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Transcript:
Okay. The big question. How to start a podcast in this very short audio, I'm going to be going through the six steps you have to get, right. If you're going to start a podcast, but firstly, let's try to understand why you should be starting a podcast. Whenever I try to understand a complex question like that.
I look at what the really intelligent people are doing, and there's really intelligent people working at apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon, of course. And so all of these companies are investing in the podcasting space. Apple obviously have just rebranded or refresh apple podcasts. They also have invested very heavily in AirPods.
Google have refreshed Google podcasts and Google podcast manager. Recently, Spotify are focusing heavily on podcasts, buying up loads of companies and et cetera. Amazon has also obviously developed the Alexa, which is podcast compatible and have recently introduced podcasts to Amazon music. So we look at all these really, really intelligent people that the reason why you should start a podcast, but now let's get into the actual like process of starting a podcast.
Step one, you have to develop a plan. And by that, I mean, why do you want to start a podcast? How much do you want to start a podcast? Because it's going to be hard. It's going to be a long road, but if you. Adhere to the principles in this audio, you are very likely to succeed. And so once you understand that you then have to define what if the topic what's the big idea?
What if the reason for this podcast existing? Next we move on to who are the listeners, who is the perfect, you're going to the person you're going to add value to. If you don't do that, if you don't find someone who you're going to add value to, you're not going to have a successful podcast. You have to build an audience.
Whether you want to use the podcast for networking or not, you need to have an audience. If you're going to thrive in the world of podcasting. Next let's talking. Talk about naming. It needs to be concise. Insert relevant keywords. If you can make it easy on the tongue, keep it simple and look out for rhyme and alliteration opportunities.
Cause that's that helps people. Ashley. Remember your show? Here's some examples of other podcasts on beat cast. Sales ops demystified. So this, uh, no alliteration, but it includes that core word, mobile growth and pancakes is a little bit different than some mobile growth show shine. A podcast by star is simple.
It's short. It clearly shows the audience what the podcast is going to be about and then be more a podcast by pecan. This is a name which have aspirational. So once you have the name, you then need to move on to how you're going to describe the podcast. Uh, what is the two sentences that will very clearly show you exactly or show the, listen to exactly what the podcast is about and why they should listen.
You, then you have to choose the categories because we're going to be putting that into apple. Then you need to define the format. So is this going to be an interview show? It's going to be a monologue podcast. Is this going to be a co-host a podcast or is this going to be a story-based podcast? How long the FAA is going to be?
The most common length of a podcast episode is up to 30 minutes or 34% up to an hour is about 23%. Up to 15 minutes is 24. So shoot for between 15 and 30, you then need to define how often you're going to publish the answer to this question is always. At the greatest frequency you possibly can whilst maintaining the quality.
So if you want to do this podcasting thing, well, you need to be banging out regular, regular content, but it has to be good if you can't do good content weekly, do it by weekly. If you can't do good content biweekly. And that's all the prep you need to do for the show. Next let's talk about equipment. So what equipment do we need to, uh, to record?
There's really three core things. We need a microphone. We recommend the blue Yeti link will be below. You need headphones. We recommend the audio Technica headphones. Again, link will be below, and then you need a pop filter. These are three things. After that, we need some software. We need zoom. If you're going to be recording with guests and we need audacity.
If you're going to be recording on your own, if you're doing both of those, I'm actually recommend using both. So you record on zoom to get the guests audio, and you record on audacity free software link below to get your a local recording, which will be higher quality. Next of course, we need someone to host these audio files.
I may be biased, but we've spent two years building what we believe to be the best podcast ho...
Blog post with the full six steps and examples: https://www.bcast.fm/blog/how-to-start-a-podcast
Transcript:
Okay. The big question. How to start a podcast in this very short audio, I'm going to be going through the six steps you have to get, right. If you're going to start a podcast, but firstly, let's try to understand why you should be starting a podcast. Whenever I try to understand a complex question like that.
I look at what the really intelligent people are doing, and there's really intelligent people working at apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon, of course. And so all of these companies are investing in the podcasting space. Apple obviously have just rebranded or refresh apple podcasts. They also have invested very heavily in AirPods.
Google have refreshed Google podcasts and Google podcast manager. Recently, Spotify are focusing heavily on podcasts, buying up loads of companies and et cetera. Amazon has also obviously developed the Alexa, which is podcast compatible and have recently introduced podcasts to Amazon music. So we look at all these really, really intelligent people that the reason why you should start a podcast, but now let's get into the actual like process of starting a podcast.
Step one, you have to develop a plan. And by that, I mean, why do you want to start a podcast? How much do you want to start a podcast? Because it's going to be hard. It's going to be a long road, but if you. Adhere to the principles in this audio, you are very likely to succeed. And so once you understand that you then have to define what if the topic what's the big idea?
What if the reason for this podcast existing? Next we move on to who are the listeners, who is the perfect, you're going to the person you're going to add value to. If you don't do that, if you don't find someone who you're going to add value to, you're not going to have a successful podcast. You have to build an audience.
Whether you want to use the podcast for networking or not, you need to have an audience. If you're going to thrive in the world of podcasting. Next let's talking. Talk about naming. It needs to be concise. Insert relevant keywords. If you can make it easy on the tongue, keep it simple and look out for rhyme and alliteration opportunities.
Cause that's that helps people. Ashley. Remember your show? Here's some examples of other podcasts on beat cast. Sales ops demystified. So this, uh, no alliteration, but it includes that core word, mobile growth and pancakes is a little bit different than some mobile growth show shine. A podcast by star is simple.
It's short. It clearly shows the audience what the podcast is going to be about and then be more a podcast by pecan. This is a name which have aspirational. So once you have the name, you then need to move on to how you're going to describe the podcast. Uh, what is the two sentences that will very clearly show you exactly or show the, listen to exactly what the podcast is about and why they should listen.
You, then you have to choose the categories because we're going to be putting that into apple. Then you need to define the format. So is this going to be an interview show? It's going to be a monologue podcast. Is this going to be a co-host a podcast or is this going to be a story-based podcast? How long the FAA is going to be?
The most common length of a podcast episode is up to 30 minutes or 34% up to an hour is about 23%. Up to 15 minutes is 24. So shoot for between 15 and 30, you then need to define how often you're going to publish the answer to this question is always. At the greatest frequency you possibly can whilst maintaining the quality.
So if you want to do this podcasting thing, well, you need to be banging out regular, regular content, but it has to be good if you can't do good content weekly, do it by weekly. If you can't do good content biweekly. And that's all the prep you need to do for the show. Next let's talk about equipment. So what equipment do we need to, uh, to record?
There's really three core things. We need a microphone. We recommend the blue Yeti link will be below. You need headphones. We recommend the audio Technica headphones. Again, link will be below, and then you need a pop filter. These are three things. After that, we need some software. We need zoom. If you're going to be recording with guests and we need audacity.
If you're going to be recording on your own, if you're doing both of those, I'm actually recommend using both. So you record on zoom to get the guests audio, and you record on audacity free software link below to get your a local recording, which will be higher quality. Next of course, we need someone to host these audio files.
I may be biased, but we've spent two years building what we believe to be the best podcast ho...
05/25/21 • 7 min
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