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[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 advertisement vs content? – Poll
9:15 Dave's Radio Book Insights
[13:10] HD Radio Drives me Nuts
[14:40] Carey defines what he won't work with
[19:40] Dave almost quit doing the podcast review show
[23:10] Long winded guests
[27:10] Editing insights from Cary Green of Podcast Fast Track
[28:40] How do you get more subscribers?
[31:15] iTunes Search is less than stellar, and why you should never use itpc://
[34:05] Learn to use the tools you have.
38:15 People Liked the Journalism 101 with Emily
[39:20] Bernie Won an Award at Podfest.us
[40:55] Have live shows help you grow your audience?
[43:15] Overcast time links, how do you create those?
[46:00] Thanks to our awesome supporters
[47:35] Show Notes Tips – Your Contact Information
[52:10] Poll Results
55:00 Carey's Home Made Shock Mount see video

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 back
28:00 Twitter Went Nuts
35:40 Polling what is the makeup of this audience?
37:20 Acronis backup system
40:40 Changing the Name of a Podcast

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 Patreon Update
33:00 Making Easy to remember Links
35:00 Jim's Skis Are Famous
37:30 Huzza Gets Purchased and Shut Down
39:10 Streaming to Facebook
45:20 Poll Do You Listen to Radio Still?
52:20 Is The LAME Encoder still LAME?

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 YouTuber Vs Podcaster Vs Journalism

27:48 New and Noteworhty Broken? Who Cares!

28:28 Jim is going to Podcast Movement

30:56 Getting the most out of conferences

conferencetopia.com

32:32 How do you get a guitar in a keynote?

37:16 Thank our supporters

38:42 Promoting your podcast - what else can I do?

40:38 Post, Pages, and Players

45:54 Podcast Growth and Stats

47:22 Podcast News Flash on Amazon Echo

49:12 Mic Boom Arms

50:54 How to make your won Amazon Skill for Echo (kind of)

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[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 consumption in your stats (other apps will rise up to replace). Jim fixes the bad search by having a website go right to his item homegadgetgeeks.com which point to his apps
[8:10] Jim thinks The bigger shows will get bigger, and more podcasters will drop out then launch. Dave feel there will be more disdain between indie podcasters and professional podcast networks. Jim feels the people started in 2015, 2016 are going to quit as it is hard to get an audience and hard to sustain a podcast.
[9:45] Jim called it a podcast bubble. Dave predicts a return of “podcasting is dead” type of articles where people who are disgruntled that their show didn’t do well will blame podcasting instead of the fact that their show sucked.
[13:25] Jim thinks Will have less media providers (Soundcloud?) where some people who jumped into media hosting will fall. Dave thinks the record labels and ruin it (it needs to be purchased, or shut down).
[15;15] Dave hopes Feedburner will shut down, but he is saying it won’t be. Netflix Audio? HBO Audio?
[17:45] Dave has done the calculations based on previous years, podcast listeners will go up to 40% (according to Edison research) in 5 years we would be up to 48%
[21:05] Dave thinks more companies are going to put up “Walled gardens” where you have to use THEIR PLATFORM to consume specific shows (and Dave doesn’t think this will work).
[27:35] More Tools For Podcasters – More Microphones? How is the Blue Yeti Getting so Much Press? Hear Dave’s view and demo of Blue Yeti
[30:30] Smaller shows will still “Glenn The Geek It” and smaller advertising resources will close due to lack of Advertisers. Free media hosting companies will close
[32:10] More Noise Than Ever
[32:45] Someone will still name their show with the ON FIRE brand.
[34:15] THANKS TO OUR GROWING LIST OF AWESOME SUPPORTERS
Dave recently posted an episode for supporters only on how to get your most downloaded shows quickly.

[38:30] Patreon is a great solution for Podcasters. Check it out
[39:50] Thins we would like to see. Like Minded Podcasters will start making smaller networks.
[42:00] Jim is going to start using Facebook Live
[44:00] Noodle baby’s First word, and the Podcaster’s Roundtable
[48:55] Amazon Alexa will get tied more into podcasting (beyond TuneIn)
[50:10 ]Dave Plays Old Lang Syne
[51:00 ]Dave closes the show again….

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 Tryca.st or Zencastr? Zoom?

