141 Podcast Answer Man – Hosting, Engaging Your Audience, Audio Quality, And More

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Podcast Answer Man Episode 141
Hosting, Engaging Your Audience, Audio Quality, And More

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In this episode you will hear the following information:

I take a call from Dave Dufour where he asks a few questions about hosting your podcast on your own v/s hosting with a network.

Next, Eirk Fisher called in to ask me what I am using in Adobe Audition to generate some of the same results of what I used to get when I was using Levelator.

Next, Brent Green called in to ask what are my suggestions for engaging your audience.

Then I took one final call from Gordon Firemark who shared some thoughts about the problem of Paralysis by Analysts and suggested that people just need to get out there and do something. During his call, he said “Pretty Good is More Than Enough” and “Quantity beats quality every single time.” While I totally agree that people need to forget about PERFECTION when starting and that Pretty Good is “good enough” to get started. I would argue that “pretty good” is NOT “MORE THAN ENOUGH.” I don’t want to discourage anyone from getting started. But good enough is just “good enough” which is “enough” to get started. Listen to the podcast for more details.

At the end of the show, I announce that I’m launch a Podcast Answer Man BootCamp Webinar Series.
Here is the schedule. For more details, email me at Cliff@Ravenscraft.org
Saturday, Jan 9th 12Noon Behind The Scenes of How I do Premium Membership
Tuesday, Jan 19th 8:30pm Adobe Audition, Why & How I Use It.
Saturday, Jan 23rd 12Noon WordPress For Podcasting – A Demo Of How I Set It Up
Tuesday, Jan 26th 8:30pm Audacity 101
Saturday, Jan 30th 12Noon How I Use Social Media To Build My Brand & Build Community
Satruday, Feb 6th Garageband for Podcasting 101
Saturday, Feb 13th 100 Point Inspection!

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PODCAST CONSULTING: I’m also available for one on one podcast consulting. Whether you want someone to get everything set up for you or you just need a little help along the way, I’d love to work with you. I’m able to demonstrate using screen sharing technology during our call which makes it just like I was there sitting next to you at the computer. If you are interested, email me at Cliff@Ravenscraft.org or call me at 859-757-1399.

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Bob

I am more cautious about shared hosting based on past experiences.

When you use shared hosting, you are sharing a server with many other shared hosting accounts. It works fine as long as everyone has a low traffic site. However, if just one account sees a spike in traffic from either something good (a link from a high traffic Web site) or something bad (e.g. illegal file sharing) it effects every other account on that server.

These days I still use shared hosting for things like the high school soccer Web site that I maintain. However, I run my business Web sites on a virtual private server at Slicehost. I pay for the Slicehost account and I pay Kenn at Corvidworks.com a monthly fee to do daily backups, monitor the account for uptime and bottlenecks, and install updates for Ubuntu, mySQL, and PHP. I pay extra for new software installs, but I do my own WordPress updates, WordPress plugin updates, etc. that I can do quickly and comfortably.

Outsourcing my server maintenance has given me the power to run the web apps I want, it has increased increased site security, it insures that my data is backed up (and can be quickly restored), and it allows me to focus on customers and content. Outsourcing the server work is one of the best decisions I made in 2009.

Now, if I can break through the paralysis by analysis, I will get my podcast launched. One of the causes of paralysis is choosing between Libsyn, Blubrry, or other CDN options.