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149 Podcast Answer Man – Stats Vs Influence

Cliff Ravenscraft — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:28:27 +0000

Stats Vs Influence

In this episode, I talk about the following items:
- iTunes Listing Rankings
- Stats v/s Attention & Influence
- Voice Memo Recordings from the iPhone
- My Future Equipment Sales

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EQUIPMENT SALES: Please consider purchasing from me when making your next purchase for audio gear to improve the sound of your podcast. Email me at Cliff@Ravenscraft.org or call me at 859-757-1399.

PODCAST CONSULTING: I’m also available for one on one podcast consulting. Whether you want someone to get everything set up for you or you just need a little help along the way, I’d love to work with you. I’m able to demonstrate using screen sharing technology during our call which makes it just like I was there sitting next to you at the computer. If you are interested, email me at Cliff@Ravenscraft.org or call me at 859-757-1399.

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148 Podcast Answer Man – Bringing In Telephone Calls To Your Podcast

Cliff Ravenscraft — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:21:39 +0000

Bringing Telephone Calls Into Your Podcast

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In this episode, cliff shares four different options for bringing in telephone calls into your podcast. If you are interested in the JK Audio Broadcast Host option mentioned, click here for more information on this piece of equipment.

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147 Podcast Answer Man – A Perfect Phone Interview And More

Cliff Ravenscraft — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:14:02 +0000

147 Podcast Answer Man – A Perfect Phone Interview And More

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In this episode, cliff covers the following items:
# Story of A Perfect Phone Interview
# My Session at Podcamp Nashville 2010
# BlueHost is now my Preferred Web Host
# The danger of assuming that people listen the way we do
# More on using Compressor/Limiter/Gate with Skype
# Are there legal considerations to starting a Fan Podcast?

Links Mentioned In This Episode
http://gspn.tv/perfectinterview
http://podcastanswerman.com/pcn10 (My Podcamp Nashville Session)
http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/bluehostlink (My Blue Host Affiliate Link)

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146 Podcast Answer Man – Commitment To Your Community, Stats, And More

Cliff Ravenscraft — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:53:38 +0000

146 Podcast Answer Man – Commitment To Your Community, Stats, And More

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In this episode, cliff covers the following items:
# Commitments To Your Community
# How do you set up a Compressor/Limiter/Gate?
# Google Buzz
# Media Hosting for your mp3 files
# Podcast Stats
# Edirol R-09HR Firmware update
# Update on Webinar Products

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145 Podcast Answer Man – How To Get People To Leave Feedback

daviddoak — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:27:27 +0000

145 Podcast Answer Man – How To Get People To Leave Feedback

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In this episode, cliff covers the following items:
Podcamp At Sea
Podcamp Nashville
When To Launch Additional Podcasts
What Forum Software Do I Prefer?
Playing audio from the same computer you are recording to.
How do you get people to start leaving feedback for your show?

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144 Podcast Answer Man – Interviews – Recording Procedures v/s Post Production Workflows – Multiple Podcasts On One WordPress Site – And How To Come Up With Consistent Relevent Content.

daviddoak — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:45:01 +0000

144 Podcast Answer Man – Interviews – Recording Procedures v/s Post Production Workflows – Multiple Podcasts On One WordPress Site – And How To Come Up With Consistent Relevent Content.

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In this episode, I cover the following topics:

My Thoughts on Interviews
The concept of Recording Procedures v/s Post Production Workflows
Thoughts on doing multiple podcasts on a single WordPress site
And How To Come Up With Consistent Relevent Content

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143 Podcast Answer Man – Android Apps & Processing Gear

daviddoak — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:54:42 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 143
Podcast Answer Man – Android Apps & Processing Gear

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In this episode,James called in to tell us that he has found that, using http://www.artisteer.com, you can actually create your own WordPress theme using a visual editor.

Brad West called to ask three questions. He wanted to know why I use hardware for EQ & Compressor/Limiter/Gate in the studio rather than doing processing in software. He asked for my thoughts on building an audience before launching a podcast. He also asked my thoughts on having multiple Twitter accounts.

Steve called in an shared some thoughts on available Android Podcasting Apps.

Dave called to ask for my thoughts on which podcast directories you should be sure to list your podcast in.

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142 Podcast Answer Man – What Is A Podcast? And More

daviddoak — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:55:28 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 142
Hosting, Engaging Your Audience, Audio Quality, And More

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In this episode, I shared how Dr. Thomas Lamar, of Spinal Column Radio, has done an amazing job providing a teaching tool for his audience, explain what a podcast is and how you the benefits of subscribing to the podcast feed. I encourage everyone to take a look at his What Is A Podcast Page.