Jim states that Skype is going to change over the next few years, and he would jump ship and find a skype alternative

[11:50] Google Hangouts Where is It?

Google had some things go live even though we weren’t “live”

15:45 Is There a Podcast Station For Mac? Dave Likes Hindeburg Jounralist others suggest Audio Hijack for the Mac, and Twisted Wave. Spreaker Studio

23:05 Why Hosting Companies want you to use their platform to listen. (Dave has been playing with Omnystudio ). The bad news is 80% of downloads come via RSS

[28:45] How Do I Restart a Podcast? Do I Start From Scratch? –

Make Sure You Have a Document Between You and Your Co-Host

33:30 Thanks To our Patrons. You are AWESOME

[36:05] What Forums Should We Use To Promote My Show? – Podcast Promotion – How Do You Market Your Podcast?

iTunes is not a strategy, it is a tool, but it’s not a strategy (either is Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music)

Local Podcasts Could Replace Local Newspapers (This is Rammy Podcast On Podcast Review )

[42:40] Jim Has a Because of My Podcast Story – The Department of Labor Interviewed Me

44:50 Dave’s Northeast Ohio Meetup Group has lead Dave to be on TV

[47:10] Jim gets out and about and gets caught without business cards

[49:20] Who do you use for Business Cards? Dave uses Vista Print

[50:40] Joe Pardo Because of My Podcast I Got a Job

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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 tired of my trying so many different options.

It turned out that smiletime had changed their interface, and in the long run, I'm probably going back to Google Hangouts.

3:10 Adding Subscription Buttons To My Website

6:20 Interview tips?

Dave mentions his interview with Lee Silverstein of the Colon Cancer Podcast

Always send out reminder emails the day of the interview. Dave uses Acuity Scheduling for his bookings

13:22 Dave got a Heil PR40 on Ebay Dave prefers his EV RE320

15:36 Podcast Bingo Plant Trainer's Podcast the chat room found the same thing I did (it was sooooo being read).

21:50 Signing up at Stitcher (there are tutorials on subscribing to the directories at the School of Podcasting)

22:50 Total Restriction To Files and Restricting RSS Feeds

25:12 What's Wrong With Google Hangouts?

26:38 Rejected by iHeart Radio

28:10 YouTube Live is pretty stable

30:34 Doing a Podcast with a Partner

34:55 Zoom.us? Dave loves it and uses it for the SOP

37:14 Thanks to all of our Awesome supporters

38:14 Jason Bryan has a Patron that is paying $100 a month. Tips on using Patreon

39:18 iTune Charts - How Do They Work? (subscribers)

41:16 Playing with Podcast Media Hosts (use the coupon code sopfree to get a free month at Libsyn.com ) Dave is testing Omny Studio even though they don't meet my criteria.

41:55 No Show Next Week

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Dave is flying solo and is using smiletime.com and is using the chat room as his co-host. It's a cool tool for about 20 minutes of the show. Then things go south. It's a free service, and well, sometimes you get what you pay for.

7:25 Firetalk.com pulls one of the dumbest business moves I've ever seen.

10:55 Glen Hebert from horseradionetwrok.com helps Dave kick the tires on Smiletime.com

Glenn is in Florida and had to postpone his show due to Hurricane Michael.

Glenn just celebrate 5000 episodes.

14:50 a non podcasting tip about hiking in the woods

15:20 Podcast Bingo The Stories Podcast http://storiespodcast.com/

19:50 Listen to Dave interview Glen on the School of Podcasting (amazing interview)

21:40 Podertainment magazine See Podertainment

22:35 Put the show number at the beginning helps blind people

25:10 Nugget of Wisdom - Take an improv class - the importance of listening.

26:50 Dave did some acting as a child

28:10 The key to really good interviews

32:35 Repurposing your content - Google Hangout Beef?

36:40 Playing music in your podcast

39:35 Podmatic and Patreon

41:00 Thanks to our awesome supporters go to www.askthepodcastcoach.com/awesome

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43:15 Changing Your Show's Name - iTunes is not a light switch - it takes 24 hours for changes to appear.

45:00 If you put the name of your show in the title of your episode, the podcasts app stops you from being stupid.

