Cliff Ravenscraft

232 Podcast Answer Man – TWiT & LA Meetup Announcement!

October 21, 2011

Very Important Announcements Hey folks, I had to release this very special episode to provide a few very time sensitive announcements. Please take a few moments to have a listen to this brief episode to learn what I’ve got planned for my trip to the West Coast. Here is some important information from the announcements [...]

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231 Podcast Answer Man – Four Figure Per Episode Sponsorship And More!

October 21, 2011

How Do I Set Up Email With My Podcast? Mark called in and shared that he is setting up his podcast so that his website is running on WordPress and his media files will be hosted with Libsyn. He states that he is having a difficult time figuring out how to get email set up [...]

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230 Podcast Answer Man – Why Do I Do What I Do?

October 17, 2011

Have You Asked Yourself Why? In has been six years since I was first introduced to the world of audio podcasting. You only need to go through the information on my about page to learn just how much of a profound impact podcasting has had on my life. Last week, I was interviewed by John [...]

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229 Podcast Answer Man – What Will 2GB Get You?

October 10, 2011

Big Things Happening In Other Areas of Life: I’m excited to bring to bring you this episode of Podcast Answer Man. As the show starts, I mentioned a few links that you can check out to see what has been going on in some other areas of my life over the past few weeks. Here [...]

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228 Podcast Answer Man – With Only A Digital Audio Recorder

September 28, 2011

This episode is far different from my normal Podcast Answer Man episode, especially when it comes to production quality. However, I have been wanting to do this sort of episode for quite some time to demonstrate just what can be done with a single digital audio recorder and a little post production work. This entire [...]

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How To Replace A File In Libsyn Without Forcing New Downloads

September 26, 2011

Have you ever published a podcast episode where you made a simple little mistake that you really wanted to fix, but you didn’t realize it until after half of your subscribers had already downloaded the episode? This has happened to me on several occasions. In my current Podcasting A to Z session, one of my [...]

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227 Podcast Answer Man – Podcast Awards – Katie Davis – Condenser Mics – And More

September 17, 2011

Why My Show Has Been Posting Late I start this episode by answering the #1 question that I’ve been asked over the past 24 hours. Whenever I don’t get my Podcast Answer Man episode posted online by Friday afternoon, I get a lot of emails and notes vial social networks asking if there was a [...]

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226 Podcast Answer Man – Making Yourself Newsworthy

September 8, 2011

Making Yourself Newsworthy In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I am happy to share an interview that I did with Joel Bogges & Pei Kang from http://4PointsCoaching.com. The reason I brought them on the show was to talk about the idea of making yourself newsworthy so that you can leverage the local, traditional, media [...]

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225 Podcast Answer Man – Start Podcasting Today! You Never Know Where It Will Take You! – Interview With Ian Westermann

September 1, 2011

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I share two stories that I hope will inspire those of you who have been sitting on the sidelines, just waiting for the right moment to launch your podcast. Many of you are already familiar with my story of how I started podcasting, as a hobby about something [...]

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How To Change Your Podcast RSS Feed In iTunes – iTunes Redirect

August 27, 2011

Occasionally, I will have a client who has set up their own podcast, before finding me, where they had submitted the direct rss feed from their blogger, podbean, Blog Talk Radio, or any other 3rd party account to iTunes. These people typically call me when they are ready to take their podcast to the next [...]

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Is It Possible To Generate Income Directly From Podcasting?

August 26, 2011

Have you every heard anyone say the following? “Nobody makes money from podcasting!” “It is impossible to generate income from podcasting!” I hear these statements, and others like them, all the time. Recently, I was involved in a forum discussion where someone posted an idea they were considering for a music podcast that would include [...]

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224 Podcast Answer Man – Rapportive – Webinar Bridge – And More

August 25, 2011

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I share the following: Check out http://BusinessTechWeekly.com Use http://Repportive.com to connect with your audience Free Podcasting 101 Webinar – http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/pod101 Webinar Bridge Plugin – http://WebinarBridge.com Thoughts on Katie’s clipping audio issue. iTunes Ratings – http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/itunesratings PowerPress 2.0.4 Display Settings http://share.gspn.tv/9ZA1 & http://share.gspn.tv/9ZLE The Blog Post that convinced me [...]

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223 Podcast Answer Man – Feedburner Feed Titles – Podcast Voicemail – Podcasting For Free – And More!

