it goes to the computer. But do you need an audio interface or a mixer if you have a USB microphone? The answer is no and I am going to talk a little bit about that in this video.

I am recording this video on a USB microphone called the Blue Yeti which costs around $100 to $130, which I highly recommend. You can check it out at PodcastFast.com/yeti, y-e-t-i. I love this microphone because it gives me a whole lot of flexibility when recording videos. I can record from farther back. I can record 2 sides of a conversation or I can lower the gain and record close-up. But this plugs directly into my computer via USB and there is no way to plug this into an audio interface or a mixer.

Now generally, what an audio interface or a mixer is going to do is convert the analog signal that is coming from your analog microphone into a digital signal that it can deliver to your computer. This is generally done through an XLR cable which is a 3-pronged round cable that you see on microphones. And if you look at the Blue Yeti, you can see underneath there, that is actually to screw into a stand and so there is no XLR cable option there.

You look at the back, there is nothing there. I do not actually have an XLR cable that I can put this into. The only way to get sound out of this is through USB into my computer and you cannot go from USB into a mixer or into an audio interface because they are designed to receive analog signals and then convert them into digital signals or they can send them out again as analog signals. But yes, basically you do not need it if you have an USB microphone then you are just going to plug it straight into your computer.

Now there are some limitations with this. Depending on what computer you have, depending on what type of soundcard you have, it is going to affect the sound quality of your podcast. If you want really top-level production, top-quality sound for your podcast then you are going to want to get an analog microphone and you are going to want to run it through a mixer or an audio interface and then into your computer. That is going to give you more control over the sound. It is also going to process the sound better and deliver better quality sound to your computer. So when you hear the podcast that are produced really well, they have those top productions.

Their voices are really deep and really resonant then you know that they are probably using a mixer or they are using an audio interface. But if you just have a simple USB microphone like that I do and you have only spent $100 or less, you are not going to need a mixer or an audio interface. If you are going to go to that level then you have to purchase something different. You have to purchase an analog microphone, which will then go to your audio interface and get a mixer.

If you want to go from having just your Blue Yeti or having your ATR 2100 or whatever microphone it is and you want to get the next level sound then you are going to need an analog microphone, mixer or audio interface then plugin to your computer. But otherwise, you do not need it.

So I hope that answers your question, do you need an audio interface or a mixer for a USB microphone? The answer is no. You just plug it straight into your computer. You can check out my list for The Best Headphones For Creating A Podcast so you can hear the sound and you can edit it properly. Go to PodcastFast.com/24 to check out that list. That is going to help you hear your sound,

Audio interface vs mixer. What is the difference between an audio interface and a mixer and which is the best option for podcasting?

Audio interface versus mixer? What is the difference and which is better for podcasting?

Hey! I am Ryan from PodcastFast.com and recently I created an article on The 10 Best Audio Interfaces For Podcasting, which brought out a whole bunch of different questions that I thought would be helpful to answer for you guys online. So this question came up a lot as I was researching. Is it better to get an audio interface when recording your podcast or is it better to get a mixer?

Now there are a lot of people out there who recommend mixers but it is rare that you would hear someone talk about an audio interface. Why is that? What is the difference? And could an audio interface actually be the better option for you? So let us look at the difference of them.

A mixer is a device that you put all of your different inputs in so let us say you have multiple microphones; for this example we are just going to go really simple. Let us say you are recording a podcast with a friend and you have 2 microphone inputs. What would happen is, you put those 2 microphone inputs into the mixer and you would then use the knobs and the sliders and things on the mixer to adjust the sound of each of those microphones to get them level, to get them sounding good so the microphones will go through the mixer.

You will then send them from the mixer to the computer which will go as one track to the computer and you would then have, ideally, a great sounding podcast.

An audio interface on the other hand works a little bit different. It is a simpler device and it does not have all of the knobs and sliders and things on the front. You do have a gain option so you can turn your gain up and down but that is about it. And so what the audio interface does is it takes your analog input, so in the same example, 2 microphones go into the audio interface.

