Aug
20th
Fri
20th
Colorado Podcasters Meetup - Take Aways
Earlier this week I attended the Colorado Podcasters meetup here in Broomfield, CO. It was a great round table session in which we discussed among other things, how to drive traffic to your podcast. Below is an outline of my take aways from the meeting.Take Aways
- There is a great opportunity for cross-pollination between our podcasts’
- If you have a live podcast that broadcasts several different days a week, be consistent with the time. (I.E. Live Monday, Tuesday and Saturday all at 12:00 MST)
- If you don’t have a Facebook Page, get one, it’s very important to help connect with your audience.
- You can lose your audience by sending them directly to the the iTunes Application, because it becomes difficult to connect with them.
- A popular podcaster (missed the name) was discussed who makes 90% of his revenue from his donation bar with 3% of his audience dontating.
- Thoughts about having a phone number or maybe a skype contact on your website.
- [Internal thought] Creating content that is not exclusively time sensitive can add historic value to your podcast. (I.E If you have a site for movie reviews, when the DVD comes out, you may see a second rise in downloads)
- Thoughts on - What makes our podcast unique?
- [Tip] Don’t hold back your personality. Many times people are listening to your show because of your personality.
- With the AAC format you can add Tracking for segments or chapters link
- [Random] Foursquare check ins don’t seem to add value to your audience, is there a way to change this?
iPhone Apps
Lose It
Restaurant Nutrition
Podcasting Apps/Services
Podtrac - the service that expertly connects podcasters and podcast listeners and viewers with advertisers
Blbrry - Wordpress plug-in, Their Website
Callisto.fm
Hosting
Bluehost
Thanks Michael Sitarzewski for hosting the event. It was a pleasure hanging out with all of you. Looking forward to the next meetup.
Missing something? Let me know.
