A Pretty Good Podcast Is All You Need – A Podcast How-to

©2010 Doug Champigny – http://dougchampigny.com

A pretty good podcast, or really a succession of pretty good podcasts, is all you need to attract an online audience. But just what does a ‘pretty good podcast’ entail?

First, let’s look at how to make a podcast. A podcast is just creating MP3 files from your audios – it can be you reading an article, giving advice, teaching how to do something or an audio recording of a teleseminar or webinar you did. If you’ve been creating MP3 audios and putting them on your blog, you’re already a podcaster whether you knew it or not.

So don’t be frightened of becoming a podcaster, especially since you don’t have to get it perfect – a pretty good podcast will see you through. Your best podcasts will be the ones that deliver the most information, information helpful to your target audience, irregardless of the quality of your MP3 audios.

Now that doesn’t mean you should have a lot of background noise or poor recording quality – your best podcasts should be crystal clear and easy to understand. But creating a pretty good podcast can be done with the standard mic and headset combinations for computers, or even with the mic built into most laptops and netbooks these days.

If you need a podcast tutorial there are a lot of Podcasting 101 type of resources online, but really it’s just a matter of recording the material you want and then uploading the audio MP3s to your blog or using an RSS feed to submit your podcast site to a podcast directory like Podcast Alley or iTunes.

But the main point here is it doesn’t have to be perfect – you don’t need fancy intros, background music, audio effects and the like – nor do you need to have that perfect ‘radio voice’. As long as you speak clearly and don’t have a heavy accent you’ll be fine – or, of course, you can always have a friend, colleague or pro voiceover artist do the MP3 recording if you feel your voice isn’t ‘right’ for your podcasts.

In general though, don’t get too wrapped up in the technical side of RSS feeds, creating MP3 audios, building an RSS script, etc – focus on the content you deliver, and on delivering that helpful content on a regular schedule. As any successful podcaster can tell you, consistency is more important than the quality of your MP3 audios, as long as you’re producing a pretty good podcast at the minimum.

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Marketing mentor, coach and speaker Doug Champigny is the author of ‘It’s You, Live! – Podcasting and Vlogging Your Way To Success’. Creating podcasts and video blogs is just part of the curriculum taught in his PowerStart Marketing coaching classes. Doug is also a regular speaker at many of the live marketing events and conventions around North America – watch for him speaking live onstage in your area soon!

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In yesterday’s post I mentioned the interview I’d done with Carl Galletti about the huge PLR sale he has on right now at his Product Source Goldmine event. It’s only on for 2 weeks, with 2 price increases during that time, so I had to rush this to you:

Carl Galletti’s Product source goldmine is the biggest PLR event so far this year, with over 790 megabytes of PLR in the bundle – and Carl reveals a couple of great secrets about what you’re getting in the interview – be sure to listen all the way through for the big news at the end – then scoot on over to his massive PLR Sale site to see if you’re still in time to get your copy!

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A new PLR bundle, Natural Weight Loss, was just released this morning at PLRSpectacular.com – but it certainly won’t last long!

First, there’s a limit of only 100 PLR licenses ever being released to it, so those who hesitate will miss out. Secondly, niche PLR is harder to come by, and much more valuable since popular niches have much larger audiences than the Internet marketing niche, and niche e-books are often good for 5 or 10 years or more, whereas marketing e-books tend to become stale-dated in a year or two.

Thirdly, this package isn’t strictly an e-book – it also includes 10 articles on Natural Weight Loss and professionally recorded audio versions of the articles as well – meaning you get site content and podcasts for your blog to help draw people to your salespage for the e-book.

Natural Weight Loss is a 40-page e-book (45 pages by the time you add your ‘about the author’ and ‘recommended resources’ sections to it) designed to sell for $27 – $47 a copy with personal use only rights, so being able to pick up PLR rights to the whole package for just $27 is a great deal – but only for those first 100 buyers who pick up the PLR rights – after that, only the personal usage rights will remain. And it’s non-transferrable PLR, meaning no one can pass on the PLR rights – those first 100 people will be the only ones to EVER have PLR to this bundle.

Full details are on the PLR Spectacular website – head over now & check it out before you miss out on this amazing new niche release.

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Yesterday I uploaded a free downloadable gift from Teri & I – a short report and an audio version of it. Did you get your gift downloaded ok?

FREE Article Marketing Overview Report and Audio

If not, grab it now. If you did get it, have you listened to the audio yet? Pretty cool way to deliver content, isn’t it? Same with the podcasts on my blog, which are just audio versions of the articles there.

Notice the Intro and Exit portions of the recording? That’s how you brand yourself with audio, establish name recognition and add a call to action at the end. And the beat and style of music track you choose to put under it sets the tone and pace, usually helping you to get your listeners more fired up or better relaxed, depending on your goals with that audio.

It’s the same with your videos too – using the same music & voiceover style for your videos will help build your brand as well – in fact, the lack of the music & sound effects is one of the ways to identify amateur efforts, and your mind knows that instantly. When you think about it, even your loacal News & Sports, on TV or radio, use music tracks to identify themselves.

But how do you get these tracks? Pro tracks that are royalty-free so you can use them when you want to? Maybe even resell them to others? Here’s a rare insider tip for you – almost every big name in the biz gets their tracks from the same person – our friend Ginny Culp. And now YOU can too:

Royalty-Free Music Tracks For Internet Marketing

You get fresh tracks, audio e-courses, squeeze page audios, sound effects, audio e-books – all for less than having one custom track done for you – although Ginny does that too on ocassion. Best of all, these are aimed specifically at those of us in the IM and niche markets, so they’re appropriate without any heavy-duty editing. Take a cruise through the site and look at all that’s included there for you – Download Royalty-Free Music Tracks, Audio E-Courses, Audio E-Books & More!