The 2 microphones go into the audio interface and the audio interface acts as a great sound card and it processes that sound, converts it to digital format, and then sends it to your computer usually via USB or Thunderbolt or Firewire. It then comes up on your computer as 2 different tracks and you can then do adjustments in post-production so you can adjust the sound levels of each person’s microphone.

So the difference is a mixer is you do all of the adjustments of the sound on that mixing board and when you send it through the computer, you have one track that has the 2 sides of the conversation on there and editing becomes a lot harder after that. Whereas an audio interface, it actually delivers 2 tracks to your computer. You cannot do as much editing to the sound in the moment but once it is on your computer, you can then go ahead and you can do post-production and you can edit the sound.

So which is better?. To answer that question you need to take into account what exactly you are you using this for? If you are recording a podcast and you are doing a live broadcast then you may want a mixer because it allows you that flexibility to adjust things on the fly really easy; whereas if you are just recording a podcast and you are going to edit it and put it up at a later date, then an audio interface is probably going to be fine for your needs. Mixers tend to be more expensive than audio interfaces. Audio interfaces start from as little as $100 for 1 or 2 mic inputs and then they go up from there. Some of the more expensive audio interfaces are around $600 or $700 for really high quality ones.

It is only when you have a lot of different inputs so you are recording drums or microphones or you have 4 or 8 different inputs that you really need to go more expensive than $600 or $700 for an audio interface. However, mixers can get quite expensive really quickly. And so audio interfaces are also good for when the audio com...

Audio interfaces vary greatly in their functionality and their price. In this episode, I teach you how to choose an audio interface for your podcast.

How do you choose the right audio interface for your podcast?

Hey, I am Ryan from PodcastFast.com and I recently created an article on the 10 Best Audio Interfaces For Podcasting which you can check out at PodcastFast.com/25. But a lot of questions came out of my research for that article and I wanted to answer them to help anyone online who may have these questions.

So how do you choose an audio interface for podcasting? How do you know which one is going to be right for you?

There are a lot of different audio interfaces on the market and they range from very cheap, around $100, to extremely expensive, we are talking $2,500 or more in terms of how much this audio interfaces cost. So it is pretty tricky as a podcaster to understand what should I buy, how much money should I spend, what are my needs, etc. So this video is a guide to help you make the buying process slightly easier for you. So there are a few things that you need to consider.

The first thing is obviously going to be your budget. How much do you want to spend? If you only want to spend $100 well then you are very limited and there are only going to be a couple of good options for you. For example, the Focusrite Scarlett Solo is $99. That is a good option. There are a couple of other ones out there as well. The PreSonus Audiobox 2×2 is a good option for $100. But if you do not want to spend much like you only have a budget of $100 or $200 then you only have a couple of options.

If you have a larger budget and you really want the best for your podcast then the buying decision comes a bit more complex because do you want one of these cheaper models? Will it do the job of what you are actually going to get for the more expensive model? So there are a few things that you need to consider when purchasing your audio interface for podcasting.

The first thing that you need to consider is the number of inputs that the audio interface has. And if you do not know what an audio interface is, go back and checkout my episode on What Is An Audio Interface at PodcastFast.com/27. You can check it out over there and learn all about it. But basically it connects your analog microphone to your computer – so you put your analog microphone into the audio interface which is like a really good sound card and it basically converts that into digital format. It gives you really good sound and sends that to your computer and your recording software whether that be Audacity or Screenflow or GarageBand or whatever it may be. So that is just a quick summary of what is an audio interface.

But when you are looking to purchase an audio interface, you want to look at the number of inputs that you need. Now I do a solo podcast. It is just me recording and my microphone is actually a USB microphone; it goes directly into my computer. But let us just imagine that this was an analog microphone that I want to plug into my audio interface. Now I do almost all of my recording by myself with just 1 microphone, a single microphone.

