Better Podcasting

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com.

Better Podcasting #204 – The Definition Of A Podcast Doesn’t Matter

In this week’s show we discuss why the definition of a podcast doesn’t matter for hobby podcasters AND how you can embrace this concept to help you grow your show, all while enjoying it more. In this week’s Better Podcasting Download, we chat about a new IAB certified hosting provider. Finally, in this week’s Better…

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Better Podcasting #203 – Perfect Podcasting

In this episode we discuss what it means to podcast to perfection. We’ll discuss some of the benefits, some of the challenges and some situations where you may want to consider podcasting with perfection in mind. In this week’s Better Podcasting Download we give our initial thoughts on the Zoom L-8. Finally, in the Better…

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Better Podcasting #202 – Wouldn’t It Be Great If…

Do you have podcast ambitions? You should. Today we take some “Wouldn’t it be great if…” podcast ambition statements and discuss some considerations to help you work toward these, then we talk about some of the reality factors to do with these concepts. In this week’s Better Podcasting Download, we talk about some recent podcast…

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Better Podcasting #201 – Going Too Far To Be a Podcast Guest

Guests can be a key aspect to podcasting – sometimes you’re having guests on your show, sometimes you’re being a guest on a podcast. Although guesting can be a key part of cross-promotion, sometimes you can go too far to have a guest on your show, or trying to be a guest on other shows….

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Better Podcasting #200 – Hobby Podcasting Is Still Fun and Relevant in 2019

For our 200th episode we thought it was a good opportunity to talk about how hobby podcasting is still fun and why it still matters in 2019. In this week’s Better Podcasting Download we discuss Pocket Casts doing a change on their decision about their pricing model. Finally, we take feedback from our past podcasts…

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Better Podcasting #199 – Reflecting on Your Entire Podcast Endeavors

This week in the show we discuss why it’s important to take time to reflect on your entire podcast endeavors in order to help maximize your time for your hobbies – to help ensure that you continue to have fun. In this week’s Better Podcasting Download we talk about statistics on podcast equipment (as voted…

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Better Podcasting #198 – What Turns Us Away From A Podcast?

From time to time we find ourselves in conversations with people talking about things that they don’t like within podcasts – today we want to talk about some things that turn us off of a podcast immediately. After we go through some of these, we’ll also talk about some things that we’ve heard others say…

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Better Podcasting #197 – Building A Podcast Community in 2019

Back in May 2015 (in Episode 81), we tackled the idea of building a community around your podcast. However, since recording that, a lot has changed with both community structures, our experiences and community platform availability – that means it was time to revisit this topic. In this episode we’ll talk about the considerations for…

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Better Podcasting #196 – Learning From Events Without Attending Them

Whether related to podcasting or the niche that you podcast about, as a hobby podcaster there are probably events that you wish that you could go to, but might not be able to. In this episode we discuss how you can identify events that you think have a take-away for you and how you can…

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Better Podcasting #195 – Creating A Short Run Podcast

Do all podcasts need to be launched with an indefinite end point? No. It’s absolutely ok to create a podcast with a short-run timeline, and there are a variety of benefits that can come with this. In this show we’ll discuss some of these benefits, some reasons you may want to do a short run…

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