Episodes
May 13, 2017
When Things Change in Your Podcast
Send us feedback/questions via Text Happy Star Wars Day - Mark Hamil has never won an oscar. 5:27 Mixlr Changes their pricing 10:50 Would You Be interested in a banner exchange for podcasters? Take the Poll 20:40 Your First Podcast and Changing Formats 30:20 Podcasting for Free is it possible? 38:0…
May 5, 2017
Patreon Strategies and Ugly Babies
Send us feedback/questions via Text Ask the Podcast coach features Podcast Consultant Dave Jackson from the School of Podcasting and "The Coaches Coach" Jim Collison from the Average Guy Network. This week we talk about: 2:10 Patreon as a sponsorship tool 7:16 Affiliate links as ads (see shareasale…
April 22, 2017
Your Podcast Official Launch - Growing Your Podcast Audience
Send us feedback/questions via Text What kind of things can you edit if a show goes, "long"? If you start a question with, "I probably shouldn't " (you're probably right) Are T-shirts a good way to grow your audience? We play a little Podcast Rodeo with the Manly Dad Want a full review? Check out w…
April 15, 2017
Indie vs Pro Podcaster or Content Creators
Send us feedback/questions via Text You can get free podcast consulting by joining Dave Jackson and Jim Collison as they bring their years of experience help you get your podcast questions answered: Today we mention Steve Martin's Master Class 5:50 Is it unfair that shows like stown have a large te…
April 14, 2017
How Do You Get a Sponsor
Send us feedback/questions via Text 3:50 Podcast Rodeo form radioyo.fm (you can be featured on iTune - not a typo) Dave likes abovecast.com for "radio streaming" 7:50 Using Linkedin on your podcast 10:10 Stitcher or Google Play? 11:20 Jim (and Dave) use bufferapp.com 12:30 Embed codes for players 1…
April 7, 2017
How Long Does it Take to Build Your Audience?
Send us feedback/questions via Text The Messengers Documentary Premier Stories 7:35 Auphonic Saves the day 9:15 Google Translations 12:10 Podcast Chapters 17:30 How Long Does it take to build an audience? 20:25 When do you say, I have an audience? 22:44 Podhero Information Gathering 26:00 When half…
March 30, 2017
Awkward Co-Hosting Situations
Send us feedback/questions via Text 1:30 Where do You listen to Podcasts? (take the poll) 3:10 Cool Stories From Radio - Ways to Grow your Audience - T-shirts at an event 5:15 Lengths of Podcasting See article 10:00 How do you stop being boring? 13:10 What is Good content? 18:10 Podcasts hosts need…
March 17, 2017
How Many Ads Can You Tolerate?
Send us feedback/questions via Text Dave Jackson of the School of Podcast is joined by Carey Green of Podcast Fast Track to answer your podcast questions live. 1:20 Carey and Dave have known each other a while - we were promo buddies 3:10 Carey and Podcast Fast Track 4:30 what's a good ratio for ad…
March 10, 2017
Serious Video Podcasting
Send us feedback/questions via Text Today Dave Jackson is at Podfest in Florida and Jim is in the driver's seat and Mike Howard is filling in. Mike does some serious video for his podcast, and today we dig in deep into his gear. 5:00 Check your self for Cancer 6:35 Mike's Video setup 9:20 hosting v…
March 2, 2017
Practice, Editing, and Backups
Send us feedback/questions via Text LEaving Zoom WEbinar 4:00 How any podcasts do you listen to? 5:00 Behind the Scenes of Dave's Closing Keynote at Podfest.us 7:00 When in doubt practice and cut stuff loose 10:15 Behind the Scenes of my Local Podcasting Episode 11:35 Corey from Ivy Envy had his au…
Feb. 17, 2017
You Don't Need $1500 To Start a Podcast
Send us feedback/questions via Text Moving to YouTube Live? 7:00 Would you podcast Live? 11:50 Launching a Podcast - You Do Not Need 1,500 19:45 What do you pay for that you don't use? 24:15 Hindeburg Journalist is on Sale (the sale is over Tunrtable Losing Fire 26:55 Patreon was down - but its bac…
Feb. 10, 2017
Your Podcast Questions Answered
Send us feedback/questions via Text cast Network Gone Bad 11:55 Media hosting is like the Electric Company 15:30 Getting back into iTunes after you get removed. 18:55 Battling Bad Audio Last week 19:45 Jim's Inner Show Roundtbale 22:30 Loundness Units 26:05 Tips for Setting volume levels 30:05 Patr…
Feb. 3, 2017
Should I Join a Podcast Network?
