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September 2, 2017
02 Sep 2017

103 Back From Podcast Movement and NYC Is Not The Podcast Capital

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Quick Episode Summary:

  • Intro :11
  • Audio Rockin’ Libsyn Podcasts: The Creative Studio Podcast 3:00
  • Promo 1: E-Travels with E. Trules 9:20
  • Rob & Elsie Conversation 9:50
    • It’s nice to be back and catching up after Podcast Movement
    • Feedback from Wayne Henderson 13:04
    • Touching base on the Academy of Podcaster Awards – congrats Elsie!
    • Feedback from Molly MacCready from The Non-Profit Optimist 30:00
    • Super cool new podcast listening app just for kids
    • Apple really wants you to add the header code to your websites! Really, they do
    • Feedback from Casey O’Roarty from Joyful Courage 38:20
    • Rob almost had a stroke about NYC’s report about it being the podcast capital 😵
    • Promo 2: The Blood Drawn Chronicles 41:30
    • Elsie had to edit for profanity. Woah
    • Changing ownership of podcasts via Apple ID, can it be done?
    • Rob’s rant continues calling out all the misinformation that the NYC governor’s office put out
    • Feedback: Sonia Paz from Your Rockstar Mentor 1:00:30
    • Getting your podcast onto YouTube using Libsyn
    • Feedback: Andrea Klunder The Creative Impostor 1:03:43
    • iTunes new feedback support and transition from Soundcloud
    • More on adding music to your podcast
    • Promo 3: Baseball Pitching – The Fix 1:17:24
    • A little bit of conjecture about Apple Podcasts upcoming stats and possible release
    • Stats time! Mean and median numbers

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August 28, 2017
28 Aug 2017

Rockin’ Libsyn Podcasts: Two Minute Talk Tips

This series is all about Libsyn’s podcasters. It’s sole purpose is to introduce these awesome podcasts to the world as well as share their podcasting insight to empower the community!

Q & A with from 2 Minute Talk Tips

When did you start podcasting?

I’ve been podcasting as an occasional guest on my friend’s Caffeinated Comics podcast since 2013 and before that I led an employer’s efforts to essentially create podcast episodes to teach folks how to sell their stuff.

I finally launched 2 Minute Talk Tips in December of 2016

Why did you start podcasting?

I guested on my friend’s podcast because I’m passionate about the geeky topics he covers.

I launched 2 Minute Talk Tips when I lost my job.

It had been part of my layoff contingency plan for more than five years, and when my job went away, it was time to get started.

I launched it in part so that when an interviewer asked me what I had done while unemployed, I could say, “I taught myself to launch and manage a weekly podcast to share my professional expertise with the world.”

I also wanted to have a project to work on – 2 Minute Talk Tips give me a place I could focus the energy that had previously gone into creating and managing content for someone else.

Finally, I love to speak and to write. 2 Minute Talk Tips is a great way for me to explore those passions and to help other folk at the same time.

What’s your show about?

2 Minute Talk Tips is about becoming a more effective public speaker. The first two minutes of every episode are a short, practical tip to make the listener a better presenter.

The second part of the episode is a more in depth discussion of a topic, a book review, and interview, or whatever else I feel may interest a speaker.

If a listener has only 2 minutes a week, I’ve got them covered. If they have more than 2 minutes to spare, I’ve got even more value for them.

What’s your podcasting set-up? Hardware, software, CMS, etc.

I do my first draft of each episode in a notebook with kitties on the cover and then I do my second draft (a detailed outline) in Microsoft OneNote (one of my favorite applications).

When it’s time to record, I use a Rode NT1-A microphone and a Behringer Q1202 USB Mixer.

I do all my recording on a Marantz PMD 661 Digital Audio Recorder. Then I edit my show in Audacity on a Toshiba Kirabook laptop.

I use Skype for interviews with a mix/minus hook up between my mixer and my PC.

I use a Behringer UCA 222 USB sound card to make that connection. I use HostGator to host my WordPress website and I upload all my content, show notes and posts through the Libsyn WordPress plugin.

How have you promoted your podcast?