46:05 Logo Design for your Artwork. I like Podcastdesigns.com (tell them you're with the School of Podcasting) and there is a new one called Design Crowd which is similar to 99 Designs

49:10 A really bad book about podcasting to get people to sign up a Audible. You can have Audible as sponsor by signing up here



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Firetalk is dead and we’ve moved to huzza.io

[3:50] What does a producer do for the show?

[6:23] What is a typical day like in radio?

[10:50] Any thoughts on keeping your thoughts organized

[13:42] Heilo insights its twitter with audio

[15:50] International Podcast Day

[18:55] Behind the scenes stories of Radio – its chaos

[21:44] Podcast Bingo – A quick sample of a Random Podcast NEJM Podcast

[27:26] Bad Audio vs Good Content – Gary V

[31:40] Thanks to our Awesome Supporters

[33:02] Dave’s domain addiction just cost him some big bucks. Need a domain? Go to Dave’s Godaddy reseller account at www.coolerwebsites.com (the power of Godaddy and you can support Dave at the same time)

[35:18] What does the chat room think of Huzza.io

[36:18] International Podcast Day Grattitude Award insights with Daniel J Lewis of the Audacity to Podcast

[42:08] Audio is important – There are exceptions

[43:00] You never know who is listening – Sting story

[45:30] International Podcast Day insights Pre-roll ads are being dropped

[48:56] What other streaming platforms are people trying

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Today Dave is joined by the host of the Just the Tip podcast Tim Wohlberg.

2:42 Do I Split My Topics into Separate Podcasts? from transmissionspodcast.com

11:19 Update from Podcast Mid Atlantic see askthepodcastcoach.com/mapcom for the virtual ticket

17:27 Nails on a Chalkboard to Tim - You Need to Tease Your Audience

Where do you put the tease? Well a tease is for something that is coming up, so up front and as you go forward.

26:15 Doing a topic over episodes from Kim on onthetablepdocasts.com

31:50 Tim's Because of his podcast?

Thanks to all of our awesome supporters www.askthepodcastcoach.com/awesome

35:10 Dave pulls the perfect reset (as this is a live show)

36:10 You need to keep your Wordpress website and all of your plugins up to date. Sucuri is good if you get hacked.

Be sure to backup your show. Check out Manage WP

39:00 No You can't play music on your show if you don't have the proper liscense and in some cases your episode will be pulled.

42:10 Podcast Legends from Todd Cochrane interview Brian from Coverville

Music For Makers gives a free track a month

Spreaker has a cool deal with a company called Epidemic

45:17 Behind the Scenes of Being on the Radio

50:35 Revisit the multiple episodes telling one long story question

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2:00 Switching hosting at Host Gator, there are so many hosting types. Does it matter? You can get by with shared hosting, if you have the budget go for the Wordpress hosting. Dave has most of his sites on Host Gator, and the School of Podcasting is on WPEngine but he is thinking of moving back to Host Gator.

9:00 Should I start a Daily show?

It is a large time issue, and get a bunch in the can. Make sure to do a bunch, make sure you have enough content and get some feedback from people. If you miss the day when you batch, you've lost a full week.

15:30 Voice over Insights?

For Dave when he narrated his book for musicians, it was much harder than you think it would be. Some people get paid by the number of sales, other get paid a flat fee.

Mentioned http://www.ireadmyspam.com/

Doing Voiceover is not as easy at it sounds

26:12 Ravi's Rant

Ravi the maker of Digital Access Pass and the host of subscribe.fm did an awesome rant on facebook Read it here

32:10 Wow Content Jen from Congressional Dish has almost 10,000 downloads per epsiode with zero promotion

33:58 History of Alcohol Niche Topic Shots of History podcast

35:58 Doing a show in front of a Live group

Jim says don't try to do all the sound effects etc.

43:40 Should I go to Podcast Events?

48:34 How many downloads of your app? Hundreds

53:56 Gallup Marketing Plan with Podcasting

Jim needs to cost justify the existence of the podcast.

coaching.gallup.com

Strengths finder 2.0 Book

Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

59:00 How do I get into iTunes? (See www.schoolofpodcasting.com/27steps )

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1:20 I had a client pose an interesting question to me today: Is there a way to turn off comments/ratings for their podcast on iTunes/Google Play etc? I've never had anyone ask me to do that for their yet to launch show. Has anyone else had a similar experience? -Jennifer Navarrete

It's great to want to get things right, but sometimes people over think things.

