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Dave Jackson has been helping people launch podcasts since 2005 and every Saturday he is joined by Jim Collison to is runs the Average Guy Network. Together they have 20 years of podcasting experience and coaching.

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Is It Rude To Ask Someone About Their Podcast Stats? Dec 09, 2016

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2:10 Jimmy Fallon does a podcast skit. The cool part is he didn't have to explain what a podcast is.

6:20 Dave shares that he's testing getting his podcast on the Amazon platform (he hasn't been approved.)

7:50 Is it Rude to ask how many downloads you get?

17:40 Podcast Engagement - Sponsors That Fit

20:45 How much to charge for sponsorship (Jessica Kupferman Interview)

29:25 Do stats go down around the holidays?

32:40 Podcasting Myths

35:10 Dan Carlin Breaks all the Podcast Rules and Tops the Charts

40:45 How do you record a bunch of people playing a game

in a room and get a good recording?

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Post Black Friday Reflections Dec 02, 2016

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1:30 Reverse Engineering Things We Watch on TV

6:20 Free Podcast Hosting From pippa.io

9:00 Advertisecast.com "partners" with podomatic. We don't need more podcasts, for these to flourish, they need advertiser

Chris Nesi from houseofedtech.com share some insights on pippa.io (this idea has been tried multiple times in the past (free hosting powered by sponsorship) and it hasn't worked - podango.com anyone?)

15:30 Common Podcast Questions

18:15 Dave has a sleepless night that inspires his new Alexacast.com all about using an Amazon Echo / Dot

24:35 Black Friday Deals? and the

27:30 Fear of Missing out FOMO

podcastingdeals.com is a website from Daniel J Lewis who lets you know of any deals that are going on.

30:20 Be Ready with Your Elevator Pitch - Google Home Salesperson Provides the Worst Demo Ever

32:50 Kit.com pretty cool website for affiliate marketers

Mentioned Easy AZON

38:35 Releasing Episodes over the holidays?

42:05 Do you need a network to be successful?

45:50 Thanks To our AWESOME Supporters. Become A Supporter Today

48:30 Recording Templates

50:00 Getting Your Podcast on Spotify

53:20 Apps, and Making Your Own. Mobimatic lets you make your own App

56:05 Libsyn VS Spreaker Stats. Spreaker has a new CMS

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Wordpress Security and Backup Nov 25, 2016

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1:40 iTunes Reviews Take Too Long to Show Up - Issues (To Track Your Own Reviews, Check out My Podcast Reviews

6:14 New and Noteworthy is a Waste of Time

9:22 Podcasting Burnout

13:48 How do you define success with your podcast?

19:44 What is the Best Platform to Sell your Podcast?

Patreon
Gumroad

Then you can earn affiliate income using links from places like Shareasale.com

22:38 Security and Backups

iThemes Security

Wordfence

Updraft (for backups) - Jim Uses

Manage wp (for backups) - Dave Uses

For cleaning up Malware, Dave used Sucuri

Jim uses Maplegrove Partners as his web host

Cooler Websites Offer Malware Removal and Protection on the Wordpress Installation (ultimate package)

39:20 Thanks to our AWESOME PATRONS!

40:05 Do NOT play in Podcastsconnect.apple.com as you can really mess up your feed from one place to another.

Best practice is to use a permanent 301 redirect
2nd Best use the iTunes NewFeed Tag

43:50 Podcast Bingo: The Story Behind http://thestorybehindpodcast.com/

48:40 Blue Yeti Microphone - Does it Suck? Dave Purchased One (it does not work with a mixer, so the ATR2100 is a better choice). Check out Dave's Podcaster Kits

52:30 What Are You Thankful For?

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Randy Cantrell from Leaning Toward Wisdom on Home Gadget Geeks (listen)

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Why Do We Keep Using Skype? Nov 18, 2016

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This was recorded on 11-12-16

Dave an Jim are back in their respective studios. Happy Veterans day to all of our veterans.

2:15 DC Podfest reflections - I'm a Digital Influencer, Amolto Skype Recorder and Free Skype Recorder

6:20 Why Do We use Skype? Why not Tryca.st or Zencastr? Zoom?

Jim states that Skype is going to change over the next few years, and he would jump ship and find a skype alternative

11:50 Google Hangouts Where is It?

