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401- Recent review of Podcaters Society

This episode of Podcast Reporter show gives a recent review of Podcasters Society membership site from Daniel J Lewis. He is an advanced podcaster with his show of The Audacity to Podcast.

First, I deliver a history of my experience when the membership site first launched several years ago. Then I mention that I subscribed once again this year as a member to see the changes and compare the new changes from the older experience.

Then I go through each of the major features, seminars, webinars, tutorials, courses, chats with others via Slack, tools and resources, etc. It is more of a walk-through.

My final result and recommendation: I would suggest that you consider joining this if you want to take your podcast show from “ordinary” to “amazing” levels. The cost is not prohibitive, and the value that is delivered to the member can be great.

So, if you are considering a membership site or mastermind group in podcasting, perhaps you may want to consider Podcasters Society. As I mentioned during this audio episode, I do consider this site to be more of a “collaborative mentorship.”

We hope that you find the appropriate membership site or group that will help you to succeed in the podosphere with your show.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and Daniel J Lewis and PodcastersSociety.com. All rights reserved.

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400- Good podcast intro to hook your audience

In this episode, we hail and celebrate our 400th episode of this Podcast series by discussing the value of a good intro for your podcast episode and some suggestions by Matty Staudt on how to grab your audience with the art of the “tease.”.


First, however, we shall share with you a milestone that we have reached — 400 episodes. Now, this was not the first time that we have had 400 episodes in one of our shows (we did that before years ago in an earlier podcast show before we had to podfade it). And having been a podcaster for the past 15 years, longevity is one fine trait with experience in the podosphere.

Since October 15th of 2019, we have published an episode every day. And although it was never planned as a publishing marathon, it ended up being one because of the content ideas and the podosphere news that have created information for us to share with you.

However, we have used the format of the short-form podcast (i.e., less than 10 minutes in length) for much of the last 200 episodes, and for most of the publishing marathon since October of 2019.

And we intend to provide more value to our listeners with the information about the podosphere and other new media topics.

So, now, on our 400th episode of this podcast show, we can look back to our roots of 2014, to the first episode and see that we have delivered value to our listeners and loyal fans, and that we intend to keep delivering such value as we possibly can. In the beginning of our podcast show, we focused on bringing you interviews with the legends of the podcasters who were the giants of the podosphere from the beginning and who helped us to form the podcast as a medium and several genres. We interviewed those who had been podcasting since 2004. And then we opened up our attention to other topics related to the podosphere which we felt were of significance to the aspiring podcaster, the hobbyist podcaster and even the professional podcaster or serious new media professionals.

Hook your audience with a good INTRO

In the recent post in the Podcast Business Journal, Matty Staudt emphasizes with an example of a boring introduction what it means to be exciting, relevant and catching, so that you can “hook” your listener in the first few minutes of your episode. The name of the article is called “Your Intro Matters.”

The importance of creating a meaningful and attractive intro is given the importance by Staudt: “People decide if they are going to listen to a podcast in the first minute. If you don’t give them the full picture in that time or hook them with interesting audio they will most likely move on to one of the other million podcasts out there.”

Now, although we have discussed good introls and outros before in this podcast show — especially with the reference of an earlier podcast episode in The Audacity to Podcast show by Daniel J Lewis — Staudt relies on a very simple and quick list of suggestions that he has seen work best for him when he produced his shows:

Voice first — as this needs to be warm and friendly to invite the listener to stick around and consume some audio that will contain the value that he seeks;

Set up the show — Deliver a “tease” with brief and relevant info: “I usually suggest a quick tease of content followed by these three important elements. Name of the show, who you are, and the show’s tagline/mission statement.”

What’s on today — The brief tease that describes the content to be delivered and the value that will be given to the listener.

Create your intro as the LAST task for your content — As Matty states, “One last thing. Do your intros after you have produced the rest of the show. It should be the last thing you do so that you know exactly what you are going to tease. A good intro takes thought, good writing, and the remembrance that each show is a new show for someone.”

