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November 23, 2022357. Six Ways to Thank Your Podcast Audience
You might think your audience should thank you for all the work you put into your podcast, but how often do you thank them?
Even though this episode was published around USA Thanksgiving, I suggest practicing thankfulness at all times of the year and in every episode!
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1. Adopt a perspective of gratefulness
2. Say "thank you"
3. Share, use, or acknowledge your audience's feedback
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4. Host live events
5. Offer fun activities
My retired Once Upon a Time podcast: https://oncepodcast.com/
6. Never stop thanking your audience
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16 min
November 16, 2022356. Why Does Your Podcast Need Its Own Domain?
Where do you tell your audience to go for the actions you want them to take? I suggest that should almost always be based on your podcast's own domain name.
Here are 5 reasons your podcast needs its own domain, even if it's merely a redirect (which I'll explain below).
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To simplify your most important call to action
To promote your brand, not someone or something else's
Stop Saying Brand Names in Your Podcast! Do These 5 Things Instead: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/stop-saying-brand-names-in-your-podcast-do-these-5-things-instead/
To make your own email addresses
How to Get Press Access for Your Podcast: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/how-to-get-press-access-for-your-podcast-tap313/
Garfield cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeW1FnFEzqA&t=300s
To redirect wherever you want
Redirects and How to Use Them in Podcasting: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/redirects-and-how-to-use-them-in-podcasting-tap280/
To keep you in control
Resources: where to get and customize domains
6 Tips for Picking a Good Domain for Your Podcast or Website: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/tap019-six-tips-for-picking-a-good-domain-for-your-podcast-or-website/
Namecheap: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/namecheap
Hover: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/hover
Cloudflare: https://cloudflare.com
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24 min
November 02, 2022355. Six Free Ways to Podcast Better by Communicating Better
Presentation is one of the 5 cornerstones of podcasting (content, presentation, production, promotion, and P.R.O.F.I.T.). How you communicate in your podcast can make the biggest difference in whether people enjoy and benefit from your content.
Here are six free and non-technological ways to improve your podcast by communicating better!
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Listen to yourself
Learn from all feedback
Become more curious
Audacity Is Improving Fast! Here Are the Top New Features to Try: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/audacity-is-improving-fast-here-are-the-top-new-features-to-try/
Expand your vocabulary, but not too much
150+ Other Words to Use Instead of Very: https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/word-lists/150-dynamic-words-to-use-instead-of-very.html
Words to use instead of "very": https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/words-to-use-instead-of-very/13582094
100+ Words to Use Instead of VERY in English: https://7esl.com/words-to-use-instead-of-very/
Improve your grammar and pronunciation
The negative podcast review that inspired me to improve my pronunciations: https://app.mypodcastreviews.com/podcasts/PZdHzX/reviews/479646
Conquer bad habits
Life is the best place to train
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29 min
October 26, 2022354. Audacity Is Improving Fast! Here Are the Top New Features to Try
The Audacity software is popular among countless podcasters at all levels of production! at some point! It's a free, cross-platform audio-editing app, so almost anyone can use it. But Audacity has historically lagged behind other audio-editing apps until now! So here are some of my favorite new features that I think warrant giving Audacity another try.
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Who Created Audacity & Why is it Free?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWNvwLiXIQ
The official Audacity YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/audacity
1. Non-destructive editing
2. Real-time effects
3. VST3 and other modern plugins
4. Update notifications
5. Improved user interface (UI)
6. Modern coding architecture
7. More coming in the future
Where does Audacity fit now?
Opportunities to get involved: https://www.audacityteam.org/community/
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October 19, 2022353. When to Use Trailer, Full, and Bonus Episode Types
A while back, Apple introduced the RSS tag to let you mark individual episodes as "bonus," "full," or "trailer" types. Here's what each type means and how you should use them in your podcast-publishing tools.
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"Full" episode type
"Bonus" episode type
Apple's RSS tag explanations: https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390
How Did This Get Made? podcast: https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/
Podcasting 2.0 proposal for more episode types: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/issues/398
Long-separated bonuses?
"Trailer" episode type
Apple's RSS tag explanations: https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390
The Rings of Power Podcast – Tales From Middle Earth: https://solotalkmedia.com/the-rings-of-power-podcast/
Should you leave a trailer online?
The Rings of Power Podcast – Tales From Middle Earth: https://solotalkmedia.com/the-rings-of-power-podcast/
"Bonus" and "trailer" types are bookends
More types in the future?
Podcasting 2.0 proposal for more episode types: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/issues/398
Don't obsess and don't worry