FOMO. Fear of missing out.

3:50 Can you be too laid back in podcasting?

7:40 Shutting Down a Podcast - The Real Brian, Dan Patrick, and Pivoting.

11:00 Dave is shutting down the Clammrcast

13:50 Personality is a part of podcasting

15:05 Confusing People make make them listen but not forever (What is Tori Amos talking about???)

17:00 Podcast Review Show Where We Were Lost in Jargon

19:30 Jim's Because of my podcast" story he won an award at Work

22:50 The people who are good make it look easy Valerie Geller. (Beyond Powerful Radio) Valerie's "Never Boring"

Talent Multiplied by Effort is Jim's equation for success

30:24 I think I did this once before when I changed services but I really don't remember how I did it. I currently use Spreaker to host. I'm planning to move my files this weekend to Archive and create an RSS feed through feedburner from a wordpress blog. My question is how do I get iTunes to change the RSS feed that they currently have to the new one so that I don't lose any subscribers? I know that Stitcher was very easy before because I just sent them an email and they did it with no problem but iTunes support is always hard to deal with. -Shawn Wray

archive.org is not meant to be an active media host and feedburner stalls every now and then.

33:50 Mike Dell from on 301 redirect is the best way to move your file.

38:30 What do you define as "Podcast Success"

Mentioned "Congrats on not making the list"

41:40 Cale Nelson started a podcast with his 8 year old son.

44:40 Multiple Mic setup. Do I need a mixer?

48:50 Sound Baffles Daniel J. Lewis spoke about these on his episode

50:30 Podcast Stats From Blubrry and Podcast Players

Mentioned: Simple Podcast Press

56:30 Outro Songs (full) make Dave skip forward.


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[2:40] Live Streaming Discussion

[5:15] Transcripts and Captions

[8:15] Troy Heinritz Blakcklist Exposed Story Continues

[15:55] Podcasting At Work – Keep People Up to Date with Your Numbers

[19:15 ]How do I get the Courage to Jump into Podcasting?

[24:20] Jim Makes the Wall (Dave has his listeners send in pictures of them listening to the show and puts them on the wall behind him)

[25:50] Podcast Reviews (and Dave’s Horrible Kindle Story)

[27:30] How Full is Your Bucket?

[30:24] Jim doesn’t care about Reviews. He measures engagement by emails.

[34:30 ]How do I change the name of my show in iTunes?

[37:34] How do I know the name of my show won’t get me in trouble?

[48:40 ]Are the Messengers Done with their Tour? www.supportthemessengers.com

[53:10] Omnistudio Claiming They Can Get Better Listener Stats From Apple (not true) www.wmediashow.com

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Dave and Jim overcome a hurdle of firetalk.com not recognizing Dave's microphone so prior to this episode there were three "miss-starts". Dave shares a bit about Podcamp Pittsburgh.

4:00 How Can I Grow My Audience Watch Dave's impromptu Presentation at Podcamp Pittsburgh on Growing Your Podcast Audience

10:50 Tighten Up Your Show

12:00 Feedback from Audience that includes ZZZZZZzzzzzz (mentioned spreakerliveshow.com )

20:40 Stop From Repeating Topics

22:20 Jim's Sponsor (lastpass.com) Has Signed up For Another Year.

27:05 Blab.im is Dead and why it died.

36:05 Does Firetalk Record Audio, Video or Both?

37:30 Podfast.us Next February should be a great event.

40:10 Episode Three of the Messengers Podcast. Binge Listen www.themessengersdoc.com/podcast

43:30 Offline Marketing For Your Podcast stickermule.com

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Dave and Jim kick the tires on firetalk.com after leaving blab.im

2:00 Michael is the first one into the pool

3:30 Chris Nesi had issues with askthepodcastcoach.com/live which might've been a cache issue. Chris on the Home Gadget Geek Podcast

08:10 Create great content and ignore the live audience.

08:40 The Grocery store analogy for iTunes.


16:55 People looking for podcast guests - How do you find guests?

24:40 The Messengers Documentary (a podcast documentary) will be here on 8/20 Full Details

27:05 Dave why you do make fun of NPR?

27:45 Podcast Promo swaps. Promoting other shows. Getting mentioned on other shows.

