Podcasting Smarter

The new business platform for Podbean's Business and Enterprise plans has been released with a new design, features, and support for companies and organizations to manage multiple podcasts and private secure podcasts.
"The motive has been to make this a simple, straightforward user experience so people don't have to know a lot of technology or coding or anything like that."
Welcome to Podcasting Smarter. In today's episode, we'll be talking with our Director of Communications, Shannon Martin, about our new business dashboard. This dashboard is much more streamlined and user-friendly, and we're excited to share it with our business customers. With this new dashboard, you can easily find support options, manage your channels, and customize your organization page. So if you're a business podcaster or part of a podcast network, be sure to check out our new business dashboard. Thanks for listening!
In this episode, you will learn the following:
1. What is Podbean's new business dashboard?
2. What are the features and benefits of the new dashboard?
3. What has the feedback been from users of the new dashboard?

Resources:
Learn more about Podbean's Enterprise and Business solutions that are trusted by industry leaders world wide, read case studies and more. Watch the Full Demo of the New Dashboard Subscribe to our email newsletter to get industry updates: https://www.podbean.com/email-subscribe
Chapter Summaries:
[00:00:01] - Podcasting Smarter is the official podcast from Podbean. It features podcasting interviews, best practices and helpful tips. In today's episode, Podbean's Director of Communications, Shannon Martin and Head of Events, Norma Jean Belenky talk about Podbean's new business dashboard and some of the features and benefits.
[00:00:50] - Podbean has released a new business dashboard for its podcast hosting clients. Business and enterprise plans allow companies and organizations to manage multiple podcasts and internal podcasts that are encrypted and secure. Business plans offers a lot of functionality and the dashboard is much more streamlined and looks really cool. It's for podcasting as a network or using podcasting internally within your company.
[00:02:45] - The new business platform from Podbean has a new design and features. An example is that support has been moved to the top of the page. Live chat support is offered exclusively to Podbean's business plan and is on the main dashboard as well. Each organization can now change the color of their organization page and customize it. Groups with private members can use the grouping function to organize employee podcasts.
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How Podcasting Can Help with Employee Retention: Live Replay with Keynote Speaker, and founder of Futureforth, Dave Delaney

Spilling the Podbeans: Podbean’s mid-year 2022 updates on new features including Closed captions, Group Recordings, Language Settings and more!

The Benefits of Embeddable Players for Internal Podcasting, LMS integration and more!

How to Create a Top Branded Podcast with Chris O’Keeffe from JAR Audio

About us:

Podcast Smarter is the official in-house podcast by Podbean.

Podbean is a podcast publishing and monetization service, hosting almost 620,000 podcasts. If you’re looking to start your own podcast, monetize your podcast and livestream directly to your listeners, you can set up an account at podbean.com

Connect with us:

Subscribe to our email newsletter to get updates from the team head over to: https://www.podbean.com/email-subscribe

Find us on socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podbean
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podbeancom
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0H3hvTa_1_ZwFg6RjGNXGw/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/podbeancom
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/podbean
Website: https://podcast.podbean.com/ Email us: To contact Podcasting Smarter with questions get in contact at [email protected]

On this episode of Podcasting Smarter, we get into some exciting updates on directories from Podbean specifically for iHeart and Samsung Free.

We're speaking to Podbean's Director of Customer Success, John Kiernan, about making sure your podcast is available everywhere it can be discovered through multiple podcast directories.

In this episode we'll cover:

• What single-click submission is and how you can easily add your podcast to podcast directories
• Podbean's new single-click iHeartRadio podcast directory integration
• Podbean's new single-click Samsung Free podcast directory integration
• Why listing your podcast on multiple directories can increase your podcast audience and listenership
• Podbean's complete resources for submitting your podcast to directories

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Podcast Smarter is the official in-house podcast by Podbean.

Podbean is a podcast publishing and monetization service, hosting almost 600,000 podcasts. If you’re looking to start your own podcast, monetize your podcast and livestream directly to your listeners, you can set up an account at podbean.com

To contact Podcasting Smarter with questions get in contact at [email protected]

On this episode of Podcasting Smarter, Shannon Martin discusses the importance of email newsletters for promoting your podcast and shares best practices for creating a successful newsletter strategy.
You will learn how to use email newsletters to promote your podcast and keep your listeners engaged.
Shannon Martin is the Director of Communications until recently and has been writing email newsletters for over 10 years.

