Podcaster Training: Phase 4 - What Happens After The Show Is Over

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Over the past few weeks, we have covered the basics of podcasting, the history behind podcasting, pre-recording podcasts and going live the first time.

Tonight, we will discuss what happens after the show is over. Just because you have hit the terminate button and said your show is completed, doesn’t mean it stops there! If by now you haven’t realized it, there is more to your show than just setting it up and going live.

Ok, you’ve completed your show and stopped the recording, and what happens next is you start building community with your listeners. To do this, you move into your After Show. Your After Show can be as long or as short as you like it to be. This is the time that you can freely communicate with your audience and talk about things that you might not talk about during your show. The subject matter can be most anything that you will allow. Keeping in mind that you are still live, even though you aren’t recording, listeners can still hear what’s going on via the stream. Also, during your after show, you will make some new friends and maybe even bring some new listeners to your show.

Ok, the after show lasts maybe an additional hour or more and next, you need to gather your show notes and post them on your site or blog. You do have a web site or a blog for your show, don’t you? Posting your show notes, links you discussed and other items of interest on your blog or web site for your show, will help to build community too. This also keeps listeners coming back time and again and you can even post your recorded episodes for them to listen to and enjoy, even weeks after you have completed those episodes.

Finally, you want to start planning for your next show. If you host a weekly event, then make sure that you have your topics in order, links rounded up, and interviews you might have planned. The idea here is to have all your ducks in a row so that you can put on a more professional looking show and keep your listeners entertained and interested.

Once you have your next episode organized, you can relax a little and get ready to have more fun!

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Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog

Something that you will find, especially if you join something like LiveJournal or GreatestJournal, is that users just like you have created communities for people with common interests.

There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn’t a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog.

The nice thing about communities is that there isn’t any limit as to how many communities that you can join.

For example, say that you love blogging about books, horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them.

As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps they will check out your personal blog.

Something to remember is that you don’t want to write a post that is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading.

Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your
post.

As with posting comments on someone else’s blog, you don’t want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won’t visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.

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All Time Record for Podcaster Training Audience Attendance

Last night’s episode of Podcaster Training (September 19th, 2008) had an all time record turnout of 41 Live Listeners! Our Special Guest Speaker was Jason Van Orden, author of Promoting Your Podcast, and thanks to him and many of the listeners sending out “tweets” via Twitter, this helped to get people to the live show. I expect a record download of this episode as well as Jason was on with us for almost an hour talking about his newest project, Community Magnet, and answering questions from the chat room.

You can listen to this special episode in the player below. The show notes have been posted in a previous post.

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Podcaster Training: Guest Speaker Jason Van Orden

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In this special episode of Podcaster Training, our Guest Speaker, Jason Van Orden, talked about his book, Promoting Your Podcast and also about his new series called Community Magnet.

Since we had a guest speaker, our format changed a little tonight to accommodate this. I don’t think the listeners minded at all since Jason had a lot to contribute to our main topic tonight, Building Your Audience.

Since Jeff has announced that he will be leaving the show to restart Wordpress Weekly again, I will be incorporating some new changes and additions to the show. I sent out a post earlier in the week about these changes and additions, so be sure to check that out.

I announced a new weekly challenge tonight. Jeff does this on his Perfcast show and I really liked the idea, so with his permission, I’m doing it now! The challenge for this week is to post a comment to this post, include your name and e-mail address (since I run an open commenting section) and tell us what you liked most about Jason’s discussion he had tonight. A winner will be chosen at random and will win a free copy of the RSS Announcer Software (valued at $97.00 retail). I will announce the winner of this challenge next week on the show and once again issue another challenge. I think you’ll notice that these challenges will get harder as time goes on, so enjoy them while they are tame!

Next week will mark Jeff’s last night as Co-Host on Podcaster Training. Our topic will be Monetizing Your Blog or Podcast. I will also make some time for a “going away party” for Jeff on his last night. This will be incorporated into our After Show and we can have fun with it that way!

I can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoyed Jason Van Orden being back on the show again! Listen to this great episode in the player below to get the most out it!

See you next week!

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Jason Van Orden Will Be A Guest Speaker Friday Night

Jason Van Orden, author of Promoting Your Podcast, will be my Guest Speaker on Friday Night’s Podcaster Training Show. Jason has recently released a video series called Community Magnet and he will be discussing this as well as the different ways to build and audience for your podcast and shows.

Jason was a guest on my show back in August 2007 and we talked for more than an hour about his book. If you would like to pick up a copy of Promoting Your Podcast, I have a link at the top of this post from Amazon.com were you can get it online easily.

If you have questions for Jason concerning his book or about building an audience, have them ready to type in the chat room or join us live and I will present a time to ask your questions live.

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Interview with Patrick O’Keefe about Managing Your Online Forums

Coming up on Friday, August 29th, 2008, we will have Patrick O’Keefe, author of “Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards” as our special guest on Podcaster Training.

After our interview with Patrick, we will have a Q&A session for the viewers and listeners. Be sure to join us live and you can even call into the show live and ask your questions personally!

Want to know more about Patrick’s book? Visit his web site at http://www.managingonlineforums.com/

Podcaster Training airs live at 8:00pm EST at http://www.newmediapro.tv

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