077 Good Stats, Bad Stats And Social Media Best Practices For Podcasters Begin

Quick Episode Summary:

• Intro :10
• Promo 1: The Nitty Gritty from Music City 2:02
• On the Libsyn Blog 2:26
• Audio Rockin’ Libsyn Podcasts: The Last Ship 3:57
• Promo 2: Lejadech 7:24
• How we feature you! 7:50
• Promo 3: The Jeep Talk Show 9:16
• Rob & Elsie Conversation 9:45
  • Oh the perils of recording in empty houses
  • Congrats Jason Bryant! You rock!
  • Are we keeping audio records? Audio question from Liz Covart 12:51
  • Why can’t we have data on how long someone streamed a podcast episode?
  • When observing download stats is good and bad, especially via Twitter
  • Is there a way to drip feed podcast episodes?
  • What stats would be important/nice to keep for the future…you know, in case you wanna get sponsors and all that fancy stuff
  • Instagram stories, Snapchat stories and Twitter Moments discussed
  • Intro to Social Media Best Practices for Podcasters! 35:21
    • Part 1: You and Them
  • Copy and pasting shownotes from Google Docs can do funky stuff to your feed
  • The library of resources that can be shared with any podcast pupils
  • How to best maximize iTunes categories
  • How to improve your audio quality
  • A neat tutorial on header code #geekytalk
  • Oh goodness gracious, the EFF asks court to uphold invalidation of podcasting patent
  • Why Did You Leave Us Segment! 1:03:04
  • Stats! Stats! Stats! The latest mean and median numbers

Featured Podcast Promos + Audio

• The Nitty Gritty from Music City
• Lejadech
• The Jeep Talk Show
• The Last Ship

Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie

• Our SpeakPipe Feedback page! Leave us feedback :)
• Wasting All the Time
• All About Breast Feeding
• Spearhead Transmission
• The Entrepreneurial Report
• Under The Crossbones
• cinematiclivesmatter
• The Rock N Roll Archeology Project
• Love of wrestling leads Jason Bryant from Poquoson to public-address announcer at Rio Olympics
• 037 Podcasting Lessons Learned, Twitter Bombing and The Year of The Podcast?
• Listens Do Not Equal Listeners or Why Twitter Bombing is BS
• All of the ways Instagram stories and Snapchat stories are the same
• Twitter opening up Moments for all to battle Snapchat, Instagram Stories
• Quick Hints: Validating Episode Descriptions
• Support FAQs
• Libsyn Tutor
• Prescott’s header code tutorial
• EFF Asks Court to Uphold Invalidation of Podcasting Patent
• Podcast411 Episode 232 Jennifer Briney
• How Obsession Helps in Podcasting – Going Down the Rabbit Hole with Elsie Escobar (She Podcasts, The Feed, Libsyn) – PF14

Where is Libsyn Going? (In Real Life)

• Podfest
• Podcast Mid-atlantic
• KC Wordcamp
• EliteMan Conference in Plymouth Mass
• WorldCon - The National SciFi Convention

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