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25 min
October 12, 2022352. Stop Saying Brand Names in Your Podcast! Do These 5 Things Instead
We use many services in the process of podcasting and engaging our audiences, like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, SpeakPipe, and more. But saying these brand names in your podcast can overwhelm or confuse your audience and—even worse—break their ability to properly engage with your podcast!
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1. Make a generic URL with your domain
Learn more about redirects and how to use them for your podcast: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/redirects-and-how-to-use-them-in-podcasting-tap280/
Get Pretty Links Pro for making redirects in WordPress: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/prettylinkpro
2. Simplify your calls to action
3. Reinforce your brand
4. Defer the details
5. Future-proof your calls to action
Changing is (probably) easy!
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19 min
October 05, 2022351. How Proxies and iOS 14.5 Affect Your Podcast
In summer 2021, iOS 14.5 introduced a major change to Apple Podcasts with implications many podcasters may still not realize. With that update, your audience on Apple Podcasts is no longer getting your podcast directly from your RSS feed, but from a proxy. And that has some potentially bad implications!
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What is a proxy?
• Feedburner: https://feedburner.google.com
• Podcast Mirror: https://podcastmirror.com
Why use a feed proxy?
• Why you may NOT want to host your own podcast RSS feed: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/why-you-may-not-want-to-host-your-own-podcast-rss-feed/
What did iOS 14.5 change?
• How many podcasts are in Apple Podcasts? https://podcastindustryinsights.com/apple-podcasts-statistics/
The potentially dark side of Apple's (or any app's) own feed proxy
But would Apple actually use this power?
• Kicked from Apple Podcasts? What Happens When You Keyword-Stuff Podcast Tags: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/kicked-from-apple-podcasts-what-happens-when-you-keyword-stuff-podcast-tags-tap334/
• Apple Podcasts Connect: https://podcastsconnect.apple.com
Spotify, Stitcher, and some others also use their own feed proxies
Hello, censorship?
• China censors censorship: https://share.america.gov/in-china-you-cant-say-these-words/
Somewhat similar to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and such
A technical aside for and explicit episodes
Podcasting 2.0 provides better solutions!
What Is Podcasting 2.0 and Why Does It Matter? https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/what-is-podcasting-2-0-and-why-does-it-matter/
A censorship-free podcast catalog
A better way to catch and distribute podcast updates
• PodPing technical information: https://podping.cloud/
• Real-time preview of PodPing feed: https://podping.watch/
So what should you do?
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37 min
September 28, 2022 350. What Is Podcasting 2.0 and Why Does It Matter?
The podcasting industry has grown a lot since its birth in 2004, but the core of what a podcast could be and what it could do hasn't changed much. Now, Podcasting 2.0 revolutionizes the industry with highly requested innovations that will help everyone on all sides of the RSS feeds.
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What is "Podcasting 2.0"?
• Learn more about the Podcast Namespace: https://PodcastNamespace.org
• Follow the Podcasting 2.0 podcast: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666
Podcasting 2.0 is for audiences
Podcasting 2.0 is for podcasters
Podcasting 2.0 is for developers
Podcasting 2.0 is even for advertisers
This is the new litmus test for podcasting tools
If your podcast-publishing tools do not already support Podcasting 2.0, switch!
Retweet this:
How to upgrade your podcast experience with Podcasting 2.0
• WordPress with PowerPress, plus the Podcast Namespace plugin: https://github.com/Lehmancreations/Podcast-Namespace-Wordpress-Plugin/releases
• Blubrry podcast hosting: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/blubrry
• Buzzsprout: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/buzzsprout
• Libsyn: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/libsyn
• Captivate: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/captivate
• More options: https://podcastindex.org/apps
How to get involved in Podcasting 2.0
• Main website: https://podcastindex.org/
• Podcasting 2.0 podcast: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666
• Social conversations: https://podcastindex.social/
• GitHub: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/
• Podcast Namespace on GitHub: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace
Accept no cheap imitations!
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43 min
September 26, 2022 Celebrate International Podcast Day and Save 20% on My Podcast Reviews!
International Podcast Day is this Friday, September 30! This is a day for everyone to celebrate podcasts! It's for podcasters, for audiences, and for us to introduce others to the amazing fun and education available through podcasts!

Learn more about International Podcast Day and how to celebrate at https://internationalpodcastday.com/

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August 31, 2022 Returning on September 28!

Dust off my corner of your podcast app because The Audacity to Podcast will be back in September with all-new content to help you podcast better! The first return episode will cover Podcasting 2.0 and why it's so important for you and your audience.

I can't promise an episode every week. So if you don't see a new episode by Wednesday, then there probably won't be an episode that week.

While you wait, check on TheAudacitytoPodcast.com and follow my YouTube channel for fresh videos highlighting some exciting new things in podcasting.

Thank you for all the support, for continuing to follow the podcast, and for all the notes of encouragement!
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