So really, when it comes to purchasing an audio interface, I only need something that has 1 input. But let us say I started a podcast with my wife, which is something that we have been talking about and considering, I would ideally like to get 2 microphones and have 2 inputs. So now the audio interface that accepts only 1 microphone is not going to be good enough for me. I am going to need one with 2 or more microphone inputs.

Now let us say I create a podcast about my favorite TV show at the moment which is The Expanse, which is a sci-fi show. If you have not checked it out, go ahead and check it out. It is absolutely awesome, Game of Thrones in space basically. So let us say that I want to get 5 of my friends together and we are going to talk about ea...

What is an audio interface, how does it compare to a mixer and do you need an audio interface when creating a podcast?

What is an audio interface and do you need one for podcasting?

Hey, I am Ryan from PodcastFast.com and recently I was creating an article on the 10 Best Audio Interfaces For Podcasting. Now, audio interfaces – before I went in to creating this article, was not something I knew a lot about. I did not even know they existed so I have a lot of questions that came up that I thought would be helpful to answer on audio interfaces.

And so the first one is, what exactly is an audio interface and do I need one as a podcaster? So an audio interface is a device that goes between your analog microphone and your computer which is digital. For example, I am using the Blue Yeti microphone which is a USB microphone which plugs directly into my computer. This microphone does not need – and I could not even use, an audio interface with this microphone.

The goal of an audio interface is to act as an awesome sound card for your computer and basically to convert your analog microphone sound into digital sound that you can deliver to your computer. And the goal of the audio interface is to give you great quality sound. What most computers have as their microphone input is one of those 3.5 mm headphone jacks. So if you have a high-quality microphone, plug it into a 3.5 mm headphone jack is not going to do the sound justice and as well, the sound cards on your computer are not going to be that high-quality.

So the goal of an audio interface is that  you plug your microphone into the audio interface, it then processes the sound really well and then delivers that sound digitally to your computer, to your recording software whether that be Audacity or Screenflow or GarageBand or whatever it may be. So if you have a good high-quality microphone you are going to want an audio interface in order to make the best of that microphone and to get the best sound possible.

Now audio interfaces start from around $100 so you can get the Focusrite Scarlett Solo which is a great product for around $100. And then they go up from there and depending on your needs and how many inputs you need, etc. they get quite expensive. One of the highest recommended audio interfaces, really good product, is the Apogee Duet 2 which is around about $600 or something like that. And if you have a whole group of podcasters and you need a lot of different mic inputs so you are not just using one or 2 microphones but maybe using maybe 4 or 5 or more, then they get really expensive. We are talking $1,000, $2,000, $2,500 for these audio interfaces.

So that is what an audio interface is. It is basically an awesome sound card that converts the analog sound coming from your microphone into digital sound that is delivered into your computer. And it delivers in such a way that you are going to get great quality sound for your podcast.

Audio interfaces often provide 48 volt phantom power which is needed to charge some condenser microphone so some other microphones as well. So depending on the microphone that you have you may need to get an audio interface that has that 48 volt phantom power because otherwise you will not be able to power your microphone. So most of them have that and if you go to PodcastFast.com/25 then all of the audio interfaces that I recommend have that 48 volt phantom power to charge those condenser microphones.

One of the microphones that Pat Flynn recommends is the Heil PR40 or something like that which is an analog microphone and requires that 48 volt phantom power. So if you are going for something like those high-end microphones you are going to need either a mixer or an audio interface in order to get the sound from that microphone to your computer and have it sounding great. And so a lot of people think, “Okay, I need a mixer in order to do that” but really you do ...

I recently created an article on the top 10 best headphones for podcasting, but are good headphones important when creating a podcast? Find out in this episode.

