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Welcome to the first episode of The Podcast Producers with Corey Coates and Jessica Rhodes. Corey owns a boutique podcast production company called Podfly and Jessica founded a company that books high-end guests on her client's podcasts called Interview Connections. Corey and Jessica have teamed up to share their podcast experiences to the world and get other podcasters in the industry to do the same. The Podcast Producers is a ten-part series interviewing the best in the industry to help listeners get a true sense of what podcasting is all about.
Key Takeaways:
2:45 - What's a podcast?
4:15 – Do podcasters listen to a lot of other podcasts?
5:30 – Podcasts have changed my life!
8:20 – You can be ultra, ultra specific with podcasts.
8:50 – Podcasts bring families closer.
11:20 – How do podcasters spread word about their podcasts?
12:00 – When did you start listening to podcasts?
14:30 – Podcasters don't listen to podcasts within their own genre.
16:10 – It's great to listen to intelligent people while you do mommy things.
18:30 – Podcasters start podcasts because they can't find anyone doing it.
20:00 – You can listen to content from normal people and actually get a reply back on Twitter!
24:00 – The listener should know what today's show is about within the first 60 seconds.
25:50 – Don't make your podcasts too short.
28:30 – The relationship the listener has with a podcaster can be really cool and really creepy at the same time.
31:50 – There's a lot of people out there making great podcasts.
32:50 – Are the geeks and purists running away from podcasting?
34:40 – How is the average person finding podcasts?
38:15 – The listeners have the power.
43:30 – Is podcasting going to be a successful medium in the future?
44:50 – Don't forget to subscribe to Podcast Producer's iTunes and Stitcher Radio feed.
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“THE IMPORTANT THING ABOUT A PODCAST IS IT'S EVERGREEN.”
“PODCASTING IS BEING SPREAD ORGANICALLY. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT WITH THEIR FRIENDS; SHARING IT WITH PEOPLE IN A VERY INTIMATE WAY.”
“THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF INTERESTING PEOPLE DOING INTERESTING STUFF AROUND PODCASTING.”
Mentioned In This Episode:
Bree Noble – Women of Substance Radio |Jason Cabassi – The Walking Dead Cast | Jason Hartman – Hartman Media |Mary and Blake Larsen – ParentCast |Music Together | Mom and Dad Are Fighting Podcast | Liz Covart – Ben Franklin's World | Erik Fisher – Beyond The To Do List | Christ Hardwick – Nerdist | Albert and Heather Burdge – Quantum Leap | Mission Log Podcast | The Signal Podcast | Twilight Zone Podcast |Talk Is Jericho Podcast | Harry Duran – Podcast Junkies| David Hooper – RED podcast. | Tim Paige – ConversionCast| Jeff Brown – Read to Lead | Alex Goldman – Reply All| Comedy Bang Bang | 99% Invisible |This American Life| RadioLab| Pete Holmes – You Made It Weird| Invisibilia| Gilmore Guys| Jordan Harbinger – The Art of Charm| Serial| Gimlet Media – StartUp | Todd Cochrane – Geek News Central | Tom Webster – Edison Research
