- Private podcasts are an incredible way
to reach your audience that doesn't have time
to watch long videos but they can consume audio on the go.
In this video, I'm gonna show you how to create
a private podcast step-by-step using only your smartphone.
All right, let's get into it.
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All right, my name is Jerry Potter,
and yes, it rhymes with the boy wizard.
And in this video, I'm gonna show you
how to create a private podcast
using just your smartphone and no other equipment.
And by the way, I'm gonna show you how to do this
on Android phones or iPhones.
So either one, you'll be able to do this without a problem.
And while you can do this with just a smartphone
I do recommend using a microphone, if you have one,
even if it's just the headset that came with your phone,
and if you decide you wanna upgrade
to a better microphone that works with your phone
I link to the one I use in the description of this video.
Also, try and record in a space
that doesn't have a lot of echo,
starting with any room with carpet
is better than any room with flooring
but if you really wanna make the sound as good as possible
maybe try recording into a closet
that has lots of clothes around, or even in your car.
When it comes to recording, if you have an Android phone,
Google actually makes a great app called Recorder.
Great name, right?
You can download it for free in the Google Play Store
and you can use this to record your audio.
Now, while the Recorder app
does have some really basic editing functions built in,
do your best to be prepared
and try not to require too many edits
because this app is made primarily for recording
and not so much for big, complicated edits.
Now on iPhone, you can actually just use the Voice Memos app
that comes pre-installed with your phone.
And it works really, really well.
Once you've got your recording the way you want it
on Android phones in the Recorder app,
you're gonna long press on the recording
and then click the share icon,
choose Google Drive or another app to save your file.
For iPhone, click the three dots and scroll to save to files
near the bottom of the menu that appears
Choose where you'd like to save it on your phone,
then hit save at the top right when you're ready.
Now, once your audio file's all set
you're gonna upload it to your podcast's host.
If you already have a podcast host, great,
there's tons of great ones out there.
In this video, I'm gonna be showing you using Hello Audio
which is the podcast host I use for my private podcast
that I have for my members
in my Streamliners Club Coaching Program.
So that's what you'll see
but I'm sure most of them are quite similar.
I will say, though, one of the reasons
that I really like Hello Audio and went with it
is because they'll actually let you upload
an audio or a video file.
So let's say you already recorded a video
on your phone or elsewhere, or you did a Facebook live.
You made a YouTube video, whatever it might be.
You can just upload that and it'll take the audio
and make it your private podcast.
Some of the other hosts that I looked into
you actually had to convert it first to a WAV or an MP3 file
or some other audio format before they would
actually let you upload it to become your private podcast.
Once you saved your podcast,
you wanna open your web browser on your phone,
Safari, Chrome, whatever you're using
and go to your podcast hosts website.
So for Hello Audio, it's app.helloaudio.fm.
And if you haven't already created a podcast,
in the first place I've got a separate tutorial
about how to do that step-by-step.
And I've linked to that in the description of this video.
But in this case, I'm gonna go ahead
and select the podcast that I want to upload this file to.
Then I'm gonna scroll down
until I see this section and it might look different
if you're using different software
but then I'm gonna choose a file
because I can't drag and drop here
because this is on my phone
but I'm gonna choose a file
and it's gonna say, do I wanna upload from my photo library,
take a video, or choose files?
And this is by the way on an iPhone,
'cause that's what I use primarily.
I'm gonna say choose files
'cause that's where we showed saving it on the iPhone.
Navigate to wherever you saved it,
and then there it is, New Recording 164.
So I tapped on that and it's uploading.
I'm gonna scroll down here to the very bottom.
This podcast, actually, has a lot of episodes in it.
And so there it is, New Recording 164,
you can see it there.
I'm gonna tap on it to edit it.
I'm gonna give it a title,
so by default it has the file name's title.
So I'll just say, This is an Awesome Interview.
Then I'm gonna scroll down, I can add show notes if I want.
And by the way I realize we're typing these on a phone
which can be, you know, show notes can be long, right?
And so you could just put anything you want in there
or even leave them blank,
and then later you could open up Hello Audio
on your computer and type with a full keyboard,
if you want to add more show notes in later.
And then when you're ready, hit that publish episode
down there at the bottom and your podcast will be live.
If you're not quite ready, you can just hit save and return
that button just above that,
and that'll just save it.
You can come back and finish editing it
or publish it whenever you want to.
All right, so now your private podcast is out there.
Let me show you what it looks like when somebody subscribes
because the amazing thing about private podcasts is,
not only are they relatively simple
for us who are creating them, but it's super simple
for even non-tech people to subscribe on their phone.
Now here's what it looks like when somebody gets
the invitation to your private podcast,
at least using Hello Audio, which I'm using for this demo.
But basically they'll get an email and you can see here
that it says subscribe to my private podcast Shhhhhhh...,
which is what I called it when we were setting this up,
and then down below there's all of these links
that are specific to podcast apps.
So their favorite podcast app may be here
or they can just copy what's called the RSS Feed
if they're a little more advanced,
but for most people, it's gonna be Apple Podcasts
or Google Podcasts.
So I just tap Apple Podcasts, and since I have an iPhone
it's gonna automatically open it up in Apple Podcasts,
and it's gonna say, add a show by URL and then I hit follow
or your listener hits follow.
And then there it goes, it shows up.
So that's it.
That's all they have to do to add it on their end,
and that's how simple this is
even if somebody's not tech savvy.
As long as they're a podcast listener,
they should be able to subscribe to your private podcast.
All right, ready to create your private podcast
using your smartphone.
Make sure you choose your podcast host carefully.
There are tons of 'em out there
and they all have the basic functions.
But as I mentioned, some of them,
like Hello Audio that I showed you
allows you to upload a video file
which was really important to me.
So just make sure it does whatever you want it to do.
If you do decide you wanna try Hello Audio
you can go to usehelloaudio.com
and they have a completely free trial,
no credit card required or anything like that.
So you can use the whole thing
and see how it works and see if it's a good fit for you.
And again, you can go to usehelloaudio.com.
And, of course, you can also find a clickable version
of that link in the description of this video.
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