August 18, 2011

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I cover the following topics: How to update feed titles within Feedburner. Podcast voicemail options – http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/voicemail I’m speaking at Financial Blogger Conference – http://FinancialBloggerConference.com Chicago Meetup on Friday Sept 30th – http://gspn.tv/chicagomeetup Podcamp Cincinnati Oct 22nd – http://PodcampCincinnati.com Thoughts on ways to podcast for free. Why mp3 [...]

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222 Podcast Answer Man – Ground Loop Isolator And More

August 11, 2011

Buzzing Noises When Connecting To A Computer – Ground Loop Have you ever had everything set up and working perfectly with your microphone, mixer, and digital audio recorder only to go and bring in either sound clips or a Skype co-host into the mix, via a computer connected to your mixer, and end up with [...]

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221 Podcast Answer Man – What Do I Need To Do A Live Show?

July 28, 2011

Life Show Production In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I had both Wade and Buddy call in to ask about options for doing a live show for their podcast. Bofore going into details about how to accomplish this, I ask them to consider the pitfalls of the live show format. I talked about this [...]

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New Studio Redesign – July 2011

July 27, 2011

I have spent the past two weeks, between several projects, working on a complete redesign of the gspn.tv/Podcast Answer Man studio. I am happy to announce that the studio redesign is finally complete. I took a few hours this morning to shoot and edit the following video to give you a look into what has [...]

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220 Podcast Answer Man – What Is The Difference Between Shared Hosting And VPS aka Virtual Private Server Hosting? Interview with COO of ServInt Hosting

July 22, 2011

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I am delighted to bring you an interview with Christian Dawson, COO of ServInt Hosting. I have a blog post about my thoughts on hosting for podcasters at http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/hosting. I must admit that shared hosting served me well for several years. However, back when I was with GoDaddy, [...]

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219 Podcast Answer Man – New Show Prep Organization And So Much More!

July 14, 2011

This week, I’m delighted by the result of my decision to remove the Podcast Answer Man podcast off my Live Show Thursday Schedule. I felt so much more relaxed as I prepared and shared the content that is contained in this episode. I hope you find something valuable within the episode to help you take [...]

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218 Podcast Answer Man – Very Initial Reaction To Mixlr – Pros And Cons of Removing This Show From Live Format – And More!

July 7, 2011

Removing Podcast Answer Man From Live Show Format Once Again It seems that I keep going back and forth on this topic. The main benefit, to me, of having Podcast Answer Man on the live show format has been that the episode is scheduled and a live audience brings a level of accountability to actually [...]

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217 Podcast Answer Man – Another Podcaster Experiences Passive Income And Taking Your Show To The Next Level

June 30, 2011

This episode is a bit shorter than normal due to the fact that I am currently out of town for days on a trip with my family. We left on Friday, June 24th and stopped in Nashville, TN where I will help my friend, Dan Miller, hook up some new podcasting gear that he has [...]

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216 Podcast Answer Man – Would Someone Really Listen To All 500 Episodes of Your Podcast?

June 23, 2011

Will Someone Really Listen To 500 Episodes of Your Podcast? I recently recorded the 500th episode of my Pursuing A Balanced Life Podcast. Wondering if anyone had listened to all five hundred episode, I asked those who had listened to every episode to please let me know. To my surprise, four people contacted me to [...]

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MailChimp Vs AWeber Email Marketing – Why I Switched!

June 22, 2011

In episode 215 of Podcast Answer Man, I shared that I have finally made the decision to switch my email marketing service provider from MailChimp over to AWeber. Many of you have been asking me why I made this decision. I plan to answer this question in this post. However, let me give you a [...]

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215 Podcast Answer Man – Music For Your Podcast At Only 99 Cents? And More!

June 16, 2011

Music for your podcast for only 99 cents? This episode started off by me asking if JewelBeat.com is too good to be true? They claim that you get royalty free music for only 99 cents per download. This low cost purchase gives you full access to use the music in any of your media productions. [...]

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214 Podcast Answer Man – Enjoy Your Time Behind The Microphone – Mixing Audio And Video In Podcast Feeds – Interview With Farnoosh Brock – And So Much More!

June 9, 2011

I started this episode off by sharing something that has been on my mind as the result of watching the The Voice. The idea of simply making a point to really enjoy yourself behind the microphone. Too many people forget to just let go and let your passion lead you. Attitudes are contagious and you [...]