Are good headphones important for recording your podcast? I recently did an article on the 10 best podcasting headphones over at podcastfast.com/24. And there, I listed the top 5 headphones that I recommend. As well as some best in class headphones, like the best cheapest headphones, the best noise cancelling headphones, the most comfortable headphones, etc. But it got me asking the question, “Is it actually important to have good headphones when you’re doing your podcasting?”

I’ve got a great pair of headphones that I’m wearing right now that you’ll be able to see if you’re on Youtube. And they’re the Audio Technica ATH-M50X, which are a great pair of headphones, extremely comfortable and deliver great quality sound. Before that, I actually had – I’ll just show you, I had some Beats here.

I got the Solo Beats, which I didn’t really like. They were just too pressing on my ears and just really uncomfortable. Actually, you might not believe it, but most of the time, when I’m podcasting, I just use these bad boys and these are the Apple earpods. So that’s kind of my podcast headphones that I use.

Back to the question, “Is it important to have good headphones when podcasting?” Well, if you’re a professional podcaster and you do a lot of podcasting and good quality sound is important to you. Like, you’ve bought a high quality microphone, you’ve got a pop filter. Maybe running through a mixer or an audio interface or something like that, if you’re a professional podcaster really focused on high quality sound, like creme de la crop of quality sound, then you’re going to want some good headphones because you need to understand whether or not the sound is going to be good.

For me, I bang out a lot of different podcast that aren’t super high quality in terms of the sound. My sound quality is good, but it’s not phenomenal. And in terms of editing, I don’t do a lot of editing or post-production to my sound. So for me, what I use my good quality headphones for is basically, I will put them on when I’m setting up to record for the day or whenever I’m changing settings.

So right now, I’m filming a video so I’ve got the gain on my microphone a little bit higher than when I would podcast usually without a video because when I podcast without a video, I would turn the gain down, I would move closer the podcast. Let me just turn the gain down. So I’d move closer to the podcast because you’re just going to get a better sound. There’s going to be less background noise.

So what I will do is I’ll put my headphones on, I’ll plug them into my USB microphone, which is the Blue Yeti and I’ll adjust the gain. I’ll adjust my distance from it and just make sure that it sounds right. Often, I’ll turn the volume up extremely loud in my own ears. That way, I can just really get an understanding of whether or not the sound is going to be too high or not and then I can go ahead and adjust the gain. But usually, I leave the sound somewhere around the middle.

So, are good quality headphones important? Not really. I don’t think they’re hyper important for your average podcaster. Because rather than doing this, I could basically achieve the same thing with my Apple Earpods. So let me just get them and let me see the sound difference when I plug these in and I’ll let you know how it goes. Because this is something I haven’t actually really tested on the fly. Okay. So let’s turn this all the way up.

I can still hear the background noise through these headphones,

Podcasting can be a great tool to grow your business. Justin Cooke from EmpireFlippers has used podcasting to make money in multiple different ways.

Hey guys, Ryan here from podcastfast.com. Today, I have with me Justin Cook from empireflippers.com he has run podcast for a number of years now, it must be 4 or 5 years or something like that. I’ve actually followed them that entire time and listened to all their episodes.

I’ve got Justin on today because they’ve actually made money or they’ve tried to make money in multiple different ways through their podcast and they don’t do advertising on their podcast, which I’m a massive fan of. Basically, I wanted to get Justin on and go through the different ways that they’ve made money and how they see podcast as a trust-builder and, I guess, a customer-builder.

Ryan: Hey, Justin. Thanks for coming on today.

Justin: Thanks for having me on, Ryan. I appreciate it, buddy.

Ryan: Okay, so, you guys started your podcast, basically, it seems like, for the fun of it. Is that right? You started AdSense Flippers because you were making these sites but you had no intentions to actually make money from the podcast.

Justin: Yeah. So, we and a couple of friends, they’re on The Tropical MBA podcast and we met up with them in the Philippines. They were having a small retreat and we said, “Oh, let’s go meet up with these guys, see what they’re all about.” we went up there and talked to them. Joe and I were kind of just kind of relaying our story and kind of how we got started and everything and these guys are like, “Dude, you need to start a podcast!” and we were like, “You know, we don’t do podcast. I don’t even listen to podcast.”