Send us feedback/questions via Text 2:00 Test stuff Bluehost is awful 6:30 Daves typical Day 6:54 Should I join a network? 10:27 Making a book out of my show and sell them. 13:40 What Makes a Podcast Explicit? 16:08 The Messengers Podcast had to Go Explicit on their last episode themessengerspodcas…
Jan. 27, 2017
Patreon Best Practices
Send us feedback/questions via Text 3:00 How do I know people are listening 5:10 Don't ask for help in Facebook if you haven't gone through the proper channels. 7:40 SOund is still not good 8:40 Podbean and their directory 10:45 Bluehost is crap 13:15 PAtreon Best Practices 21:35 Making the Phone S…
Jan. 20, 2017
Rob Greelee Joins to Talk Spreaker Ad Revenue Beta
Send us feedback/questions via Text We somewhat break format today to have Rob Greenlee join us to talk about the new Ad Revenue Sharing that is happening on the Spreaker platform (you can get a free month at Spreaker using the coupon code sopfree). Keep in Mind This is a Beta Test It only works in…
Jan. 13, 2017
YouTuber Vs Podcaster Vs Journalism
Send us feedback/questions via Text 2:00 Apple is looking for a podcast producer thanks to Emil from thestorybehind.com 5:58 Searchability and Discovery is going to be tough 7:55 Toast Talk Podcast Bingo 14:26 Recording a Roundtable 16:32 Turning Down interviews - Doing what you do best 21:28 YouTu…
Jan. 6, 2017
2017 Podcast Predictions - Happy New Year
Send us feedback/questions via Text Dave shares some insight on the Radio City Music Hall Rockets 2017 Podcast Predictions 1:40 Jim thinks Facebook live will lead to people tuning out of live streams (Dave agrees there will be a ton of noise). 4:45 Dave thinks Apple will go to less than 50% of cons…
Dec. 30, 2016
The First Five Minutes of Your Podcast
Send us feedback/questions via Text Should you podcast through the holidays? 4:00 Staying consistent to be consistent 4:40 Dave talks about his Trip to Florida to hang out with Glenn the Geek of the Horse Radio Network Glenn runs his show like a business. Dave was super impressed with his STANDING …
Dec. 24, 2016
Changing the Name of Your Show
Send us feedback/questions via Text 2:25 Free Resources for Podcasters? www.podcastingresources.com 3:35 Advertising Networks are coming out of the woodwork. 6:05 Feedback - You have to check the email that you give out. 8:15 Live "radio streaming station" Dave uses Abovecast.com 9:25 You need to s…
Dec. 9, 2016
Is It Rude To Ask Someone About Their Podcast Stats?
Send us feedback/questions via Text 2:10 Jimmy Fallon does a podcast skit. The cool part is he didn't have to explain what a podcast is. 6:20 Dave shares that he's testing getting his podcast on the Amazon platform (he hasn't been approved.) 7:50 Is it Rude to ask how many downloads you get? 17:40 …
Dec. 2, 2016
Post Black Friday Reflections
Send us feedback/questions via Text 1:30 Reverse Engineering Things We Watch on TV 6:20 Free Podcast Hosting From pippa.io 9:00 Advertisecast.com "partners" with podomatic. We don't need more podcasts, for these to flourish, they need advertiser Chris Nesi from houseofedtech.com share some insights…
Nov. 25, 2016
Wordpress Security and Backup
Send us feedback/questions via Text 1:40 iTunes Reviews Take Too Long to Show Up - Issues (To Track Your Own Reviews, Check out My Podcast Reviews 6:14 New and Noteworthy is a Waste of Time 9:22 Podcasting Burnout 13:48 How do you define success with your podcast? 19:44 What is the Best Platform to…
Nov. 18, 2016
Why Do We Keep Using Skype?
Send us feedback/questions via Text This was recorded on 11-12-16 Dave an Jim are back in their respective studios. Happy Veterans day to all of our veterans. 2:15 DC Podfest reflections - I'm a Digital Influencer, Amolto Skype Recorder and Free Skype Recorder 6:20 Why Do We use Skype? Why not Tryc…
Nov. 12, 2016
Put Some Energy Into It
Send us feedback/questions via Text Got a question? Call it in 888-563-3228 Dave flies solo today and decides to give Smiletime.com one more try. Some people had some issues getting smiletime on their phone so you will hear me mention mixlr. I received some feedback from people saying they are tire…