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Quick Episode Summary:

  • Intro :07
  • Audio Rockin’ Libsyn Podcast: The Strokecast 2:22
  • How you can be featured by Libsyn! 7:30
  • PROMO 1: Another Retro Gaming Podcast 9:01
  • Elsie and Rob Conversation 9:27
    • Feature stills from films and copyright material
    • More info on podcast title stuffing
    • What exactly is explicit?
    • Beasley Media Group unveils new podcast captains! And we have something to say
    • Marriage advice for podcasters looking to invest on podcasting gear
    • PROMO 2: Screw The Commute 37:44
    • When you go a bit over with title keywords
    • Questions about social media marketing of your podcast
    • A new podcasting patent involving speed podcasting
    • Worst email(s) of the week
    • Where have you been?
    • PROMO 3: The Working Mother’s Mentor 1:03:18
    • Stats, stats, stats: the most popular categories in Spotify, what percentage of stats come from Spotify for the most popular shows, what schedule do most podcasters have

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August 27, 2018
27 Aug 2018

Rockin’ Libsyn Podcasts: Screw The Commute

This series is all about Libsyn’s podcasters. Its 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 Tom from Screw The Commute

When did you start podcasting?

I started podcasting about five months ago, but I didn’t “Go Live” until about one month ago.

In four months, I got about 50 episodes “in the can”.

I did this so I could totally concentrate on going on a podcast tour being interviewed on other people’s podcasts. I didn’t want to have to worry about having episodes ready to go.

I could have gone on a regular broadcast media tour. The reason I didn’t was because I figured only a fraction of the listeners on regular radio would be avid podcast listeners.

I don’t really know how big that fraction is on broadcast media, but I was darn sure that someone that heard me on a podcast knows how to listen to podcasts and likes doing so.

Why did you start podcasting?

It’s another marketing avenue for my business. With podcast listenership increasing rapidly and with many new cars being able to play podcasts it seemed like a good move.

To make the podcast profitable I don’t need nearly as many listeners and downloads as someone using sponsorship as their revenue model.

I have a large number of products so one of my products is the sponsor for each episode. Also, many of my guests have products and some provide me with an affiliate link I can put in my show notes as an additional revenue stream.

What’s the name of your show and what is it about?

“Screw the Commute” is based on the fact I have never had a job since a few in high school and early in college. I.e. I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life.

I was even doing entrepreneurial things when I was about 10 years old.

Starting with nothing I owned five apartment buildings and a hotel before graduating college. I started selling things on the commercial Internet when it began circa 1994 and by the year 2000 I was an Internet multimillionaire.

If you saw my resume, I admit it looks like B.S. You’d ask, “How can one person have done so many things?” The answer is, “If you aren’t commuting to work, you can almost live an additional life.”

On “Screw the Commute Mondays” I do a complete training session for the listeners on various topics that have made me lots of money.

On Wednesdays and Fridays, I interview other successful entrepreneurs who each have inspiring stories of living their lifestyle businesses and how they created them.

Every episode is full of good tips to help someone start a business, or take the one they have to the next level.

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

  • iMac
  • Adobe Audition CC 2018 Recording/Editing Software
  • Yamaha MG12XU Mixing Board
  • Zoom H5 Digital Recorder (Backup)
  • Zoom H4N Digital Recorder (2nd Backup)
  • ISK Headphones
  • DBX 266 XS Compressor/Limiter/Noise Gate
  • MXL V67GS Studio Edition Condenser Microphone
  • Sterling PH1 Phantom Power Supply
  • Furman Merit Series Power Conditioner

How have you promoted your podcast?

I developed a launch team of 278 people by emailing my subscriber list.

At launch day only about 80 or so came through, but I’m still shaming the others to step up and subscribe LOL.

I’m on a podcast tour doing interviews. I’ve done some Facebook ads. We put all the recordings over still shots and made a YouTube channel. My social media person puts each episode on all our social media.

I plan on trying some ads on Spotify and Outcast. (Which I learned about from “The Feed”)

Prior to launching, I did a webinar showing newbies how to subscribe and listen to podcasts and used my podcast as the model on the webinar.

I’m having business cards and postcards made up featuring the podcast.

I’m thinking about having a big window decal made for my vehicles. Next to my logo I’ll put “Honk if You Hate Traffic” LOL

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

I wish I wouldn’t have wasted tons of time and money getting everything hooked up on a Windows 10 laptop.

WHAT A COSTLY NIGHTMARE! I got so disgusted, I went out and bought a used iMac and everything worked perfectly on the first try.

Other than that, I’m so new at this I don’t even know what I wish I had known. One thing I do know is that I’m just a kindergartner in this field and there are many superstar, podcasting PhD’s (like the people running this blog and “The Feed”) that are willing to help.

Fortunately, I can always improve and learn and as busy as I am, I’m taking the time every day to learn from the masters and hopefully I’ll keep improving until one day I can be a master podcaster myself. An old coalminer friend of mine once told me, “The schoolhouse door is always open.” …

…Well, gotta run. I hear the bell ringing and I don’t want to be late for my first-grade class 🙂

Anybody looking for way to screw the commute? Well, this is the podcast for you! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts

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August 20, 2018
20 Aug 2018

Rockin’ Libsyn Podcasts: Keep It Juicy

This series is all about Libsyn’s podcasters. Its 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 Keep It Juicy

When did you start podcasting?

October 25, 2017

Why did you start podcasting?

I had thought about doing a column on this topic (how to stay “juicy” even after 50) but the local newspaper wasn’t biting.

Thought about turning it into a blog when my husband said, “No one reads anymore. Why don’t you do something juicy yourself and learn how to podcast?”

What’s the name of your show about and what is it about?

Keep it Juicy! – a 30-minute interview podcast where I talk to experts about how to live a juicy life – experts in relationships, finance, health and sex, all kinds of things! The content is aimed at those over 50, but I am often surprised by people under 50 who say they listen in.

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

I record with Cast (used to use Zencastr but had too many heartbreaking tech glitches) and I’m still looking for the perfect setup.

I use a Plantronic headset and mic combo plugged into my laptop. My website and CMS and newsletter are all on godaddy because I LOVE their tech help, and I also have a blog on WordPress.

I edit in GarageBand and then send off to Auphonic for sweetening because life’s too short to do that stuff myself. The sweetened product goes to Libsyn.

How have you promoted your podcast?

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, word of mouth, newsletter with extra guest content, creating social media messages to make it easy for guests to promote themselves.

I used Buffer to load a week’s worth of social media at a time so I don’t have to think about anything during the week but maybe retweeting guests.

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

You should create a brand that encapsulates ALL of your passion projects and not just the podcast because YOU are the brand – I’ve taken to alternating the interview episodes with mini-episodes where I just talk.

Those mini-episodes are a brand extension of my personal lifestyle blog Stilettos Not Required. I’m trying to tie them all together and the alternating format gives me a break from frantically searching for weekly guests as well as introducing my blog following to my podcast and vice versa.

I also wish I knew how SLOW audience buildup would be for this.

I read somewhere (maybe Elsie?) that 9 months is kind of a magical number for the tipping point, but I think mine is a slower build because it’s so broad.

Had I just stuck to Charleston, SC, where I live, I would have more listeners and sponsors as well. Because my interview subjects are from all over (one even from Barcelona!) I don’t have the tight focus of one city, but nor do I have the numbers that would generate national sponsorship.

So I have to content myself with knowing that people are now asking ME to be on the show and that, every week, I am getting blog followers I’ve never met.

If you are over 50 or you are simply someone that wants to keep your life juicy, what are you waiting for? This is the podcast for you! Subscribe!

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