Podcast marketing - getting your show noticed by the audience you’re trying to reach - is a tough thing to figure out.

You don’t want to be the smarmy guy or gal who’s in every channel screaming, “Listen to my show! Listen to my Show! Listen to my Show!” - but you also don’t want to be guilty of a Field of Dreams approach that believes if you build it, listeners will come. It simply doesn’t work that way.

Mobile Recording can be hard to figure out, especially if you don’t have a money tree growing in your backyard. I’ve given a lot of thought to this from a “lean budget” perspective and have tried a LOT of things over the years I’ve been podcasting. What I demo in this episode is the best MOBILE RECORDING solution I’ve discovered yet.

If I were to insist to you that you are your best PR manager, you would probably think I'm crazy. Why? Because you don't know anything about PR. But my guest today, Josh Elledge says that anyone can be their own best PR manager if they are willing to put in the effort that it takes to do PR the right way and expand their brand through the exposure that comes from promotions to, and through traditional media.

There are quite a number of easy wins you can get to make your podcast better.

Is there any reason you wouldn't want to do them?

As a person involved in doing podcast production, it is fairly often that someone asks me if my company offers a service to help them discover and book podcast guests.

Our company doesn't, but I know someone who does. ;)

My guest today is one of my podcasting clients, Andrew Alleman, and for a while now he has been offering a monthly newsletter that highlights opportunities to both be a guest on podcasts and find guests for your podcast.

Are you experiencing the struggle to make time for your podcast?

You are definitely not alone. Perhaps the most common question I receive for appliance and others who find out that I am a podcast producer and Coach is how they can find time to actually do the work required to put out a great podcast.

There are no easy answers. I hope you're not listening to this episode expecting that. But there are approaches you can take to the issue that can help you do better than you're doing now, perhaps.

https://podcastfasttrack.com/

How to record interviews over a distance is one of the most frustrating things for many podcasters - and the tech is not quite there yet.

But it’s getting better. :)

2017 brings a handful of pretty decent options for recording a conversation, many of them with tech that takes out the “distance” part of a distance recording so you get better quality audio every time.

I wanted to make it obvious how good the options are as well as answer some of the questions I get on a regular basis about the best way to record an interview.

So my client onboarding guy, Aaron and I took a morning to do some recordings of OUR conversations using all the options that I think are legitimate for 2017.

So - How to record interviews: 2017 Demo of the Best Options is what you’ll hear on this episode of Podcastification.

Here’s a rough outline of this “How to Record Interviews” episode:

• [1:44] My top 5 recommendations: Zoom - Ringr - Zencastr - Skype - Cleanfeed and our demos of each of these options, demo’d for you.
• [3:00] Tips for making a good distance recording, no matter which option you choose

Zoom Demo

• [3:46] My experience using Zoom (my description of what I see)
• [5:26] The recording of Aaron and I speaking and recording to each other via Zoom along with our impressions and observations of the platform
• [7:16] The “guest” side of a Zoom call - Aaron’s insights and observations
• [7:50] Zoom’s details, pricing, method of recording, number of participants, etc.

Ringr Demo

• [10:40] The pre-recording setup and login experience for recording an interview on Ringr
• [11:10] The actual conversation we recorded and how Ringr works (double-ender)
• [12:08] The “guest” side of the Ringr connection and some of the cool things we see

Skype Demo

• [14:51] Skype calls must be recorded using a 3rd party app
• [16:08] The “guest” side of the Skype call - and why Skype is the good-old standby
• [17:17] Why Skype calls with bad connections are HARD for audio editing

Zencastr Demo

• [18:55] Pre-call setup of a Zencastr recording/call
• [19:49] Zencastr’s chat feature, timeline footnotes, etc.
• [20:46] Zencastr’s free plan: features, integrations, bells and whistles
• [21:40] What is happening when you hear a glitch in Zencastr

Cleanfeed Demo

• [23:52] Counterintuitive things I feel about Cleanfeed
• [24:38] The guest and host experiences on Cleanfeed
• [26:21] Why you need to stay in the platform until things are done uploading

SUMMARY

• [27:10] Review of platforms and features
• [29:11] Another option as an “honorable mention” - www.Tryca.st
• [29:58] OUR RANKINGS OF THE TOP 5 PLATFORMS FOR RECORDING AN INTERVIEW
• [31:49] Browser-dependent issues some of the platforms will experience from time to time

I’m not only going to tell you how to record an interview, I’m going to demo it for you 5 different ways… with a little help

This episode of podcast application has been in the works for a long time. Maybe we were putting it off because we knew how much work it would do. But it was worth it!