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First Client To Get Pi$$ed Off Since I’ve Started Consulting/Coaching!

June 8, 2011

This is longer than my normal blog post! Use the button above to send the story to your kindle! Here’s the deal, I chose an appropriate title for this blog post that is very genuine and does fit in with the content of this story that I want to share with you. However, for those [...]

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213 Podcast Answer Man – BlogWorld NYC 2011 Interview With Rick Calvert – Co-Founder and CEO of BlogWorld #BWENY

June 5, 2011

Hey folks, I was happy to get a chance to interview Rick Calvert who is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo. The interview runs about 12 minutes and includes great information regarding how BlogWorld got started, how the Podcast & New Media Expo got rolled into BlogWorld, and why BlogWorld left [...]

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212 Podcast Answer Man – BlogWorld And New Media Expo NYC 2011 Talk – The GSPN Story – Building A Community That Pays The Bills #BWENY

June 4, 2011

As I mentioned in episode 211 of Podcast Answer Man, I had an amazing time at BlogWorld & New Media Expo NYC 2011. Many of you, who were unable to attend the event, had expressed a desire for me to record video of my talk to share with you. I am happy to announce that [...]

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211 Podcast Answer Man – Promoting Your Podcast Without A Promo – Single Site Or One Site To Rule Them All – And So Much More!

June 2, 2011

If you are interested in hearing my full recap of my BlogWorld trip to NYC, check out Episode 499 of Pursuing A Balanced Life. It was an amazing opportunity that has already led to several other amazing opportunities. Tony called in to ask how I am able to keep my Skyped in guests and co-hosts [...]

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210 Podcast Answer Man- Creating Promos And An Interview With Darrell Darnell

May 19, 2011

iTunes Ratings/Rankings Blog Post In this episode, I talked shared about a recent blog post that I wrote about iTunes Ranking. In the post, I shared how I was able to get a new podcast to rank higher than Oprah’s Book Club podcast in the literature category after having the podcast in the directory for [...]

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iTunes Ratings/Rankings – A Show Bigger Than Oprah!

May 16, 2011

I don’t typically like to double post my blog posts. I just published the following on our gspn.tv network blog at http://gspn.tv/biggerthanoprah. There is no doubt that there are going to be many people who frequent PodcastAnswerMan.com who are not subscribed to the gspn.tv community blog. The following blog post was written to the gspn.tv [...]

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209 Podcast Answer Man – A Formula For Success In Podcasting And So Much More

May 12, 2011

In this episode I share some more thoughts on my blog post about where I was invited to speak at BlogWorld & New Media Expo NYC. If you live in the NYC area, I hope that you will consider joining me for a special meetup I’m planning for Monday, May 23rd. For more details of [...]

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I Will Be Speaking At BlogWorld Expo 2011 NYC

May 10, 2011

I’m very excited to announce that I will be speaking at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo that is being held May 24th – 26th, 2011 in New York City. I would have loved to have given you all a more advanced notice about this. However, the invitation to speak at the event came in [...]

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208 Podcast Answer Man – ServInt Recommendations And Interview With Barry And Lynne Morgan

May 5, 2011

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I open the show by talking about a new video blog post that I did at http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/podcasting101. The post is titled “How Podcasting Works” and is intended to give you the “Big Picture” of how podcasting actually works. I answer a question from Dodge who asked if I [...]

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How Podcasting Works – A Brief Overview of How To Podcast

May 4, 2011

I am delighted to finally have the opportunity to produce the following video to give a simplified overview of how podcasting works. This video is intentionally over-simplified for the purpose of giving just the “big picture” view of what a podcast is and how it works. I’ve been helping podcasters set up and configure their [...]

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207 Podcast Answer Man – A to Z Success Story – Adobe Audition CS5.5 – Alesis iO Dock For Podcasting? And More!

April 28, 2011

Adobe Audtiion CS5.5 Adobe Audtion 4.0 is actually named Adobe Audition CS5.5. The new version is now available for both PC and Mac users and is available for pre-order now. The affiliate link (http://goo.gl/SRC9q) here on my site will automatically take you to the page where you can pre-order the new version. If you simply [...]

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206 Podcast Answer Man – The Gateway Content Strategy And So Much More!

April 21, 2011

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I share the concept of what I call “gateway content” that helps me introduce new people to my brand. This topics is actually addressed at the end of the episode. I started this episode by answering the following questions: – Is there an affordable way to have transcripts [...]

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