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.

Yep, it’s finally here… 28 episodes later we finally decide tackle the question “What is a hobby podcaster?” Spoiler alert – there’s no clear cut explanation to this term, but we will run down some areas which we think may make you a hobby podcaster.

In the Better Podcasting Download this week, we provide an update on two service – Clammr and Blab. In our opinion one of them is improving while the other is becoming less reliable. Which are we using more and which are we drifting away from? Take a listen to find out.

Finally, in the Better Podback (feedback) we tackle a question about expanding the Zoom H5 for live recording and also a question about how we produce the video companion of Better Podcasting.

Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places:

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This podcast was recorded on Friday, May 13, 2016 – Streamed Live to www.Geeks.Live.

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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.

Inspired by a variety of recent circumstances, this week we discuss the importance of backups, redundancy and how to handle outages. We’ll run down our setups and how we do our best to ensure we don’t ever lose a recorded episode.

During the Better Podcasting download we discuss last week’s SoundCloud downtime and how it affected some podcasters.

Finally, in the Better Podback this week we turn the tables and ask for your take on the relevance (or lack thereof perhaps) of “marathon podcasting”.

Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places:

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Stephen Jondrew and Stargate Pioneer thank you for listening, downloading and subscribing to Better Podcasting. We hope you come back for more Better Podcasting!

This podcast was recorded on Friday, May 6, 2016 – Streamed Live to www.Geeks.Live.

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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.

You’re in for a special treat this week as SP uses his use his Shure SM7B for half of the podcast and his Electro-Voice RE320 for the other. We won’t tell you which he’s using at which point… yet. We hope you enjoy this blind-test.

This show we discuss things that were learned from our live C2E2 experience including alternative ways to position mics, considerations and how you can use the tools you have to put together all the pieces.

In the Better Podcasting Download we reflect on our first impressions of Google Play Music Podcasts including areas we like, and areas we think could use some improvement.

Finally, in the Better Podback (feedback) we round up a whole bunch of topics with questions including microphone etiquette, guest audio capture, generic microphone scissor arms, migrating from a PowerPress feed to a media host feed and several other questions.

Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places:

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Stephen Jondrew and Stargate Pioneer thank you for listening, downloading and subscribing to Better Podcasting. We hope you come back for more Better Podcasting!

This podcast was recorded on Friday, April 29, 2016 – Streamed Live to www.Geeks.Live.

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Better Podcasting – Episode 024 – Captivating Your Audience

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.

This episode we discuss captivating your audience and what you can do to keep them engaged. Whether it be how you address them, subject matter delivery methods or anything in between, we’re going to talk about this episode.

In the Better Podcasting Download we demonstrate and discuss the ‘advantage’ you can get from using a mic processor (such as the DBX286s). We give you a sample of the change so you can gage if it’s worth it to you. After that we discuss a recent list of Top 200 jobs in America, and where broadcast lands on it. Finally, we discuss the roll out of Google Play Podcasts.

Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places:

@BetterPod

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Stephen Jondrew and Stargate Pioneer thank you for listening, downloading and subscribing to Better Podcasting. We hope you come back for more Better Podcasting!

This podcast was recorded on Friday, April 15, 2016 – Streamed Live to www.Geeks.Live.

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Better Podcasting – Episode 023 – Podcast Budgets – Shut Down

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.

We continue our budget arc talking about possible coasts you may incur if you want to shut down (or close up) your podcast. Whether you decide to go off-line or keep an active archive, we’ll discuss things you may want to consider.

In the Better Podcasting Download we discuss New & Noteworthy, iTunes Client Statistics, Webscrapers and how they all work together and can affect your podcast statistics.

Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places:

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Stephen Jondrew and Stargate Pioneer thank you for listening, downloading and subscribing to Better Podcasting. We hope you come back for more Better Podcasting!

This podcast was recorded on Friday, April 8, 2016

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Better Podcasting – Episode 020 – Podcast Budgets – Start

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.

This episode we kick off our new arc discussion your podcast budget. We’ll answer questions including what it’ll take to get your podcast started, what other costs you can expect and possible costs if you want to start a tier-higher than the basics.

In the Better Podcasting download we discuss some podcast stats coming out of the latest Edison research. Finally, in Better Podback we discuss social media.

Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places:

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Stephen and SP thank you for listening, downloading and subscribing to Better Podcasting. We hope you come back for more Better Podcasting!

This podcast was recorded on Saturday, March 12th, 2016

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Better Podcasting – Episode 019 – Live Q&A 1

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.

This week we shake up the usual Better Podcasting format as we kick of our first official live Q&A edition where we take questions from fans directly via Blab. Topics include iTunes Connect, the benefit of multiple RSS feeds, things to consider when picking a hosting provider, benefits of owning your domain and even desk management… literally. Actual. Physical. Desk. Management.

We would love to know what you think about this special. Would you like to hear more of them? Email podcast@betterpodcasting.com

It’s not too late to catch SP and 5 other GonnaGeek network podcasting hosts at C2E2 (The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) on March 18th, 2016 in the Workshop Room at 2:45 PM to present a panel on Everyday Podcasting For Your Everyday Life. Come meet us there to discuss some great tips on hobby podcasting and introduce yourselves to us. We’d love to meet you!

Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places:

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Stephen and SP thank you for listening, downloading and subscribing to Better Podcasting. We hope you come back for more Better Podcasting!

This podcast was recorded on Friday, March 11th, 2016

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