PB050: What I Learned About Podcasting in my First 50 Episodes

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. My Tips and Tools for Creating Your Own Podcast Today's episode is all about podcasting. We usually talk about blogging in this podcast, but to celebrate reaching the milestone of 50 podcast episodes, I thought I might share what's worked and what hasn't worked in my podcasting journey so far. In just three months my podcast series has hit #1 in iTunes Australia, was in the top 10 international chart for the first weeks, and is hovering in top 10 for Business/Marketing categories for Australia and America. I still have a lot to learn, but I've been getting asked a lot about how I create this podcast series, so I decided to share what I've learned so far (and am sharing my most listened to podcasts and the tools I use below). In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode I share: the benefits of starting a podcast how I measure my podcast's success my podcast statistics what types of content have been most popular so far on my podcast series the most effective ways to deliver podcast content the details behind my experiment of completing 31 podcasts in 31 days the tools I use to create my podcast series how you can use a podcast series to build an audience how to monetize a podcast Further Reading and Resources for Tips and Tools for Creating Your Own Podcast The most popular episodes in my podcast series so far: Episode 32: Can you really make money blogging? Episode 38: How One Humiliating Experience Gave Me a Wake Up Call That Helped Me Build a More Profitable Blog Episode 11: How to Come Up with Hundreds of Blog Post Ideas for Your Blog Episode 18: How to Create a Page That Propels People Deep Within Your Blog Episode 29: How to Develop a Plan to Grow Your Readership Episode 35: How to Turn Surfers into Blog Readers by Building a Sticky Blog Episode 40: How to Become a More Efficient and Productive Blogger The videos I used to help me in setting up my podcast, by Pat Flynn:  How to Start a Podcast – Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial  The podcasting tools I use: Libsyn - hosting podcast episodes Auphonic - levels things out in the audio BluBrry PowerPress - mp3 player, iTunes integration etc. MyPodcastReviews - to see reviews people are leaving in iTunes and Stitcher (globally) Rode Podcast Mic - the microphone I use Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hello and welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 50. My name is Darren Rowse and today, I’d like to talk about podcasting. We usually talk about blogging here on the ProBlogger show but to celebrate my 50th episode, I thought I talk about what I've learned in those first 50 episodes. You can find today’s show notes at problogger.com/podcast/50. Well, we made it to episode 50. It was something I wasn’t sure whether I was going to make it to and I was halfway through the first 31 days because it was so much work in those early days. While I enjoyed it, it was tough going and we finally did make it to episode 50 which has been fantastic. As I've been wondering how to celebrate the milestone, a number of you suggested maybe I should talk about the journey so far. As I recalled this episode, it’s actually been three months to the day since I started, so 50 episodes in three months and it has been a wild ride. It’s become a bit of an obsession, something that I've really enjoyed, become a bit addicted to.  Today, what I want to do is talk a little bit about some of the benefits of starting a podcast. I’ll talk a little bit about the content, what’s done well, what hasn’t done well, talk a little bit about some tips on how to deliver g...