Recording a podcast can be challenging. You need the right kind of equipment to really deliver high quality podcasts, and you can't settle for anything cheap. Making the podcast is the easy part, but selecting the right equipment to demo it on... that's the hard part - and that's what today's lesson will focus on.
As you already know, podcasting is a great way to market your business online. It's almost as famous as video marketing, but isn't quite there yet. When making your podcasts, you have 2 options. Option number 1 is to deliver the podcast yourself. Option number 2 is to use a "text to speech" program that can read your podcast text for you.
Now admittedly, using the text-to-speech software is something that I don't recommend. Most of the cheap software out there have horrible speakers, and they make the podcast sound ridiculous. So if you have 5 to 10 minutes to spare out of your day, create the podcast and record it using your voice.
You can find these "autobot" software all over the internet. I've tried the best of them, but none of them seems to be a clear winner for me. Now some people won't mind the software to speak for you - they just want the information. But for most people... the software is an annoyance.
I forgot to mention option number 3: hire someone to do it for you. If you don't have time to create the podcast yourself, outsource it and have someone else do it for you. The person you select should be someone who sounds natural and sounds like a professional on the podcast.
You could probably go on a website called "fiverr.com", and setup a listing that says something like, "I will pay you $5 to speak my podcast". You'll get a ton of hits when you run this ad on this website, and you should test a lot of them out so that you can get the right person to do all of your podcast work for you.
Now the material that you will need when creating your podcast is simply a microphone and a computer. After you create the podcast, it will more than likely come out in a WAV form. This is a huge file that is of high quality, but the file size of it is just too big. So to make it smaller, you will have to convert it to an MP3 file.
The easiest way to do this is with a software called "audacity". This is an incredible piece of software once you know how to use it. It can take your large file, and turn it to MP3 in about 3 minutes - and the quality of it is still pretty good. Checkout this fine piece of software while you're still on the internet. It's free too.
Podcasts are easy, and for some people, it works wonders because it's such a good way to make recordings and get your website recognized for free. It's something that you will want to use now, and later on in your internet marketing career. In fact if you can make one everyday, you'll be setting the foundation of a successful business for many years to come.
Good luck with recording podcasts so that your business can succeed today.
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