By Ravi Jayagopal | Audio , Blogging , Community , Digital Creators , Email Marketing , Facebook , Focus and Priorities , Kindle , Know, Like, Trust , Podcasting , Productivity , SEO , WordPress
Stuck in "Social Distancing" prison? Here are some things you could do instead of simply creating more episodes.
By Ravi Jayagopal | Audio , Digital Creators , Focus and Priorities , Know, Like, Trust , Podcasting , Productivity
Me listening to a podcast while at the dentist.
I saw this question asked on Facebook, so I wanted to address it here.
Question: "Do you prefer listening to a podcast that is is edited? Or nah?"
My Answer: For the most part, I prefer podcasts that are edited for umms and aahs and pauses. Now, there are shows which the conversations are just absolutely incredible (Bill Simmons, Tim Ferriss, Marketing Over Coffee), and it would actually do it injustice to edit the natural flow - so such shows are the exception. But those are far and few in-between.
Most regular "interview" shows can use all the editing they can, not just to improve the length of the show, but for improving the audio quality (sound leveling, cross-talk, etc), and to improve the show quality just by cutting out the completely unnecessary stuff - like "Can you hear me now?" pre-interview banter, "Hold on, my door bell just rang", "Sorry, my child is calling me, let me quickly check what it is", "Mind if I grab a quick drink of water?", type stuff which is not important to the show or to the listeners.
Some additional points:
By Ravi Jayagopal | Digital Creators , Email Marketing , Know, Like, Trust
See the big blank box in the screenshot above? That's supposed to be a massive image of something, in an email "newsletter" I received.
And it's missing because I deliberately turn off images in the email from automatically loading, because I don't want to be tracked, you know? They may be tracking a lot more than just open rates, and I'm not taking that chance.