Better Podcasting

With summer vacation season in full swing, Stephen and SP discuss some specialty episodes you may want to consider in order to help keep your feed active while you're away. In the Better Podcasting download we'll discuss bandwidth and internet connection considerations for your podcasting endeavors. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check out our companion shows at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Want to join in to some geeky chatter? Check out the BEST geek community around on the GonnaGeek Discord Server at http://www.betterpodcasting.com/discord/. Not familiar with Better Podcasting? We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always enco

We cap our Distribution & Promotion Arc discussing promotion. Now that you're sending your podcast to a variety of places, why not take some actions to help promote it to potential listeners. This week we'll run down some of the recommended Dos and Don'ts of Podcast Promotion. During the Download we'll discuss some anticipated announcements for the upcoming Podcast Movement. Finally, in Better Podback, where we take your feedback, we revisit a question that was asked to us back in Episode 27. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check out our companion shows at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Want to join in to some geeky chatter? Check out the BEST geek community around on the GonnaGeek Discord Server at http://www.betterpodcasting.com/discord/. Not familiar with Better Podcasting? We talk about podcast tips, to

SP & Stephen continue their Distribution & Promotion arc discussing more advancted distribution including Facebook Live, Spreaker, YouTube and Facebook uploads. In this week's Better Podcasting Download we'll discuss some copyright experiences we recently had (note: we are not lawyers). Finally, in Better Podback, where we take your feedback, we take some feedback on a listener's perspective on headphones. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check out our companion shows at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Want to join in to some geeky chatter? Check out the BEST geek community around on the GonnaGeek Discord Server at http://www.betterpodcasting.com/discord/. This podcast was recorded on Friday, June 17, 2016 - Streamed Live to www.Geeks.Live. Audio/Video Production by Stephen Jondrew of GonnaGeek.com. Happy

We begin our Distribution & Promotion arc discussing the basics of distribution including recommended place to distribute your podcast on and also considerations you may have for your mp3 files and RSS before doing so. In this week's Better Podcasting Download, Stephen gives you a snapshot of his headphone comparison of the Shure SRH-440 vs Audio-Technica ATH-M40X cans. Finally, in Better Podback, where we take your feedback, we discuss changing from a Rode Procaster to an Electro-Voice RE20. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check out our companion shows at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Want to join in to some geeky chatter? Check out the BEST geek community around on the GonnaGeek Discord Server at http://www.betterpodcasting.com/discord/. This podcast was recorded on Friday, June, 2016 - Streamed Live to

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. We cap our microphone arc this week by discussing specialty microphones including shotgun microphones, lapel/lavalier microphones, and broadcast headsets. We'll give you demonstrations of a shotgun microphone and a broadcast headset; we'll also run down reasons you might want to use all of these. In the Better Podcasting Download we'll update you on the podcast awards as well as some statistics information release by Blubrry and how it compares to other data released by other podcast statistics company. Finally, we'll take your feedback in our Better Podback section. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at htt

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. We continue our microphone arc this week by discussing considerations you may have for choosing (selecting) which Microphone you want. In addition, we'll give you some tips and tricks for how to physically best use them (placement, etc). In the Better Podcasting Download we'll give you an update on what the Blab officials have to say about the future of the service. Finally, in Better Podback we take your feedback. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. During this week's show Stephen and SP start kick off their first episode of their microphone arc giving an overview of microphones, setting levels and areas to consider when trying to dial in your levels. In the Better Podcasting Download the crew discuss a secret podcast meeting that Apple conducted and what it might mean for podcasters. Finally, we end the show hearing from you in our listener feedback segement - Better Podback. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodca

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. Yep, it's finally here... 28 episodes later we finally decide tackle the question "What is a hobby podcaster?" Spoiler alert - there's no clear cut explanation to this term, but we will run down some areas which we think may make you a hobby podcaster. In the Better Podcasting Download this week, we provide an update on two service - Clammr and Blab. In our opinion one of them is improving while the other is becoming less reliable. Which are we using more and which are we drifting away from? Take a listen to find out. Finally, in the Better Podback (feedback) we tackle a question about expanding the Zoom H5 for live recording and also a q

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. Inspired by a variety of recent circumstances, this week we discuss the importance of backups, redundancy and how to handle outages. We'll run down our setups and how we do our best to ensure we don't ever lose a recorded episode. During the Better Podcasting download we discuss last week's SoundCloud downtime and how it affected some podcasters. Finally, in the Better Podback this week we turn the tables and ask for your take on the relevance (or lack thereof perhaps) of "marathon podcasting". If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpod

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. You're in for a special treat this week as SP uses his use his Shure SM7B for half of the podcast and his Electro-Voice RE320 for the other. We won't tell you which he's using at which point... yet. We hope you enjoy this blind-test. This show we discuss things that were learned from our live C2E2 experience including alternative ways to position mics, considerations and how you can use the tools you have to put together all the pieces. In the Better Podcasting Download we reflect on our first impressions of Google Play Music Podcasts including areas we like, and areas we think could use some improvement. Finally, in the Better Podback (feedback) w