Next, Jonathan Nation send in an audio question about why I have such a long email signature and who effective has it been. Click Here To See My Email Signature.

I also shared a short interview with Howard Sheppard who just launched a brand new podcast called Life Beyond The Assembly Line. I felt that the difference in audio quality between episode 1 and episode 2 was so drastic, that it would be great to get him onto the show to talk about what he changed to get that better sound. The interview has the added value of getting an insights from a brand new podcaster whose podcasting with a passion and a purpose.

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141 Podcast Answer Man – Hosting, Engaging Your Audience, Audio Quality, And More

daviddoak — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:07:59 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 141
Hosting, Engaging Your Audience, Audio Quality, And More

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In this episode you will hear the following information:

I take a call from Dave Dufour where he asks a few questions about hosting your podcast on your own v/s hosting with a network.

Next, Eirk Fisher called in to ask me what I am using in Adobe Audition to generate some of the same results of what I used to get when I was using Levelator.

Next, Brent Green called in to ask what are my suggestions for engaging your audience.

Then I took one final call from Gordon Firemark who shared some thoughts about the problem of Paralysis by Analysts and suggested that people just need to get out there and do something. During his call, he said “Pretty Good is More Than Enough” and “Quantity beats quality every single time.” While I totally agree that people need to forget about PERFECTION when starting and that Pretty Good is “good enough” to get started. I would argue that “pretty good” is NOT “MORE THAN ENOUGH.” I don’t want to discourage anyone from getting started. But good enough is just “good enough” which is “enough” to get started. Listen to the podcast for more details.

At the end of the show, I announce that I’m launch a Podcast Answer Man BootCamp Webinar Series.
Here is the schedule. For more details, email me at Cliff@Ravenscraft.org
Saturday, Jan 9th 12Noon Behind The Scenes of How I do Premium Membership
Tuesday, Jan 19th 8:30pm Adobe Audition, Why & How I Use It.
Tuesday, Jan 26th 8:30pm Audacity 101
Saturday, Jan 23rd 12Noon WordPress For Podcasting – A Demo Of How I Set It Up
Saturday, Jan 30th 12Noon How I Use Social Media To Build My Brand & Build Community
Satruday, Feb 6th Garageband for Podcasting 101
Saturday, Feb 13th 100 Point Inspection!

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140 Podcast Answer Man – Interview With Dan Miller – Author of 48 Days To The Work You Love And No More Mondays

Cliff Ravenscraft — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:21:49 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 140
Dan Miller Interview – Author of 48 Days To The Work You Love

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I started podcasting as a hobby four years ago, on December 16th, 2005. Over the course of the first two years, it became a dream of mine to do podcasting full-time as my career. Two years ago, on January 1st, 2008, I took the bold step of leaving my 11 year career in insurance, making $87,000 per year, to make my dream a reality.

I’m going to post some important links below in just a moment. However, right now, I want to tell you how yet another dream has been made a reality. You see, when I started my business, I had NO IDEA what I was doing. I had never had any formal business training. I had no clue about how to deal with accounting, taxes, unemployment insurance, etc. It was all very overwhelming to me and I had a great deal of anxiety about how to make the work I love to do pay the bills.

I’m so thankful that I had purchased the books “48 Days To The Work You Love” and “No More Mondays” by Dan Miller. These two books, and Dan’s Podcast changed my outlook on everything!

I hope that you enjoy the interview with Dan nearly as much as I enjoyed the opportunity to have this conversation with him. Here are the links that I mentioned in the episode:

http://gspn.tv/passion – This link will take you to Pursuing A Balanced Life Episode 425 titled “Follow Your Passion And The Money Will Follow.” I hope that you’ll find this episode inspirational as I share just how far our business has come in under two years.

http://gspn.tv/passion2 – This link will take you to Family From The Heart episode 88 titled “Difficult Decisions.” This episode is like a sequel to the episode mentioned previously. In this episode, my wife joined me as we shared the reality of just how difficult things were in that first year of doing our own business.

http://gspn.tv/48-Days – This link will take you to a special page that I created where I have all the episodes that I recorded as my audio review of the book 48 Days To The Work You Love. In fact, when I listen back to these episodes, I’m amazed at just how much my mindset about what I do has changed.

Again, I hope that you find this episode enjoyable. Please leave your feedback in the comments section below or call my voice mail feedback hotline at 859-795-4067.

