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The Audacity to Podcast®

Daniel J. Lewistheaudacitytopodcast.com
Giving you the guts and teaching you the tools to start and grow your own podcast for passion or PROFIT!
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Episodes

368. Best Audio-Editing Apps for Podcasting in 2023

Whether you're just starting your podcast or you've been podcasting for a while, you might find some things easier by using better tools. Here are the audio-editing apps I recommend most for podcasting in 2023.

Mar 01, 202320 minEp. 368

367. Avoid These Words in Your Podcast Title

Here are the words to avoid so you can have the best podcast title that will clearly communicate to potential audiences and stand out in searches.

Feb 22, 202343 minEp. 367

365. This Is the BEST Link to Share Your Podcast

Whether you're a guest on someone else's podcast, you're promoting your latest episode on social networks, or you're making marketing materials for your podcast, you might be wondering which link you should use to share your podcast.

Feb 08, 202320 minEp. 365

359. Should You Include Episode Numbers in Episode Titles?

If your podcast uses episode numbers, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here's some guidance to help you decide! But I'll give this warning: it's, unfortunately, more complicated than it should be!

Dec 14, 202253 minEp. 359

358. How to Promote Old Podcast Episodes

Your podcast episodes don't have to "expire" once the next episode is released. With some strategy, you can use your old episodes to continue growing and engaging your audience!

Nov 30, 202221 minEp. 358

6 Free Ways to Podcast Better by Communicating Better

Presentation is one of the 5 cornerstones of podcasting (content, presentation, production, promotion, and P.R.O.F.I.T.), and how you communicate in your podcast can make the biggest difference in whether people enjoy and benefit from your content.

Nov 02, 202228 minEp. 355

354. Audacity Is Improving Fast! Here Are the Top New Features to Try

The Audacity software is popular among countless podcasters at all levels of production! at some point! It's a free, cross-platform audio-editing app, so almost anyone can use it. But Audacity has historically lagged behind other audio-editing apps until now! So here are some of my favorite new features that I think warrant giving Audacity another try.

Oct 26, 202219 minEp. 354

353. When to Use Trailer, Full, and Bonus Episode Types

A while back, Apple introduced the RSS tag to let you mark individual episodes as "bonus," "full," or "trailer" types. Here's what each type means and how you should use them in your podcast-publishing tools.

Oct 19, 202225 minEp. 353

352. Stop Saying Brand Names in Your Podcast! Do These 5 Things Instead

We use many services in the process of podcasting and engaging our audiences, like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, SpeakPipe, and more. But saying these brand names in your podcast can overwhelm or confuse your audience and—even worse—break their ability to properly engage with your podcast!

Oct 12, 202218 minEp. 352

351. How Proxies and iOS 14.5 Affect Your Podcast

In summer 2021, iOS 14.5 introduced a major change to Apple Podcasts with implications many podcasters may still not realize. With that update, your audience on Apple Podcasts is no longer getting your podcast directly from your RSS feed, but from a proxy. And that has some potentially bad implications!

Oct 05, 202237 minEp. 351

350. What Is Podcasting 2.0 and Why Does It Matter?

The podcasting industry has grown a lot since its birth in 2004, but the core of what a podcast could be and what it could do hasn't changed much. Now, Podcasting 2.0 revolutionizes the industry with highly requested innovations that will help everyone on all sides of the RSS feeds.

Sep 28, 202242 minEp. 350

349. Premium Subscriptions and More Coming to Apple Podcasts

In Apple's live-streamed presentation on April 20, 2021, they announced several new products and offerings. But in only a couple minutes, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned Apple Podcasts with announcements that will affect the whole industry.

Apr 21, 20211 hr 7 minEp. 349

348. 7 Ways to Improve Your Podcast and Promotion with Jasper AI

Do you want to improve the content on your podcast? Jasper (formerly known as “Conversion AI” or “Jarvis”) can help! It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate blog post ideas, headlines, phrases, captions for images, and more. How good is it? That first paragraph was generated using Jasper's “Blog Post Intro Paragraph” template!...

Mar 28, 202138 minEp. 348

343. Are There Too Many Podcasts?

On Friday, April 17, 2020, Apple Podcasts surpassed 1 million valid podcasts in their catalog. So have we reached "peak podcast"? Is it too late to start a podcast? Will your podcast only be lost in the sea of over 1 million other podcasts?

Apr 28, 202031 minEp. 343

342. Why Noodle Mix Network Retired

Did you know I once directed a podcast network? I retired it in spring 2019, and here are some lesson I hope can help you.

Apr 21, 202038 minEp. 342
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