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Sept. 1, 2017

Is the Heil PR40 All It's Cracked Up To Be?

Dave is joined by Chris Curran of the Podcast Engineering School. Find Chris at . Call in your question 888-563-3228 How to take care of your mixer? 11:14 Most Common Mistake 17:22 ultavoice $23 24:00 Why podcasters obsess over their sound - the...

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Aug. 29, 2017

A Deep Dive Into Podcast Intros

How long should your intro be? What should be in it? Should it be scripted? Should it be the same every week? This week Dave Jackson from and Jim Collison from talk about intros and take questions from the live audience. 9:50 Podcast Mixed Messages...

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Aug. 5, 2017

Advice on Podcast Networks

How do you start a podcast network? Should I start a podcast network? Dave Jackson from  and Jim Collison from  are join By Glenn Hebert () and Jason Bryant from Other topics include: Learning from Podcasts that didn't go as you had hoped....

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July 29, 2017

How Long Does it Take To Create an Hour Long Podcast?

Do you have enough time to podcast? How much time does it take? Today Dave Jackson from the School of Podcasting and Jim Collison from the Average Guy Network tackle that question in addition to the following subjects: What did you give up to...

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July 23, 2017

The Power of Meeting Your Audience

Dave Jackson of the School of Podcasting and Jim Collison of The Average Guy Network take your live questions. In this week's show, we talk about Jim got to record his podcast live in front of a lot of people, and he got to hang out all week with his...

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July 21, 2017

Multiple Podcasts - One Fee - One Login

Today Dave Jackson from the School of Podcasting and Jim Collison from the Average Guy Network answer questions about: A teacher wants to create multiple shows with one login, paying one fee, but wants multiple podcasts ( see spreaker.com using...

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July 12, 2017

Soundcloud Dumps 40% of Their Staff

Dave Jackson () and Jim Collison () answer your podcast questions including: Soundcloud 8:20 Getting Good Recording Levels 19:50 Libsyn Advanced Stats Grandfathered in? 20:30 Spotify open to everyone? 24:20 Spreaker and getting answers...

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July 1, 2017

Does Your Podcast Make You Happy?

You never know who is listening says Cale from www.hamradio360.com who got a message from NASA. In this episode we also talk about: Microphone Technique How do you gauge success if you don't count downloads and money? How do you make money with a...

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June 21, 2017

Podcast Focus Groups

Dave is flying solo today and discusses and update with the Messengers: A Podcast Documentary update as well as brainstorming an idea about creating a podcast focus group service for the community. There is no show on 6/24/17 we will return on July...

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June 16, 2017

Apple Announcements

In this episode we talk about the following: 2:00 Portable recorders, are they needed? 11:30 Apple Announcements 28:00 Supporters Join at 30:40 Radio Vs Podcasting 35:30 Should you record episodes or build a website first? 40:40 Recording Skype with...

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June 9, 2017

I WANT AN AUDIENCE NOW

1:55 YouTube Issues - Strike One! Jim had a channel closed. no notice, etc. Just GONE. 10:00 and killing media 15:00 Willam Shatner Shats on a podcaster. Being asked to appear on a podcast 21:26 How to approach a podcaster 25:00 What if someone asks...

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June 1, 2017

Should I add My Podcast To YouTube?

Today on Ask the Podcast Coach episode 172 I am joined by from the and we talk about: 4:32 My Episode isn't' appearing in iTunes 5:14 Your guest promoting your show 7:38 Your guest sounds like they are in a cave 11:32 Bad sound quality 15:00...

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May 26, 2017

There Are No Shortcuts - It Takes a Good Show

asked a question on Quora. I am thinking about launching a podcast, I don’t want any paid sponsors I want to use it to boost it in the rankings. I have a company and I want potential customers to find and listen to the podcast. Here was Dave's...

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May 19, 2017

The Weight Of Words

Today Jim Collison from and Dave Jackson from talk about inadvertently offending people 18:40 Should You Start a Second Podcast? 23:50 My Audio Isn't Loud Enough 25:53 Revoice.me 28:00 Worst Thing About Starting a Patreon? 32:49 Can a show for...

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May 13, 2017

When Things Change in Your Podcast

Happy Star Wars Day - Mark Hamil has never won an oscar. 5:27 Mixlr Changes their pricing 10:50 Would You Be interested in a banner exchange for podcasters? 20:40 Your First Podcast and Changing Formats 30:20 Podcasting for Free is it possible?...

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May 5, 2017

Patreon Strategies and Ugly Babies

Ask the Podcast coach features Podcast Consultant Dave Jackson from and "The Coaches Coach" Jim Collison from . This week we talk about: 2:10 Patreon as a sponsorship tool 7:16 Affiliate links as ads (see ) 9:40 Patreon Shootout between Dave and Jim...

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April 22, 2017

Your Podcast Official Launch - Growing Your Podcast Audience

What kind of things can you edit if a show goes, "long"? If you start a question with, "I probably shouldn't " (you're probably right) Are T-shirts a good way to grow your audience? We play a little Podcast Rodeo with the  Want a full review?...

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April 15, 2017

Indie vs Pro Podcaster or Content Creators

You can get free podcast consulting by joining Dave Jackson and Jim Collison as they bring their years of experience help you get your podcast questions answered: Today we mention Steve Martin's Master Class 5:50 Is it unfair that shows like...

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April 14, 2017

How Do You Get a Sponsor

3:50 Podcast Rodeo form radioyo.fm (you can be featured on iTune - not a typo) Dave likes for "radio streaming" 7:50 Using Linkedin on your podcast 10:10 Stitcher or Google Play? 11:20 Jim (and Dave) use bufferapp.com 12:30 Embed codes for...

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April 7, 2017

How Long Does it Take to Build Your Audience?

The Messengers Documentary Premier Stories 7:35 Auphonic Saves the day 9:15 Google Translations 12:10 Podcast Chapters 17:30 How Long Does it take to build an audience? 20:25 When do you say, I have an audience? 22:44 Information Gathering 26:00 When...

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March 30, 2017

Awkward Co-Hosting Situations

1:30 Where do You listen to Podcasts? () 3:10 Cool Stories From Radio - Ways to Grow your Audience - T-shirts at an event  5:15 Lengths of Podcasting 10:00 How do you stop being boring? 13:10 What is Good content? 18:10 Podcasts hosts need to...

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March 17, 2017

How Many Ads Can You Tolerate?

Dave Jackson of is joined by Carey Green of  to answer your podcast questions live. 1:20 Carey and Dave have known each other a while - we were promo buddies 3:10 Carey and Podcast Fast Track 4:30 what's a good ratio for advertisement vs...

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March 10, 2017

Serious Video Podcasting

Today Dave Jackson is at Podfest in Florida and is in the driver's seat and is filling in. Mike does some serious video for his podcast, and today we dig in deep into his gear. 5:00 Check your self for Cancer 6:35 Mike's Video setup 9:20 hosting...

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March 2, 2017

Practice, Editing, and Backups

LEaving Zoom WEbinar 4:00 How any podcasts do you listen to? 5:00 Behind the Scenes of Dave's Closing Keynote at Podfest.us 7:00 When in doubt practice and cut stuff loose 10:15 Behind the Scenes of my Local Podcasting Episode 11:35 Corey from Ivy...

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