So he started telling us kind of like about their podcast and what they’d done and we thought, “Oh, that’d be kind of fun. Let’s try it out.” So we started a podcast just to try it out, just to see what we thought. At first, we went back and listened to some podcast so we had an idea on what we liked and didn’t like. And then, we got on the mike and just started talking. And we thought it was fun. It was kind of interesting and we started to get some traction.

We already had a blog that had quite a bit of traffic. So, it was easier for us to get a little bit of traction with the podcast by just kind of using our current blog audience and kind of promoting it and getting them over to the show.

Ryan: For those of you who don’t know, Justin used to run AdSense Flippers. He was creating niche websites and was making money through advertising, like Google AdSense on those. The website and the podcast was all about how do you setup these sites? How do you create that?

Was there any motivation behind it or any intention to make money from the beginning with the website or with the podcast? Or was it really just kind of an outworking of your passion and just wanted to get it on the internet?

Justin: With the blog and the podcast, our real goal was outreach. It was to get traction, like marketing traction, get people paying attention. We know that attention is valuable on the internet. So, whether it’s through a blog or a podcast, we want people that are checking it out; that are following along. We know that’s valuable.

So, it wasn’t started as a revenue generator. That was never really the plan – to make the podcast or have the podcast make us money directly through advertising. It was just to get our message out there. Part of our inspiration along the way was Smart Passive Income’s idea of being everywhere.

So, you want to be where your customers are. If they’re listening to podcast, be on podcast. If they read blogs, be on the blogs. If they’re in forums, be in the forums with them.

What is the future of advertising and sponsorships for podcasters? Today me and Jarrod talk about podcast advertising and current trends

Hey guys, Ryan here from podcastfast.com. Today, I have with me Jarrod from podmatcher.com, which is a podcast-advertising matching service. Today, we’re going to talk about the future of advertising in podcasting and a whole bunch of different things around advertising like podcasters and advertisers relationships and a bunch of those different things.

Ryan: Hey, Jarrod. Thanks for coming on today.

Jarrod: Hey, Ryan. No problem.

Ryan: Okay, so let’s talk about why you started PodMatcher in the beginning. Give people a quick overview of what it is. And then, talk about the steps that kind of lead you to start it because I think that will lead in to all that you want to achieve.

Jarrod: Yeah. [Inaudible 0:38] PodMatcher, I created about a year ago. I wanted to create like a podcast agency, you could say. Where I wanted to connect the podcasters and sponsorships together. In the last year and a half, sponsorships become more of a bigger concept with the podcasting. Before that, it wasn’t so well-admired, you could say. So, it’s becoming more acceptable when you get the right sponsor with the right podcaster, it works quite well for all parties.

This kind of derived from – when I was 19, I started working in radio and then I was in there for 7-8 years. And then, I kind of despised it almost. Like, I have this dark memory of radio so I got out of radio.

Ryan: What was it about radio that you had a distaste for?

Jarrod: There’s a line in a Radiohead song, “buzzing like a fridge”, it’s from Karma Police. Sums it up quite perfectly, Thom Yorke says, “it’s like buzzing like a fridge in your ear” and that’s what radio became. It has not soul, it has no depth.

Ryan: Do you mean that you found it too annoying?

Jarrod: Too annoying and I was in commercial radio, I’ll be honest with you, it wasn’t great radio. I mean, it was Amazing Radio, who I was working for and I did some stints with Alice Cooper also; which is great and he was more podcasting than radio, I guess, at that time.

It was just becoming monogamous, you could say. That’s when podcasting started to develop in the last few years. I know it’s been around since 2001, 2002. Last few years, it started to get a bigger voice.

