Podcasting Tips & Tricks with Lyndal Harris

“Imposter Syndrome” - what is it, really? And how does one deal with it?

Our guest this week is Fiona Redding, founder of The Happiness Hunter, a mindset coach, speaker, and facilitator. She’s also a co-host to the Business Addicts Podcast as well as the author of The Happiness Hunter’s Guide to Meditation. Listen in to help yourself understand and overcome this experience.

In this episode:

• Fiona’s journey in her business
• History of Imposter Syndrome
• Fiona’s and Lyndal’s Imposter Syndrome stories
• Understanding your process
• Steps on how to move forward
• How thinking creates reality
• Top tips to overcome the Impostor Syndrome
• PTT Asks Fiona:
  • What do you wish you knew when you started podcasting? 
  • What is your number one tip on podcasting?
  
  

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/overcoming-imposter-syndrome-fiona-redding/

When you make the decision to start a podcast, all the emotions that you’re feeling can be seriously overwhelming. But one of the biggest problems or one of the biggest things that people talk to me about is they don’t even know where to start. And that in itself can be overwhelming because there are so many different resources out there and there are different ways to do things in podcasting.

I’m going to take you through my 10 step method to help you get your podcast launched and out there to the world.

In this episode:

• The different steps to launching your podcast
• The branding elements
• The technical steps

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/10-steps-launch-podcast/

Get ready for this week’s episode with Shannon Morrison of the Mighty Social Word. Make sure to take notes so you can discover how to Repurpose your Podcast Episodes into 20+ Pieces of Content and find out how you can finally get started!

In this episode:

• What is Content Repurposing?
• What’s the best content to repurpose?
• Core content vs. Repurposed content
• Tips on repurposing content
• Creating different pieces from an audio content
• How much content can you get from an episode?
• Planning and setting timelines for content posting
• Transcripts and Shownotes for Podcasts
• How easy is it to repurpose, and what are the tools needed?
• Questions from Australian Podcasters Collaborative Group: 
  • How to make the process fast and efficient?
  • How to outsource it?
  • When repurposing, how do you structure the content differently for different platforms?
  • Any other tips and tricks? 
  
  
• PTT Asks Shannon:
  • What do you wish you had known when you started podcasting?
  
  

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/repurpose-podcast-episodes-20-pieces-content/

All too often I see these 3 common mistakes with podcast promotion. As a podcaster, you spend the time preparing, recording and publishing your content, but the promotion part of the workflow is one of the most important to ensure your episode gets in front of your audience.

In this episode:

• The importance of podcast promotion
• 3 Common Mistakes I see podcasters making with their marketing
• A listener review from Annainhampton. If this is you, please reach out and I’ll add a link to your show.

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/3-common-mistakes-podcast-promotion/

In this episode, I cover 10 different ways you can monetise your podcast. I’m not going into all the detail of how-to for each of these as I will cover some of these in future episodes but hopefully,10 Ways you’ll get some ideas of ways podcasters are monetising their shows.

In this episode:

• 10 ways to make money from your show
• The difference between how business and hobbyist podcasts make money
• A listener review from Kym O’Gorman from Kym O’Gorman Marketing Solutions.

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/10-ways-to-monetise-your-podcast/

We’re kicking off our very first interview episode with Kate Toon with lots of tips and advice on Podcast SEO. Tune in, take notes, and get ready to drive more listeners to your podcast.

Kate Toon is a writing entrepreneur, as well as a popular coach, speaker, author and podcaster. Her digital education businesses The Recipe for SEO Success and The Clever Copywriting School have helped more than 8000 small business owners grapple the Google beast and write better content.

In this episode:

• What is podcast SEO?
• Why is SEO for podcasts so important?
• The 3 Big Problems
• Top 5 SEO Tips for podcasters – what podcasters should do on each episode
• Tips on naming episodes
• Measuring the effectiveness of SEO copy
• The difference of SEO for podcasts versus traditional SEO on blogs & websites
• What should be included on episode notes? Is a transcript a must-have?
• How podcasting benefits SEO
• Difference between SEO for Spotify vs. Apple Podcasts – which one suits best

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/podcast-seo-drive-listens-kate-toon/

Today on Podcasting Tips & Tricks, we are going to walk through the 5 Ps of Podcasting which are the 5 steps of the Podcast Workflow. A successful podcast is easier when set up your systems and processes.

In this episode:

• Being organised for your podcast tasks
• Planning and organizing your podcast
• Tips on streamlining your processes
• The 5 distinct phases of your podcast workflow
  • Step 1 - Pre-Production
  • Step 2 - Production
  • Step 3 - Post-Production
  • Step 4 - Publishing
  • Step 5 - Post-Production
  
  

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/5-step-podcast-workflow/

Before getting started on your podcasting journey, you really need to have this step sorted - knowing the purpose of your podcast. Today’s episode covers the first essential step you need to know before you launch your show.

In this episode we cover:

• The essential first step for your podcast
• Figuring out if podcasting would be great for you
• Relevant questions to ask before deciding to start one
• Benefits of having a podcast
• Different reasons & some strategy examples
• Advantages of Podcasting
• Repurposing content

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/knowing-purpose-podcast/

Welcome to the first episode of Podcasting Tips & Tricks with Lyndal Harris. Lyndal is the founder of Podcast VA, Australia’s first VA for Podcasters. Listen in as she tells you how she got into podcasting, her story and she gives you a glimpse of what to expect in the next episodes.

In this episode:

• Get to know Lyndal Harris of Podcast VA
• How Lyndal started in the podcasting industry
• What to expect from Podcasting Tips & Tricks
• Perfect for your small business or passion project

For full shownotes, go to https://www.podcastva.com/podcast/welcome-podcasting-tips-tricks-episode-1/