Google had some things go live even though we weren't "live"

15:45 Is There a Podcast Station For Mac? Dave Likes Hindeburg Jounralist others suggest Audio Hijack for the Mac, and Twisted Wave. Spreaker Studio

23:05 Why Hosting Companies want you to use their platform to listen. (Dave has been playing with Omnystudio ). The bad news is 80% of downloads come via RSS

28:45 How Do I Restart a Podcast? Do I Start From Scratch? -

Make Sure You Have a Document Between You and Your Co-Host

33:30 Thanks To our Patrons. You are AWESOME

36:05 What Forums Should We Use To Promote My Show? - Podcast Promotion - How Do You Market Your Podcast?

iTunes is not a strategy, it is a tool, but it's not a strategy (either is Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music)

Local Podcasts Could Replace Local Newspapers (This is Rammy Podcast On Podcast Review )

42:40 Jim Has a Because of My Podcast Story - The Department of Labor Interviewed Me

44:50 Dave's Northeast Ohio Meetup Group has lead Dave to be on TV

47:10 Jim gets out and about and gets caught without business cards

49:20 Who do you use for Business Cards? Dave uses Vista Print

50:40 Joe Pardo Because of My Podcast I Got a Job

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Put Some Energy Into It Nov 12, 2016

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Dave flies solo today and decides to give Smiletime.com one more try. Some people had some issues getting smiletime on their phone so you will hear me mention mixlr. I received some feedback from people saying they are tired of my trying so many different options.

It turned out that smiletime had changed their interface, and in the long run, I'm probably going back to Google Hangouts.

3:10 Adding Subscription Buttons To My Website

6:20 Interview tips?

Dave mentions his interview with Lee Silverstein of the Colon Cancer Podcast

Always send out reminder emails the day of the interview. Dave uses Acuity Scheduling for his bookings

13:22 Dave got a Heil PR40 on Ebay Dave prefers his EV RE320

15:36 Podcast Bingo Plant Trainer's Podcast the chat room found the same thing I did (it was sooooo being read).

21:50 Signing up at Stitcher (there are tutorials on subscribing to the directories at the School of Podcasting)

22:50 Total Restriction To Files and Restricting RSS Feeds

25:12 What's Wrong With Google Hangouts?

26:38 Rejected by iHeart Radio

28:10 YouTube Live is pretty stable

30:34 Doing a Podcast with a Partner

34:55 Zoom.us? Dave loves it and uses it for the SOP

37:14 Thanks to all of our Awesome supporters

38:14 Jason Bryan has a Patron that is paying $100 a month. Tips on using Patreon

39:18 iTune Charts - How Do They Work? (subscribers)

41:16 Playing with Podcast Media Hosts (use the coupon code sopfree to get a free month at Libsyn.com ) Dave is testing Omny Studio even though they don't meet my criteria.

41:55 No Show Next Week

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Hey Are You Jim Collison? Nov 02, 2016

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7:00 How to Ask For Help

15:00 Doing a Call in Show - Different strategies

27:30 This is a brave podcast - Facebook Live on a Desktop

28:50 Geekslife.com

32:0 Strbucks podcast

33:15 What Jim Learn While He was Gone - Growing Your Audience

47:30 POdfest coupons for october

44:50 Jim Gets Recognized in the airport

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When Your Equipment Dies Half Way Through the Show Oct 21, 2016

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Dave is flying solo and is using smiletime.com and is using the chat room as his co-host. It's a cool tool for about 20 minutes of the show. Then things go south. It's a free service, and well, sometimes you get what you pay for.

7:25 Firetalk.com pulls one of the dumbest business moves I've ever seen.

10:55 Glen Hebert from horseradionetwrok.com helps Dave kick the tires on Smiletime.com

Glenn is in Florida and had to postpone his show due to Hurricane Michael.

Glenn just celebrate 5000 episodes.

14:50 a non podcasting tip about hiking in the woods

15:20 Podcast Bingo The Stories Podcast http://storiespodcast.com/

19:50 Listen to Dave interview Glen on the School of Podcasting (amazing interview)

21:40 Podertainment magazine See Podertainment

22:35 Put the show number at the beginning helps blind people

25:10 Nugget of Wisdom - Take an improv class - the importance of listening.

26:50 Dave did some acting as a child

28:10 The key to really good interviews

32:35 Repurposing your content - Google Hangout Beef?

