greetings earthlings today we're gonna go through the process of setting up a podcast in 11 steps
step 1 determine what you want your podcast to be about now you need to make sure what you're
talking about is something you enjoy and make sure not to pander so do you really enjoy pizza
do you really like coffee do you really like root beer do you really like punk music do you really
like metal music just find something that you're actually passionate about and you would be willing
to talk about if nobody was listening because when you start out nobody is gonna be listening and it
can be disheartening the second step come up with a format for your podcast so you could just go out
and listen to a bunch of other podcasts and copy their format or you could listen to competing
podcasts and determine what you don't like about their podcast or ways that you would improve the
structure of what they're talking about step 3 is one of the most difficult for me and it
is coming up with a name for your podcast now the name should have something to do with what you're
talking about in the podcast and it should also be a searchable term in pod capture so when I
launched my first podcast it was titled podcast egde and that is a terrible name for a podcast
because when you search that in iTunes guess what shows up everybody's podcast because podcast is
in everybody's name so think about that when you're coming up with the name for your podcast
and before you settle on your name make sure your domain is available make sure the social
media accounts are available but mainly search the pod catchers to make sure no other podcasts exist
with the name that you came up with number four if you're gonna have a co-host on your podcast make
sure you draw up some kind of contract to lay out and determine how you're gonna handle any
potential income from the podcast number five it's time to pick out your gear now and I personally
would recommend a dynamic cardioid microphone for podcasters some relatively cheap and great options
would be something like the Sampson Q to you the audio-technica ATR 2100 USB the eight she 2005 USB
or anything along those lines step number six now at this point I think it would be very beneficial
for you to record a couple of episodes not only is this gonna help you by giving you an initial
backlog of episodes in case you get bogged down and busy and can't record but it's also
gonna help you determine how long it takes to edit process and get the final episode ready which will
ultimately help you determine what your release schedule should be and on the note of release
schedules just try something reasonable at the start maybe do one per week or one every couple
of weeks then once you get better and quicker at editing and getting the final product ready at
that point you can consider upping the release schedule and getting more frequent number seven
and I think this is insanely important because this is going to be the first impression that
people have of your podcast get your graphic design done now if you have a working knowledge
of Photoshop and you feel comfortable with it go ahead and make your own design I personally know
I am god-awful at graphic design so I just hire people so don't be afraid to pay for this because
it is a really important aspect of your podcast step number eight go ahead and set up your social
media accounts your Twitter's your Facebook's your snapchats your instagrams your whatever the Dan
kids are using these days but I would only suggest setting up the social media accounts that you can
keep up with because in my experience there's nothing worse than tracking down your favorite
podcast and the only thing in the feed are Auto posts from libsyn or blueberry step number nine
go ahead and set up your URL buy your hosting set up your RSS feed do all of that stuff and
then it's time to submit your podcast to iTunes and any other podcast directories that you want
for your hosting and RSS feeds you can actually do one-stop shopping with some place like libsyn or
pop bean they have plans starting as low as $5 a month they'll host your mp3 your RSS feed and with
Lipson you can even get a custom URL through them so in order to submit your RSS feed you have to
open up iTunes then you go to the store you enter the podcast section and in the right-hand menu you
select to submit a podcast this then takes you to the Apple podcast connect page you set up an Apple
ID here and then you're gonna go ahead and sign in then in the upper left hand corner you click the
plus button to add your podcast you input your RSS feed URL and select validate and if everything is
good your podcast will be submitted and available in the iTunes Store within about 48 hours and if
there's something wrong just fix whatever the error message is say an attempt to revalidate it
step number 10 it is time to launch your podcast that is right you are there your podcast is now
out there for the world to listen to in the world to judge and stay on schedule and step
number 11 is to go and promote your podcast now I don't mean go out and spam a bunch of communities
saying hey I just lost my podcast listen to me what I mean is to become an active and valuable
community member in whatever niche you're in do you do a guitar podcast go ahead and join a
guitar community and interact with people and if they ever ask you what you do that's when you say
hey I do a podcast this is what it is just don't spam that will get you hated by everybody and in
case that wasn't enough for you I got a couple of bonus steps for you so bonus step number one
listen to every single episode that you record and release and find at least one thing that you
want to improve on the next iteration of your podcast that ensures that your podcast never
gets stale for you and that you're always getting better with every single episode and bonus step
number two listen to podcasts about podcasting because there is so much useful information
there I personally subscribe to better podcasting podcasters Roundtable and the audacity of podcast
and I highly recommend all of those alright guys I guess that's gonna do it for today if you found
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