We break format this week to share with you the panel previously discussed that happened at C2E2 2016 titled "Everyday Podcasting For Your Everyday Life At C2E2". After panel completion we felt that there was so much valuable questions and answers asked that would be applicable for Better Podcasting, why not release it in the feed? As we do prioritize audio on the podcast, we feel it only fair to give you a heads-up that as we could not gain access to the room microphone source directly, audio from this panel is recorded via a camera. We hope you enjoy all of the fantastic questions asked by the attendees and the answers provided by the panelists. Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcas

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. This episode we discuss captivating your audience and what you can do to keep them engaged. Whether it be how you address them, subject matter delivery methods or anything in between, we're going to talk about this episode. In the Better Podcasting Download we demonstrate and discuss the 'advantage' you can get from using a mic processor (such as the DBX286s). We give you a sample of the change so you can gage if it's worth it to you. After that we discuss a recent list of Top 200 jobs in America, and where broadcast lands on it. Finally, we discuss the roll out of Google Play Podcasts. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all o

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. We continue our budget arc talking about possible coasts you may incur if you want to shut down (or close up) your podcast. Whether you decide to go off-line or keep an active archive, we'll discuss things you may want to consider. In the Better Podcasting Download we discuss New & Noteworthy, iTunes Client Statistics, Webscrapers and how they all work together and can affect your podcast statistics. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check out our com

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. We take a brief pause in our budget arc this week to discuss the Podcast Awards (and what you should know about them), take your feedback and finally we launch a brand new contest! If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check out our companion shows at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Want to join in to some geeky chatter? Check out the BEST geek community around on the GonnaGeek Discord Server at http://www.betterpodcasting.com/discord/. This podcast was rec

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. We continue our budget arc talking about possible costs you may incur sustaining your podcast. BUT FIRST, Stephen updates you on the saga which is his desk/pod-rena change and the hiccups which has come with doing so and SP gives you a run down on his C2E2 experience. In the Better Podcasting Download we discuss CBS's exit of radio, the imdb-style podcast database called Podcat and we update you on a an issue we've seen with Windows 10 and ATR2100/AT2005 driver compatibility. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back ca

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. This episode we kick off our new arc discussion your podcast budget. We'll answer questions including what it'll take to get your podcast started, what other costs you can expect and possible costs if you want to start a tier-higher than the basics. In the Better Podcasting download we discuss some podcast stats coming out of the latest Edison research. Finally, in Better Podback we discuss social media. If you want to follow us elsewhere, you can follow us on all of our socials at https://www.betterpodcasting.com/contact or email podcast@betterpodcasting.com. The full back catalog can be found at https://www.betterpodcasting.com. Check out our com

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. This week we shake up the usual Better Podcasting format as we kick of our first official live Q&A edition where we take questions from fans directly via Blab. Topics include iTunes Connect, the benefit of multiple RSS feeds, things to consider when picking a hosting provider, benefits of owning your domain and even desk management... literally. Actual. Physical. Desk. Management. We would love to know what you think about this special. Would you like to hear more of them? Email podcast@betterpodcasting.com It’s not too late to catch SP and 5 other GonnaGeek network podcasting hosts at C2E2 (The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) on March 18

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. Better Podcasting’s first giveaway contest comes to a close and one lucky listener’s name is drawn from a GeekyLid to win the Audio Technica ATR2100. Will it be you? Listen to find out! After the giveaway, the hosts tell that as Hobby Podcasters it’s all about time. Time to podcast, time for family, time for your “day-job,” and time for fun. This episode Stephen and SP discuss how they manage to do it all and more importantly what their limitations are. Planning is a key component to podcasting and time management is no exception. Also, they discuss ways to manage time-related stress while advocating time to decompress from podcasting and recommend

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. This week Stephen and SP wrap up their arc on video podcasting and in the final installment they put together all the pieces. Now that you’ve heard about the basics, as well as both simple and complicated methods of podcasting, they’ll give some final recommendations on how to tackle your video podcast. In the Better Podcasting download this week, we discuss iTunes Connect and also Pond5 becoming a membership model. Finally, in Better Podback we take follow-up feedback about file backup, using ManyCam with Blab and a few other points. Remember, we’ll be broadcasting Episode 19 live on Friday, March 11, 2016 at 3:30pm Pacific / 8:30pm Eastern at www

Welcome to Better Podcasting! We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. Stephen and SP take this episode to run down how they are able to put together high level video productions on the hobby podcasts of Better Podcasting and GonnaGeek using multi sessions of Skype, overlays and the XSplit program. They break down the hardware required, some of the software options available, how they arrived at their solution that they are currently using, what are some of the ways to manage some of the pitfalls (i.e. digital drift and syncing both audio and video), and how to stitch it all together to get a great produced product while keeping it at a level that hopefully everyone can follow. This week’s Better podcasting Download r