090 Podcast Answer Man – Podcasting Is Dead? I Disagree! A Talk With Michael W Geoghegan

Jim,

I see where you are coming from. As you are an author primarily and you hope to use podcasting to promote the fact that your an author, that makes perfect sense!

For me, I want a majority of my income to come from people who are paying to listen to my podcast audio content. So in the truest sense of the term, I am a podcaster. That is what I want to "be" for a living.

I Facebook, Twitter, I YouTube, I Blog, Video Blog, etc... However, all of those things that I do are to drive people to my podcasts! My podcasts are marketable just as are your books.

You're an author, I'm a "podcaster" and we can both use "podcasting" and other new media outlets to "build our brands."

Cliff

* Duplicate of comments posted on Michael's blog.

I started dipping into the pool of podcasting back in 2006, and I really didn’t know what to expect. I’m probably ill-equipped to comment on this topic, but I did listen to Michael’s interview on Podcast Answer Man #90. I’ll probably listen to it again because there was a LOAD of information.

When I started, I simply thought about all those fake radio shows my cousin and I did with a dual-cassette recorder back in the early Nineties.

Now, I’m looking at following the Scott Sigler model for podcasting. I want to be an author, and I see building an audience through podcasting as the best way for me to go forward. I’m not looking at turning my “New Media” or “Digital Content” creation into a business. When I earn my living, I want to be selling novels.

I think I can see Michael’s point, in that if you define yourself as “I am a Podcaster,” you are narrowing your scope. There is an inherent contradiction, though, as Podcasting was defined by its opposition to broadcasting with the “narrowcasting” concept. Now you almost have to reverse field and broaden people’s perception of you.

For me, I am not defined as a “Podcaster.” Yes I am a Podcaster, but I wouldn’t put it on a business card. I would put author or writer or what have you. Authors have been around for ages. Podcasters only for about five years. I guess I think that the energy we devote to figuring out how to define ourselves only takes away from putting that energy toward doing the work.

I wonder if anyone thinks that Netcasts & Zunecasts are dead too. LOL. Shout out to Leo Laporte. :)

Seriously; congratulations on getting Michael Geoghegan to appear on the Podcast Answer Man podcast. It was a great interview to listen to, and Michael did make a ton of excellent points.

However, it is hard for Michael to understand that you go way over-and-above what most "Online Digital Media Providers"/Podcasters do, in that you continually educate your listeners in various ways how they can subscribe and get every episode of as many gspn.tv podcasts as they want. Although Michael is of the opinion that hardly anyone subscribes to more than a couple podcasts anymore, and that most people just go out and hunt-and-peck to find what they want, I find it hard to believe. I don't want to miss any podcasts from any of the people I subscribe to, so I ALWAYS subscribe. I'm the same way with my DVR, I subscribe to 90% of what my wife and I watch on tv. Now, of course, I may not be the norm, but who knows?

This episode of your "Online Radio Program"/Podcast is a keeper.

Thanks again for all the information that I've learned from you in 2008, whether from your free podcasts, your Plus podcasts, the consulting I've paid for, and your blogs. Best of luck in 2009, as it should be "awesome"! "No doubt"! :)

Wayne