The Podcasting Tools Show: Equipment, Software & Resources for Podcasters

How Woocommerce can help any podcaster monetise their show

Learn how to make podcast interviews or online calls super easy to organise through a scheduling tool called Book Like a Boss. This is what I use for ALL of my scheduling these days. Find out on this episode what the tool can do, and how I use it, day to day.

https://www.thepodcasthost.com/booklikeaboss

With Woocommerce, you can sell virtually anything, from physical products to memberships and subscriptions. But, how can you use Woocommerce to monetise a podcast? Good question! Let's take a look.

In this episode, I'm covering Zoom.us, the video conferencing platform, and the pros and cons for podcasters. In the pros queue, it's free, it's super-easy and it offers split audio streams for every speaker. In the cons, it's online calls at the heart of it, so suffers from the same VOIP glitches as any other online call recorder that dosn't do double enders.

Take a listen to the episode to find out all the details, and see if it's the tool for you.

Description: In this review, I talk through the podcast hosting platform http://Transistor.fm (Transistor.fm). I'll cover everything that makes this platform unique, and show you the standard tools, too, so you can make a decision on whether it's the podcast hosting platform for you.

Sign up for transitor here (affiliate link) - https://www.thePodcastHost.com/transistor (https://www.thePodcastHost.com/transistor)

In this video, I compare two different Wordpress themes for Podcasters - Second Line Themes and Divi. The former is a podcast specific theme library, offering a bunch of options, tailored to allow listeners to find your show, engage with it and subscribe. The latter - Divi - is a super flexible and really powerful theme for any kind of website, but which I've used a lot in the past for Podcast websites.

http://podcastguests.com/ (PodcastGuests.com) is a tool that'll help you find more interesting, qualified interview guests for your podcast. You can post requests, or browse their database of guests. You can also list yourself as an expert, or reply to requests yourself. Either way, find out here how it works, so that you can find better guests, more easily, and appear on more shows yourself.

Here, I cover all the podcast events, in the US and around the world, that you can get to to learn how to launch and grow your show. See the full article here: https://www.thepodcasthost.com/training-development/podcast-events/

There's something really powerful about getting around like-minded people, and sharing ideas - I've found no better way to do that than going to events like Podfest, PodsUpNorth, Podcast Movement, and others.

Here I'm looking a the Rode Smartlav+, a great little lavalier microphone for your smartphone. Record solo with just one of them, or add the SC6 adapter to plug two into your phone and record an interview, in-person. Check out the episode to get my thoughts on this smart little mic.

You can see our full review of the Smartlav+, plus sound samples, here:

https://www.thepodcasthost.com/equipment/rode-smartlav/ (Rode Smartlav+ review)

Plus, find our roundup of the https://www.thepodcasthost.com/equipment/lavalier-microphones-roundup/ (best lavalier microphones) around.

Custom podcast players bring a whole lot of benefits. They can help you grow your listening audience, your email list, your social subscribers, and they can help to engage listeners much more quickly.

The Smart Podcast Player is one such tool, coming out of Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income brand. It offers binge listening, email subscriptions, listener subscription options and a whole lot more. Listen in, this week, to hear all of the features, and whether this player might be worth it for you.