Facebook Uses Mafia Tactics Not long ago, Facebook introduced the ability for you to promote your page posts. Facebook says that “promoted posts are a simple way to reach more of the people who like your Page and their friends.” In this week's episode, I invite our GSPN Social Media Correspondent, Erik J. Fisher, to […]

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Interview With Noah Shanok, CEO of Stitcher Radio One of my favorite benefits of the iPhone and the others smart phones that followed them is that they have made it increasingly easier for “normal people” to consume podcast content. Today there are many “apps” that allow to manage and even subscribe to your favorite podcasts […]

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Making Podcasts Cool Again? Playa Please! This past weekend, someone sent me a link to an article on Gigaom.com. The article was titled “Player FM makes podcasts look cool again.” The first few works of the article stated… “Podcasts may have fallen a bit out of fashion lately, but the new cloud-based podcast playback and discovery […]

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Michael Hyatt Talks About Building A Platform In this week's episode, I am super excited about talking with Michael Hyatt. Michael is the Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S. He has over 200,000 subscribers to his personal […]

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Will Google Take Live Streaming To The Next Level? A recent post on the Google Blog announced that Google Plus Hangouts On Air feature is going to be rolled out to all members of the Google Plus Community. The post said that you will be able to broadcast publicly. By checking “Enable Hangouts On Air,” you […]

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A Case of Stolen Network Identity In this week's episode, I share how upset I was to learn that someone had gone and copied everything that I had spent seven years building at gspn.tv. Some say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. To some degree, I certainly believe this is true. However, there […]

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From Hobby To Profitable Podcast Network In this episode, I interview Andrew Zarian of the Guys From Queens Network. Andrew shares how he started out with a hobby of streaming video via Ustream.tv after being laid off in 2008 and how he turned that hobby into the profitable podcast network that he runs today. I […]

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Random Plug of The Week This week's random plug of the week goes out to the Busy Mom's Survival Guide with PJ Jonas. If you check out her show and like it, please be sure to let PJ know you heard about her show from The Podcast Answer Man! Problem Getting Audio Clips Into Skype […]

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UPDATE: A few weeks after this episode was posted, iTunes made an additional update an they now require 1400×14000 artwork. MAJOR UPDATE: Just a few short weeks after this episode was posted, iTunes made ANOTHER quiet change to their specs page and are not suggesting that they “prefer” 1400×1400 artwork. For full details, have a […]

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The Podcast Report – Devoted to the Podcasting Track of BlogWorld & New Media Expo Earlier this month, I accepted an offer to join the BlogWorld & New Media Expo team in building an amazing Podcasting Track for their conference. Over the past few weeks, I have been on the phone with no less than […]

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