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140: How to gain huge compound interest-like benefits from your podcast

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You want to know how to compound the impact of your podcast over time

Need help devising a strategy for your show that will work

Are looking for motivation and method to your madness

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139: Make Bank: Invite Your Ideal Customer To A Podcast Interview

You’ll benefit from listening to this episode if you...

You offer a product or service that requires relationship building and marketing

The power of relationships is not lost on you, and you know how to make the most of them

You don't like the obsession with download numbers and want to find another way

It's more important to you to build ongoing relationships than it is to draw a crowd

You want to short-cut the marketing process and get right into sales

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138: How To Record An Interview Podcast In High Quality Audio: Squadcast

Get your free 7 day trial of Squadcast at https://Squadcast.fm OR if you use my affiliate link here you can say “thanks” to me for making the introduction.

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Way back when I started podcasting — it was 2013 or so — I recognized very quickly that whoever could solve the problem of recording conversations over a distance and do so with high quality audio, would have a leg up on everyone else.

I’m glad to know the two guys who did it. On this episode I walk through Squadcast (affiliate link) with co-founders Rock Felder and Zach Moreno. We dig into the tech they created that makes the app work so well, how they solved for quality and reliability, and even go step by step through the features and how the platform works.

You’ll also get to hear what’s coming down the pike that goes WAY beyond recording an interview podcast in audio - High Def Video recording through the same platform. It’s Squadcast, folks. Learn about it on this episode.

[2:10] Experience on the Google Chrome team that translates DIRECTLY into this app

[8:55] Why Skype-type audio recordings are NOT the best quality

[11:45] How the Squadcast team addressed quality and reliability in distance recordings

[14:22] The tech details of what these guys did to address distance recording issues

[21:08] My Squadcast walk-through with Zach and Rock explaining it to me

[29:04] Lots of choices for the host to get better audio for them and guests

[41:18] Squadcast pricing: from a 7 day free trial to huge networks

[46:10] High quality VIDEO is on the way!   

Resources mentioned during this conversation

Edison Research Infinite Dial Report 2020

Connect with the Squadcast team

On Twitter: @SquadCastFM

Follow on LinkedIn

Check out the Squadcast YouTube Channel

Audio drift on podcast interview recordings is a thing of the past

You know what I’m talking about, right? You get the audio from your online recording platform, toss it into your audio editing software (DAW) and discover that it isn’t synced. So you spend tons of time trying to connect the dots and make it sound normal.

That shouldn’t happen. It’s called “audio drift” and one of the most PAINFUL parts of using any distance recording solution (when it happens). The Squadcast guys (Zach and Rock) KNEW it was an issue and took the time to figure it out. Don’t you love people who just figure it out?

If you decide to try out Squadcast you’re doing to discover that audio drift is no more. Really, NO. MORE.

The best way to control the audio quality of interview guests

It’s pretty typical for a podcast host to have great audio. She’s the one who’s invested a bit of dough in the right equipment and who has learned how to record effectively. But the guest… now that’s a different story entirely.

It’s just as typical for the guest’s audio to atrocious. They don’t understand audio, don’t know what to do to get good recordings, and don’t always see why it’s important. So what can a host do?

Number one: Help them get good audio the moment they come onto the recording platform. Zach and Rock over at Squadcast.fm got a suggestion from podcast guru Harry Duran (Podcast Junkies) that they should built out a way for the host to see the status of the guest’s audio setup — What mic are they using? What bandwidth do they have on their internet connection? And that was a BRILLIANT idea, Harry. Why? Because the host — the one who knows about how to get good audio — can now peek through the keyhole at the guest’s setup to help them tweak it into a reasonably good-sounding audio track. Listen to this episode. Rock and Zach explain how it works.

What if I told you that high quality distance video recording is almost here?

It’s currently late August, 2020. The guys at Squadcast.fm are ALMOST done putting together one of the most in-demand apps I can think of. It’s the ability to not only record stellar audio for podcasts, but to also do it with stellar quality video footage at the same time.

Podcasters who have been limping along with Skype and Zoom call recording solutions are about to get a treat. When this thing comes put it’s going to have the same commitment to quality and reliability behind it that the audio app has had all along. And it’s going to be VIDEO.

Watch out YouTube. A whole lot of podcasters are about to be creating channels. 

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137: The World’s FIRST Growth Focused Podcast Hosting Company?