My client onboarding guy, Aaron and I are going to demo all the options we think are worthwhile when it comes to...

https://podcastfasttrack.com/

Have you ever tried to share audio files on social media?

Man, what a PAIN it can be! Depending on where your audio file link comes from, what format the file is in, which social media platform you’re dealing with, you can get all kinds of bizzare results.

The problem Is compounded even more when you realize that social media simply doesn't lend itself to long-form content. Most podcasts are longer types of content so they are hard to share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other places in a way that can be played, right there, on the spot.

My hope is that this episode will change all of that for you. I'm talking with Baird Hall, one of the creators of Wavve, a great new app that enables you to create motion videos with sound clips from your podcast episodes. Please take the time to listen by clicking the player below, and make sure you scroll down to watch my demo video of setting up my own promo through the Wavve app.

 

Here’s a rough outline about this episode: sharing audio files on social

• [1:32] Who is Baird and how does Wavve highlight audio content on social?
• [5:20] How the audio wav formations in Wavve can garner greater attention
• [6:36] What it looks like online to create a Wavve animation
• [9:02] Edit your audio files online or offline to create your graphic animation
• [11:03] Baird’s short version of the creation of the platform and how they made the pivot from one business idea to another
• [13:53] Pricing plans - Free, Alpha, Beta, Gamma. Did you see that, FREE PEOPLE!
• [19:37] How users are using the Wavve to promote on Instagram
• [27:45] The other folks on the Wavve team and how the company works
• [28:40] New features coming soon (you heard it here first)...

OK, so you CAN share audio files on social, but…

It’s not always something you can do in a way that people will actually click on.

First, it’s likely an outbound link… and people typically don’t want to leave the social platform they are on at the moment (those cute little kittens are too irresistible).

If it IS uploaded directly to the social platform, it’s likely still going to open a pop-up window to make the thing actually playable.

Or, you can create a video of it yourself which is one of the biggest time sucks I can think of at this moment.

There is an answer, and it even has a free option. Did you hear that people, free!

I invite you to listen to what Baird Hall and the team at Wavve have created for people who produce longer-form audio content (like podcasters). It's a way that you can create bite-size pieces that people scrolling through their social media feed would actually want to listen to simply because it's so beautiful and eye-catching.

This is the episode that tells all about the Wavve platform and what it can do to help you share audio of your episodes more effectively.

It's less than 35 minutes long, so take a listen, would you?

Even though Wavve creates beautiful videos for you to share, you’ll have to put in a little work of your own.

I know it's tempting to think that some new app like Wavve is going to come along and make your podcasting workflow simple, easy, and automatic.

Yes, in the previous episode with Ari Meisel we did discover a lot of ways that you can automate your podcast workflow, but that doesn't mean you're going to have 0 work left to do.

With an application like Wavve you've got the opportunity to make something incredible that will help you promote your podcast. But it won't happen by itself.

You're going to have to sit down and do...

I thought it was about time I did something REALLY helpful and did the research required to tell you exactly - step by step - how to submit your show to every conceivable place you can to increase your podcast’s reach.

I’m talking about Podcast Directories, people!

But the problem is this: every conceivable place is not always the BEST place (in my humble opinion).

How much thought have you given to your podcast workflow recently? That much, huh? ;)

I've been thinking about mine a lot because I have found myself caught up in the minutiae instead of getting the important things in my life and business done. A workflow can be very tedious to think through, so I wanted to talk to someone who can give me good tips on how to optimize it. Ari Meisel is that guy. If you’ve never heard of Ari you really need to listen to this episode so you can hear his story.