Are You Creating Life Changing Content? This week, I was reminded, once again, why it is that I produce this show and create the content that I make available here on this site. That reminder came from an email that I had received from John Bukenas who wrote an email to me that started with… […]

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Equipment Options For Under $200 My primary focus with Podcast Answer Man is to help people create amazing sounding and extremely well produced shows. However, I am often asked what is available to those who want to record their audio on a very limited budget. In this episode, Steve called in to ask what the […]

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The Strangest Secret I must have heard my great friend, Dan Miller, talk about The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale at least 30 to 40 times before actually searching out this resource for myself. I'm so glad that I did! When I first heard it, I do recall telling myself that I wanted to actually […]

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What Plugins Do I Use And Recommend Today? I typically receive between 40 to 100+ emails each day. There are a number of questions that I get over and over again and one of the more popular questions is “What plugins are your currently using for WordPress?” I've answered this question on previous episodes of […]

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Is There A Market For Podcast Producers? Nathan called in to ask if I thought there was a market for someone who wanted to produce podcasts for others rather than produce their own show(s). He also asked how I might go about convincing someone that they need to create a podcast. I share my thoughts […]

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Sony MDR-7506 Headphones For the past several years, I had been using Bose AE2 style headphones. When I was in NYC for BlogWorld & New Media Expo, I visited the SiriusXM studios. While in the studio, I noticed that they only used Sony MDR-7506 headphones. I was so pleased with the sound quality that I […]

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How Do You Determine The Potential Size of A Podcast Audience? In this week's episode, Eddy called in to ask if it is possible to determine the potential size of a podcast audience. He explained that he was trying to find out if there is “enough of an audience there waiting” for a certain topic. […]

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Learn How Audio Podcasting Has Benefited Existing Bloggers! At this years's BlogWorld & New Media Expo's NYC event, I was thrilled to have my great friend, Pat Flynn, put together a panel titled “More Traffic, More Authority, More Customers: Why All Bloggers Should Be Podcasting.” The description of the session read: Successful bloggers don’t just […]

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It Was No Rumor! Apple Releases Official Podcasts App! In last week's episode, I shared the rumors and speculation that surrounded the idea that Apple might release a standalone Podcasts App for iOS. Earlier this week, Apple actually released such an app. Personally, I'm thinking that they may have rushed it out the door due […]

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Is Podcasting Getting It's Own Application in iOS 6? By now, most podcasters have heard the rumors and speculation that Apple may be kicking podcasting out of the iTunes application and giving the podcasting platform its very own official podcasting application in iOS6. So far, all reactions to this information have been positive, where folks […]

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