Email newsletters are important for podcast promotion because they provide a way to communicate with listeners that is more reliable than social media. What makes a great email newsletter includes a clear subject line, interesting content, and a call to action. The benefits of an email newsletter for your podcast include the ability to expand upon the topics covered in your podcast and to build a community around your podcast.

"Podcasting is so intimate, you really want to have that voice shine through in the newsletter in this case."
In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. The importance of email newsletters for podcasters in maintaining and growing their audience base.

2. The benefits of an email newsletter for podcast promotion, including increasing awareness and providing value-added content.

3. The elements of a great email newsletter, including an attention-grabbing subject line, clear and concise content, and a strong call to action.

Resources:
Learn more about Podbean's Enterprise and Business solutions that are trusted by industry leaders world wide, read case studies and more. Subscribe to our email newsletter to get industry updates: https://www.podbean.com/email-subscribe

Sign up for all of Podbean's Free Live Events here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/podbeancom-31329492977

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

1. Podcast Directories: The Importance of Podcast Directories & Updates from Podbean on Single-Click submissions for iHeartRadio and Samsung Free

2. How to Create a Podcasting Business and Audience Growth Hacks with Adam Adams of the Podcast on Podcasting

3. Building Your Podcast From the Ground Up, the value of community, defining success for your podcast and creating meaningful podcasting industry relationships: LIVE REPLAY

About us:

Podcast Smarter is the official in-house podcast by Podbean.

Podbean is a podcast publishing and monetization service, hosting almost 620,000 podcasts. If you’re looking to start your own podcast, monetize your podcast and livestream directly to your listeners, you can set up an account at podbean.com

Connect with us:

Subscribe to our email newsletter to get updates from the team head over to: https://www.podbean.com/email-subscribe

Find us on socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podbean
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podbeancom
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0H3hvTa_1_ZwFg6RjGNXGw/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/podbeancom
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/podbean
Website: https://podcast.podbean.com/ Email us: To contact Podcasting Smarter with questions get in contact at [email protected]

In this episode of Podcasting Smarter we're sharing an interview from Podbean's Corporate Podcasting Smarter series.

Podbean's Head of Events, Norma Jean Belenky speaks with Marc Raco, an award winning podcast and content producer, host and cofounder of MouthMedia. Marc and Norma Jean discuss how branded audio and podcasting make an emotional impact and how to utilize storytelling to convey brand values and get results!

We'll also cover..

• The benefits of podcasting over print
• How podcasting creates a positive impact on employees and employee culture
• Meeting the "Mission of the Moment" with your audio strategy
• Targeting specific audiences with branded podcasts
• Podcast formats and how to choose the best format for your brand's message
• Audio cues and training your audiences ear
• How podcasting and podcast clips are used within a greater social media strategy
• Using podcasting for business development
• The secondary impact of having great guests on your show
• And more!

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Corporate Podcast Smarter is an official in-house podcast by Podbean.

Learn more about Podbean's Enterprise and Business solutions that are trusted by industry leaders world wide, read case studies and more.

In this episode of Podcasting Smarter, we're "Spilling the Podbeans" and sharing all of the new features and updates from Podbean so far as we reach mid-year of 2022!

We're speaking to Podbean's Director of Communications, Shannon Martin, about all of the updates we can share including..

• New podcast website premium themes
• Podbean's optimized video player
• The newest version of the Podbean App (and to make sure you download the latest version to the Podbean App!)
• Ad management in now visible in within your podcast dashboard
• We now support group recording on the Podbean App
• We now support Dutch language within your podcast dashboard
• You can now export the media URLs of episodes within your podcast statistics
• Closed Captions have been added
• Within Sweden and Germany you can now see more granular statistics about where your audience comes from

To subscribe to our email newsletter to get updates from the team head over to: https://www.podbean.com/email-subscribe

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Podcast Smarter is the official in-house podcast by Podbean.

Podbean is a podcast publishing and monetization service, hosting almost 600,000 podcasts. If you’re looking to start your own podcast, monetize your podcast and livestream directly to your listeners, you can set up an account at podbean.com

To contact Podcasting Smarter with questions get in contact at [email protected]

To subscribe to our email newsletter to get updates from the team head over to: https://www.podbean.com/email-subscribe