Now, for this podcast, we have had a standard format for intros. This would include the episode number, then the key theme or the question that will be answered in the content (this is the “tease”). And then we will go straight into the meat of the content and provide the VALUE to our listeners so that they will not get bored. And instead of including many segments in the episode, we focus only on one theme in a short form episode. And many of our listeners have commented that they enjoy this format — especially now that many of our audience has to stay isolated during the virus crisis.

And the tease or tag line and intro are usually all created at the end, or they are set out at the start of production, but reviewed and mainly improved and modified after the episode has been produced (just as Matty states). It seems to be a good formula for us to use, and we strongly suggest that perhaps you can try this out for your podcast episodes and see how well it can work for you.

So we wish you the best in creating your exciting intros for your podcast episodes to hook your audience and keep them as loyal fans of your show.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and Matty Staudt and PodcastBusinessJournal.com. All rights reserved.

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399- Update on the fears of podcasting

In this episode of The Podcast Reporter, we re-visit the topic of some new media creatives that may have FEARS in thinking about podcasting.

The original topic was presented to us in episode number 55 in the back-catalog of The Audacity to Podcast from Daniel J Lewis. And we plan to add more fears in this update of this specific topic.

Now, in the original podcast episode in 2011, Daniel presented us with seven major fears, which were:

  • It is not worth the time;
  • I don’t have enough to say;
  •  No one will want to listen to me;
  • People will not like me;
  • Podcasting is too hard;
  • Podcasting costs too much;
  • I hate the sound of my own voice.

And in this episode update, we add the following reasons that may appear to be excuses that can be overcome (some may be similar, but not exactly the same in detail):

  • I don’t want to be a techie;
  • I cannot make any money;
  • I am scared to podfade;
  • It is too competitive;
  • I don’t want to learn or do SEO (search engine optimization);
  • I don’t want to become a loner or introvert;
  • It’s too time-consuming;
  • Any enthusiasm can die;
  • I don’t want my hobby to become an obsession;
  • I don’t want to burn out.

So, if you make a checklist for yourself and cross each one out when you overcome it. And we sincerely hope that you, as a podcaster, can learn to overcome any fears of these 17 reasons for podcasting — and then you can enjoy the passion of podcasting and be successful.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and episode TAP55 from Daniel J Lewis of theaudacitytopodcast.com. All rights reserved.

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398- Grateful for podcasting — but beware of censorship

In this episode of The Podcast Reporter, we deliver a type of mild “rant” about the implementation of censorship on YouTube, google, facebook and other social media platforms — and especially what this ominous signal can present to podcasters in the near future that can stop the podosphere from being a level-playing-field without gatekeepers that allow free publishing of information.

So if you do not want to listen to the topic of the reality of today’s censorship of video and audio publications, and also the possible threat to podcasting — well, then you may want to skip this episode. And we shall see you in the next episode 399.

Have a wonderful freedom of choice in podcast selection and listening today. Thank you for your understanding.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation. All rights reserved.

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397- Considerations in changing podcast formats

In this episode of The Podcast Reporter, we focus on the topic of possibly changing the format of your podcast episodes. This theme was brought to us by an article by Dan Misener as stated in the podnews.net newsletter. In fact, this question was also asked by Evo Terra in his podcast show called Podcast Pontifications.

The features that may be targets for change are the time and length of the show (e.g., long-form to short-form, or micro-casting, etc.), the types of intros and outros, themes, music, calls-to-action, etc. These are things that you can adapt to your listeners based on the idea of getting away from the current stressful situation of the virus crisis.

We hope that you can examine and do the research needed to see  if you need to have a change in the format items of your podcast show. Hopefully, this will bring you more success in a more positive light.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and podnews.net and Dan Misener and Evo Terra of PodcastPontifications.com. All rights reserved.

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396- Podcast creatives survive during this crisis

In this episode of The Podcast Reporter, we discuss an article from the Podnews.net newsletter from Stripe.com about how freelancers and agencies are adapting during the virus crisis of 2020.

Having created turbulent waters for creative professionals in some circles, the new media professionals that are freelancers or podcasters may not have to suffer as much. For example, the solo-preneurs that are podcasters or social media freelancers are used to working from home or being isolated much of the time.

Whereas some of the work force has lost up to 60 to 70 per cent of their work because of the virus crisis, the results for the podcasters and other creatives could still survive because they did NOT have to lose all or most of their work.

