By Ravi Jayagopal | Audio , Digital Creators , Plugins , Podcast , Podcasting , Tools , WordPress
What you need to know about creating and hosting your own Podcast Feed.
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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 | Audio , Digital Creators , Free , Freemium , Podcasting , SEO , Tools , Video
I've been selling online since 1997. And in all of those years, I've tried and tested an insane number of tools, desktop software and apps and online services, as you can probably imagine. And today, it's just absolutely crazy to think that I depend on so many of these tools on a day-to-day basis, yet I've never had to pay for most of them. All of these are either completely free, and/or open source, or offer a free tier that I can pay to get additional features - basically a freemium (free + premium) service.
So here are some of the greatest free and freemium tools most of which I couldn't - and wouldn't want to - live without.
By Ravi Jayagopal | Alexa , Audio , Digital Creators , Kindle , Podcasting
“The Twitter of Audio”?
“Twidio”?
“Twaudio”?
Take your pick — those are my maybe-lame nicknames for Alexa Flash Briefings 🙂
I launched my own Alexa Flash Briefing (AFB) - which you can listen via the player below - in August 2018. And here are some random thoughts and comments regarding my experience.
Do you have an Alexa Flash Briefing? If yes, what is it? If no, why not? Let me know in the comments below.
It’s a digital goldmine right now, ripe for the gold rush. Very much like Podcasting, but even more exclusive, as not too many know about it, and not too many will put in the effort to create one, even though it's super-easy.
Which of these would you rather compete with for attention?
5+ Billion YouTube Videos
1+ Billion Websites
850,000+ Podcasts
10,000+ Alexa Flash Briefings
(The numbers have been aggregated from various resources, many of them making their best- and educated guesses. Anyway, the general idea — and my main point — remains the same.)