I promote 2 Minute Talk Tips at the basic level with the Libsyn destination tools and post each episode to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

I also promote it on my resume, email signature, and through word of mouth. My next step for promotion will be to launch a Facebook page specifically for the show and to (finally) move forward with business cards.

What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?

My thoughts on this topic will change all the time. I do wish I had started about a month earlier than I did. Finally getting everything together and online turned out to be easier than I thought it would be.

I also wish I realized that even though my mixer supports USB, it doesn’t work for recording a Skype conversation to an external recorder on its own. The USB sound card solves that problem.

2 Minute Talk Tips has also reminded me that going out a doing a thing – creating content that can help people is a powerful thing. Especially when between jobs.

So much of our self-worth can be tied up in a job that when the job goes away, it’s easy to get slammed by a cascade of negative emotions.

Creative endeavors, like podcasting, are powerful alternatives to sitting alone in the dark. All of us in the community creating podcasts, are bringing something into the world that wasn’t there before. That helps our listeners and that helps us.

I am grateful for the opportunity each week to help my listeners get a little better at public speaking.

Success does not come from becoming the best orator, podcaster or commentator. It comes from continually improving.

Each week I remind my audience and myself that you don’t have to get best…just get better.

Thanks for reading and for the opportunity to share my thoughts. We are all still at the beginning of this medium. And I can’t help but smile at the future of this industry.

If you are looking to up-level your speaking chops, why not do it 2 minutes at a time? It’s time to subscribe to 2 Minute Talk Tips STAT!

One of the best ways to empower yourself professionally and creatively is to start a podcast! If you are ready, we’d be happy to host your media. If you feel like you’d like to but need a little bit more to get started, we have a FREE Podcasting QuickStart every month!

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August 21, 2017
21 Aug 2017

Rockin’ Libsyn Podcasts: In Her Voice

This series is all about Libsyn’s podcasters. It’s sole purpose is to introduce these awesome podcasts to the world as well as share their podcasting insight to empower the community!

Q & A with Kelly from In Her Voice

When did you start podcasting?

I started my first show in 2013, and I just launched my new show, In Her Voice this past May!

Why did you start podcasting?

I’ve been listening to podcast for years, and I always thought to myself I would love to have my own show.

My main purpose in podcasting is to serve. I am passionate about helping women understand they have everything they need to live a joyful, fulfilling life inside of them right this very minute and it is their inner voice!

The other message I am passionate about sharing is you are worthy RIGHT NOW! Not if or when, but right now.

What’s your show about?

In Her Voice is a podcast about women finding and listening to their true voice and what that has opened up for them in their lives.

It is a place where women tell their stories and we can learn and be inspired by them to go out and find and listen to our own inner voice.

What’s your podcasting set-up? Hardware, software, CMS, etc.

I use a Shure SM58 mic plugged into a Xenyx Mixer and then into my computer via USB.

I record and edit  my solo shows with Audacity, and I just began using Cast for my interview shows and am loving it. And of course, Libsyn is my host and I use a Squarespace website.

How have you promoted your podcast?

I do a lot of promotion on social media (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) but I have really loved connecting with my listeners on a personal level in my private FB group, The Worthy Collective.

I started The Worthy Collective months before my podcast launched and now it is a great place to have deeper conversations about the topics I cover on my show and also to discover what topics I should explore!

What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?

I’m in an interesting place because I just launched a new show 4 years after my first and man has everything changed! Before I was using an RSS feed through my wordpress website in conjunction with Blubrry even though I was hosting on Libsyn!

Elsie opened my eyes to the ease of just using the Libsyn feed and publishing right through there! So MUCH EASIER!! But the biggest lesson is to just start! Start with what you have. Go with your ideas, and learn along the way!

For those of you that are looking to find, recognize or tap into your inner voice, this is the podcast for you! Give it a go and subscribe!

If you’re not ‘quite’ ready to step into the podcast but wanna find out more about this inner voice thing or even get to know Kelly a little better, check her out on Instagram.

If you’re interested in being of service to you community in another way, consider starting a podcast. We would love to help host your media!

In case you need a bit more to start a podcast, check out our FREE Podcasting QuickStart.

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