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139 Podacst Answer Man – What To Do When Your Podcast Becomes An Infomercial

Cliff Ravenscraft — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:48:28 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 139
What To Do When Your Podcast Becomes An Infomercial

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I recently received an email from a long time listener who suggested that he was contemplating unsubscribing from the Podcast Answer Man podcast and he provided his thoughts on why this was. In his email, he suggested that with the number of subscribers that I have to this podcast, that I might not even notice the loss of a single subscriber.

If you are interested in hearing what reasons he gave as to why he had considered dumping the show and moving on and/or my response to whether or not I am concerned about the loss of a single, long time subscriber of my podcast, then you need to listen to this episode.

This episode is an example of what I think should be done in the event your podcast ends up sounding like an ongoing infomercial for your brand, products, and/or services.

Of course, I also shared an “anonymous” comment left on a previous episode of Podcast Answer Man. It’s amazing how different my reaction is to “concerned listener” as it is to “Charley’s” email. I did an episode while back titled “Handling Critical Feedback” (Episode 106)

Finally, somewhere in this episode, I asked for your thoughts on what Leo Laporte announced on his blog recently. Basically, even though his network has generated 2.5 Million dollars in revenue, he’s suggesting that there is still a role for donations in his network and he plans to allow these donations to be what actually pays his personal income from the network. Click Here To Read His Blog Entry. Share your thoughts in the comment section below or by calling our voice mail feedback hotline at 859-795-4067

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138 Podcast Answer Man – Crushing It

Cliff Ravenscraft — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:50:44 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 138
Crushing It

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In this episode, I pretty much bounce all over the place. The main theme of this episode is how excited I am about the content found in Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book titled “Crush It.”

During the conversation, I mentioned these links:

http://gspn.tv/pablchallenge
http://gspn.tv/passion
http://podcastanswerman.com/criticalfeedback

I wrapped up the show with a few other topics such as competition among podcasters and why I decided to make a change to the release schedule for the shows that I record on Thursdays.

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137 Podcast Answer Man – Broacast Host Vs Telos One Digital Hybrid

Cliff Ravenscraft — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:21:20 +0000

Yet Another Video Episode

Podcast Answer Man Episode 137
Broadcast Host v/s Telos One

I break out my Kodak Zi8 once again to bring you this very brief episode with my thoughts of how the JK Audio Broadcast Host compares to the Telos One Digital Hybrid (Both of which are available for purchase through me).

Here’s the video:

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136 Podcast Answer Man – Interview With Grammar Girl

Cliff Ravenscraft — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:52:32 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 136
Interview With Mignon Fogarty

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Last night, my wife and I had the opportunity to discuss podcasting as a career with Mignon Fogarty, also known as Grammar Girl. Mignon is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips.

This opportunity came about due to the fact that Mignon was going to be in Cincinnati for a book signing related to her new book “The Grammar Devotional.” Her first book, “Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing” achieved enough success that she made it on the New York Times Best Seller List.

We were very excited when the message came in from Mignon saying that she had remembered that we’re in the Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky area and that she’d love to meet us for dinner.

In this episode, we invite you to sit down at the restaurant with us as we discuss how podcasting was the catalyst for her published books, an appearance on the Oprah show (clip1 – clip2), and a life altering decision to go into podcasting as a full-time career.

Important highlights from the interview include:

Mignon started with an original podcast that took her as much as 20 hours a week to produce. She later made a decision to do something different, even though her original podcast had even won awards.

Mignon “fell into it (podcasting as a career).” It started out just as a hobby that she did in her free time.

There is a discussion that demonstrates the role of passion and enthusiasm about the topic(s) you podcast about. She mentions that she listens to a sports podcast because of their passion and enthusiasm, not because she loves sports.

It became a business when she got some publicity that led her to writing a book. However, the book would have never happened had it not been for the podcast.

Mignon says that she makes about as much money from podcasting as she did as a technical writer. She was a pretty successful technical writer. We both agree that we, as people who have found a way to turn podcasting into a career, are an anomaly and that there is no real formula for “being discovered” and making it work. Mignon shares about who invested in her podcast network and a little bit about how that is all managed.

We talked briefly about the ability to have a positive impact on the lives of others through your podcasting and the importance of picking the right format and being focused on consistency.

I hope that you enjoy the conversation with Mignon.

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135 Podcast Answer Man – Will Affiliate Advertising Boost Your Credibility?

Cliff Ravenscraft — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000

Podcast Answer Man Episode 135
Will Affiliate Advertising Increase Your Credibility?

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In this episode, I share my thoughts on the question of whether or not having affiliate marketing is a good way to build credibility during the initial growth phase of your podcast. I share my thoughts of “Calling In Favors” from your audience. I also took a few other calls as well.

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