Empowering YOU To Dominate 2009…

Doug Champigny
author, It’s You, Live! Podcasting & Video Blogging

PS – Be smart about this one – you already know you’ll have to get into audio and video before long if you aren’t already using them, so lock in this source now. You can go month-by-month, or choose 2, 3 or 6 month plans – the 6-month plan is less than half rate, so go for that if you can – but choose the plan that fits YOU best…

Get YOUR Audio Resources Where The Big Dogs Do!

Face it – you don’t often get to see where the big dogs get their resources, so when you do get that rare peek, be sure to jump on it and use the same tools they do!

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Helping you succeed… DC.

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Well, I promised you new PLR today, and it took all
night to get it together and online, but here it is:

http://www.PLRSpectacular.com   

This never-before-seen bundle covers Powerboats &
Scuba Diving – two very hot niches! You get an e-book
for each, 10 articles for each, and audio versions of
the articles to use on your site or as podcasts on your
blog. Two sets of graphics for each, plus the PSD’s…
Even a set of blank jpg’s for those who don’t have
PhotoShop…

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We’ve kept the rate to what you’d expect for one
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Empowering YOU To Dominate 2009…

Doug Champigny

PS – Only 100 copies of the PLR license will ever be
released for these materials – so either you’re one
of the first 100 to get them or you’ll miss out – no
exceptions will be made. And the PLR rights are not
transferrable, so only the first 100 will ever have
PLR rights to them – will you be one? Get yours now:

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Helping you succeed… DC.

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It’s You… Live! Podcasting and Vlogging Your Way To Success Online! by Doug Champigny.

I just released my 10th or 11th original e-book today, this time on Podcasting & Video Blogging. Podcasting is blogging using audios while vlogging is bloggging using videos, for all intents and purposes. This is one of the few areas of Internet marketing that I haven’t written any books on before, and I noticed very few of the Internet marketers I meet are podcasting or vlogging, even though nowadays most of them have text-based blogs.

More on podcasting and vlogging later this week, but for today I want you to take a look at the salespage for it at my new Podcasting And Vlogging website – but DON’T try to buy it. The payment button won’t go live til next week. I just want you to see that page to find out what all I’ve crammed in there – it really does have all the info you need to be podcasting & vlogging by the end of today.

But now for the good news – if you read this post before Monday, Oct 20, 2008, I’m going to let you download my new podcasting & vlogging e-book for FREE – and even through in the Private Label Rights to go with it! You get the e-book in .doc format, the graphics complete as jpg & psd, blank graphics as jpg – even a copy of the same salespage you see at my podcasting & vlogging web site!

So you have the rest of this week to get over to The FreePLR Giveaway and download my e-book and over 20 others with unrestricted PLR – or you can buy it from the podcasting & vlogging site if you didn’t see this post in time.

Enjoy the book, add podcasting & vlogging to your Internet marketing tools, and take another giant step towards success online!

Doug Champigny,
http://www.podcasting-and-vlogging.com

PS – Would love to read your comments once you’ve read the book. Either post them here or do a podcast review or video post review of the e-book and send me the link, ok? Thanks! DC.

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Working at home is becoming more and more common, in large part because many people who have been laid off from corporations or are still working but finding money tight are turning to working at home with Affiliate Marketing to make the money they need. Today, an affiliate marketing audio for you on 5 Basic Tips For Working At Home. Enjoy the podcast!

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How To Increase Your Affiliate Marketing Income

Article & audio © 2008 Doug Champigny. All Rights Reserved.

As an affiliate marketer, you should constantly be on the lookout for ways to increase your affiliate marketing income. There are several ways to do this, but some methods are much more effective than others.

First, be sure that you make the companies’ customers your customers. In other words, never send customers directly to your affiliate sales page. Instead, have them go to a squeeze page first where you can collect their name and email address. Then, you can add them to your email list, and start building a relationship with these customers for future sales, which will increase your income.

Next, do some cross promotions. Vacuum cleaner manufacturers often sell vacuum cleaner bags as well, or at the very least recommend a specific brand of vacuum cleaner bags. If you are selling a weight loss product, such as a diet pill, after a customer makes a purchase, let them know about exercise equipment, a diet cook book, vitamins, exercise clothing, or anything else related to weight loss that you sell as well.

Increase your income by doing more. If you worked at your affiliate marketing for forty hours this month, and made $1000, the chances are good that if you work at it for eighty hours next month you can double that income. Put forth more effort to earn more.

Track everything! Keep records of what promotions you are running, and how well the campaign is doing. If you run an ad in an ezine, track the clicks and sales. If you advertise in Google AdWords, again, track clicks and sales. If you publish a short ebook on your topic with your affiliate link included, track that as well. If you know what is working, you can do more of it to increase sales.

Start your own blog. Publish your own ezine. Write articles. Advertise in ezines. Purchase PPC ads. Give away free ebooks with your affiliate links included. Inquire about advertising on other high traffic websites. Leave no stone unturned, and you will see a dramatic increase in your sales.

To your success with Affiliate Marketing,

Doug Champigny
Affiliate TV

PS – For a really powerful way to boost your Affiliate Marketing income, be sure to check out our popular Power List Pro that lets you build your affiliate marketing opt-in list by putting YOUR opt-in form on top of the affiliate site you’re promoting. That’s right – it lets you show YOUR opt-in form AND the affiliate site with one link – how’s that for powerful affiliate marketing?

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