Show #48: Insider’s Podcasting Secrets: 10 Things Every Podcaster Should Know

Welcome to listeners from Feedburner! Today's edition of the Trafcom News Podcast is being featured on the Feedburner site.

This 16-minute podcast offers up tips that include: creating intimacy with your audience, finding the sweet spot on your microphone, and promoting your podcast.

You can download the show right here or subscribe through iTunes.

Here are the show notes:
00:01 Intro and welcome
01:51 Tip #1: Content trumps technology every time
03:54 Tip #2: Building intimacy with your audience by using the word YOU
04:55 Tip #3: Not ready to commit? Publish a podcast series; FeedCycle makes it easy
06:00 Tip #4: Find your microphone’s sweet spot; refer to Trafcom News 46, the interview with voiceover artist Joe Cipriano and also to the Apple Podcast Recipe tutorial
07:35 Tip #5: Level your sound using the Levelator
09:01 Tip #6: Cut the cough
10:35 Tip #7: Always work with uncompressed files
11:06 Tip #8: Be a consistent tagger; importance of ID3 tags; Donna uses ID3 Editor
12:12 Tip #9: Remember to do show notes; Google loves shownotes; Podzinger will search audio files
13:45 Tip #10: Promote, promote, promote; the next edition of the Trafcom News Podcast will focus on podcast promotion
15:08 Where to send comments: email to trafcom AT gmail.com, call the comment line at 206-338-4200 or post a message to the Trafcom News Podcast blog

Look for the Trafcom News Podcast on Blubrry.com
Theme music is “Beneath Your Surface” by the Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet from the Podsafe Music Network

Comments

[Dr. Ginger Campbell]

I enjoyed your Feedburner Podcast.

Although I just got into podcasting, I have always enjoyed writing.

I am subscribing through iTunes, so that I can hear more of your ideas.

[Donna Papacosta]

Thanks for the comment -- and for subscribing!