36:40 Playing music in your podcast

39:35 Podmatic and Patreon

41:00 Thanks to our awesome supporters go to www.askthepodcastcoach.com/awesome

Using the RSS option in Patreon. Join Patreon Here

43:15 Changing Your Show's Name - iTunes is not a light switch - it takes 24 hours for changes to appear.

45:00 If you put the name of your show in the title of your episode, the podcasts app stops you from being stupid.

46:05 Logo Design for your Artwork. I like Podcastdesigns.com (tell them you're with the School of Podcasting) and there is a new one called Design Crowd which is similar to 99 Designs

49:10 A really bad book about podcasting to get people to sign up a Audible. You can have Audible as sponsor by signing up here

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Behind the Scenes of Radio With Michael Sharkey Oct 14, 2016

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We are joined by Michael Sharkey from the Talent Show and Zen Shark Media who helps people shape their content.

Firetalk is dead and we've moved to huzza.io

3:50 What does a producer do for the show?

6:23 What is a typical day like in radio?

10:50 Any thoughts on keeping your thoughts organized

13:42 Heilo insights its twitter with audio

15:50 International Podcast Day

18:55 Behind the scenes stories of Radio - its chaos

21:44 Podcast Bingo - A quick sample of a Random Podcast NEJM Podcast

27:26 Bad Audio vs Good Content - Gary V

31:40 Thanks to our Awesome Supporters

33:-02 Dave's domain addiction just cost him some big bucks. Need a domain? Go to Dave's Godaddy reseller account at www.coolerwebsites.com (the power of Godaddy and you can support Dave at the same time)

35:18 What does the chat room think of Huzza.io

36:18 International Podcast Day Grattitude Award insights with Daniel J Lewis of the Audacity to Podcast

42:08 Audio is important - There are exceptions

43:00 You never know who is listening - Sting story

45:30 International Podcast Day insights Pre-roll ads are being dropped

48:56 What other streaming platforms are people trying

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Automation and Authentication Oct 01, 2016

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Rob Greenlee, head of Spreaker.com, co-host of the New Media Show, and the Speaker Live show joins us for another fun session of Ask the Podcast Coach. Rob has previously worked for Podcast One, and Microsoft.

1:20 Social Media Question: Automation vs Authentication from Jeffery at podcastfiend.com

15:10 Grandma is on Facebook

17:10 Rob shares some insight on the Adore Podcast Network

24:10 Cast Away Awards http://castawayawards.com.au/

26:00 Weird Spam Comments, and how to handle them and setup tour site to avoid them.

29:30 Dave Talks about Manage wp

32:10 Live listening on Spreaker shows

Mentioned Marketing Over Coffee

37:50 Would Spreaker ever add the ability to call in?

41:10 Tips for going live

46:10 Gratitude Award at International Podcast Day

48:20 Losing a Skype Call - always have a backup.

51:10 Plugging two USB microphones into a computer to record.

52:20 Dealing with Bad Audio

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Do I Split My Topics into Separate Podcasts - Mastering the Tease Sep 23, 2016

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Today Dave is joined by the host of the Just the Tip podcast Tim Wohlberg.

2:42 Do I Split My Topics into Separate Podcasts? from transmissionspodcast.com

11:19 Update from Podcast Mid Atlantic see askthepodcastcoach.com/mapcom for the virtual ticket

17:27 Nails on a Chalkboard to Tim - You Need to Tease Your Audience

Where do you put the tease? Well a tease is for something that is coming up, so up front and as you go forward.

26:15 Doing a topic over episodes from Kim on onthetablepdocasts.com

31:50 Tim's Because of his podcast?

Thanks to all of our awesome supporters www.askthepodcastcoach.com/awesome

35:10 Dave pulls the perfect reset (as this is a live show)

36:10 You need to keep your Wordpress website and all of your plugins up to date. Sucuri is good if you get hacked.

Be sure to backup your show. Check out Manage WP

39:00 No You can't play music on your show if you don't have the proper liscense and in some cases your episode will be pulled.

42:10 Podcast Legends from Todd Cochrane interview Brian from Coverville

Music For Makers gives a free track a month

Spreaker has a cool deal with a company called Epidemic

45:17 Behind the Scenes of Being on the Radio

50:35 Revisit the multiple episodes telling one long story question

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