32:20 Craft Beer podcast?

33:45 Podcastpromoswap.com needs work still

37:10 Jim's Audience doesn't like ads, but they will tolerate stickers and patreon. www.stickermule.com

39:55 Want to try Patreon? Check out www.askthepodcastcoach.com/trypatreon

40:15 Links in the Podcasts app.

44:20 Leaning Toward Wisdom www.leaningtwoardwisdom.com

45:30 Sharing Personal stories or using current news stories to make a point in your podcast ( Muhammad Ali Episode)

1:50 Getting Old Sucks

2:20 How Dave's chair ruined his sound. His chair was adjusting knobs when it swiveled.

4:51 A New Microphone From Heil PR 77

6:14 Audition Crashing Problems?

7:51 John is using Cast as a producer and how he is using it to record the shepodcasts.com podcast

12:11 Who should submit the client's podcast to iTunes, you or the client?

13:32 Should I join a network that charges me to join?

18:10 Guests are a no-show and Jim had to go solo

21:26 Traveling with an ATR 2100 ATR2005

24:07 Why Dave Switch to Appointlet for scheduling

25:57 Travel Gear? See bestpodcastinggear.com

29:31 Had a company tell me to change my name, and changing your name discussion.

34:07 Best tools for donating? Patreon allows you to give rewards. There are also cash.com and paypal.com for accepting credit card donations.

40:35 Jim was on http://livestreamuniverse.com/ and Firetalk.com discussion

43:20 Dave is fed up with blab.im

45:05 Blubrry launches advertising partners. jkmagency.com Jessica Kupferman Advertising Help

50:00 Using Affiliates link advertising. Find affiliates at place like Share a Sale shareasale.com

53:00 Patreon Discussion, and Dave makes a Patreon Link

55:30 Become an Awesome Supporter and Get Bonus Content

58:00 Find Jim at www.theaverageguy.tv and find Dave at www.schoolofpodcasting.com

Jim shares about a large summit he went to and almost lost his voice. They both talk about the power of meeting your audience face to face.

3:20 Dave talks about the book Facinate

08:00 How you inspire others to do things they may have thought they couldn't do. Sean Smith the Mobile Pro

10:05 Ringr Quick Review used to record interviews, and Dave talks about Cast.

13:00 Listening to Podcasts over the phone? Pretty horrible.

17:35 Pro Rocker Super Sturdy Desktop Boom Microphone Stand and Headphone Amplifier

22:10 What is one listener worth to you? Listener acquisition costs. What would you pay?

26:10 People Not showing up on Interviews. Dave has switched to Appointlet

28:20 Podcat Movement takes aways?

30:00 Working a Booth - tips from Jim

32:15 Talking with Spotify and iHeart Radio

34:00 Rob Kerns shares a promotional idea. He (looking for vets) and went to an event and whoever had a vet hat on got a business card.

38:00 Mike Dell from Podcast Help Desk (and blubrry employee) talks the new PowerPress Sites (use the coupon code sopfree if you sign up at blubrry.com)

48:00 Starworldwide Networks - a more expensive -less techy way to podcast

50:15 John at Audio Editing Solutions is using Cast where he starts the session and invites Jessica and Elsie in to record Shepodcasts.com and he acts as the producer.

53:45 Podcast Movement Reviews?

1:40 Tip Jars vs Patreon. You can use Paypal, Cash.me/podcastcoach (from square). What percentage will follow you? Some experts say 3% is good.

7:30 Survey of the week Do you listen to podcasts on a website?

8:33 Web hosting solutions? Dave uses Host Gator and WPEngine, Jim likes Maple Grove Partners

9:48 Best way to use an additional microphone with an ipad. Use a Camera Kit and plug an ATR2100 microphone and Bossjock

16:34 IPhone holder for mic stand

18:32 iPad holders? Here is one Here is one with a clamp

21:34 What do you use for a jingle player? Bossjock and iJingle

Lebron you're on live TV.....

25:10 What can you upload to Patreon? mp3 files, wav file m4a

26:44 Private/Protected Feeds. Wishlist member, Podbean, and MyLibsyn (everything goes through an App - use code sopfree), Digital Access Pass

36:38 Kiss My Rss - Thoughts?
42:44 New Libsyn Features Video Walkthrough

51:32 Survey Results

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