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I hope you manage to cut your own time in producing your next episode. You’ll find the slides on the right to take another scan over. This is my website, The Podcast Host, where we publish everything podcasting.
Before you go off and explore, here’s some follow up resources from the talk. You’ll find your “What’s Next” steps below – enjoy!
SHOW SHIPPING GREATNESS: HOW-TOS FOR EVERY TACTIC
Working in Seasons
Read about how to plan a season, along with every benefit you’ll get.
Sailing Solo
Read about the solo format, and it’s pros and cons.
Then, find out how to create a great monologue.
Smart Repurposing
Your first step here is to try recording a blog post in audio form. Give it a go!
Then, find out how to script & present content for smart repurposing in future.
Read how to create a blog post that’s easy to repurpose smartly.
Going Live the Right Way
Try recording a live session with the following structure: 1. Welcomes and content sourcing, 2. Solid content, directed by audience feed in section 1, 3. Q&A and Goodbyes.
During sections 1 and 3, you run audience interaction, and during section 2, you just deliver content, no interaction. Then, repurpose section 2 alone for a great audience directed, smartly repurposed podcast episode!
Interview Booking Systems
See how I run my interview booking routine.
I use Book like a Boss for all my booking.
Planning in Notion
Use Notion.us, like me, to create well structured content series plans, and to organise all the material around it, from interviewee research to sponsor deals.
Interview Prep
Read Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel for great advice on how to get great stories from people.
Plus, read the following article:
How to prepare for a great interview
Live Recording
You can record right into the Alitu Podcast Maker app, and have it do the cleanup and add your music, automatically.
Click Editing
Watch how to do ‘Click editing’ here, and cut hours off your editing every month.
Minimum Effective Editing
Find out what the minimum effective editing process is, to save time and still produce good quality audio. This is helped by making sure you’ve set up a great recording environment.
Or, use Alitu: The Podcast Maker. It automates all of the levelling and cleanup, and the editor is built around the MEE process making click editing easy, plus adds your music and transitions automatically.
Vocal Warmups
Most of the material you can find is for singers, but luckily enough, it’s all totally relevant to simple speaking!
Here’s one example with a few great warmups.
What Next? In the Meantime….
Subscribe to Podcraft: our ‘How To’ Podcast
PodCraft, our ‘How to Podcast’ podcast, covering everything you need to know about the topic, and brought to you by Matthew and myself. It’s a seasons based show, and each season goes deep into one particular topic, so you can pick a subject and start wherever you like.
Examples include a season focussing just on launch steps, one on monetisation, one on presentation skills and another on how to create a great website for your show.
For beginners, work through season 10 first – our launch season – and for everyone else, join in on the most recent episodes, and delve back into the archive for the subjects that you need most, right now!
Commonly asked Questions
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