Ryan: Podcasting’s actually been growing. It’s kind of being on a steady growth. It’s had a few kind of bumps in the line when things really took off. First, Apple introduced iTunes and with that, podcasting which you can put on to your iPod. So that sort of gave a bump. And then when podcasting came on to your iPhone, when they separated the apps from iTunes and to podcasting, that gave it a bump. Recently, Apple’s put podcasting as a default app on your phone. So that’s given it a bump.

All the time, it’s been growing. I think for me, with radio, it’s kind of the same as you, I just find it quite annoying. I’ve been listening to podcast for years. I used to be a pharmaceutical representative and I used to drive around and I spend hours driving everyday. I would just, podcast, podcast, podcast, podcast. I’d never listen to radio. All the other representatives would do radio and I just couldn’t do it. I’d be on the road learning.

The other day, or no, it was a couple of months ago, I was at my uncle’s house helping him do some painting and he’s got the radio on. I’m like, “Dude, what is this? Why do you got the radio on?” These ads are coming on, it’s so annoying. I’m like, “Dude, Pandora. Get on Pandora.” Either Pandora for music or podcast for learning. For me, I hardly listen to the radio in the last 4 years.

If you want to look like a professional podcaster you need your own email address. Here is how to create an email address for your podcast.

How to create an email address for your podcast?

Chances are, you don’t want to have [email protected] and you probably don’t even want to have [email protected]. What you’re going to want to have is [email protected]. So, for me, that’s [email protected]. So in this lesson, I’m going to show you exactly how to do that.

The cost to do this is absolutely nothing. You can do this absolutely free and I’m going to show you the free method in this video. You can also set it up with Google apps, which gives you the ability to access Gmail and you do all of your stuff through Gmail and that’s going to cost you $5 per month per email address. So, I’m going to go through the free one in this video but you can also look into Google apps if you want to get your email hosted with Google.

In this lesson, I’m looking specifically about how you can set up this email address; make it active and how you can access it online. However, I know that a lot of you are going to want to get this on your mobile phone. Have your email come in to some sort of app on your mobile phone. So, if you go to podcastfast.com/email, I have a free tutorial for you on how you can setup email on your phone. So you can actually watch my phone screen as I go through and set it up and I’m going to show you exactly how to do it. So if you want the email on your phone, go to podcastfast.com/email to get that free tutorial.

Okay, we’re about to get started and what we need to do first is login to our hosting account. Now, you may have watched lesson number 5, about how to setup your website. But I always recommend that people go through Arvixe as a web host and you can check them out at podcastfast.com/hosting. I just want to let you know that I’m going to be using Arvixe in this tutorial and I’m going to be going through and explaining to you exactly how you can setup your email using Arvixe. So, if you have a different host, things may be a little bit different.

Okay, so we’re going to setup our email inside Arvixe. So go back to this email that you got from Arvixe with your login details and everything like that. Scroll down to the Control Panel Information, find this Alternate Address and then open that. You can open this address but your website will need to be live in order for it to open. So, I just always find it easier to go through the alternate address ’cause if there’s ever any problems, this one always works. You then log in and we can see up the top that there’s a section called “Mail”. We can see this icon, Email Accounts, we can see Webmail. What we want to do is go to Email Accounts.

This is where we’re going to add our email. We can see up the top that we can just simply add an email. So we just put ryan and then make sure you choose your domain name if you have more than one. You probably just have one so you don’t need to worry about it. But for me, I need to choose podcastfast.com. We then go ahead and set a password. I then always like to choose an Unlimited Quota, which means I don’t have to go through and delete emails because I’ve ran out of space. And then simply click Create Account.

Our email is now created. It is literally that easy. Now, to log in to your email account, once your website’s live, you’ll go to yourdomain.com. So for me, it’s podcastfast.com and then forward slash webmail. That will take you to another login page and you simply enter your full email address. So for me, that’s [email protected]. And then you enter your password and then click Login.

So there are 2 different ways you can read your email.