Podcast hosting companies are multiplying more than rabbits these days. Each one believes that THEY have what podcasters really need — and have no problem telling you so.

I have no beef with that. If you believe in your service or product, you SHOULD be telling everyone it can help, that it can help them. But most of them don’t impress me very much.

One of the newcomers in the last few years that I AM impressed by is Captivate (affiliate link). I started one of my 5 podcasts on the Captivate service just to try it out and I have enjoyed the way they handle things so much, I plan on moving some of my other shows over to them. 

Listen to his conversation with Captivate co-Founder Mark Asquith to hear about all the bells, whistles, and cool stuff the Captivate team has baked into their podcast hosting platform.

[2:40] How Mark Asquith’s blonde highlights led him into the entrepreneurial life

[6:36] The “figure it out” mindset Mark has adopted, and he didn’t even know it

[10:52] Why Mark came to believe that communication is a sellable skill

[19:30] Mark’s first venture into podcasting in 2013 - about DC Comics

[25:30] The many podcast related services Mark’s company provides

[29:15] What Mark and his team saw missing in the podcast hosting world

[34:01] Features found in the Captivate platform - in detail and with specific questions  

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136: Jessica Kupferman: Helping Women Podcasters Everywhere

Find the full show notes for this episode at https://PodcastFastTrack.com/136

  Connect with Jessica at: https://www.shepodcasts.com/

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135: The Best Monetization Strategy: Niche Podcasting, with Ashley Hodge

Find the complete show notes for this episode at https://PodcastFastTrack.com/135 

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Sometimes I think of podcasting as “The Great Equalizer.” Why would I say that? Because no longer do giant media conglomerates have exclusive power to decide who gets to broadcast a message or not. We the people get to publish whatever we want to publish. That’s cool. That’s an overall WIN in my book.

Ashley Hodge is a perfect example of that reality in action. He’s a self-confessed “academic slacker” who slept through class during his High School years, only interested in playing basketball. Once he hit college, he chose the school he did only because there were cute girls there and a decent football program. Wow. Now THAT is some high ideals, huh?

But once he grew up a little bit Ashley realized that he’d been given a tremendous opportunity. He could choose what to do with his life and how to educate himself to accomplish it. So he got busy.

In this episode, Ashley shares how he got started as a financial planner, eventually hosted a call-in radio show, and one day made the pivot into podcasting – which has proven to be one of the BEST content marketing channels in his arsenal, consistently leading new listeners to become new clients, which means new (and more) revenue.

Reach out to Ashley

https://AshleyHodge.com

Whole Life Stewardship Podcast

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134: The Story Behind The Story Behind, with Emily Prokop

You’ll benefit from listening to this episode if you...

>> Are eager to know what podcasting is and how it can benefit you personally

>> Love hearing stories of everyday people who make a life for themselves they never dreamed possible

>> Might want to start a podcast of your own someday

>> Long to make genuine connections online

>> Are trying to find "your people"

>> Need a good podcast editor to take on your next podcast project

>> Wonder if you could make a living as a podcast editor

  https://PodcastFastTrack.com 

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133: Everyday Guy Takes Action Through Podcasting - Scott Voelker

Find out everything about Scott at https://TheAmazingSeller.com

Get the PODCAST OPTIMIZER email series at https://PodcastFastTrack.com 

Music used in this episode:

"Shaving Mirror" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Rock Your World" from https://Audionautix.com (Jason Shaw)

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132: How Would An Economic Downturn Impact Podcasting? Industry Leaders Speak Out

https://PodcastFastTrack.com - my production company

Mark Asquith - https://www.markasquith.com/ 

My affiliate link to Captivate - the Media Host Mark works with

Mark's website company - https://PodcastWebsites.com 

Heather Osgood's company - True Native Media

Daniel J. Lewis - https://TheAudacityToPodcast.com 

Rob & Elsie serve the podcast community as part of the great team at Libsyn (use the code "PFT" to get up to 1 1/2 months of - this IS an affiliate relationship I have with Libsyn)

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131: Podcast listener intent is a thing - and it can tell you how to create powerful content

Contact me for podcast consulting

Check out our new narrative service - Narrativly

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130: Podcast Audio - Get it right for the sake of your listeners

RESOURCES I MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE

The sheet I send to guests for my podcast.