Some recommendations from this article suggest staying close to current clients and over-delivering value and positive results to newer clients. There is also a great optimism for growth for those who do deliver value to customers as a solo-preneur or creative freelancer.

We hope that you can adapt to this new model for dealing with prior, current and future customers during this crisis.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and

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394- Remote podcast recording from a browser

In this episode of The Podcast Reporter, we discuss an article from Jacob Bozart of Resonate Recordings that outlines a remote recording for a podcast episode. This includes the “double-ender” method. And the post from Jacob has the diagram of how remote interviewing can be done with a double-ender for podcasting.

But with the information from Jacob, new podcasters can now have other methods to record remotely with just the browser and the Resonate Recordings tools.

We hope that you can choose the best price-performance tool that will be easy to learn and use for remote podcast recordings.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and

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392- Remote recording as possibly the new normal

In this episode of PodcastReporter.com, we discuss the possibility of remote recording for podcast interviews, discussions and dialog being the “new normal” due to the plandemic situation of the Chinese Whan virus (aka Covid-19 and Corona virus).

Due to the lockdown and isolation mandated during this plandemic, the main communications cannot be done in person at conferences or across the table. Thus, they are relegated to the following:

  • remote interviews via Skype or internet or online tools;
  • “double-ender” interviews or conversations or dialog, where each podcaster records his own audio and then sends it to the remote other podcaster for final synchronization, editing and finalization of production to create the mp3 file;
  • social media online tools such as Zoom, Skype, Squadcast (just to name a few);
  • any other “social distance” or “new distance” models of separation;
  • or the good old-fashioned telephone conversations recorded with such non-high-tech tools as the smart phone speakers, etc.

Now I know that many podcasters do NOT like the phrase “new normal.” So the description, above, will serve to describe the new environment during the isolation and lock-down period.

I do conduct remote interviews with my co-host, Matt Cox of Brunch With the Brits podcast — and we use the double-ender method to do the recording. I then receive the audio recording from Matt, and then I synchronize the tracks in one audio editing environment, and then I finally edit and produce the show to create the final mp3 file.

The episode also mentions other solutions for your research and discovery, so that you can then help to select the remote environment recording with your co-hosts and interviewees.

So, whatever remote recording interview software that you decide to use, we hope that you will create effective content for your podcast that you will produce in this new normal of virtual environments.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation. All rights reserved.

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391- Acoustic improvements for podcasting

In this episode of The Podcast Reporter, we discuss the audio issues from home studios that could be rectified by implementing improvements for acoustics. The article (and an earlier one mentioned in the audio episode) was published recently about acoustics from Buzzsprout.com by Kevin Finn

We also mention the 2006 suggestion for reducing the audio or acoustic problems of podcasting from home by Paul Colligan in his earlier podcast show called Podcast Tools Weekly Update (now podfaded) — and this suggestion was to record your episode with a blanket over your head.

We hope that your audio quality will be the best and be reverb-free and hissing-free, so that this will improve your podcast episodes.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and Buzzsrpout.com and Paul Colligan. All rights reserved.

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389- Remote podcast recording software — overview

In this episode of PodcastReporter.com, we discuss the different types of apps and programs that support remote podcast call recording — which was published in thepodcasthost.com

The article goes on to list the available software recording programs and apps today, with a short description of each in its own environment.

In my own environment, I did enjoy using the older program called PowerGramo. This allowed me to record remote calls over Skype, especially where one track had my audio and the other track recorded my interviewee or guest audio. However, this program is no longer available (ever since Skype was acquired by Microsoft).

So, I have tolerated using the technique of the double-ender to record audio conversations over the telephone and interviews with my co-host of 2030Podcast.com, Matt Cox of Brunch With The Brits podcast. I have also used this for an interview with Don Winn of Soldiers Stories Podcast.

So, whatever method you choose to use for remote podcast recording or interviewing over the phone or via the internet, we hope that you can get the best audio quality at the best cost for your successful podcast show.

Thank you for your attention.

Copyright (c) 2020, Matrix Solutions Corporation and thepodcasthost.com. All rights reserved.