Samson Q2U Microphone

ATR 2005 Microphone

ATR 2100 Microphone

A decent headset microphone

The LAV mic I mentioned (it sounds pretty amazing)

Blue Yeti Microphone

GRAPHIC: The IMAGE of how to use the Blue Yeti

Rode Procaster Mic

GRAPHIC: My same-room Multi-Microphone setup graphic (to help you avoid vocal bleed)

  GET YOUR DISCOUNTED PODCAST AUDIT - Email: Carey(at)PodcastFastTrack.com - mention this episode

Get 15% off of your audio production or show notes service with PODCAST FAST TRACK by mentioning this episode.

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The Puppy Punching Episode

https://PodcastFastTrack.com 

Connect with me at

carey@podcastfasttrack.com 

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128 : The Future of Podcasting - And What Indie Podcasters Should Do About It 

Full show notes: https://PodcastFastTrack.com/128 

I have no crystal ball - but I work with enough podcasters week in and week out to know something about the future of podcasting. I’m a smart enough guy to see the writing on the wall, so to speak - and I want you to be in the know about what I see coming.

This episode of Podcastification is a quick explanation of the near horizon of podcasting. I’m going to take back a bit to understand how podcasting has changed, then look at what’s happening around us right now (it has to do with big dollars entering the podcast-o-sphere) - and why that matters for us as Indie podcasters. 

I wrap up giving you TWO big things to think about and take action around in order to ensure that the future of podcasting has a place for you.

What you’ll hear on this episode

[1:20] Why I am qualified to talk about the future of podcasting

[2:04] A brief summary of the history of podcasting (and why it matters)

[4:26] Big dollar organizations make the competition we face much harder

[11:02] Why there will always be a market for niche podcasts

[12:30] Why fans matter more than subscribers and growth of downloads

[14:34] STEP ONE: What does your audience consider valuable?

[19:23] STEP TWO: Reconsider your METHOD of podcast production

[20:50] The practical ways you can find out what your audience thinks is valuable

[21:20] Practical ways you can amp up your podcast production and format

Connect with me…

Carey(AT)PodcastFastTrack.com

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BONUS: How I'll be Podcastificating you in the future

Learn what's been going on behind the scenes and what you should expect from this podcast going forward!

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127: PS-Darla Powell - From Cop to Podcasting Interior Designer

Contact: www.PodcastFastTrack.com/contact 

Here’s how this one shakes out...

PART ONE

[0:04] Do you remember the pivotal time we call “high school graduation?”

[5:38] Growing up in Florida and loving the creative side of life - YET she became a cop

[8:30] Darla was forced to rethink the path she was on after 18 years

[10:05] The first interior design gig - and a new path forward opened up

[13:06] Questions to ask to help you find a new business opportunity

MIDROLL FEATURE

[19:44] The story behind this narrative style of podcast production

PART TWO

[24:01] What makes Darla so good at social media (her tips for you)

[26:07] Podcasters - be yourself!

[29:58] How podcasting enables the incredible results it does

[36:28] Darla’s tips for podcasters and those considering becoming a podcaster

If you know someone whose story would make a great PODCASTER STORY episode, feel free to make that introduction.

Resources and links mentioned

Darla’s Wingnut Social Services and Podcast

Darla Powell Interiors - and my favorite “Miami Office With A Twist”

My Nick Loper Podcaster Story episode

Darla/Wingnut on Instagram: @DarlaPowellInteriors

A Life Well Designed Podcast

Architectural Digest Feature: Designers Share 12 of Their Favorite Podcasts

One article featuring Darla in Designers Today Magazine

Business of Home Magazine - featuring Darlas thoughts on social media outsourcing

Abbi McCullom episode on Wingnut Social

Nick Loper: Side Hustle Nation

Jonathan Messinger’s podcast: The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian

Audionautix.com

The songs “Fife and Drum” and “Shaving Mirror” Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

My narrative interview production house: Narrativly

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126: The Death of iTunes (May it rest in peace)

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How to use Audio Equalization (EQ) to make your podcast sound better

So... I'm scrambling to get things done, produce this podcast, and continue to oversee a thriving business - so sometimes you just can't do it all.

I want to publish to this podcast feed more - and lo and behold, I notice I have this episode with the amazing Chris Curran already recorded but not published.

WHAT WAS I THINKING? (I wasn't).

So... here it is. You'll find Chris' tips helpful beyond measure. At least I did.

You can get in on Chris' "Podcast Engineering School" by using my affiliate link here.

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